Kansas

The March 11, 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster has precipitated a world of change in Japan's nuclear power industry.

On Friday, the United States Department of Agriculture rolled out two new funding programs which it hopes will both increase the production of advanced biofuels and also promote the use of renewable energy to create the biofuel.

BP plc and Sempra Energy have announced plans to make a combined investment of $1 billion dollars to develop two wind farms.

Competitive Power Ventures Holdings, LLC (CPV) has announced its renewables division, CPV Renewable Energy Company, has closed construction financing on its latest wind project in Kansas.

Enel Green Power S.p.A., the renewable energy division of Italy's largest utility, has announced that a consortium of investors led by JPMorgan Chase would invest some $340 million in two U.S. wind farms in return for a stake in the projects and voting rights.

As part of the RE-Powering America’s Land Initiative, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which manages the Superfund reclamation initiative, and the U.S. Department of Energy, or DOE, are considering using brownfields and closed landfills to develop renewable energy projects.

The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) has released its fifth annual State Energy Efficiency Scorecard, which ranks all 50 U.S. states for their various energy-efficiency programs and policies.

Duke Energy Corp. (NYSE: DUK) has selected two wind turbine manufacturers to provide turbines for its latest wind farm development in Southern

Earlier this week BP (NYSE: BP) through its subsidiary BP Wind Energy, announced plans to build a 419 MW wind farm in Kansas.

Greensburg, Kansas, used a moment of tragedy to become an icon of efficiency. But what will it take for other cities to go green? Can citizens be motivated to make efficiency upgrades without disaster?