wind power

I’ve begun thinking that one of the defining questions for clean energy is, “What’s the plan?” Not a company plan, but a country plan -- one that realistically maps us to an economy that gets the vast majority of its energy from wind, solar, geothermal, and that has us drastically minimizing waste.

Could it be that the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gas is the same country that spends more on green technology than any other country?

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

Stocks were up nearly 2% in mid-afternoon trading for TransCanada Corporation after the company announced its entrance into the the solar photovoltaic (PV) generation market.

On Tuesday, the U.S Department of Interior (DOI) approved two utility-scale renewable energy projects to be built on public lands.

Despite a political firestorm resulting in a dark cloud being cast over the federal government's backing of renewable energy projects in the aftermath of the fall of now bankrupt Solyndra, Inc. and Beacon Power, once high-flying cleantech companies that received federal loan guarantees, Washington is still moving ahead with plans to develop renewables—particularly, offshore wind power.

EDP Renewables (NYSE: EDPR), formerly Horizon Wind Energy, a developer and operator of wind farms across the United States, this week selected General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) to service its North American fleet of 402 1.5-megawatt GE-branded wind turbines, the most widely used utility-scale turbine technology in the world.

The eyes of world leaders may be on oil-rich Libya, but the United Nations is also focused on another of its top priorities: the issue of the fact that 20% of world's citizens are living without power. In that vein, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon this week visited the Denver area to explore options for bringing electricity to those 1.4 billion people, most rural poor in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

Chicago-based E.ON Climate & Renewables North America, a subsidiary of E.ON AG (Xetra: EOAN) of Germany, one of the world’s largest energy companies, this week announced it ordered 112 of Vestas' V100-1.8 MW turbines for an undisclosed American wind-energy project. The specific model of turbines is designed to provide maximum capture of wind at lower speeds.

Just a day after General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) unveiled its latest wind turbine -- the GE 1.6-100 at the American Wind Energy Association’s (AWEA) Windpower 2011 Conferenc