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A new survey indicates that voters are more likely to support candidates who support clean energy legislation, when the survey links clean energy with job creation. The poll was conducted by...

Jeremy Bloom of Red, Green and Blue wrote an excellent piece this week on a possible trade war between China and the U.S. (which our own Susan Kraemer also had a good story on this week), the...

Robert Rapier, Chief Technology Officer for Merica International, a bioenergy holding company, was recently interviewed as a follow-up to his presentation on Peak Oil at the Global Footprint...

This infograph below was created by our previous parent company, One Block Off the Grid (1BOG), a couple weeks ago. If you haven’t seen it yet, I think it is definitely worth a look. [Note: We are...

This article is the first in a series by John K. Norris of MyEnergySolution about the potential for private renewable energy companies to access the large (and growing) market for clean energy...

Scientists at the University of Utah have developed a new bubble-based technique for cleaning up polluted soil, especially soil contaminated with metals. The new technique may also work on...

This guest post comes to us from David P. Tusa, CEO and President of Sharps Compliance Corp. (Nasdaq: SMED), a leading full-service provider of cost-effective management solutions for medical...

Competing claims about China’s energy is widely disparate in the US media, depending on whether you get your facts from the right wing rags like the WSJ, or from the actual data the industries...

We all know that a big issue for large-scale deployment of electric cars is large-scale deployment of electric car charging stations. A couple of recent news stories I’ve read indicate that we may...

Floating wind turbines are a little more complicated and require higher initial costs. But a new study, Project Deepwater, by the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) in the UK has found that due...

This guest post comes to us from Reggie Norris, Executive Vice President & General Counsel for Clean Energy Experts. Clean Energy Experts is a firm dedicated to accelerating the adoption of...

Envision Solar has long made large commercial solar arrays for large commercial parking lot installations. Tomorrow, its first single vehicle Solar Socket goes on display for the first time at the...

The following is a special guest post from the President of OnGreen.com, Stanley Holt (more info on Stanley and OnGreen.com is on the bottom of this post). I know a number of our regular readers...

In an article in the New York Times, US to Investigate China’s Clean Energy Aid Senator Schumer voiced a complaint that China is engaging in unfair trade practices by supporting clean energy...

Eurostar announced a little more than a week ago that is was planning to invest £700 million ($1.114 billion) in its rolling stock and that the company would have some of the greenest trains in...

The California based solar power financing company SunRun has leaped front and center into the fight against Proposition 23, the upcoming ballot measure that would effectively dismantle the...

As most of you know, last Friday was Blog Action Day (B.A.D.), where bloggers across the Internet pull together to raise awareness about one issue.  This year’s topic was water, which is important...

First Solar, which broke the $1.00 a Watt price barrier last year, is currently the low cost leader in being able to produce (non-silicon based) thin film at $0.76 cents a Watt, and they have been...

The Oil Drum is reporting that Kite Gen has readied a prototype of its innovative wind power device for testing next month. We’ve covered Kitegen before, back when it was just a theoretical idea,...

In honor of Blog Action Day on the topic of water, here is a bit of good news about a new low-cost, energy efficient method for purifying drinking water without the use of chlorine. Scientists at...

This post is part of our participation in Blog Action Day 2010, which is on the topic of Water. Microhydro is not the first thing you think of when you think about renewable energy. I am sure I...

The solar industry seems to be finally waking up to the fact that it has enemies, according to Jennifer Runyon, the editor at Renewable Energy World. She noted that at Solar Power International...

Along with the recent burst of six new solar licenses granted by the California Energy Commission since late August, the California Independent System Operator is beginning to consider a variety...

This post is part of our participation in Blog Action Day 2010, which is on the topic of Water. If you didn’t know, we use water to pump crude oil out of the ground, remove pollutants from power...

Renewable energy and energy efficiency will be focus of India’s $2.3 trillion energy investment plan over the next two decades. The plan is aimed at achieving consistently high economic growth...

Large majorities of Americans incorrectly believe that completely irrelevant behavior would reduce global warming. For example, an astounding 67% believe that reducing toxic waste, or banning...

United States’ Environment Protection Agency (EPA) has increased the percentage of ethanol blending optional for cars and light-weight trucks made in or after 2007 to 15 percent (E15). This is the...

A British business offering turnkey solutions for micro wind power is aiming to become one of the top five producers in the world by 2016. Its innovative new design will provide a fully installed...

Cogenra Solar has just been awarded a $1.5 million research grant from the California Public Utility Commission (CPUC) and CSI’s R&D incubator to finance a full scale 272 kW demonstration...

Along with the great news that Google is investing a ton of money in an offshore wind energy superhighway, other recent Google energy news is that a Google-funded project has discovered enough...