NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks of solar power companies were mostly higher on Friday after California regulators voted on Thursday to raise the state's renewable energy...
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Fish schools inspire science of wind turbine placement
Can the flicking tails of schooling fish help squeeze more power out of a wind farm? A group of aeronautical engineers seem to think so. Inspired by the turbulence created...
Senators aim to keep renewable power bill "clean"
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senators backing a bi-partisan bill that would make big utilities begin embracing renewable electricity believe they can get enough votes to pass it...
Third-party panel to study Canada oil sands impact
Reuters - Alberta is forming an independent panel of scientists to study data on water pollution near the Canadian province's oil sands after a report by a noted...
Grassley backs renewable energy standard
A bill that would require utilities nationwide to generate at least 15 percent of their electricity from renewable sources like wind, solar and biomass by 2021 is gaining...
Solar plane to stay aloft for five years
Think your last flight was long? The Defense Department's research arm wants a plane ride that lasts five years. DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency,...
General Mills changes palm oil policy
AP - Environmentalists on Friday praised a decision by U.S. food-maker General Mills to stop buying palm oil from companies accused of rain forest destruction - the latest...
Petrobras raises $70B in offer, world's largest
The exploration and production of Brazil's massive offshore oil reserves is the driving force behind the globe's biggest share offering ever, as the South...
Study backs estimates on BP oil spill
AFP - An independent study published Thursday backed official estimates on the release of oil from the ruptured BP well in the Gulf of Mexico, with researchers confirming...
Upton provides distance from GOP-targeted light-bulb ban
Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) – a leading candidate for the top Republican slot on the House energy panel next Congress – appears to be distancing himself from language he...
House GOPers move to repeal lightbulb efficiency section of 2007 energy law
Three House Republicans, Joe Barton and Michael Burgess of Texas and Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, have introduced the Better Use of Light Bulbs Act, which would repeal...
Toyota could produce Yaris EVs in China as soon as 2012
The Japanese Nikkei is reporting that Toyota has plans to mass-produce an electric car for the Chinese market starting in 2012. The EV would be based on the Toyota Vios,...
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U.S. solar installations jump 76 percent in 2012
March 14 (Reuters) - Photovoltaic solar installations in the United States soared 76 percent to more than 3.3 gigawatts in 2012, helped in part by the completion of a...
U.S. solar installs more than doubled in second quarter compared to last year
U.S. solar-panel installations more than doubled in the second quarter from a year earlier led by demand in California, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association.
U.S. solar installations jump in first quarter
(Reuters) - Solar installations in the United States jumped 85 percent in the first quarter of 2012 from the previous year, according to an industry report that prompted a...
Rooftop solar prices fall 'precipitously'
The upside to the brutal global competition in the solar industry is a steady and sizable price drop for homeowners and utilities.The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory...
Solar thermal plants scrap steam for photovoltaic
Developers of solar thermal power plants are scrapping plans to use steam technology in favor of ever-cheaper solar panels that are easier to finance and could help...
Solar project costs will drop by half in a decade, predicts Bloomberg research arm
The cost of developing a solar power project will fall by half in the next decade worldwide, making energy from the sun more competitive with fossil fuels, Bloomberg New...
BrightSource raises another $201M for solar thermal
BrightSource Energy of Oakland, Calif. has raised $201 million in a Round E, bringing its total funding to more than $530 million in private equity. That funding is in...
Solar: It’s no longer just a California thing
The United States solar businesses boomed, as usual, in2010, growing 67 percent to $6 billion, according to an annual report released Thursday by an industry trade group....
BLM approves Brightsource's Ivanpah solar project
And we’re off to the races: Brightsource Energy Inc. of Oakland was cleared by federal regulators Thursday to begin construction on its desert solar power installation,...
Obama administration approves first big solar projects to be built on federal land
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Tuesday gave the green light to the first two big solar power plants to be built on federal land in the California desert, promising more...
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Cali Considers New Clean Power Feed-In Tariffs
California state regulators have spent the last few years trying to revise a program that was meant to boost small-scale renewable energy generation but wasn’t popular...
California Approves First U.S. Thermal Solar Plant
The NextEra facility is expected to be the first of several large solar power plants approved by state regulators in the next month.
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