Posts from ‘April, 2009’

A proposed federal mandate to force power companies to provide up to 25 percent renewable energy by 2025 is likely to have little impact on electric prices though 2020 and negligible impact after 2030, the Energy Information Administration said in a study Monday.

The renewable power boom sweeping much of the world has barely touched Africa, South America and the Caribbean. Windmills are sprouting across the American plains, while solar panels spread over rooftops in China. But they’re rare in places like Mozambique…

With the international community seeking to expand the development of different types of renewable energy, more farmers in North America and Europe are using GE Energy’s ecomagination-certified Jenbacher engines to generate onsite power from biogas created from converted animal waste and other agricultural organic materials.

April 28 (Bloomberg) — A group of U.S. businesses, including DuPont Co. , General Motors Corp . and Johnson & Johnson said it’s reached a 2010 goal of buying enough renewable energy to equal the power produced by a large coal-fired plant.

American Electric power, one of the nation’s largest power generators, said Tuesday that it plans to double its goal of adding 1,000 megawatts of renewable energy to 2,000 megawatts by the end of 2011.

For the Coyle family, 42 new solar panels on their steep roof means the sun will become a virtual cash machine.

CALLICOON — This rural western Sullivan County town’s solar project, once planned as the largest municipal solar project in the region, is no more.

PRINCETON BOROUGH — Nobel laureate Alan Heeger envi sions a day when solar power will be affordable for the masses. The answer, he believes, can be found in plastics.

Scientists have discovered, serendipitously, that a residue of a process used to build arrays of titania nanotubes — a residue that wasn’t even noticed before this — plays an important role in improving the performance of the nanotubes in solar cells that produce hydrogen gas from water.

The city of Southlake currently has no ordinance on the books concerning solar energy systems. They are prohibited in Southlake. That could soon be changing, however.

The Vermont House has passed legislation to boost Vermont’s renewable energy industry — over the objections of Gov. Jim Douglas and some business leaders.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. & MUNICH—-AmeriStart announced today that it has launched services for companies in the Renewable Energy sector. AmeriStart will provide its leading USA market-entry services for European and Asian companies in the solar photovoltaic , solar thermal, wind power, power storage, and other renewable energy industries.

A new contract with a Florida-based power provider will make Denton a leader in ?green? energy use, city leaders said Wednesday. Denton Municipal Electric called an Earth Day press conference to formally announce a five-year deal with NextEra Energy Resources LLC, which officials said will allow the city to buy 40 percent of its power [...]

Hydro power is one of the oldest and most reliable sources of renewable energy.

In Northern Michigan’s forests and croplands, some believe there’s potential to reap fuel for vehicles and power plants in a renewable way.