With $100M, Duke Energy Joins Rooftop Solar Movement

Duke Energy has invested $100 million in commercial-scale rooftop solar panels, VentureBeat reports. The Charlotte, N.C.-based electric utility will ...

Popularity Of Energy Efficiency Utilities Grows

Efficiency Vermont, an independent nonprofit provider of energy-efficient services, has helped close to 60 percent of the state's electricity ...

Environmental Throwdown At Duke Shareholders’ Meeting

Duke Energy's plans for new coal and nuclear plants did not please all who attended the company's recent shareholder ...

Enel Buys $232 Million Of Carbon Credits From China’s Wuhan Steel

Enel SpA, Italy's largest power company and the biggest single buyer of carbon credits in China, signed a deal ...

RGGI Cap And Trade To Go Online Sept. 10

The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) expects to go online September 10, News.com reports. The blind online ...

AEP Corporate Sustainability Report Outlines Challenges, Performance

American Electric Power Co. has a plan to reduce and offset its greenhouse gas emissions. Demonstrating and deploying ...

Utility-Based Efficiency Programs Could Cut Energy Use 7-11 Percent

Energy efficiency improvements in the U.S. electric power sector could reduce electric consumption by 7 to 11 percent more ...

AEP Orders Hybrid Utility Trucks

American Electric Power has ordered its largest number of hybrid trucks to date - 18 International DuraStar ...

Google, Others Give eSolar $130 Million Boost

eSolar has closed $130 million in funding from Idealab, Google.org, Oak Investment Partners, and other investors for the ...

National Grid Sets 80% GHG Reduction Goal, Adopts Carbon Budgets

National Grid is increasing its target of reducing company-wide greenhouse gas emissions from 60 percent to 80 percent by ...

Duke’s Sustainability Report Includes 50% CO2 Reduction Scenario

Duke Energy, the third largest emitter of CO2 in the U.S., has released its 2007/2008 sustainability report (PDF). According ...

New CO2 Maps Offer Unprecedented Detail

A new map offers more than 100 times the detail of previous inventories of carbon dioxide. The map, from Vulcan, a ...

HEB Powers Stores With Wind Energy

Texas supermarket chain HEB plans to run 46 of its stores in San Antonio and Bexar County on 10 percent windpower and ...

Clean Energy Windfall In Texas

Channel 4 News is in Roscoe, Texas where a new clean energy boom is providing hard up farmers with a real windfall. ...

Dell Powers Headquarters With Green Energy

Dell is now powering 100 percent of its 2.1 million square-foot global headquarters campus with 100 percent green power, ...

Texas, FPL, GE, Xcel Winners In Latest AWEA Rankings

Wind energy leaders in most categories held onto their #1 positions in the American Wind Energy Association's annual rankings of U.S. wind ...

BofA Adopts Carbon Principles, CEO Voted Fossil Fool Of The Year

Bank of America says it will adopt The Carbon Principles, a set of guidelines issued by J.P. Morgan ...

SCE To Install Solar Panels On 2 Sq Miles Of California Roofs

Southern California Edison will install 250 megawatts of solar panels on 65 million square feet of roofs - that's ...

‘Radical Greening’ One Of Top Strategic Business Risks

"Radical greening" is one of the top 10 strategic business risks for 2008, according to a new study (PDF) by Ernst ...

Banks Want ‘Carbon Principles’ Extended To Municipal Utilities

Bankers are discussing the development of lending guidelines - similar to the carbon principles issued by J.P. Morgan ...