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NREL, SCE, PG&E, Black & Veatch Discuss Future of Renewables

In this session from the International Association for Energy ...

Gundersen Lutheran Hospital Strives for 100% Renewable Energy

With renewables projects involving wind, solar, biogas and hydrokinetic energy, along with a top-to-bottom review of how it uses energy, Gundersen Lutheran hospital in Wisconsin is ...

Intel, PepsiCo Top Green Power Purchasers

In EPA's most recent ranking of Fortune 500 companies that purchase renewable energy, Intel comes out on top, edging out PepsiCo by about 75 million kWh. The ...

Feds Add Direct Payments for Renewable Energy Projects

To accelerate the development of larger renewable energy projects, the Department of Energy and the Treasury are introducing a program to provide direct payments in lieu ...

Hydroelectric Projected as Leading Source of Renewable Energy

Much of the growth in world use of renewables toward generating electricity is expected to come from hydroelectric projects, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. This ...

Renewable Energy Standard May Save $200B In Annual Energy

Energy efficiency and renewable energy standards could save U.S. consumers $200 billion a year by 2030. There also is an equal opportunity for the commercial and industrial ...

Online Tools Offer Ways to Add Solar, Wind in Harmony With Nature

To some renewable energy companies, a huge swath of barren desert may seem like the perfect place to set up a major solar installation. But certain ...

Lockheed Martin Expanding Into Green Market

As part of the expansion into the renewable energy market, Lockheed Martin Co. has set aside $10 million for investment in energy technologies developed outside the company, ...

Renewable Firms Sign ‘Biggest’ Marine Energy Contract

Aquamarine Power Ltd. has signed a development agreement with Airtricity, the renewable energy development division of Scottish and Southern Energy. The contract is being touted as ...

Clean Energy Patents: Wind Up, Solar Flat, Fuel Cells Still King

Clean energy patents reached their highest level to date in 2008, according to results for the Fourth Quarter 2008 edition of the Clean Energy Patent ...

Green Power Industry Needs Obama’s Help

One of President-elect Barack Obama's campaign platforms was a promise to put green energy at the top of the "to do" list in the White House. Now that he's just hours away from taking office, ...

Green Business 2008 – Environmental Leader’s Most Popular Stories

With 2008 just out the door, it's a good time to look back at the green business issues and news items popular with top sustainability executives. Here are Environmental Leader's top green business stories for ...

Morgan Stanley Plans Tidal-Powered Data Center

Morgan Stanley and Atlantis Resource Corp. are planning a large-off-grid computer data center in Scotland, powered directly by tidal energy. It's estimated that the project would cost between £250 million to £300 ...

Google Eyes Offshore, Wave-Powered Data Centers

Google data centers may someday float on the ocean. The search giant recently filed a patent for a “water-based data center,” which uses ocean surface waves to power and cool the ...

Portugal Points The Way For Renewable Energy Adoption

As the world reels at the high price of fossil fuels, business and governments are increasingly casting about for renewable energy models. Portugal is happy to oblige. Portugal? Yes Portugal. While most of the world remained ...

Citi: Investors Tapping Alternative Energy, Infrastructure Firms

A growing international consensus to tackle climate change is going to mean a new emphasis from investors on alternative energy sources from traditional fossil fuels and the expansion and renewal of infrastructure, ...

Honda, GE, GM Lead 1Q Clean Energy Patent Race

The Clean Energy Patent Growth Index, which illustrates clean energy patent trends and the top patent owners, shows fuel cells continuing to dominate long term trends, intellectual property law firm Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti ...

TerraPass Launches Customizable Offset Portfolio

TerraPass has announced the first version of a feature through which customers buying carbon offsets can direct the company's efforts to projects the customers like the most.The company believes this is an industry first. TerraPass ...

Biggest Clean-Energy Projects In The World

In a depiction of some of the world's largest energy projects, Forbes.com takes readers to Bahrain, where, a few weeks ago, three 100-foot-wide propellers began turning between the two towers of the ...

Who Will Fund The Push For Clean Energy?

Due to volatile markets and plunging stocks, Wall Street is not so keen on funding renewable energy projects involving new technologies, Reuters reports. That's what Aaron Lubowitz, managing director of ...