On March 1, 2009, Gainesville Regional Utilities in Gainesville, Florida began the first solar feed-in tariff program in the United States patterned after European countries such as Germany in which payment is based on "the estimated generation costs...

Don't look now but another big player in the home improvement market is banking on solar taking off this year. Lowe's has announced that they will begin selling 13 home solar packages on their website and make them available in stores by the end of the..

A cooperative effort in the State of Florida to find new and better methods of implementing renewable energy solutions is off and running and the possibilities are exciting.

A Palm City Florida solar company, SOL Inc., has developed a new light that protects sea turtles from distraction while nesting on Florida beaches.

The Solar Decathlon is underway at the National Mall from now until October 20th and Virginia Tech, with help from Siemens corporation is looking to take home the top prize or at least one of the ten prizes

The Solar Energy Industries Association, a representation of the U.S. and foreign solar industry, is crying foul over a decision by U.S. Customs officials to impose a tariff of 2.5 % on solar panel imports.

According to analysis by the World bank 1.6 billion people in poor countries have no access to electricity. That bears repeating: 1.6 billion people have no access to electricity.

BrightSource Energy, Inc. of California announced yesterday that it has dropped plans to build a solar power plant in Broadwell Dry Lake, part of Sleeping Beauty Valley in the eastern Mohave Desert. The company faced strong opposition from environmental

Students at Rice University are proving that solar energy is not just for the well off anymore. As part of the U.S. Department of Energy's Solar Decathlon, set to take place in Washington, D.C. in October, a group of Rice University students built the

A New Zealand company reports that they have developed a method for converting steel factory waste gases into ethanol.