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The latest news from Canadian Solar (Nasdaq: CSIQ) and Suntech (NYSE: STP) is casting a shadow over a nascent recovery for the embattled solar sector, as each company struggles to fix its broken finances pummeled by a two-year downturn. Canadian  Solar has announced a plan to raise up to $50 million through a stock sale, while domestic media are re

August 14, 2003, was a dark day in U.S. history — in a lot of different ways. It started off as a quiet Thursday.  Then a single tree limb in Ohio came crashing down, touching off a power outage which cascaded across eight states and parts of Canada, leaving 50 million Americans in the Northeast in the dark.  Commuters were stranded.  Businesses cl

IBM has decloaked a system combining weather modeling, sensors, and analytics to better forecast a wind farm's output from minutes to weeks away, helping utilities and grid operators more confidently integrate an intermittent energy source.

The high upfront cost of solar has always been a barrier to participation for many who would otherwise welcome the chance to green their energy supply.  So has a lack of roof ownership for renters.  These factors, along with other barriers have given solar somewhat of a reputation — that it's really only a feasible option for the wealthier homeowne

India’s Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has published a report detailing the significant potential for offshore wind energy in the country.

As the number of coal mining jobs continues to decline throughout the U.S., more unemployed miners are finding work above ground — in the clean energy industry, ironically. A group called The JOBS Project has been working for the past three years to help workers throughout Central Appalachia obtain renewable energy jobs in coal-dominated states lik

Good metal-based systems for hydrogen storage cannot be developed without knowing how this element permeates through metals. Researchers at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw managed to apply a user-friendly electrochemical method to study hydrogen diffusion in highly reactive metals.

Sierra has been ranking America's greenest colleges for seven years now, so we know what a difference a campus can make.

The Moapa Band of Paiute Indians have formed a joint venture with Terrible Herbst Inc. and Stronghold Engineering Inc. to build as much as 1.5 gigawatts of renewable energy projects on its land in Nevada.

SolarCity Corp. agreed to buy a solar direct-marketing company majority-owned by Guthy-Renker LLC for about $120 million in stock and cash to reach more customers.

Arizona Public Service (APS) recently proposed a drastic overhaul of net energy metering (NEM) policy in areas where it operates. APS’s plan, submitted in July to the state’s utility regulatory body — the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) would replace consumer-friendly NEM practices with terms — and economics — more favorable to the monopoly el

On August 7th, National Grid changed the rules for small solar systems in the bidding process for Rhode Island’s feed-in tariff program. The changes came in response to the Rhode Island legislature’s amendment to the Standard Contracts Act, which established the state’s feed-in tariff program early in 2013. The amendment mandated several changes to

China’s Yingli Group and the UK’s DEK Solar have announced that they will jointly build a solar technology research centre intended, the two companies said, to drive innovation and nurture the next generation of talent in the Chinese solar market.

When Uzbekistan president Islam Karimov said last year that the escalations over two proposed dams in central Asia — Kambarata-1 in Kyrgyzstan and the Rogun Dam in Tajikistan — could “lead not just to a serious confrontation, but even water wars,” there was imminent controversy in Central Asia.

Late last week we were bombarded with a flurry of news that showed the solar sector is rebounding and could also see its first major merger. In the former category, earnings updates from Yingli (NYSE: YGE) and Trina (NYSE: TSL) are showing steady improvement for the embattled panel-making sector, while a quarterly report from Canadian Solar (Nasdaq

In this episode of Local Energy Rules, ILSR's Director of Democratic Energy, John Farrell, speaks to Brian Minish, CEO of South Dakota Wind Partners about a community wind project that attracted over 600 local investors.  The project was the brainchild of four state organizations rooted in rural South Dakota–the East River Electric Cooperative, Sou

A host of new technology developments in energy storage are at the edge of the massive commercial market for solutions to renewable energy intermittency. While storage prices must continue to drop prior to mainstream adoption, there are a few substantial niche markets where storage already makes overwhelming sense. While high performance batteries today can cost between $700 and $800 per kilowatt hour (kWh), and lower performance batteries cost between $400 and $500/kWh, prices are headed downward drastically for those battery companies that survive, several sources at the Renewable Energy Storage Symposium said in San Diego last week.

Despite challenging market conditions, bankruptcies and consolidation, key indicators show signs of improvement in the clean tech sector, according to EY’s newly released annual cleantech industry performance report.

Almost a year after Elon Musk, chief executive of Tesla Motors (TSLA) and SpaceX, first floated the idea of a superfast mode of transportation, he has finally revealed the details: a solar-powered, city-to-city elevated transit system that could take passengers and cars from Los Angeles to San Francisco in 30 minutes. In typical Musk fashion, the Hyperloop, as he calls it, immediately poses a challenge to the status quo — in this case, California’s $70 billion high-speed train that has been knocked by Musk and others as too expensive, too slow, and too impractical.

A 1 GW solar photovoltaic (PV) project which would have seen 100 10-MW solar power plants built in Serbia has been cancelled by its developer, Securum Equity Partners International Ltd of Malta. The company claims the Serbian government violated an agreement signed by both parties by failing to provide the promised 3,000 ha of land for the project by the agreed deadline, and says it plans to sue.