'Thirty per cent of new power should come from renewable sources' State told to devise roadmap for achieving self-sufficiency in power in the next five years Karnataka must emulate Gujarat by providing ...

A new anti-reflective coating developed by researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute could help to overcome two major hurdles blocking the progress and wider use of solar power.

A Mountain View solar company said today that it will build the world's largest facility using concentrated photo-voltaic technology in Spain.

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Thomas R. Baruch, a member of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Board of Trustees and alumnus of the Class of 1960, has donated a gift that will help to establish a new center at the Institute devoted to ...

Despite the state's gloomy financial outlook, California voters are reacting favorably to multibillion-dollar bond measures on next week's ballot, according to a Field Poll released Friday.

Turning pea-green pond scum into cheap fuel for automobiles and airplanes is still years away, but supporters are still betting heavily with infusions of venture capital money and intensive research.

Hydroelectric power plants are springing up in coal-rich Kentucky as companies seek out renewable resources to meet an increasing demand for energy.

NEWTON, Iowa : Like his uncle, his grandfather and many of their neighbors, Arie Versendaal spent decades working at the Maytag factory here, turning coils of steel into washing machines.

Battered by the financial meltdown, America's business community is anxiously calculating how Tuesday's presidential election will affect it.

Energy, pharmaceutical and telecommunications companies could face tax and other policy changes no matter who wins the White House. The outcome also could determine how well alternative energy developers, generic biotechnology companies, stem cell researchers and others fare.

Labor unions put major resources behind Democrat Barack Obama and could wind up a big winner if he takes the White House. Nuclear power and the coal industry would get a boost if Republican John McCain prevails. Obama promises to raise corporate tax rates and income taxes on families making over $250,000; McCain promises to cut corporate taxes and extend all of President Bush's tax cuts.