“Plastic sheets containing billions of nanoantennas that collect heat energy generated by the sun and other sources could dramatically improve the use of a type of energy we are all aware of, but have no use for so far,” believe Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory. They further predict that under the right conditions, the simulated nanoantennas could harvest up to 92% of energy at infrared wavelengths. (more…)

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is seeking to put wind turbines on the city's bridges and skyscrapers and in its waters as part of a push to develop renewable energy, according to a report in the New York ...

Representatives from corporate giants Google Inc. and General Electric Co. said Tuesday that transitioning the United States to renewable energy on a large scale would be possible if renewable energy were ...

Former president Bill Clinton is promoting the use of alternatives to coal and oil at the National Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas.

Google Inc. said Tuesday its philanthropic arm has invested $10.25 million in a "breakthrough energy technology" called Enhanced Geothermal Systems .

T. Boone Pickens and Texas may be the kings of Big Wind but California is catching up, buying gigawatts of green electricity from turbines planted on the windswept flatlands of Oregon.

GE Energy Financial Services, an investor in energy and water industries and a business unit of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), is investing $141 million into a wind farm. This wind farm is owned by a Spanish renewable energy developer and wind turbine manufacturer named Acciona. This Tatanka Wind Farm, on the North Dakota-South Dakota border, will power 60,000 homes. It is estimated that this $141-million-wind-farm will generate 180-megawatts of electricity. GE recently crossed the $4 billion mark with a $100 million investment in three wind farms in New York. (more…)

TRENTON - When it comes to voting in favor of environmental legislation, New Jersey's congressional delegation scores an A-plus. An environmental group releasing the delegation's annual environmental voting ...

Wind turbine manufacturer Vestas Wind Systems said Friday it will build two more plants in Colorado and bring a total of 1,350 more jobs to the state.

After two years of biomass gasification testing at the company's Product Development Centre in Kamloops, BC, Nexterra Energy Corp.