An Energy Department report released late Wednesday concluded that coal, gas and nuclear are critical to the resiliency of the nation’s electrical grid, and that federal regulators need to do more to protect those industries.
Read moreTransitioning to 100 percent renewable energy could be cheaper and easier than expected, according to a new study that offers detailed roadmaps for the 139 nations responsible for more than 99 percent of carbon dioxide emissions worldwide.
Read moreGoogle’s semi-secret research and development wing has been toying with how to store energy generated by renewable sources like solar and wind.
Read moreRiding a wave of supporters that filled the committee hearing room and overwhelmed the hallway, state Senate President Pro Tem Kevin De Leon, D-Los Angeles, saw the Assembly Energy and Utilities Committee pass his bill to put California on a course toward 100 percent renewable energy by 2045.
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The Second Circuit refused Wednesday to revive a challenge by a solar-energy company that claimed burdensome Connecticut regulations had cost it utility contracts.
Read moreIn Montana, the sixth largest coal-producing state in the nation, alternative energy sources face stiff competition. But a Montana environmental law group has taken aim at cheap coal energy in a lawsuit over caps on clean-energy production.
Read moreProsecutors unveiled charges Thursday that accuse a Pennsylvania biofuel company of manipulating lab tests to claim federal credits for substandard fuel.
Read moreFlying in the face of the Trump administration’s recommitment to fossil fuels, California Democrats on Tuesday introduced “the world’s most ambitious” energy goal and announced plans for the state’s utilities to be completely reliant on clean energy by 2045.
Read moreGlobal investments in renewable energy fell by almost a quarter in 2016 amid a drop in prices and lower spending in some markets, according to a U.N.-backed report published Thursday.
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A European Union analysis of renewable energy use among its member states has found that energy sourced from the sun, wind, the tides and deep below the surface of the Earth accounted for 16.7 percent of the bloc’s energy consumption in 2015 — nearly double the share a decade earlier.
Read moreThe European Union’s share of renewable energy rose to nearly 17 percent in 2015, and 11 of its 28 member states have already reached their 2020 targets, Eurostat said Tuesday.
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French presidential hopeful Emmanuel Macron has extended an invitation to U.S. climate scientists to consider France their new home in the wake of Donald Trump’s ascendancy to the White House.
Read moreA group of Wyoming lawmakers is bucking the U.S. trend of stricter renewable energy requirements with a plan to do the opposite: Fine utilities if they provide energy produced by wind or the sun.
Read moreFrance has issued a record 7 billion euros ($7.5 billion) in so-called green treasury bonds, a boost to efforts to generate investment in clean energy.
Read moreAn energy company must honor its agreement to pay for wind power a farm generates even if it is not transmitted due to power grid overload, the Seventh Circuit ruled.
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