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| X Prize goes corporate |  |
| The X Prize Foundation is like the X Games of prizes. It`s all about paying big bucks to entrepreneurs who develop flashy, disruptive products that push the market, such as commercial spacecrafts and hydrogen cars. |
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| Energy Firm`s 1bn Solar Power Giveaway | |
| A new energy firm is vowing to install A 1bn worth of solar kits for free. HomeSun`s Daniel Green in front of a solar energy system HomeSun wants to enable people to produce their own power by offering their system in return for a share of the savings they make on their electricity bills. |
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| T. Boone Pickens: Gulf could help nation transition to renewable energy | |
| T. Boone Pickens speaks about the Untied States foreign oil dependency before about 400 people at the Beau Rivage Resort and Casino during 37th annual Southern Energy Conference on Tuesday June 9, 2009. |
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| Strong Growth of Renewable Energy in UK | |
| Two recent announcements highlight the success of the UK feed-in tariff according to consulting firm Ownergy and research consultancy iSupply. Ownergy announced that the UK figures on initial installations are out and show that the commercial sector was more active in renewable energy applications than the government had originally predicted. |
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| Storing Solar Energy With Batteries | |
| Coming on the heels of yesterday`s announcement of the successful coupling of a 1-MW battery with an 11-MW wind farm in Minnesota, two announcements today highlight the use of batteries with solar energy systems. |
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| The new scheme could see huge investement in green energy, such as wind turbines | |
| Town halls could become mini power stations under plans to allow councils to sell "green electricity" to the national grid. |
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| Otter Tail electric bills rise with wind power | |
| Otter Tail Power Co.`s North Dakota customers will see higher electric bills as the utility adds more wind power to its energy sources, state regulators say. |
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| Ormat Acquires California Geothermal Plant | |
| One of the world`s largest geothermal developers, Ormat, announced this week that it acquired a 50% stake in a power plant near Mammoth Lake, California. Ormat now owns the entire power plant, including the land, power rights, equipment and the right to add additional facilities on surrounding lands. |
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| Czech Republic Revitalizing Brownfields with Solar | |
| Yesterday Conergy announced that it is building its second megawatt-class solar park in the Czeck Republic. This solar plant is being built on a brownfield site – one that used to be a pig farm. The 1.48-MW solar power plant is being built near Velký Týnec, about 80 km to the north-east of the Czech Republic`s second-largest city Brno. |
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| Colleges Investing Heavily in Solar | |
| Sustainability is an important selling point for colleges and universities. Students are not only demanding educational programs around renewable energy, they`re encouraging their own institutions to "walk the walk," and install systems on campus. |
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| Poll: Americans Skeptical about Climate Change | |
| People support renewable energy for a variety of reasons: Job creation, security, technology innovation, and of course, climate change. But a new poll of Americans shows a trend of increased skepticism around the issue of climate change. |
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| Solar FlexRack Chosen by Connecticut Solar Firm for All Future Installations | |
| YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO — Engineers working on behalf of Apogee Solar of Glastonbury, Connecticut were nothing if not thorough. When evaluating ground-mount rack mounting systems for a proposed 1.9MW solar panel installation in Massachusetts, they evaluated many different systems. But once they found the Solar FlexRack, they knew their work was done. |
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| US Needs To Act Quickly To Develop Renewable Energy | |
| The devastating oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico dramatically raises the stakes in confronting the challenges we face in balancing America`s energy needs with protecting its precious natural resources. |
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| Iceland: Magma`s Investment in Geothermal Threatened | |
| Magma Energy`s largest investment to date is now at risk of being blocked by the Icelandic government. Just a few days prior to the finalization of the purchase of geothermal power producer HS Orka, the Icelandic Minister of Economic Affairs sent Magma Energy a letter informing the company of a planned investigation into the legality of the investment by Magma`s Sweden-based subsidiary. |
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