Solar Power

BrightSource Energy, Inc., a leading solar thermal technology company, today announced that Sasol has selected BrightSources power tower solar thermal technology following a worldwide review of solar technologies.

Can Cleaner Cooking and Solar Power Help Solve Energy Poverty in Africa? Slide Show

EDMONDS Solar energy installations in the Pacific Northwest are proving their worth, despite persistent public misconceptions that winters overcast skies make solar technology useless.

BERLIN Reuters There is a bright side to the plunge in solar panel prices that has brought down some US and German manufacturers which relied too heavily on subsidies for green energy solar power costs have fallen faster than anyone thought possible. The falls in prices for photovoltaic components, pushed down by economies of scale and fierce competition from China, have made solar nearly …

Any environmental gain would come at a financial cost, the report found.

Duxbury officials have decided to buy solar energy produced elsewhere and take their own wind project off the table. Town officials signed a 20year agreement with a solar energy company that plans to build its facility in Acushnet. They said the agreement will save the town more money on its energy costs than it could save by going ahead with a controversial project to build a wind turbine on …

PHOENIX, Jan. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ CRC Pink Sheets: CYSA receives a Letter of Interest from Harqua Gila, LLC for deployment of its Alternative Energy Technologies. Harqua Gila, LLC is currently …

A renewable energy firm has unveiled plans for a solar power farm near Loughborough in Leicestershire.

LAKE KATRINE The sun is only rising on solar energy, industry experts argued at a Central Hudson forum Wednesday.

Jan. 19 Bloomberg BusinessWeek Audrey Zibelman spent two years in the Peace Corps in the late 1970s, working in a village in Chad which had no electricity. She was struck by how the lack of power exacerbated poverty.