renewable energy
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The U.S., Canada, and Mexico are expected to sign a pledge to generate more power from renewable sources.
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Solar roads coming to Route 66 via photovoltaic pavers
Solar Roadways will install solar panels on a section of Route 66 in Missouri.
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BMW electric-car batteries to be used as home energy-storage devices
BMW will use i3 battery packs for home energy storage.
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Net-zero-energy homes underscore evolution of electric utilities
Homes now have the ability to generate as much power as they use, but only if utilities stop fighting decentralized solar generation.
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Car dealer tries to install solar, town-owned utility limits power it can generate
A Pennsylvania Ford dealer runs afoul of a town's restrictions on solar power.
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Solar panels at Toyota's new Texas HQ to provide 25 percent of its electricity
Toyota's new Texas headquarters will feature solar panels on parking garages.
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Chile has significant excess solar capacity.
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Hydrogen for fuel-cell vehicles made from wind energy in Japanese test
Toyota is experimenting with hydrogen made using wind power.
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North America's largest coal power plant to become 44-MW solar farm
The site of an Ontario power plant will become a solar farm.
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U.S. advanced research agency optimistic on storage-battery progress
The Federal government's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy said last week that it has made huge strides toward creating a next generation of batteries for energy storage. The agency is tasked with kickstarting energy-related projects in the private sector; its director suggested that the new...
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France Will Pave Roads With 620 Miles Of Solar Panels
France's environment agency wants to pave roads with solar panels.
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Battery-Based Energy Trading: Next Step After Reverse Metering?
Energy trading could allow consumers to sell electricity to each other, cutting out utilities.
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The cost of a barrel of oil is now just a fraction of what it was several years ago, and fuel prices have mostly fallen across the globe as a result. Oil prices rise and fall, but most industry analysts suggest that the emergence of North American production has loosened OPEC's ability to set prices unilaterally. Still, we hear less about the supposed phenomenon of "Peak Oil" than we did a few years ago. DON'T MISS: Big Oil To 'Lose Control Of Auto Industry': Energy Conference And while energy investors have severely punished coal-company stocks, on widespread worries that much of their...
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Small Wind Turbines Now Offered On Leases, Like Solar Panels
A startup offers wind-turbine leases similar to ones already available for solar panels.
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Chevy Reports It Met 2010 Carbon-Reduction Goal: 8 Million Tons
Chevrolet says it's achieved the carbon-reduction goal it set for itself in 2010.
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Wind-Powered Electric Renaults For Rent In Remote Scottish Hebrides Islands
Renault will rent electric cars on Scotland's Outer Hebrides.
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Report Names Funders Of Anti-Solar-Power Initiatives & Legislation
A new report names utilities and interest groups fighting against the growth of solar power.
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Innovative Arizona Utility Program Rents Your Roof For Solar Power
An Arizona utility will rent customers' roof to install solar panels.
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Researchers claim to have created the first "rectenna" to operate on optical wavelengths.
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HyperSolar Reaches Voltage To Produce Hydrogen With Solar Energy
HyperSolar claims to have reached the 1.5 volts it needs to produce hydrogen from sunlight on a commercial scale.
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Vermont B&B Offers Solar-Powered Electric-Car Charging
A Vermont bed & breakfast invests in a solar farm, partly to power electric-car charging stations.
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Renewable Energy Doing So Well That Subsidies Could End: Energy Secretary Moniz
Renewable-energy costs are dropping rapidly, U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz says.
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2016 Toyota Mirai Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Car Runs On...Leftover Lemonade? Huh?
Toyota continues to claim that hydrogen for its Mirai fuel-cell car can come from just about anywhere.
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Big Coal Doomed: Not By Climate Rules But Fracking & Finance
Coal is the worst fossil fuel, that much is clear. Its carbon footprint per kilowatt-hour of electricity when it's burned by electric utilities to make electricity is far, far higher than that of natural gas. And that's even before the slowly improving economics of renewable sources come into play...
John Voelcker