renewable energy

The U.S., Canada, and Mexico are expected to sign a pledge to generate more power from renewable sources.

Solar Roadways will install solar panels on a section of Route 66 in Missouri.

BMW will use i3 battery packs for home energy storage.

Homes now have the ability to generate as much power as they use, but only if utilities stop fighting decentralized solar generation.

A Pennsylvania Ford dealer runs afoul of a town's restrictions on solar power.

Chile has significant excess solar capacity.

Toyota is experimenting with hydrogen made using wind power.

The site of an Ontario power plant will become a solar farm.

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...

France's environment agency wants to pave roads with solar panels.

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...

A startup offers wind-turbine leases similar to ones already available for solar panels.

Chevrolet says it's achieved the carbon-reduction goal it set for itself in 2010.

Renault will rent electric cars on Scotland's Outer Hebrides.

A new report names utilities and interest groups fighting against the growth of solar power.

Researchers claim to have created the first "rectenna" to operate on optical wavelengths.

HyperSolar claims to have reached the 1.5 volts it needs to produce hydrogen from sunlight on a commercial scale.

A Vermont bed & breakfast invests in a solar farm, partly to power electric-car charging stations.

Renewable-energy costs are dropping rapidly, U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz says.

Toyota continues to claim that hydrogen for its Mirai fuel-cell car can come from just about anywhere.