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Low oil prices won't affect renewable energy, analysts say.

Utilities may have to change their business model as solar power proliferates.

Jordan plans to build a network of solar-powered electric-car charging stations.

Graphene could have a major impact on green cars.

A German town produces more energy than it needs from renewable sources.

Ford will install Windy System wind-and-solar energy systems at four of its dealerships.

Envision Solar's EV ARC is a self-contained solar charging and energy-storage system.

Fossil fuels have been an integral part of the industrialized world since it began 250 years ago. While renewable, carbon-free energy sources have long been viewed as the ideal solution, they were always more expensive than pumping carbon into the air. That may now have changed, according to a new...

Swiss bank UBS predicts home solar will be widely adopted in the next decade.

Ford will install a solar canopy over parking spaces at its Michigan headquarters.

Solar panels won't destroy electric utilities' business model, a new study says.

It's a statement of the obvious, but solar panels do their best work during the day, specifically noon and early afternoon when the sun is at its strongest. The trouble is, this rarely tallies with when energy use is at its highest--typically in the evening, when everyone gets home from work. The...

Aston Martin Racing is collaborating with Chinese solar-panel maker Hanergy on a green air-conditioning system.

Earlier this month, we asked whether solar roads could generate enough energy to serve some of the nation's power needs. With tens of thousands of miles of solar-power generating roads, parking lots, sidewalks and other open spaces--without needing to clear space in untouched, natural areas--it...

If there's one big problem with centralized solar power facilities it's that finding the space to build them is quite difficult. But what if you could take existing infrastructure and put it to other uses? Idaho-based Solar Roadways aims to do just that, and is crowdfunding a project to manufacture...

The island of Eigg plans to become the first in the world to become self-sufficient on renewable energy.

Yep, Big Oil is definitely scheming and plotting to destroy the electric car. Everyone knows that. Right? [sigh] Time for more mythbusting, it seems. The surprising success of our first debunking of five green-car myths led us to look at five more relatively common ideas and explain ... well, as...

Rossi Honda of Vineland, New Jersey is the first dealer to go electric-grid neutral.

These are interesting times in the automotive and electric-utility businesses. While the reasons are different, it turns out they may intersect. It's been quietly discussed among electric utilities that increasing amounts of distributed solar power and other renewable energy may destroy their...

Two new studies suggest unorthodox ways to improve the efficiency of solar panels.