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Solar finds it hard to squeeze water from desert

A westward dash to power electricity-hungry cities by cashing in on the desert's most abundant resource - sunshine - is clashing with efforts to...

Feinstein seeks block solar power from desert land

California's Mojave Desert may seem ideally suited for solar energy production, but concern over what several proposed projects might do to the aesthetics of...

Toxic jatropha shrub fuels Mexico's biodiesel push

                                              All his life elderly Mexican farmer Gonzalo Cardenas has planted a stalky weed that grows wild in southern Mexico to form a sturdy...

Gauging the costs, and opportunities, of a greener world

At a conference sponsored by the Wall Street Journal, it’s fitting that green strategies and renewable energy were held to account for their costs...

Obama seeks U.S. carbon emissions cap

U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday called on Congress to send him legislation that places a market-based cap on U.S. carbon polluting emissions and...

U.S. renewable energy faces weak economy, old grid

U.S. President Barack Obama set the goal: double U.S. renewable energy production in three years. Congress provided the incentives as part of the $787...

Mixed energy forecast

Support for China's non-thermal energy industries appears to have gone up last year, not down, contrary to the assumption that the global credit crunch...

Congress, states try to harness West winds

If microwaves in Los Angeles and air conditioners in Chicago are going to run using wind power generated by turbines on the Great Plains,...

Turning an oil state into a renewable-energy leader

As Sultan Al Jaber breezed into the room, wearing a flowing white dishdash and distractedly tapping on his iPhone, he looked every bit the...

Wind energy groups seeking economic stimulus aid

Wind power advocates are pushing for billions in tax incentives and grants in the $819 billion recovery package moving through Congress, hoping to offset...

The New In-Crowd in Obama's Washington: the Renewable Energy Folks

Perhaps only in President Barack Obama's Washington could the CEOs of the nation's top wind and solar trade organizations pass for celebrities. Yet if anyone...

American Electric to Buy Wind Power From Babcock Unit

American Electric Power Co., the largest U.S. producer of coal-fueled electricity, agreed to buy the output of a Texas wind power farm that’s being...

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