Feed The Grid

Early this month, Gov. John Hickenlooper signed into law a controversial bill that doubles the renewable energy target for rural electric cooperatives. The new law requires cooperatives to supply 20 percent of electricity from renewable sources by 2020 — up ...

Back in the early days of biofuels industry development, the federal government passed The Energy Policy Act of 2005 which set mandated volumes of biofuel (mostly ethanol) that must be mixed with gasoline sold in the United States at 4 billion gallons by 2006, 6.1 billion gallons by 2009 and 7.5 billion gallons by 2012

Producers in the area will direct 55.2 percent of all the 580 million metric tons of cane processed to making the biofuel in the 2013-14 season started there in April, the Sao Joaquim da Barra mill in the state of Sao Paulo said in a report e-mailed today.

TSX : RPG ) ("Ram Power" or the "Company"), a renewable energy company focused on the development, production and sale of electricity from geothermal energy, is pleased to announce that all resolutions were passed at the Company's annual and ...

Officially launched in January after years of development, a new CLEAN (feed-in tariff) program from the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (the city’s municipal electric utility) promises 100 MW of new local renewable energy by 2016. In absolute size, the program will be among the largest CLEAN programs in the U

Stemming from the U.S. Department of Energy's Rooftop Solar Challenge, the Arizona Rooftop Solar Challenge is designed to "spur solar power deployment by streamlining permitting processes and cutting red tape. ... to reduce the balance of system costs for photovoltaic system installations in residential and small commercial markets and streamline permitting, interconnection, financing, planning, and zoning processes for municipalities across the state," according to the Global Institute of Sustainability website

Sobczak engineered all of her equipment herself, creating a totally chemical-free way to grow algae, extract the oil, and use it as biodiesel. Plus, her process produced as much as 20 percent more oil than current methods, which could make algae biofuel ...

Spot ethanol prices talked mixed ahead of weekly supply data due Wednesday from the Energy Information Administration.

KYOTO, June 17, 2013 — Kyocera Corporation (NYSE:KYO)(TOKYO:6971) today announced that it is supplying approximately 30 megawatts (MW) of solar power generating systems to one of the largest solar power projects in Japan which is being ...

U.S. ethanol prices declined the week ending June 7 after the DOE reported higher output and a rise in inventories for the week ending May 31. Cash margins for manufacturing ethanol decreased as corn costs advanced. Prices for D6 RINs, essentially ...

The solar company said Tuesday that it plans to use the proceeds for general corporate purposes such as acquisitions photovoltaic solar power system projects under development; investments in such projects that will be jointly developed with certain ...

GARDEN -- An oil leak at the Heritage Garden Wind Farm in Garden caused an uproar recently. The oil leaked was a spray from a cell under one of the turbines. Heritage Garden Wind Farm says the leak was less than 20 gallons. Any leak under 55 gallons ...

A proposal to build a major wind farm in Wells County has been tabled by the county council. The group will hold off on a decision until next month. Our partners at 21 Alive WPTA in Fort Wayne report Virginia-based Apex Wind Energy has altered its original ...

Page 1 of 1. MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — The utility that owns the Lowell Mountain wind power project said it would have to stop its turbines from spinning at night for six months a year to eliminate any risk to the little brown bats known to fly on the mountain.