Electricity generation is a process that involves the production of electrical power through various sources. In the United States, power production from utility-scale generators was about 4.1 ...

SAN CARLOS, CALIFORNIA - San Carlos wants residents and business owners to get some sun this summer - and protect the environment in the process. The city has partnered with Foster City-based ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Government stimulus spending has put the country on track to double renewable energy production capacity by 2012 and halve solar power costs by 2015, Vice President Joseph Biden ...

Electricity markets in the Southeast are facing many changes on the customer side of the meter. In a new report released today, we look at how energy efficiency, photovoltaics (solar electricity), ...

- The U.S. Defense Department has awarded a phase I contract to Energy Focus Inc. to develop a new lighting technology to support the Hydra Rocket system. Ohio-based Energy Focus was awarded a phase I ...

HALIFAX - Canada^^s Environment Minister, the Honourable Peter Kent, and Nova Scotia Minister of the Environment, the Honourable Sterling Belliveau, announced today that they are working towards an ...

- Demand for coal increased notably during the Industrial Revolution with hungry steamships and trains to power. Growing numbers of men were sent underground in search of the precariously extracted ...

CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA - Duke Energy is going to tap a landfill in Durham for methane gas that will be turned into electricity. Duke said it had signed a contract with Methane Power, a renewable ...

DALLAS, TEXAS - Safeguard Security Holdings, Inc., a provider of corporate, industrial and residential security solutions, announces today that its subsidiary, SYSTEMSgroup Protective Services, ...

TORONTO, ONTARIO - Ontario Power Generation (OPG) officials are reminding parents to use extreme care around Ontario waterways this spring, particularly on rivers and lakes that are near hydroelectric ...

TORONTO, ONTARIO - "Faster, stronger, cleaner" is the theme as Ontario sets the stage for world-class renewable energy developers to bid on 500 more megawatts of contracts for new green energy supply.

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - E.ON Climate & Renewables (EC&R) North America announced that they have crossed the 1,000 megawatt (MW) threshold for owning and operating wind farms in the United States.