King Coal, Alive and Kicking
The World Resources Institute says that 1,199 new coal plants are being planned worldwide.
View ArticleOutlook for Offshore Wind: Dark and Stormy
For now, the cost of building, operating and maintaining machines makes offshore wind power noncompetitive in the United States, a new study says.
View ArticleEnergy Dept. to Underwrite 7 Wind Projects
Federal money will flow toward engineering and design for the ventures, with three of them eventually receiving money for construction as well.
View ArticleOn Our Radar: The Train to Nowhere
A company official says a train hauled biodiesel back and forth across the Canadian border without unloading.
View ArticleFood vs. Fuel in 2013
With cellulosic biofuel production almost nonexistent, soybean-based biodiesel and sugar-cane ethanol might have to make up the difference to meet a government quota.
View ArticleThe Wind Industry Gets to Draw Another Breath
An extension of the tax credit for wind power production has the advantage that construction does not need to be completed by the end of 2013.
View ArticleIn Rural Minnesota, a 70-Acre Lab for Sustainable Living
Imagine a house that can go without heating for two days in a bitterly cold winter. Or a greenhouse with what may be the largest hot-air solar panel array in North America.
View ArticleBreaking New Ground on Grid Rules
Grid operators are scratching their heads over how they should weigh a proposal for an undersea transmission line for electricity.
View ArticleOn Our Radar: Clean Energy, Sullied
Italian prosecutors continue to investigate suspected Mafia involvement in renewable energy projects from Sardinia to Apulia.
View ArticleChu to Relinquish Energy Post
The energy secretary will return to academic life in California.
View ArticleOn Our Radar: What Happened to All the Moose?
Citing a sharp decline in the animal's numbers, Minnesota officials ban moose hunting,
View ArticleIn the Rockies, Growing Support for Renewables
Across the region, poll respondents tended to favor investment in wind or solar power over investment in fossil fuels.
View ArticleTo Help Light Up Africa, Many Drops in the Bucket
A type of crowdfunding in which investors can recover their principal is helping to finance solar power projects in Africa and Asia.
View ArticleOn Our Radar: BP’s Gulf Spill Inquiry
A witness testifies that the oil company did not look at systemic problems that led to the 2010 spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
View ArticleQ and A: The Angry Economist
Because of its natural gas boom, the United States is ahead of Europe in fixing climate change, the Oxford economist Dieter Helm argues.
View ArticleAn Energy Extravaganza
A special section of The Times explores innovation and looming challenges in the natural gas, oil, nuclear and renewable energy sectors.
View ArticleAn Energy Extravaganza
A special section of The Times explores innovation and looming challenges in the natural gas, oil, nuclear and renewable energy sectors.
View ArticleKing Coal, Alive and Kicking
The World Resources Institute says that 1,199 new coal plants are being planned worldwide.
View ArticleOutlook for Offshore Wind: Dark and Stormy
For now, the cost of building, operating and maintaining machines makes offshore wind power noncompetitive in the United States, a new study says.
View ArticleEnergy Dept. to Underwrite 7 Wind Projects
Federal money will flow toward engineering and design for the ventures, with three of them eventually receiving money for construction as well.
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