WAUKESHA, WISCONSIN - A Wisconsin appeals court effectively struck down numerous municipal ordinances that have slowed the development of wind energy, lawyers said. Local governments cannot pass broad ...

AUSTRALIA - Developing countries are intensifying the pressure on Australia and other wealthy nations to promise to cut ...

ARIZONA - The largest solar electric generating plant in the United States could be built in Arizona under a plan announced ...

TOKYO, JAPAN - One of the worlds leading ultra heavy forgings manufacturers, Japan Steel Works Limited JSW recently completed the first phase of the expansions that the company began planning in 2008 ...

BULGARIA - A joint venture of German electrical and engineering group Siemens will invest 440 million levs US $297.7 million to build a 140 megawatt wind power farm in Bulgaria, the energy ministry ...

ROSEMEAD, CALIFORNIA - Southern California Edison (SCE) signed a 20-year contract with DCE, an affiliate of Caithness Energy, which will provide up to 909 megawatts of wind power. Developers say that ...

KIRSEHIR PROVINCE, TURKEY - German turbine manufacturer REpower Systems AG has secured the largest European onshore windfarm contract to date for a windfarm in Turkey. The company, which is ...

- Anti-nuclear hysteria threatens to displace global-warming fear as the preeminent environmental phobia of our time. Real events have a way of intruding on ideological blueprints, so activist greens ...

SAVANNAH, GEORGIA - Houstonbased Waste Management has signed a 10year contract with Georgia Power to supply the utility with electricity generated at the firms Savannah, Ga., landfill. The landfill ...

LONDON, UK - We have seen the advent of hybrid cars, hybrid trains and even hybrid tanks. Now General Electric (GE) has announced that it has successfully tested a giant hybrid dump truck. Writing on ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) agreed to collaborate on developing and exchanging information on advanced fuel cycle technologies ...

NEWFOUNDLAND & LABRADOR - People across Newfoundland and Labrador will receive an eight per cent rebate on electricity and heating fuel, according to the provincial 2011 budget. The program is ...