Renewable Energy

A competitive process to offer clean energy to Connecticut yields wind and solar at an average price of less than 8 cents per kilowatt-hour.

An analysis by financial advisory firm Lazard finds that cost of energy from wind power has dropped faster than expected, by 50 percent in the past four years.

The Geothermal Energy Association says 70 countries are moving forward with nearly seven hundred projects.

In Wales, two old quarries will be connected by a tunnel in a pumped-hydro project that will store energy produced at night, boosting renewables on the grid.

For the first time on an industrial scale, hydrogen produced using wind power is being injected into the natural gas grid in Germany.

Solar energy becomes the second of four technologies being awarded under the $7 billion Renewable and Alternative Energy Power Production for DoD Installations MATOC.

Vestas factories in Colorado will manufacture the blades, towers and nacelles for the company’s new V110-2.0 MW turbine to be used at wind farms in the United States.

Pattern Energy Group says its Panhandle wind project, with financing now set, will be among the first to take advantage of new CREZ transmission lines.

With geothermal and solar power projects on course, Oregon Institute of Technology could soon be heated and powered completely by renewable energy.

The Navy says that a new solid-oxide fuel cell is able to efficiently use military jet fuels for electricity production; it could mean fewer risky convoys.

How to boost renewables on the grid? IBM says combining big data analytics and weather modeling technology to predict output of individual turbines will help.

A U.S. report shows distributed wind, while still a very small player, making big gains in 2012, with 175 megawatts newly installed.

Deepwater Wind says the area off southern New England where it plans to build a 1 gigawatt wind farm “is the best site … in the United States, bar none.”

Progressive groups say that after a recent Big Fail, ALEC has a new, more devious plan to attack state renewable energy standards.