Solar windows at the Organic Valley cooperative’s headquarters in Wisconsin help save on cooling and lighting, while also generating power.

Middlebury College in Vermont is aggressively pursuing its goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2016 by installing an on campus solar farm consisting of 34 solar trackers.

The trend of using clean energy sources to create hydrogen continues, with Areva setting up a demonstration in Corsica that starts with solar power.

An Australian company with plans to build a 2,600-plus foot tower that would use the power of hot air rising to create electricity says it might have funding.

With arrays on the Law School and a parking deck, Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, has commissioned the state’s largest PV system.

The Bureau of Land Management is moving to establish a competitive lease process for wind and solar development on public lands.

With the addition of five new solar photovoltaic arrays in Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania and Michigan, Ikea has brought renewable energy to 85% of its stores.

Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, plans to develop a 1-gigawatt solar farm on the outskirts of the city by 2030, with 10 megawatts to be completed by 2013.

An Indiana company is seeking funding for a 20-megawatt solar power plant and energy storage system that it says will deliver grid power on demand.

The U.S. Department of Defense says bases in the California desert could be privately developed to the tune of 7,000 megawatts of new solar capacity.