Solar Energy

An Elkhart County man has found a way to lessen his electric bill and make money at the same time. WSBT's Ed Ernstes takes a look at the solar power system that may also be helping pump power into your home.   Marvin Bartel has a lot near his home that&...

GOSHEN – Goshen College students need more sunny days this year because they are hoping to heat the water at the campus REC center by using sunshine. This has been in the works for the past three years now. Students helped design and build most of...

A local company is making strides in the solar technology world. Inovateus Solar is one of the fastest growing solar power companies in the midwest. They recently partnered with GE to build solar energy carports and have built hundreds of thousands of...

Federal wildlife officials on Friday for the first time agreed not to prosecute a developer if an endangered California condor is struck and killed by turbine blades at its proposed wind farm in the Tehachapi Mountains, about 100 miles north of Los...

* Panel makers boost shipments to Japan and emerging economies * Higher sales prices boost margins, stock performance * JA Solar, ReneSola shares hit 1-year highs * Chinese solar market oversupplied, but too big to ignore By Swetha Gopinath and...

For too long, many environmentalists have been ambivalent about nuclear energy. It conjures fears: meltdowns, cancers, Chernobyl, Fukushima, overtones of nuclear bombs. Yet, we also know that nuclear power provides 70 percent of all the greenhouse gas-...

DALLAS (Reuters) - A solar airplane that developers hope to eventually pilot around the globe landed safely on Thursday in Texas, completing the second and longest leg of an attempt to fly across the United States powered only by the sun. The spindly...

DROUGHT Recent rains lift spirits of SD farmers, ranchers PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — State Climatologist Dennis Todey (TAH'dee) says recent rains across much of South Dakota have improved the outlook for farmers and ranchers hurt by a year-long drought....

Greenskies Renewable Energy LLC, a Middletown solar energy company, is seeking to form partnerships with corporate and municipal clients in Connecticut interested in reducing their energy costs and enhancing their green footprint by installing highly...

* Solar could cost much less than half oil fired power * Solar offers over 20 percent return on investment By Daniel Fineren DUBAI, May 22 (Reuters) - A slide in solar power costs and a surge in oil prices over the last few years has made solar power a...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - In October 2004, then California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger rolled up to a pioneering fueling station at Los Angeles International Airport in a hydrogen-powered metallic blue Hummer loaned to him by General Motors Corp. The...

MONROE, Mich. (AP) — Monroe-based Ventower Industries' growth is being powered by the wind. The Monroe Evening News reports ( http://bit.ly/10I18oV ) that the wind turbine maker's plant is nearing production capacity. It operates seven days a...