The heads of five U.S. professional sports leagues – Major League Baseball, the National Football League, the National Basketball Association, the National Hockey League and Major League Soccer – distributed a Solar Electric Energy Guide for Stadiums and Arenas to all 140 teams in the five leagues combined.

a school in Richardsville, Kentucky is poised to make energy history, and in the process make inroads as far as renewable energy adoption and awareness in middle America.

Yes, of course there’s an app for that. It can’t bring you thicker windows or a solar hot water system, but it can grade your energy efficiency based on detailed information you provide. And if you do decide to invest in solar or efficiency retrofits, clear graphics will make those improvements tangible. Developed by Qreative [...]

In an effort to further strengthen his state’s, “New Energy Economy,” Colorado Governor Bill Ritter has recently announced $2.2 million in New Energy Economic Development (NEED) grants for 23 state communities, school districts and nonprofits.

We’re going back to basics here. Those of us who follow solar often get most excited about creative ways to apply the technology– like solar phones to serve rural India. However, understanding the potential for solar within the good old United States means we sometimes need to refresh our memories on how, exactly, those PV [...]

On Friday, General Mills announced the completion of the first renewable energy installation at any of their plants in the United States. The General Mills Methuen, Massachusetts facility recently completed a solar installation that is expected to supply almost 80 percent of the facility’s summertime needs and 40 percent of its needs the rest of the year.

With the help of a solar energy grant from the Pennsylvania Energy Development Authority (PEDA), Allentown, Pennsylvania has installed a $517,000, 420-panel solar array atop the city’s Bridgework Industrial complex that city officials hope will be the model for future installations throughout Lehigh County in southeastern Pennsylvania. The panels were activated in early March of this year, but the [...]

On the heels of the news that Energy Star standards may not be quite so stringent as we thought they were, the Department of Energy announced today much stricter energy efficiency standards for domestic hot water appliances. Over the next thirty years, the revised standards could save Americans up to $10 billion and keep 164 million [...]