Wrestling the energy boogieman has become a perennial rite of passage for U.S. presidents, dating at least as far back as Nixon. Fittingly, President Obama today was at Georgetown University, where he outlined a broad initiative to cut oil imports, boost domestic production of oil and gas, and increase the use of cellulosic ethanol and [...]

You may have noticed that President Obama gave solar shingles a shout out in his State of the Union Address last night: Already, we’re seeing the promise of renewable energy. Robert and Gary Allen are brothers who run a small Michigan roofing company. After September 11th, they volunteered their best roofers to help repair the [...]

On Thursday, the Obama Administration released a much-anticipated draft of the federal government’s plan to build solar energy projects on public land throughout the United States (at 10,000 pages, it reads more like a novel). So in an effort to save you a whole lot of time, we’ve whittled out the details of what the plan — officially called the Draft Solar Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement — actually entails.

The White House will be getting a little bit greener very soon, as the Obama Administration will install a small photovoltaic (PV) solar energy system atop the White House that will heat water and supply a small amount of electricity for the First Family.

a $2 billion Department of Energy (DOE) grant for two solar companies to build three solar power plants in three different states, and create thousands of jobs in the process.

The U.S. and China have officially placed opening bids in climate change negotiations. This past Thursday, China announced a reduction in emissions intensity. This article looks at the difference in the pre-negotiation targets, how important this preliminary dialogue is for setting the tone at Copenhagen, and why the renewable energy industry should care.

President Obama is slated to speak in Copenhagen on December 9th, where he will propose emission caps for the U.S. in the range of 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 and 83 percent by 2050. This is the type of leadership we need to legislate for a sustainable future and spur a clean energy economy and bring the solar industry to new levels of production and integration.

Yesterday, U.S. President Obama and the People’s Republic of China President Hu released a joint-statement on issues relating to climate change and renewable energy. The two countries are making concrete efforts to work together in order to scale renewable energy such as wind, solar, advanced biofuels, etc. and to achieve a cleaner way to burn coal. In the statement, it is clear both countries want to see a substantive document come out of Copenhagen without sacrificing the right to economic development.

California enacts SB-17, becoming the nation’s first state to sign smart grid legislation into law.

The Obama administration today announced 100 utility projects that will collectively receive $3.4 billion in federal stimulus money to promote the development and deployment of advanced electricity grid technologies. The Department of Energy said that the grants, ranging from $400,00 to $200 million in size, will spawn the installation of nearly 20 million advanced digital [...]