Now two years after the passing of the bill, SBI Energy has released a report detailing how the ARRA has helped advance the use of clean energy throughout the country.

As the European Union’s 27 nations inch closer to their combined 2020 renewable energy mandate of getting 20 percent of its total energy from renewable sources, the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) has reported that the EU is well on its way to exceeding the goal.

Last week, we clued you in to the battle over solar prices going on in Florida, where lawmakers have been throwing around bills that could add a surcharge for renewable energy on utility bills.

Earlier this month, Ron Kamen, president of the New York Solar Energy Industries Associaton (NYSEIA), spoke about the group’s future goals at the Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations in Buffalo. Here are some of the main projects the group will be working on in 2011 and beyond:

Residential customers of Alteris Renewables — the top renewable energy integrator in the northeastern United States — can now sleep well, knowing exactly what how much energy is being produced above their heads. That’s because Alteris recently introduced its new panel monitoring system, which allows customers to track the energy production of their solar energy system up to the second.

It’s been quite the busy day in Nevada in terms of solar energy, as two major solar power plants took steps toward completion.

As expected, the United States Senate today pushed President Obama’s polarizing tax plan to an official vote.

The expiration clock continues to tick on a federal solar grant that many clean energy advocates credit with jump-starting the solar and wind energy economy in the United States. And with few options left, supporters of the federal program have descended upon Capitol Hill in a final effort to convince a lame duck congress to extend the program.

Arizona State University’s School of Business recent released a report that places Colorado among the top two states in the country in potential solar energy generation.

According to a new study released today by Greentech Media Company (GTM), the U.S. market for utility-scale solar energy farms is expected to double each year between 2010 and 2015. The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based research group came to this conclusion after carefully reviewing all solar power projects that have been announced by developers and utilities to date.