In the first contest of its type, 14 US commercial buildings are competing in an Environmental Protection Agency sponsored energy efficiency ‘weight’ competition.
The US industrial sector is to invest $13 million from the Department of Energy plus a further $5 million in private funding to improve the energy efficiency of manufacturing.
Internet giant Google has made its first investment of $38.8 million in two wind farms in North Dakota with a total capacity of 169.5 MW.
The US installed 539 MW of new wind capacity in the first quarter of 2010, the lowest value since 2007, according to the American Wind Energy Association.
The US could completely halt CO2 emissions from coal-fired power plants by 2020, according to a group of expert scientists, engineers, and architects.
Californian startup Fisker Automotive has confirmed the closing of a $528.7 million loan from the Department of Energy to support the production of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles in the US.
The US Department of Energy is awarding $106 million to 37 innovative research projects that could transform the way energy is used and produced.
The ICT industry needs to focus on reducing emissions or could come under the same scrutiny from environmentalists as air travel, warns a new publication by the BCS, the UK’s Chartered Institute for IT.
US Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar yesterday gave the go ahead for the country’s first offshore wind farm in Nantucket Sound off the coast of Massachusetts.
The US Department of Energy has signed an agreement to work with Abu Dhabi’s Masdar Initiative on clean energy.