Tag: Solar Energy

New solar farm in Richmond, Ind., begins generating power

Washington Examiner · August 26, 2014 10:18 am

This October 2013 photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a burned Yellow-rumped Warbler that was found at the Ivanpah solar plant in the California Mojave Desert. Workers at a state-of-the-art new solar plant have a word for the birds that fly over the plantâs five-mile field of mirrors, âstreamers,â for the puff of smoke as the birds ignite in mid-air and fall singed to the ground. (AP Photo/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)

Energy and Environment

Emerging solar plants scorch birds in midair

Washington Examiner · August 18, 2014 4:00 am

Order 1000 allows greater regional coordination to plan large transmission projects -- the power lines that move large loads of power from, say, a wind farm, to substations closer to dense population centers -- and makes it easier to spread the cost of such projects among more customers. (iStock image)

Energy and Environment

Federal court backs key electric grid policy

Zack Colman · August 15, 2014 4:42 pm

Some of the electricity needed to support a growing, more prosperous Africa would come from fossil fuels such as natural gas, which Africa has a lot of. Some of it could be through renewable energy -- hydropower, biomass and solar -- in the form of mini-grids that can exist apart from the main electric grid. (iStock Photo)

Energy and Environment

Africa’s growing energy needs test climate change policies

Zack Colman · August 6, 2014 9:00 am

Africa, as seen from space at night (Photo: NASA's City Lights project)

Energy and Environment

Obama announces $12 billion investment in African energy sector

Zack Colman · August 5, 2014 11:06 pm

Rep. Gary Peters' role in securing an earmark and a tax credit for a now-bankrupt solar panel company could become a point of contention in Michigan's hard-fought Senate race. (AP/Carlos Osorio)

Michigan Democratic Senate candidate backed company that outsourced

Betsy Woodruff · July 31, 2014 9:00 am

This photo taken Jan. 20, 2014, shows Barry Shear, president of Eagle Point Solar, with one of his company's solar panels inside their Dubuque, Iowa, office. Eagle Point Solar is involved in a case over solar power going to the Iowa Supreme Court. (AP Photo/The Des Moines Register, Christopher Gannon)

Iowa ruling gives boost to solar energy expansion

Ryan Foley · July 11, 2014 7:07 pm

In this May 2014, photo provided by Solar Roadways, Scott and Julie Brusaw stand for a photo on a prototype solar-panel parking area at their company's business in Sandpoint, Idaho. Scott Brusaw's idea for solar-powered roads has gone viral and raised more than $1.4 million in crowdsourced funding. Brusaw is proposing to pave driveways, parking lots, bike trails and, eventually, highways with hexagon-shaped solar panels that will produce electricity and could even propel electric cars. (AP Photo/Solar Roadways)

Inventor pushes solar panels for roads, highways

Nicholas Geranios · July 11, 2014 1:59 pm

I&M proposes 5 solar facilities in 2 states

Washington Examiner · July 9, 2014 10:30 am

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Energy and Environment

Energy investments face a changing climate

Zack Colman · July 2, 2014 4:59 pm

Lawsuit filed over property taxes on solar panels

Washington Examiner · July 1, 2014 11:30 pm

Energy and Environment

Obama says US supporting Chilean solar power plant

Washington Examiner · June 30, 2014 12:49 pm