Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar last week ended the historic preservation consultation process for the proposed Cape Wind offshore wind energy project in Nantucket Sound, clearing the way for him to a final decision on the project. Salazar notified the...

Insisting that the jobs and dollar figures being cited as justification are wrong, the wind energy industry is girding itself for a legislative battle in the United States against a proposal by a group of Democratic senators that would subject wind projects...

For its third round of solicitations, the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy is making available $100 million in Recovery Act funding for innovative technological approaches to grid-scale electricity storage, power conversion, and air conditioning...

With plans to expand into engineering cellulosic ethanol plants in Southeast Asia, Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding last week licensed biomass refinery technology pioneered by Denmark’s Inbicon A/S. The license agreement is Inbicon’s first and...

Warning that the combination of government subsidies and quotas for production and use of biofuels will fail to achieve U.S. policy goals, a pair of Cornell University academics argues that regulatory mandates alone would work much better. In an article...