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The six-state utility’s long-range plan embraces cheap PV and batteries, along with existing wind power. By Jeff St. John for GreenTech Media For the first time, Pacific Northwest and Rocky [...]

By Jennette Barnes  for South Coast Today It’s always sunny on the cranberry bogs, except when it’s cloudy. Things are pretty cloudy right now for the cranberry industry, and growers in [...]

By Chloe Sorvino for Forbes For more than a decade, one 48-year-old entrepreneur in Ghana has been quietly building up a multimillion-dollar oil and gas outfit called UBI Group. Salma Okonkwo is [...]

By Rachel Scheier for the LA Times In 1913 on the outskirts of Cairo, an inventor from Philadelphia named Frank Shuman built the world’s first solar thermal power station, using the abundant [...]

Using the space around the solar panels as sites for 48 hives, the Eagle Point solar farm is using its land to save pollinators and help local agriculture. By Adele Peters for Fast Company At a [...]

Energy production is about to resume at the site of the worst nuclear accident in history. BY DARMON RICHTER for Atlas Obscura n April 1986 the nuclear accident at Chernobyl devastated a large [...]

Following dire reports of bee-colony collapses in recent years, at least three new solar sites in Florida and Maryland are trying to provide safe havens for these critical links in the food [...]

From the Farmington Daily Times, by Noel Lyn Smith  An entity of the Navajo Nation has taken its first step to generating electricity by starting a solar farm on 200 acres five miles north of [...]

By Kelly Pickerel for Solar Power World Online Vegetation control on large ground-mount solar installations is often an overlooked cost. In the grand scheme of things, that $25,000 a year to send [...]

From RTE News The first large-scale ground-based solar electricity generation park on the island of Ireland has opened in Co Antrim. The 30-acre solar farm at Crookedstone Road, which cost £5m [...]