Since 2007, Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega and his Sandinista government have struggled to stabilize that country’s energy market. Nicaragua now considers a diverse renewable energy portfolio–including wind, hydropower and geothermal–to be a “linchpin in the Sandinistas’...

TIME magazine’s Ecocentric blog has an fascinating article this week about St. Kitts and Nevis, a two-island federation in the east Caribbean and the world’s smallest sovereign nation, and the battle for geothermal energy in that part of the world. St. Kitts and Nevis have the potential to...

The winning entry from the 2011 Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon, University of Maryland’s project titled “Watershed,” has been purchased by Pepco for $200,000. Pepco plans to use the project home as an educational site. The solar-powered home’s design was inspired...

In the wake of March 2011′s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in Japan, that nation’s confidence in atomic power was crippled to the point that many Japanese citizens compared the months immediately following the incident to the post-WW II era, a difficult period for the country. A common...

Bird and wildlife conservationists have objected to the push for wind turbine developments in the United States, arguing that wind turbines kill hundreds of thousands of birds each years and disrupt migratory patterns of bird populations as well. But as the U.S. has continued to ramp up support of clean...