Apple will soon install a 20-megawatt solar power facility to offset the energy used by its enormous data center, located in Maiden, North Carolina. When completed, this solar array will be the largest supporting data center operations. The nearest competition is located New Jersey and owned by McGraw-Hill. The...

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton signed a deal today with Mexico’s foreign minister that will allow the United States and Mexico to work together to drill for oil and gas along their respective borders in the Gulf of Mexico. This fulfills an obligation President Barack Obama made to Mexican president...

Treehugger reported this week that the European Union now uses renewable energy for 12.4 percent of its total gross energy consumption. This is an 11.5 percent increase from 2009. In a report titled “The State of Renewable Energies in Europe,” the European Union Member States revealed that...

The U.S. wind power industry is reeling after Congress failed to renew a tax credit that provides an income tax credit of 2.2 cents per kilowatt-hour for electricity produced by wind turbines. Proponents of the tax credit extension for wind power tried to “tuck” it into a bill that would...

Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley was questioned in Annapolis on Tuesday by the Maryland State Senate Finance Committee on the details of his offshore wind energy proposal. The committee will decide whether or the not the governor’s proposal will go on to stand a full vote by the Senate. At the...