By Brandon LarrabeeTALLAHASSEE — Despite discouraging results after years of trying to get the state to draw more power from renewable sources, advocates are set to at least make another effort i
By Robert Trigaux, Times Business Columnist
Once upon a time Florida went looking for an energy policy but got terribly lost along the way.
At first, we embraced abundant and cheap coal until the air
President Barack Obama announced Saturday a $2 billion commitment to solar energy companies with the hope of creating new jobs, in light of lackluster employment figures released Friday that bodes poo
Gainesville plans to make solar feed-in more available
The program turns buildings into mini power plants by putting their solar-generated power back into the electric grid and paying property owners
The bill, SB 722 by state Sen. Joe Simitian, was approved by the Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee on a 9-2 vote and is expected to win final passage in late summer.
Reporting from Sacr
By Patrick Cassidy
pcassidy@capecodonline.com
Solar is hot.
Just yesterday, politicians and company officials at Kingman Yacht Center in Cataumet inaugurated a 100-kilowatt photovoltaic system.
By Christine Steele csteele@scsun-news.com
SILVER CITY -- Federal grant money from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is going to a local Silver City agency to help provide "green" jobs training
A Florida Panhandle start-up called Energy Farm Inc. says it plans to build a 74-megawatt, solar photovoltaic power plant on 550 acres in Walton County capable of producing enough electricity to supply
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Thursday, Karen Alderman Harbert, pre
By Kevin Turner
It used to be that Frank Erickson had no shortage of solar collectors and other such projects to install at local homes and businesses — his Jacksonville company has grossed abou
