Xcel Energy has filled the capacity of its Solar*Rewards program, which provides rebates to customers installing small-sized solar installations on their homes or business, and plans to request an increase in the program capacity for 2013.

The 30 Advanced Energy (AE) 500 kW 1kV DC Utility PV Inverters at PG&E's 15MW Westside Solar Station successfully passed multiple low voltage sag events.

Wind energy's contributions of clean power in North America in 2012 grew significantly.

Ten states, the District of Columbia and New York City have sent a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency threatening to sue over the delay in finalizing the New Source Performance Standard.

SunEdison installed a solar power array at the global headquarters of office supply company Staples in Framingham, Mass.

As power companies look to deal with stronger federal regulations and a focus on renewable energy, many talk about maintaining fuel diversity – using a variety of generation methods to not only meet overall emissions requirements, but also stabilize prices for customers by not relying too heavily on one type of fuel throughout a company's fleet.

Investments by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) are helping to produce geothermal power at increasingly lower temperatures.

Babcock & Wilcox said that its subsidiary, Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group, signed a contract with FutureGen Industrial Alliance to begin the next phase of the 167 MW FutureGen 2.0 carbon capture and storage project in Meredosia, Ill.

Lucid Energy, a provider of renewable energy systems and developer of the LucidPipe Power system for in-conduit hydropower, announced that it was the first U.S.-based company to receive funding from OurCrowd, an Israel-based hybrid venture capital and crowdfunding platform.

More utilities are beginning to recognize the benefits of investing in residential solar financing.

Nestlé installed two wind power turbines at its Nestle Waters North America bottling plant in Cabazon, Calif., marking its first global wind energy project.

RGS Energy was contracted by the city of El Cerrito, Calif. to design and install 336 kW of solar power at several municipal locations.

A Request For Proposals was announced for renewable energy and energy services on Necker Island in the British Virgin Islands, the home of Sir Richard Branson.

SC Johnson is increasing the amount of output from a wind energy farm constructed by ENEL to power its facility in Toluca, Mexico.

Whatever happened to the notion that collaboration is the key to success?

Mage Solar and Paradise Energy Solutions announced the completion of a 1.12 megawatt system for Martin Limestone Inc. in New Holland, Pa.

Honda Transmission Manufacturing of America Inc. will be installing wind turbines to help power the plant.

Each year, the most innovative power projects around the world are honored during Power Engineering's Projects of the Year awards gala, which was held last month At POWER-GEN International in Orlando, Fla.

With solar photovoltaic (PV) projects, a major area of risk is quantifying the expected annual energy production and uncertainty.