Ecofriend

Eco Factor: House powered by solar energy developed by student team at Santa Clara University. The biannual Solar Decathlon competition will be held this year in October. Universities from around the globe are trying out their ecofriendly home...

Eco Factor: The US Department of Energy and city of Santa Barbara install solar roofs for sustainable clean energy. It seems that the Department of Energy (DOE) should have gone solar a lot earlier than this. For an energy organization that is...

GE (General Electric) has joined hands with PrimeStar Solar, a company which develops and commercialises thin photovoltaic modules. GE has acquired a minority equity interest in PrimeStar and both the companies are hopeful that this would result in.

The U.S. Department of Energy has given the green signal for a cleaner-burning, 285-megawatt coal-fired power plant's building at an existing power station site near Orlando, Florida, as the DOE informed. It is in 2010, the $569-million plant is due...

President Bush's Solar America Initiative (SAI) has proved fruitful. The initiative aims at nationwide acceptance of clean solar energy technologies by 2015, and to fulfill this task the U.S. Govt. provides a 22 percent increase in research and...

To develop a new offshore wind-power system over the next several years, DOE's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has signed a $27 million, multi-year contract with the General Electric Company (GE). And for the project, DOE will provide...