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U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, along with seven other U.S. government agencies, launched the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Export Initiative.

The saga of Massachusetts’ Cape Wind Project has progressed slowly and painfully. Proponents will take it. After a decade of bureaucratic and legal wrangling, the embattled project has crossed some major thresholds. In October, U.S.

New research produced by Southern Methodist University’s (SMU) Geothermal Laboratory suggests the temperature of the earth beneath West Virginia is significantly higher than previously estimated and is capable of supporting commercial baseload geothermal-energy production.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar approved the first large-scale solar-energy plants ever to be built on public lands.

Those who adapt to changing conditions survive, and those who don’t adapt don’t survive. That concept applies to species of animals and businesses and has been more evident as the recent economic recession continues to take its toll.

Despite the controversies around its benefits and drawbacks, offshore wind is seen by one coastal state as a viable source of renewable power. The state, New Jersey, is willing to make a sizable investment of public resources to tap into its full potential.

While groundbreaking developments in renewable power and energy innovation are nothing new in California, officials there were still no less eager to trumpet the state’s latest milestone in its ongoing quest to change the way power is generated and used.

A New Hampshire program that provides financial incentives to homeowners for installing solar- or wind-power generating systems may be a victim of its own success. Public officials are taking steps to prevent its demise.

Scientists and technologists around the world are beginning to see the promising possibilities of graphene to build cheap, lightweight conductors for everything from solar-power systems to computer touchscreens.