Taking advantage of existing hydropower, Facebook opens a data center in Luleå, Sweden, that the company says run 100 percent on renewable energy.

Europe has been leaning more and more on wood as a renewable energy resource, but new research raises the issue of deep-soil carbon release in logging.

After a state report shows some instances of excessive noise, Fairhaven, Mass., votes to shut down two 1.5 megawatt wind turbines between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m.

2013 starts out hot for the U.S. solar industry, with 723 MW of new capacity installed, up 33 percent year-over-year, according to a new industry report.

California set a solar generation record with more than 2,000 MW last Friday, but just a day earlier Germany cranked out 23,400 MW.

In a single year, a wind turbine in Hempstead, N.Y., provided $40,000 in clean energy for use to produce hydrogen fuel for cars.

A new rail line in Portland will be the first in the U.S. to use a Siemens unit that stores energy absorbed from braking trains.

PR gambit or hopeful sign? The giant mining company Coal India is eyeing building a (relatively small) solar power plant.

Gov. John Hickenlooper signs a bill that doubles renewable energy requirements for many rural Colorado electricity providers.

A vertical-axis wind turbine developer says the addition of solar panels atop the device will reshape renewable energy. Ice cream will be free, too.