The Obama administration is moving to impose stiff new tariffs on solar panels made in China, finding that Chinese companies are improperly flooding the U.S. market with government-subsidized ones.  More »

Keep an eye out tomorrow for an announcement from the Commerce Department, which is expected to slap tariffs on imports of some Chinese solar products.  More »

A huge power transmission line for wind farms planned off the East Coast has cleared a regulatory hurdle, although construction is still years away.  More »

A shakeout that is rattling the solar panel industry has sent First Solar, once among the industry’s biggest and strongest companies, to a big quarterly loss.  More »

Wind power could be an economic solution for fueling offshore oil and gas platforms. At least, it’s an idea being batted around for rigs in Norway.  More »

This post was written by Lavanya Sunder, who worked as an at the Baker Institute Energy Forum and is now a senior at Lamar High School. One of the most prominent arguments against expanded oil and natural gas drilling and major infrastructure projects like Keystone XL is that the United States should for environmental reasons [...]  More »

The government wants you to install solar panels at your house, and will even give you a tax break to do it. But your neighbors? Maybe not.  More »

Britain and the U.S. said they’d fund work on offshore wind generation technologies that work in waters as much as 500 feet deep, a measure aimed at opening vast new areas of ocean to development.  More »

I participated last week on a panel at the New York Times Energy For Tomorrow conference in New York City. My session, the Closing Plenary, which you can watch here, focused on the issue of energy subsidies. Our session chair, Joe Nocera, queried whether it made sense to subsidize all of our different energy sources. [...]  More »

Solar roof shingles, the first of their kind, are now available in Texas, courtesy of the Dow Chemical Company, according to a company announcement. Dow announced Tuesday it had launched its solar shingles in California and Central Texas, allowing customers to buy and install the power-generating roof shingles through authorized dealers. Three Texas roofing companies [...]  More »

First Solar Inc. is laying off 2,000 workers and closing its plant in Frankfurt, Germany, in response to waning demand for solar panels and increased competition from China.  More »

Texas is still a national leader in wind energy, but Kansas is building more wind projects this year and Iowa claimed more jobs tied to the sector in 2011 than the Lone Star State, according to a new assessment by an industry trade group.  More »