Using solar thermal technology, the Crescent Dunes Plant will be a commercial-scale solar power facility with energy storage that enables the plant to store energy for 10-15 hours at a time

The call comes as opponents of renewable energy tax policy place the future of these industries in jeopardy, according to the group

India's state-run lender to utility companies, Power Finance Corp., has more than doubled funding for renewable energy projects within a year to $305 million.

The U.S. Department of Energy to launch a new Energy Innovation Hub for advanced research on batteries and energy storage with an investment of up to $120 million over five years.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced that renewable energy efforts in America have been strengthened by the recent completion of a review that showed that offshore wind turbine projects along the coasts of Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, and Virginia would have cause no significant environmental damage.

The 16-turbine Busch Ranch Wind Project will generate 29 MW of renewable energy and will be sited 35 miles south of Pueblo, Colo

The hub, which will be funded at up to $20 million in fiscal year 2012, will focus on accelerating research and development of electrochemical energy storage for transportation and the electric grid