By Kent Klein, White House, voanews.com U.S. President Barack Obama says the government will spend $3.4 billion to update the nation’s energy infrastructure with new technologies. The president made the announcement Tuesday at a solar power facility...

By Christine Armario, Associated Press Writer (from Yahoo.com) ARCADIA, Fla. – Greg Bove steps into his pickup truck and drives down a sandy path to where the future of Florida’s renewable energy plans begin: Acres of open land filled with solar...

Installing solar panels to heat your home is beyond the means of many Americans. However, Bill Whitaker (CBS News) shows us how to get the benefits of solar power without paying for the panels up front. Watch CBS News Videos Online

By Paul Courson, CNN.com A university team from Germany has won the U.S. Energy Department’s Solar Decathlon for the second competition in a row, officials declared Friday. In second place was Team Illinois, and third place went to Team...

For three weeks in October 2009, the U.S. Department of Energy will host the Solar Decathlon—a competition in which 20 teams of college and university students compete to design, build, and operate the most attractive, effective, and energy-efficient...