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The global market in super-efficient LED lighting products is booming and share prices of LED companies are following step.

Ocean Power Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq: OPTT), a Pennington, N.J.-based pioneer of wave-energy technology for autonomous power generation and the utility market, has been making moves in the emerging wave energy market.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced US$30 Million in funding for 15 RD&D partnerships that emphasize finding ways to make homes more energy efficient.

In a move that is certain to change the color paradigm for roofing shingles, last week U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Steven Chu directed his agency to implement cool roof technologies in all new buildings, roof replacements and roofing retrofits whose energy savings justify the cost of replacement.

Developers and officials have broken ground on the Kahuku Wind Project, a new 30-megawatt on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii.

Well, well, well.  Once again, here we stand on the eve of another journey.

But first a little prelude, if I may.

This is the first of a three-part Q & A with Katherine Hamilton, president of the Washington, D.C.-based GridWise Alliance. Here Ms. Hamilton talks about the Alliance's mission and the inaugural GridWise Global Forum.

If you’re not a physicist you’ve probably never heard of the magnetocaloric effect. But scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Lab think the phenomenon could someday be used to keep food cold – using a large magnet like a block of ice.

In an effort to accelerate the world’s clean energy technologies, the United States will host the first-ever Clean Energy Ministerial next week.

Clean energy leaders, stakeholders and government officials from around the world will work together to advance clean energy technologies.

There is a wide range of companies developing biofuels -- and we are focusing today on the two most advanced pure-play publicly traded companies: