Non-hydro renewables accounted for 18% of the total supply to the California Independent System Operator's (ISO) grid in 2015, marking an increase of two percentage points from 2014.

Defying all projections, wind, solar, and other renewable energy sources set a series of records for domestic electrical generation during the first quarter of 2016.

Here are 7 of the more unusual sources that go above and beyond the norm.

The wind energy sector is on pace to meet about 10 percent of the electricity in the United States by 2020, according to industry representatives.

Electric razors or toothbrushes, a long soak in a bubble bath and an on-demand water heater can all affect energy consumption in the bathroom.

BMW said that BMW South Africa will expand the installation of the solar carport in major city centers in South Africa this summer for public charging.

GE Energy Financial Services and Virginia Solar Group have commenced commercial operations on its jointly owned 32-megawatt Pacifico Energy Kumenan Mega Solar Project ("Kumenan Solar Project"), located in the Okayama prefecture of Japan.

The cost of installing solar energy in the United States is down more than 50 percent since the start of a federal support program, the Energy Department said.

Saft will become Total’s “spearhead in electricity storage,” Patrick Pouyanne, chief executive officer of the Courbevoie, France-based oil producer, said Monday.

Mars Inc., the closely-held maker of M&M’s candies and Uncle Ben’s rice, signed a deal to buy power from a wind farm in Scotland that will offset all the pollution it produces from its U.K. facilities.

A quarterly report from the AWEA said more than 500 megawatts of new wind energy were added to the U.S. grid during the first quarter and construction started on another 2,000 MW.

Solar panel producers in Taiwan should do more to differentiate themselves from their competitors in other nations.

The U.S. Energy Department said it has $25 million in funding to help software developers and utility provides better integrate solar power to the grid.

New York State will spend $150 million on large-scale clean energy projects as part of its goal to generate 50 percent of its electricity from renewables by 2030.

BMW has updated the i3 to keep up with the growing crowd of electric cars and range extender hybrids on the market.

New plans from the ECOWAS Regional Center for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (ECREEE) will see a “clean energy corridor” featuring a combined capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW) developed in West Africa.

British energy storage start-up Powervault has launched its new range of home energy storage, which is equipped to help save consumers billions of pounds in energy bills.

San Francisco has passed a law requiring all new buildings below 10 stories to have solar panels installed on their rooftops.

Clean power is needed all over Germany and green electricity from the North Sea gives the German energy transition the necessary support.

Nationwide, the AWEA said wind energy is a hundred-billion dollar business.

The Palo Alto–based startup ElectrIQ Power will be launching an integrated home energy storage product during Quarter 4 2016 — featuring a 10-kilowatt-hour lithium-ion battery, a hybrid DC-to-AC inverter, a DC-to-DC converter, an intelligent battery management system, and a high-frequency energy meter.

State law requires 20 percent of the electricity to be generated by renewables by 2022.

Middle Eastern and North African nations can make a "net benefit" of $750 billion if they achieve their set targets on the use of renewable energy, a senior official said Monday.

Today’s announcement takes the total raised to $8 billion.

The first wind powered LED street lamp is being installed on the tiny island of Juist.

Developers have installed solar panels on about 7,000 acres of North Carolina pasture and cropland since 2013.