NRG Energy Incorporated

U.S. Rep. Elizabeth Esty, D-5th District, has accepted tens of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from people in the energy and environmental industries, which are regulated by her husband, Dan Esty, commissioner of the state Department of...

In a deal short on details but blatant in intent, General Electric Co. continued to tear itself a hefty chunk of the renewable energy industry by buying a minority stake in a California solar company. Already the largest supplier of......

The proposal to build a high-speed rail system in California has the potential to create more than 127,000 permanent jobs in the Los Angeles-Orange County area by 2035 and contribute to the economic revitalization of the region, according to a......

NRG Solar, owner of California’s largest operating photovoltaic power plant, is about to one-up itself with construction that starts this month on an even larger installation in the Central Valley. The 45-megawatt project, planned for Kings County, will...

Southern California has gotten the bulk of the solar industry’s attention lately as a group of solar thermal projects weave their way through state regulatory agencies. But photovoltaic activity is about to kick up farther north as a project set......

It's not in China, nor in Germany. It's not in Spain, and it certainly isn't in Texas. The largest solar thermal project in the world is being built in California, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger crowed Wednesday morning to raucous applause at......

The weather was nippy and the casinos of Primm were looming within eyeshot, but Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was still in a jolly mood Wednesday morning. After all, the largest solar thermal project in the world was breaking ground on his......

San Bernardino and Riverside counties have gotten the bulk of the glory lately when it comes to proposed solar power projects -– see the BrightSource Ivanpah installation and the Solar Millennium Blythe plant -- but now it's San Luis Obispo's......

AeroVironment Inc., the Monrovia maker of electric vehicle chargers, is planning to go national in a big way with a new distribution deal. Milbank Manufacturing Co. of Kansas City, Mo., known for its electrical metering equipment, will sell...

Photovoltaics producer First Solar Inc. sold a 21-megawatt Riverside County solar facility to leading power company NRG Energy Inc. for an undisclosed amount, the company said today. First Solar, based in Tempe, Ariz., is building the project in Blythe...

May 22 (Reuters) - New York has enough electricity to meet the peak summer air conditioning demand in spite of the retirement of several older generating plants over the past year or so, the state's power grid operator said on Wednesday. The New York...

HOUSTON, May 21 (Reuters) - NRG Energy said on Tuesday it will shut the 352-megawatt Norwalk Harbor power facility in Connecticut at the end of the month because of market conditions that make the plant uneconomic. The Norwalk facility has two oil-...