When you purchase green power you’re supporting the development of renewable energy sources, reducing your carbon footprint, and stimulating the economy. But what exactly is green power, and how do you go about purchasing it?

Riggs Eckelberry, CEO of Origin Oil, describes OrignOil’s unique algae feeding, growth, and extraction system.

 Cavitation Technologies’ (CTI) innovative HydorFuel presents promising preliminary results on the hydro-fuel technology.  The results proved this innovative fuel provided a more efficient burn and cleaner emissions while lowering operating costs, specifically for marine diesels and turbine power generators.

As a green consumer you’ve probably heard the term “Smart Grid” more than once, But you may not have had the time to learn much about it.  “Smart Grid 101,” is a 5 part series where you can learn what the smart grid is and why we need it, discover the technology that will drive it, learn how the smart grid will impact electric vehicles, get a global progress update, and even find out what you can do to support the transition to smart grid.

BC Hydro and the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC) announced today the launch of an online energy tracker that will publicly monitor real-time energy consumption of 2010 Winter Games sites within the cities of Vancouver and Richmond, the Resort Municipality of Whistler and Whistler Blackcomb.

GreenTech TV sat down with eBay to find out what’s driving their sustainability success.  (The eBay Green Team started out as an employee group — just 40 colleagues getting together to talk about how to make eBay a greener company. Today, more than 2,400 employees are members, representing 23 countries around the world.) http://www.ebaygreenteam.com/green-at-ebay

Recently, GreenTech TV Editor, Karen Nelson had the privilege to interview Libby Reder, eBay’s Head of Environmental Initiatives, and co-founder of the eBay Green Team to find out what is driving eBay’s green successes.

Energy Quest, Inc. ("EQI") (OTCBB: EQST), an emerging leader in alternative energy and the development and production of hydrogen-enriched alternative fuels in an environmentally responsible manner announced today it is to begin construction on a turn key biomass (Wood Waste) to Power/Algae Energy plant producing 26.8 megawatt (24 net).

Inbicon A/S today announced the signing of a multi-party Memo of Understanding to pursue the licensing, development, and construction of a biomass refinery in North Dakota. Inbicon's new collaborators are Otoka Energy, a U.S. developer of renewable energy projects, and Great River Energy, a Minnesota electric generation and transmission cooperative.

Renewable fuels provider New Generation Biofuels Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: NGBF), today announced that it successfully burned its biofuel at Washington College of Chestertown, MD. The purpose of the burn was to provide first hand data and practical information to WashingtonCollege about a biofuel that would help the College meet its commitment to reducing its carbon footprint.

Air Products (NYSE: APD), the leading global hydrogen provider, today announced it has signed a long-term agreement to supply hydrogen to Shell for one of the new units at its refinery complex near Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Air Products will supply Shell the hydrogen via pipeline and add an over six-mile extension to its existing over 80 mile pipeline system. The supply is due to be on-stream in 2011.

Abengoa Solar today announced the signing of a power purchase agreement with PG&E for a major new solar plant 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles near Harper Dry Lake, in an area historically farmed for alfalfa. The 250-megawatt concentrating solar project will provide electricity for 90,000 homes and bring 1,200 green construction jobs to the area.

In collaboration with RWE Power, a leading German power generator, the biotech developer BRAIN is working to develop new products with CO2 as a raw material

The U.K. government has announced the winners of the next major expansion round of offshore wind power as part of its ambitious plans to more than quintuple the amount of wind-driven electricity generation within a decade and help slash the nation's carbon emissions.  The new offshore wind farms will have a capacity 10 times greater than Europe's entire existing offshore wind energy capacity.

In November, SunEdison and Procter & Gamble activated a 1.1 megawatt photovoltaic solar system in Oxnard, California. 

The newly inaugurated MicroCSP™ Solar Thermal Plant at the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii is an important first step in making solar thermal energy a clean energy resource. 

Weighing under 10 oz, the LightCap300 is SolLight’s newest three-in-one product: a solar powered lantern, one-liter BPA Free Water bottle, and a waterproof container for valuables.

Aurora Biofuel’s Bob Walsh shares details about the technology behind algae biofuel

It’s time to get plugged in and start generating energy, while saving money in the process. In Connecticut, Go Green Fitness is turning human energy into clean energy.

Go Green Fitness innovative idea is to use energy generated by 24 exercise bicycles that are connected to the gym’s power grid to help power the workout facility in Orange, Connecticut.

The first zero-emissions, hydrogen fuel cell-powered terminal tractor is to be developed in a joint partnership. This tractor aims to significantly reduce the particulate emissions found in communities by implementing two new technologies. These are the software platform of Capacity of Texas and the plug-in technology of Vision Industries corp.

First Solar and NRG Energy begins commercial operation of the largest solar PV power plant in California.