The University of Central Florida is leading a team that just won $1.3 million in a national White House competition aimed at driving technology commercialization and entrepreneurship to support a "green innovation economy." (Read more)

Are you interested in clean energy technologies such as advanced li-ion batteries, hydrogen-powered fuel cells, and paper thin batteries? Download our new white paper to learn about the great strides Florida's companies are making in these areas. (Read more)

FPL's Martin Next Generation Solar Energy Center is a one-of-a-kind hybrid facility that connects a field of more than 190,000 solar thermal mirrors with an existing combined-cycle natural gas power plant. Innovative technology enables the mirrors to track the sun over the course of a day to harness free fuel from the sun's rays to create electricity and directly offset the use of fossil fuels. (Read more)

As Gainesville's solar feed-in tariff program begins its third year this month, it is slated to grow in size by more than 70 percent in 2011 and, at the same time, will be opening up more to residential property owners. (Read more)

Algae-based biofuel could someday power commercial jets, courtesy of the University of Central Florida and its New Mexico partner. (Read more)

Can nanotechnology produce a dramatically better, faster & cheaper fuel cell? Bing Energy thinks Florida State University researchers have found the answer & has entered a licensing agreement with the university. (Read more)

U.S. Department of Energy selects UCF as one of five projects to build and strengthen "innovation ecosystems" that will accelerate the movement of cutting-edge energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies from university laboratories into the market. (Read more)

Two Florida firms, Tampa's Ultrasonic Technologies and Seminole's FieldMetrics, Inc, were among 33 in the nation to score Dept. of Energy funds to support clean energy technology commercialization projects. (Read more)

The University of Florida has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory as one of the 15 research and deployment partnerships to participate in a four-year $90 million research project. (Read more)

The U.S. Department of Energy has designated the Center for Ocean Energy Technology at Florida Atlantic University as a national center for ocean energy research and development. (Read more)

The University of North Florida's School of Engineering has received a combined $9.4 million in federal contracts from the Army and Department of Energy for a fuel cell research project - the highest-funded project in the school's history. The research has two goals: develop and then commercialize a direct methanol fuel cell power source for two laptops - one for American soldiers, the other for ordinary consumers. (Read more)

Orlando kicked off a $37 million program to deploy electric vehicle recharging stations in nine regions around the US with the first installed ChargePoint Networked Charging Station. Orlando will receive hundreds of free home and public ChargePoint stations for electric vehicles, preparing for the release of new electric cars from major manufacturers later this year. (Read more)