Throughout its ~40 year history the PV industry has operated in a climate of stop/start/stop incentives along with a perception that it is more expensive than other energy generating technologies (specifically, conventional energy, though also wind and nuclear). In the early years, th...
The primary source of GHG is fossil fuel burning electrical generating facilities. http://dingo.care2.com/pictures/causes/uploads/2012/01/GHG-emitters-2010.jpg 7 Billion humans generate vast quantities of excrement. I believe this excrement is capable of providing all human electrical...
Throughout its ~40 year history the PV industry has operated in a climate of stop/start/stop incentives along with a perception that it is more expensive than other energy generating technologies (specifically, conventional energy, though also wind and nuclear). In the early years, th...
06/20/2012 from SustainableBusiness.com Sir Richard Branson and Aruba Prime Minister Mike Eman announced at Rio+20 today that Branson’s Carbon War Room will work with the country to transition the island to 100% renewable energy and the world’s first sustainable economy. They will cre...
Feed-in tariffs (FITs) have spurred the installation of more than three-quarters of global solar capacity. Germany's FIT - perhaps one of the best-known programs - has led to the development of more than 50,000 MW of solar power and wind power domestically since its inception in 1990....
Power-One and SMA currently look quite cheap in terms of price to earnings ratios (5.9 and 4.9, respectively), so I asked my panel of green money managers for their thoughts on the industry. Is the industry near bottom? I received responses from Rafael Coven, Managing Director at the ...
FERC Approves Final Rule to Integrate Variable Energy Resources The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) today issued a final rule that promotes more efficient operation of the transmission system amid increasing integration of variable energy resources and benefits electric co...
Uruguay plans to cram 1,000 megawatts of wind generation onto its grid by the end of 2015, compared with a September estimate of 800 megawatts, Ramon Mendez, director of energy at the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Mining, said yesterday in a telephone interview. It has about 40 meg...
Japan Approves Feed in Tariffs Renewables Advocate Announces Run for Governor Country Takes the Renewable Plunge June 21, 2012 By Paul Gipe Industry Minister Yukio Edano approved Japan's feed-in tariffs for renewable energy on 18 June 2012. The tariffs are among the highest in the wor...
Planning for wind energy developments in the U.S. for 2013 is literally at a stand-still due to the uncertainty of an extension of the Production Tax Credit (PTC). But that isn’t stopping some developers from moving forward with new projects for next year. These new builds might, howe...
PORTLAND, ORE., June 20, 2012 – Solamor Event Services, a provider of portable renewable-power generators and producer of sustainable events, is proud to announce its partnership with SolarWorld, the largest U.S. solar panel manufacturer for more than 35 years. Solamor's newest additi...
Potentially escalating a trade dispute between the world’s biggest economies, GCL-Poly Energy Holdings Ltd., the largest supplier of polysilicon, along with Daqo New Energy Corp. and other producers presented data to the Ministry of Commerce, according to the people, who declined to b...
American Council On Renewable Energy (ACORE) has launched EnergyFactCheck.org and @EnergyFactCheck, two new resources designed to ensure that the complete story about clean and renewable energy is told, and to respond to inaccuracies and misrepresentations with well-founded facts. The...
Fortunately, if Asia and Africa embrace bottom-up renewable strategies, they can restrain energy costs, while leapfrogging dirty energy into the emerging post-fossil global economy. What are bottom-up strategies? They vary based on markets and geography. What they share is a realizati...
Vattenfall hopes to start construction next year and generate electricity by 2016. As part of the development consent, Vattenfall will invest in a £3 million local habitat restoration project and a community fund of up to £55 million over the 25-year life of the project. Vattenfall he...
Housing markets are showing signs of reviving, concludes The State of the Nation’s Housing report released last week by the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University . “While still in the early innings of a housing recovery, rental markets have turned the corner, home sal...
