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USDA Awards US $35M for Renewables and Energy Efficiency (View Original Story)
Source: renewableenergyaccess.com Posted: 09-04-2008 at 08:00:49
| U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer announced that 639 individuals and businesses in 43 states and the U.S. Virgin Islands have been selected to receive US $35 million in grants and loan guarantees for renewable energy systems or to improve energy efficiency in farm and business operations. |
FARE Files Florida PSC Comments Calling for Feed-in Tariffs (View Original Story)
Source: renewableenergyaccess.com Posted: 09-03-2008 at 08:01:16
| Tradable credits are the renewable equivalent of the Alaskan bridge to nowhere says a recent filing made with the Florida Public Service Commision (PSC). The Florida Alliance for Renewable Energy (FARE) filed comments with the Public PSC on August 26, 2008 suggesting that the state move towards a system of feed-in tariffs rather than going down its present path. |
Consumers Energy Dedicates Renewable Energy Training Center (View Original Story)
Source: renewableenergyaccess.com Posted: 08-29-2008 at 09:01:01
| Consumers Energy dedicated its new Marshall Training Center, a US $5 million investment that the company says will help prepare utility workers to meet the challenges of the 21st century, including service to the growing renewable energy market. The new Marshall Training Center will use renewable energy and state-of-the-art training techniques for approximately 2,000 utility service workers each year. |
Consumers Energy Dedicates US $5M Training Center (View Original Story)
Source: renewableenergyaccess.com Posted: 08-29-2008 at 08:00:51
| Consumers Energy dedicated its new Marshall Training Center, a US $5 million investment that the company says will help prepare utility workers to meet the challenges of the 21st century, including service to the growing renewable energy market. |
Joint Venture To Deploy Compressed Air Energy Storage Plants (View Original Story)
Source: renewableenergyaccess.com Posted: 08-27-2008 at 08:00:45
| PSEG Global LLC and energy storage pioneer Dr. Michael Nakhamkin announced that they have formed Energy Storage and Power LLC (ES&P), a joint venture to exclusively market, license, support the development and supervise project execution of the second generation of Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) technology. |
Hydrogen Projects Finding Mixed Funding Sources (View Original Story)
Source: renewableenergyaccess.com Posted: 08-22-2008 at 08:01:05
| Hydrogen projects that cut across a wide spectrum of applications are managing to find enough ramp-up funding from government, industrial, private and academic sources such that several technologies are already breaking in to the commercial space, and others should become mainstream within one or two decades, sector executives say. |
Congress "Localisation Proram on Environmental Business and Supply Base in India". Dr Rajendra Pachauri is the Patron (View Original Story)
Source: renewableenergyaccess.com Posted: 08-21-2008 at 02:00:58
| A joint special event during the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit 2009 (DSDS 2009) |
Poll Says 74% Americans Think T. Boone Pickens' Energy Plan Can Work (View Original Story)
Source: renewableenergyaccess.com Posted: 08-18-2008 at 08:00:41
| In a new national Sacred Heart University Poll, 74.0% of Americans said it was very or somewhat possible that the 10-year energy independence plan proposed by Texas oilman, T. Boone Pickens, could be accomplished. |
More US States Cooking Up Renewable Energy Incentives (View Original Story)
Source: renewableenergyaccess.com Posted: 08-15-2008 at 10:00:49
| Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle's Task Force on Global Warming has called for implementation of Advanced Renewable Tariffs to encourage the development of the state's renewable energy resources. |
Thirty Reasons Why Organizations Must Get Off Petroleum Now (View Original Story)
Source: renewableenergyaccess.com Posted: 08-11-2008 at 08:01:08
| Don't get me wrong -- I am very concerned about global warming and climate change. In the long run, that's one of the most serious challenges that humans face as a species. But in the short run, the world is no longer able to produce petroleum in sufficient volume to satisfy its demand. Soon it will not be able to produce petroleum in sufficient volume to satisfy its needs. |
Third-Party System Ownership Approved in Oregon (View Original Story)
Source: renewableenergyaccess.com Posted: 08-08-2008 at 08:01:05
| Last month, the Oregon Public Utility Commission (OPUC) issued an Order that allows third-party ownership of renewable energy systems in the state, paving the way for developers to build and operate solar and wind facilities on property that belongs to utility customers. The moves comes as other regulatory commissions across the nation consider whether or not a third party owner of a distributed energy system should be considered a utility. |
Beijing Olympics Show China's Renewable Energy Aspirations (View Original Story)
Source: renewableenergyaccess.com Posted: 08-06-2008 at 08:00:58
| From the standpoint of energy and the environment, the Summer Olympics in Beijing, a city of 15 million people, pose a stark juxtaposition of the reality of China today and the vision of its future: a China characterized by wise environmental and energy stewardship. |
The Global Need for University / Industry Cleantech Transfer (View Original Story)
Source: renewableenergyaccess.com Posted: 08-04-2008 at 09:00:42
| The pace at which universities and academic institutions are developing new technologies aimed at solving the world's energy and climate change challenges is truly amazing. Many of the cleantech ventures that are being developed at universities around the world right now have incredible potential, yet barriers to commercialization prevent most from being realized. While some top U.S. universities have tech transfer specialists on staff and departments dedicated to the commercialization of research, many others, especially in the BRIC nations (Brazil, India and China), don't have readily available access to investors and industry. |
Renewable Energy Tax Credit Legislation Voted Down in U.S. Senate (View Original Story)
Source: renewableenergyaccess.com Posted: 07-31-2008 at 08:00:46
| A bill introduced by Senate Tax Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) containing a one-year renewable energy production tax credit (PTC) extension and a small wind turbine investment tax credit has failed to move past a Cloture Vote in the U.S. Senate once again. |
Renewable Energy Tax Credits Could Be Voted on This Week (View Original Story)
Source: renewableenergyaccess.com Posted: 07-29-2008 at 09:00:54
| A vote could come as early as this week in the U.S. Senate on a bill introduced by Senate Tax Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) containing a one-year renewable energy production tax credit (PTC) extension and a small wind turbine investment tax credit. |
Fuel Cells for Portable Electronics, and Beyond (View Original Story)
Source: renewableenergyaccess.com Posted: 07-29-2008 at 09:00:54
| Hydrogen fuel-cell cars have received a great deal of attention over the years as a clean alternative to petroleum-based transportation, producing only water for exhaust. Certainly the technology is known. Demonstration vehicles have been produced by several manufacturers and Honda is starting to roll out a fleet of 200 FCX Clarity fuel-cell cars, available for lease to select customers for US $600 per month. |
Renewing the Fight for Renewables (View Original Story)
Source: renewableenergyaccess.com Posted: 07-28-2008 at 09:00:38
| My new book, A Declaration of Energy Independence, describes a poignant moment in June of 1979 when President Jimmy Carter dedicated an array of thermal solar panels on the roof of the White House, set a national goal of 20 percent of energy coming from renewables by 2000 and advocated multiple programs to achieve his ambitious objective. Congress actually passed many of his proposals in 1980, but the next administration quickly reversed the momentum toward renewable energy. |
OIT Offers Renewable Energy Systems Degree (View Original Story)
Source: renewableenergyaccess.com Posted: 07-25-2008 at 09:00:49
| In June of this year, the Oregon Institute of Technology (OIT) graduated its first student with a Bachelor of Science in Renewable Energy Systems, the first such degree in North America. The school set up the program to keep up with the industry's growth in the state. |
UC San Diego Enacts Green Energy Initiatives (View Original Story)
Source: renewableenergyaccess.com Posted: 07-21-2008 at 09:00:43
| University of California, San Diego, a university that considers itself to be one of the nation's greenest college campuses, has begun construction on a sustainable energy program that it says is among the largest in the nation by a university. |
Trina To Provide PV Cells for Hybrid Airplane (View Original Story)
Source: renewableenergyaccess.com Posted: 07-21-2008 at 09:00:43
| Trina Solar Limited has announced a cooperation agreement with LISA Airplanes for the building of the Hy-Bird, a solar and hydrogen powered airplane that is set to be the first to fly around the world using only renewable energies. |
Market Outlook: Renewables Make Good Financial Sense (View Original Story)
Source: renewableenergyaccess.com Posted: 07-14-2008 at 08:00:51
| Renewables are of particular importance in Iceland. The country has no fossil fuel resources and today 72% of its primary energy consumption comes from renewable sources, as compared to the global average of 13%. The National Bank of Iceland, Landsbanki, has helped foster this industry by providing specialized financial support for renewable energy. |
Swiss Adopt Aggressive Feed Law for Renewable Energy (View Original Story)
Source: renewableenergyaccess.com Posted: 07-11-2008 at 09:00:51
| In a surprising move, Switzerland has adopted one of the world's most aggressive systems of Advanced Renewable Tariffs. |
GE Unit Passes US $4 Billion in Investment (View Original Story)
Source: renewableenergyaccess.com Posted: 07-10-2008 at 08:00:46
| With a goal of investing US $6 billion in renewable energy by 2010, GE Energy Financial Services surpassed the US $4 billion mark this week by investing in New York State's three newest wind farms. GE will invest a total of US $100 million in the three wind farms, on which construction began last month. |
Cleantech Venture Investment Hits Record US $2 Billion in Q2 (View Original Story)
Source: renewableenergyaccess.com Posted: 07-09-2008 at 11:02:31
| The Cleantech Group has announced that cleantech venture investments during Q2 2008 in North America, Europe, China and India totaled US $2 billion across 96 companies, making it an all-time record quarter. The previous record quarter was Q3 2007, which saw US $1.8 billion in cleantech venture investments. |
Fuel Cells To Power New World Trade Center (View Original Story)
Source: renewableenergyaccess.com Posted: 07-09-2008 at 09:01:55
| The New York Power Authority (NYPA) announced that it has reached an agreement that will make the redeveloped World Trade Center the site of one of the largest fuel cell installations in the world. The agreement, valued at US $10.6 million, was reached with UTC Power for equipment purchases to provide heat and power for the new towers. |
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