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France will shut down about half its coal-fired power stations by 2015, replacing them with natural-gas-fired plants, as part of the European Copenhagen agreement to cut carbon emissions 20% by 2020. Germany’s RWE AG, the single largest carbon emitter in Europe, said it won’t build new coal-fired power plants, finding that they are no longer [...]
In yet another example of how easily US automakers are able to meet much more stringent emissions standards in other countries, General Motors and its joint ventures in China set new sales records in China for the first half of 2010 with a 49% increase for the same period last year, selling 1,209,138 units, according [...]
As school districts across the country struggle with budget cuts, the solar energy industry is offering a solution in the form of financing for low cost solar energy installations. It’s a perfect match: many schools have large expanses of flat, unshaded roofs and the buildings are in use mainly during daylight hours, alleviating the need [...]
Obama announced in his weekly address this week that the Department of Energy has awarded two solar companies, Abengoa Solar and Abound Solar Manufacturing, nearly $2 billion as “conditional commitments from the Recovery Act.” Abengoa Solar is to build one of the largest solar power plants in the world in Arizona with its portion of [...]
As reported by The Associated Press, in this morning’s weekly radio address President Obama has just announced that almost $2 billion in federal funding for solar energy and green jobs is in the pipeline. The money will go to construct solar power installations in Arizona, Colorado and Indiana. The awards were made to Abengoa Solar [...]
Researchers at Cornell University have developed a process for building an organic molecular-scale framework that could be used to collect solar energy. They did it using phthalocyanines, which are common dyes used in blue jeans and numerous other products. The researchers came up with a way to assemble the molecules into a precisely structured two-dimensional [...]
The Spanish government, faced with runaway success in the rapid scale-up of solar power in the country as a result of its extremely generous Feed-in tariff payment, is now faced with a financial problem caused by the same extremely generous Feed-in Tariff payments. It had offered as much as ten times the price per megawatt [...]
Two San Francisco-based companies, Cleantech Law Partners and CleanTechies, have just announced a new online service for addressing pressing and constantly changing cleantech and renewable energy legal and policy issues. The free online service (at http://law.cleantechies.com) allows anyone to submit legal questions which Cleantech Law Partners’ attorneys will then review and answer online.
