You are probably familiar with concentrating solar power (CSP), but a new type of CSP plant, a molten salt CSP plant, has just gotten rolling and you may not yet know why that is important.
WWF Solar Boat Promoting Renewable Energy and Marine Conservation [VIDEO]
July 26, 2010 By 4 Comments
The World Wildlife Federation (WWF), in an effort to promote both greater use of renewable energy and conservation of marine ecosystems, has a 46-foot solar boat (WWF Solar) sailing around the Mediterranean. The solar catamaran is part of WWF Spain’s new ‘Embárcate’ (Get on Board) campaign that is planned along the Mediterranean coastline for the [...]
10 Million Solar Roofs Bill Moves Forward
July 26, 2010 By 2 Comments
If you haven’t heard by now, the U.S. Senate Energy Committee advanced a big piece of solar energy legislation last week (prior to the killing of the climate and clean energy bill). Vermont senator and Green Jobs Committee chairman Bernie Sanders got his “Ten Million Solar Roofs” bill through the influential Energy Committee on Wednesday [...]
India's Renewable Energy Generation Capacity Could Reach 48 GW by 2015
July 25, 2010 By 1 Comment
India is on target to achieve the target to set ten percent renewable energy generation capacity by 2015, said chairman of the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC). As part of the National Action Plan on Climate Change, the government has set the target of increasing contribution of renewable energy sources to power generations to ten percent by [...]
More Investments in Renewables in China Than in US and Europe Combined
July 24, 2010 By 7 Comments
China attracted more asset financing in clean-energy technology in the second quarter than Europe and the U.S. combined, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance. A clever piece of legislation created the renewable energy bonanza. Six months ago, China made it the law that all utilities have to buy any renewable power put on the grid [...]
ARPA-E backs a "Smart Metal" to Cool Future Climate Hell
July 23, 2010 By 1 Comment
As part of the new ARPA-E program designed to bring “game-changing” technologies to market, one of the 43 breakthroughs the Department of Energy has funded is the invention of a metal alloy for use instead of refrigerant in air conditioners and advanced refrigeration systems. The completely new thermally elastic metal alloy makes possible a fundamental [...]
California's 2nd Chance – Giant 3 GW Wind Farm Gets $1.2 Billion
July 23, 2010 By 4 Comments
Terra-Gen Power has just received the financing needed to build the next four wind farms in the largest wind energy project on US soil. The company can now build another 570 MW of the gigantic 3,000 MW Alta Wind Energy Center, in the same energy-rich Tehachapi region of California where former Governor Jerry Brown jump-started [...]
China Even Beats US to Cap and Trade, Due to Republican Opposition to Climate Legislation
July 23, 2010 By 2 Comments
The same day that the US Senate gave up on cap and trade climate legislation that would make polluters pay for the switch to clean energy, because not even one Republican will vote for it, news comes that China has just beaten us to implementing their own cap and trade system to reduce greenhouse gases. [...]
