Los Angeles Launches Carbon Reduction Surcharge Dedicated for Renewable Investment
March 16th, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer
Yesterday the Mayor of Los Angeles unveiled a proposal for a Carbon Reduction Surcharge to raise an estimated $170 million
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BrightSource Gets Department of Energy Loan Guarantee if Tortoise Issue Solved
February 24th, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer
BrightSource got a boost from the Department of Energy this week with a loan guarantee of $1.37 billion to help
First Solar Begins Operation of Largest Thin-Film PV Plant in California
January 18th, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer
First Solar's utility-scale PV plant has now been up and running, in Blythe, California, for its first full month. Once it got a go-ahead in the summer It only took three months to build
Rooftop Solar Installations Growing Faster than Utility-Scale Solar
January 10th, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer
Private solar installations are really taking off nationwide. In just two years, (about the same length of time it takes to get a pair of 250 MW solar power plants approved in California, for example), homeowners and businesses have added that much power to the Californian grid, just from individual rooftops throughout the state
Chinese Company Considers a Future With Nuclear Cargo Shipping – Your Thoughts?
January 2nd, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer
China has certainly made some startlingly bold and draconian moves into a sustainable new future. You might say that their One Child policy did more to slow future climate change than anything that any other nation has tried. That's one example of their outside-the-box thinking about the future
Few Solar Applications Are Within Feinstein Proposed Desert Monument Area
December 28th, 2009 | by Susan Kraemer
When you look at the entire desert area available in the map of the California desert (below), you see that most of the red dots that signify a solar application under review are actually outside the two areas that Senator Feinstein proposes to set aside
Feinstein Expands 30% Solar Tax Credit to Include Public Swimming Pools
December 26th, 2009 | by Susan Kraemer
When the 30% tax credits as cash grants were instituted with the American Recovery Act, I was doing solar estimates for a small start-up in California. I was surprised to find that the 30% tax credit (available as a cash grant for businesses) for solar, was applicable to solar thermal only if it was not used for swimming pools
There Oughta Be A Law – Solar Thermal On Every Home
December 17th, 2009 | by Susan Kraemer
People typically don't think of installing solar thermal when they build or retrofit their homes. Most people just don't follow renewable energy news and have just have never thought of it. Just like most people wouldn't know to build their homes to be earthquake-proof either if it wasn't in our building code
Real Solar Breakthrough Could Clean Panels With Less Water
December 10th, 2009 | by Susan Kraemer
Solar power is one of the solutions to stop climate change; by ending fossil fuel use, yet ironically, is itself constrained by climate change that is creating increasing desertification. Water is most scarce in the desert; What's more: it's getting worse throughout the Southwest, including California, right where insolation is best for maximum solar yield
Dried-Up Owens Lake to Get Remedial Solar Array
December 9th, 2009 | by Susan Kraemer
In probably the first ever example of using solar for environmental remediation, the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power wants to try using a small 50-MW photovoltaic plant at Owens Lake for dust control
Locals to Get a Bus Tour of Proposed Abengoa Mojave Desert Solar Thermal Project
December 7th, 2009 | by Susan Kraemer
Mojave Solar is taking local residents on a bus tour Wednesday to see the site of the proposed 250 MW
Rooftop Solar = 4% of Sonoma County's Power!
December 6th, 2009 | by Susan Kraemer
This is staggering. In just over six months; Sonoma County's Energy Independence Program has received 375 applications for more than $17 million worth of solar loans. Since Sonoma County went live with its PACE model of solar funding in March; applications have been pouring in daily, and the county intends to make loans indefinitely by packaging them as bonds. "There is no end in sight," said Amy Bolten, a county spokeswoman. "We think our program is just getting going." And this is in addition to the county's already very high solar adoption
PG&E to Buy and Run a 246 MW Wind Farm
December 3rd, 2009 | by Susan Kraemer
Utilities got a boost last year, when the new investment tax credits from the federal government were extended to allow
Clean Energy Push Rivals Manhattan Project: WSJ
December 3rd, 2009 | by Susan Kraemer
A once-in-a-generation shift in U.S. science is being spurred by the Obama administration’s push to solve the nation’s energy problems,
Kyoto Accord to Hydrogen-Power California
December 1st, 2009 | by Susan Kraemer
In a move that can be seen as indication of the far-reaching global effects of European cap and trade legislation,
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