Senator Inhofe Gets DOE Funds to Change his Mind
February 18th, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer
Recovery Act stimulus funding for a technology that will make geothermal power available in every state is being invested in
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Fossil Company Fighting Transmission Gamechanger
February 17th, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer
FERC is close to approving the Tres Amigas high-voltage interconnection hub project in Clovis, New Mexico, designed to be the
All of Dubai Underwater With Climate Change
January 16th, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer
Unlike Venice, which was built in the middle ages, modern cities have key electrical infrastructure at ground level and below, making it almost impossible to inhabit a modern city with skyscrapers submerged up to the first or second floor
Rural Electric Cooperative Completes $240 Million Wind Farm in 4 Months
January 1st, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer
A North Dakota rural electric cooperative made history on New Year's Eve, in completing the nation's largest wind project to be entirely owned by a consumer cooperative. The $240 million, 115.5 MW wind farm was begun in August and completed a mere four months later; three and a half hours before midnight on the last night of
Foreign Windpower Giant Iberdrola Taps Saudi Arabia of Wind Because We Can't
December 31st, 2009 | by Susan Kraemer
Today, a European company put the finishing touches on a wind project in North Dakota which Americans have known for decades is "the Saudi Arabia of Wind." Spain's Iberdrola Renovables, the parent company of Iberdrola Renewables Inc that built the project became a giant global wind company in the wake of the Kyoto Accord. The European renewable energy sector grew from the resulting renewable energy legislation in Europe. The result is that it is European wind companies such as Vestas and Iberdrola, that are now building the wind energy that we need
Another Economy Might be Beginning Escape From Fossil Energy Dependence
December 24th, 2009 | by Susan Kraemer
Here's some more good news about our renewable energy future. Another nation has reduced greenhouse gas emissions, while not taking an economic hit. Canada's top 10 industrial greenhouse gas emitters reduced their emissions by 9% in a year, while the economy grew in the meantime by 0.5%
Cap & Trade Cut Emissions 50% in 20 years
December 12th, 2009 | by Susan Kraemer
It's official. The Acid Rain Cap and Trade program worked. The EPA has just released its report. Electric utilities in the US are already below the 2010 emission cap of 8.95 million tons of sulfur dioxide SOx and nitrogen oxides NOx
The Fossil Party and the Future Party
December 6th, 2009 | by Susan Kraemer
One of the hardest parts of checking foreign news sources - to find out what others think of the emissions reductions targets their countries are bringing to Copenhagen - is deciphering the meaning of all those political parties' names. Who knows which side each of these is on, when it comes to climate change
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