Clean energy job growth was broad based geographically and across industry sectors despite opposition and inconsistent support in Congress, according to Environmental Entrepreneurs’ clean energy jobs Q4 and 2012 year in review.
Political winds are at long last favorable for the development of US offshore wind energy. AWC has selected New Jersey for Phase I of its planned HVDC transmission backbone.
The supply contract is Yingli America is its largest to date. Fluor Corp is leading EPC for the Centinela project in Imperial Valley, a region of Southern California that has become a hotspot for renewable energy development …
Semprius and its backers — including the DOE, NREL, Pratt & Whitney, and Siemens — believe record-high efficiency ratings and low-cost production will make the startup’s concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) cells and modules a winner in a global solar market undergoing much turmoil, including bankruptcies, plant shutdowns, slowdowns, layoffs, and cutbacks in government solar incentives and subsidies […]
Local governments are taking actions to spur low-carbon green economy development that falls right in line and reinforces initiatives at the regional, national, and international levels, an encouraging sign that real progress can and is being made. Announcements this week from cities and local governments as geographically and culturally separated and diverse as Kolkata and Westport testify to the actions taking place. […]
The US clean energy industry continued to create green jobs in this year’s second quarter, though looming expiration of the federal tax credit for wind power is already having a dampening effect, according to the latest green jobs study from Environmental Entrepreneurs. […]
Following in the wake of the Cameron government’s new UK Guarantees £40 billion loan guarantee program, the money center banking group is set to ramp up its renewable energy investments. Offshore wind, solar power and biomass projects are at the top of the list. […]
A wave of renewable energy and cleantech innovation is being unleashed on the waves, as well as on land and in the air, including a US crew’s attempt at the first solar-powered circumnavigation of the eastern US. […]
A study by Illinois State University’s Center for Renewable Energy finds that the state’s 23 largest wind farms create thousands of jobs and boost local economies, adding fuel to calls for Congress to extend the key federal wind energy production tax credit (PTC). […]
Abengoa’s Helios 1 solar thermal power plant went live this week, indicative of the leading, but compromised, role Spanish companies are playing in the fast-growing global renewable energy market. Nuclear and hydro power providers have been reaping the benefits of a flawed Electric Power Act that ties the rates they charge consumers to oil prices.
