CleanTechnica » Greenpeace http://cleantechnica.com Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Tue, 30 Dec 2014 18:48:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 Falling Oil Prices Will Not Bother Solar http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/14/falling-oil-prices-will-bother-solar/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/14/falling-oil-prices-will-bother-solar/#comments Sun, 14 Dec 2014 13:29:36 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=76283 About two weeks back, the OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) oil producers’ cartel decided not to cut output at its meeting in Vienna. Since then, oil prices have plummeted to a record five-year low. Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil exporter and OPEC’s most influential member could potentially support global oil prices by cutting

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/11/08/clean-energy-14-years-germany/feed/ 42 China Sees Coal Use Fall For 1st Time This Century http://cleantechnica.com/2014/10/24/china-sees-coal-use-fall-first-time-century/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/10/24/china-sees-coal-use-fall-first-time-century/#comments Fri, 24 Oct 2014 14:54:35 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=73901 According to data published by the China Coal Resource (and translated by the Greenpeace Energydesk), China’s coal use has dropped this year by 1.28%, a downward trend started in the second quarter of 2014 and continued in the third. This, despite statistics from the Chinese National Energy Administration that electricity consumption has actually increased by 4%

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/10/24/china-sees-coal-use-fall-first-time-century/feed/ 7 Minister Obuchi Quits, + Japan Feed-In Tariff & Energy Update (In Depth) http://cleantechnica.com/2014/10/22/minister-obuchi-quits-japan-feed-tariff-energy-update-depth/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/10/22/minister-obuchi-quits-japan-feed-tariff-energy-update-depth/#comments Wed, 22 Oct 2014 07:55:22 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=73508 March 2011—when the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami devastated four reactors and endangered two others at Fukushima 1—forced a radical rethinking of Japan’s energy picture that continues today with a Japan feed-in tariff program. In the latest round, the utilities are pushing back against the feed-in tariffs and the fruitful development of solar power. To review,

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/10/22/minister-obuchi-quits-japan-feed-tariff-energy-update-depth/feed/ 9 Catalyzing Action At The September 2014 UN Climate Summit http://cleantechnica.com/2014/09/29/catalyzing-action-september-2014-un-climate-summit/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/09/29/catalyzing-action-september-2014-un-climate-summit/#comments Mon, 29 Sep 2014 09:57:05 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=72416 Almost everyone in the media has taken a stab at summarizing, if not snap-judging, the results of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s one-day UN climate summit last week. The meeting had a real name, but Robert N. Stavins in his New York Times runup to the conference was the only writer I observed using it: “Catalyzing Action.”

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/09/29/catalyzing-action-september-2014-un-climate-summit/feed/ 1 UK Organizations Look Toward 2015 Paris Climate Talks http://cleantechnica.com/2014/09/11/uk-organizations-look-toward-2015-paris-climate-talks/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/09/11/uk-organizations-look-toward-2015-paris-climate-talks/#comments Thu, 11 Sep 2014 15:19:04 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=71777 A group of nongovernmental organizations from the United Kingdom has elaborated on the elements it sees necessary for the planned 2015 Paris climate talks among 196 countries to succeed. The group calls for all governments to accelerate their approaches to decarbonization significantly by initiating much stricter emission reductions and pursuing sustainable energy policies, with an end product of

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/09/11/uk-organizations-look-toward-2015-paris-climate-talks/feed/ 1 China’s Coal Consumption Has Finally Decreased http://cleantechnica.com/2014/08/26/chinas-coal-consumption-finally-decreased/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/08/26/chinas-coal-consumption-finally-decreased/#comments Tue, 26 Aug 2014 19:30:46 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=71120 Sierra Club. By Justin Guay. There may be a light at the end of the long dark tunnel: It appears China’s coal boom is over. While positive signs have been emerging from China for well over a year, it appears the ‘war on pollution’ is not just talk. According to analysis produced by Lauri Myllyvirta and Greenpeace International

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/08/26/chinas-coal-consumption-finally-decreased/feed/ 37 “Experts” Have Been Misleading People About Renewable Energy http://cleantechnica.com/2014/08/12/experts-misleading-people-renewable-energy/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/08/12/experts-misleading-people-renewable-energy/#comments Tue, 12 Aug 2014 15:00:44 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=70528 RenewEconomy We’ve mentioned this before, but one of the striking patterns of behaviour in the energy industry over the last decade has been the ability of the “established” energy experts to completely underestimate the growth of renewable energy – and to overplay the credentials of fossil fuels. As we have seen in Australia, this has been

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/08/12/experts-misleading-people-renewable-energy/feed/ 54 Solar Energy News Buffet http://cleantechnica.com/2014/07/26/solar-energy-news-buffet/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/07/26/solar-energy-news-buffet/#comments Sat, 26 Jul 2014 10:00:23 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=69875 As noted in an article yesterday, I’ve been very busy in the past month (well, months…) moving into a new home and following the birth of a sweet little cleantech lover. Inevitably, “roundup articles” of important or interesting cleantech news we didn’t cover dropped off as a result. With a big backlog of stories I wanted to

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/07/26/solar-energy-news-buffet/feed/ 5 Bloodhound Gang Tracks Source Of China Distributed Solar Fail http://cleantechnica.com/2014/07/18/bloodhound-gang-tracks-source-china-distributed-solar-fail/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/07/18/bloodhound-gang-tracks-source-china-distributed-solar-fail/#comments Fri, 18 Jul 2014 09:50:38 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=69585 By Anders Hove. It started with a mystery: what happened to the huge amount of distributed solar China was supposed to deploy in 2014? We were a well-selected bunch of curious cleantech investigators: Alan Beebe and three of his colleagues from EY’s cleantech practice, a solar finance expert from a US solar company, Julian Schwabe

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/07/18/bloodhound-gang-tracks-source-china-distributed-solar-fail/feed/ 8 “Stop The Dinosaurs” — Digital Marketing Campaign To Save Renewables http://cleantechnica.com/2014/06/26/stop-dinosaurs-digital-marketing-campaign-save-renewables/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/06/26/stop-dinosaurs-digital-marketing-campaign-save-renewables/#comments Thu, 26 Jun 2014 08:33:44 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=68685 RenewEconomy The Climate Institute and the Australian Youth Climate Coalition have joined forces to launch a “Stop the Dinosaurs” digital marketing campaign designed to save the renewable energy target (RET). The campaign is also being pushed by John Hewson, the former head of the Liberal Party who is horrified that the party, now controlled by

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/06/26/stop-dinosaurs-digital-marketing-campaign-save-renewables/feed/ 0 Nukes, Schmukes: Energy Revolution Forecast By Greenpeace http://cleantechnica.com/2014/05/14/nukes-schmukes-greenpeace-foresees-energy-revolution/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/05/14/nukes-schmukes-greenpeace-foresees-energy-revolution/#comments Wed, 14 May 2014 11:48:14 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=66864 Greenpeace is out with a new report called Energy [R]evolution: A Sustainable USA Energy Outlook, and given the organization’s history it’s no surprise that the report makes a strong case for getting close to 100 percent renewable energy in the US by 2050. By “close,” they mean thisclose: for starters, the report outlines a pathway

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/05/02/apples-great-green-progress/feed/ 3 Cleantech Sector Is Growing Fast, Yet Cost Drops Lead To Renewable Energy Investment Decline http://cleantechnica.com/2014/04/30/renewable-energy-investments-decline-reality-clean-tech-sector-growing/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/04/30/renewable-energy-investments-decline-reality-clean-tech-sector-growing/#comments Wed, 30 Apr 2014 18:10:23 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=66081 Originally published on World Resources Institute. By Letha Tawney, Bharath Jairaj and Xuege (Cathy) Lu  Investors worldwide spent less on renewable energy and related technologies—such as smart meters, electric vehicles, and storage—last year than in previous years. Global investments in renewable energy fell to $214 billion, down 14 percent from 2012. Venture capital investments in US-based

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/04/21/china-reduce-use-coal/feed/ 21 Biomass Emissions Question Arises Again http://cleantechnica.com/2014/04/14/biomass-emissions-question-arises/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/04/14/biomass-emissions-question-arises/#comments Mon, 14 Apr 2014 10:50:36 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=65187 It’s called “urban biomass,” and it’s ours (spsmw.org). Hard to imagine a subject that would find The Wall Street Journal and Grist in line with each other’s thinking, but burning wood for energy has achieved it. Neither outlet seems to view the topic positively. Both have cited the scientific work of Dr. Mary S. Booth,

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/04/14/biomass-emissions-question-arises/feed/ 15 Greenpeace Pushing For Pan-European Supergrid http://cleantechnica.com/2014/03/21/greenpeace-pushing-pan-european-supergrid/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/03/21/greenpeace-pushing-pan-european-supergrid/#comments Fri, 21 Mar 2014 12:40:38 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=64184 A report released by Greenpeace on Thursday based on analysis done by consultants Energynautics has floated the idea of a need for a pan-European supergrid to help meet the ambitious target of at least 45% renewables by 2030. “Europe’s energy system is at a crossroads,” the authors of the report write, noting that the existing

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/02/24/calling-anti-renewables-campaigners-nimbys-often-inaccurate-always-unproductive/feed/ 156 Greenpeace’s Analysis Of The UK’s New Nuclear Deal http://cleantechnica.com/2014/02/12/greenpeaces-analysis-uks-new-nuclear-deal/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/02/12/greenpeaces-analysis-uks-new-nuclear-deal/#comments Wed, 12 Feb 2014 06:30:24 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=62505 Originally published on Energy Post. By Karel Beckman. The European Commission (EC) has delivered what can only be called a scathing initial verdict on the UK Government’s deal with French state-owned EDF to build the first new nuclear reactors in the UK for a generation, according to a blog post from Greenpeace UK.  The Commission announced on

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/02/12/greenpeaces-analysis-uks-new-nuclear-deal/feed/ 8 REmap 2030 Launched — Roadmap To Doubling Renewable Energy Share By 2030 (Exclusive Commentary From Dolf Gielen) http://cleantechnica.com/2014/01/22/remap/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/01/22/remap/#comments Wed, 22 Jan 2014 15:30:16 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=61530 IRENA has just launched REmap 2030, a roadmap showing how the world can double the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix by 2030, and triple the share of “modern renewables.” Overall, REmap 2030 sees modern renewables quadrupling in absolute terms by 2030, a share of at least 30% in total final energy consumption. The roadmap

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