Clean energy and sustainable transportation projects launched this year created nearly 40,000 new green jobs in America during the second quarter of 2013.
From renewables to energy efficiency and public transportation, America’s transition to a clean energy economy is well underway, reports the latest green jobs report from Environmental Entrepreneurs.
DOE will partner with New Jersey to develop the first-ever transit system microgrid as part of Superstorm Sandy recovery efforts.
NJ TransitGrid will cover rail lines and facilities across New Jersey Transit’s (NJT) busy northeastern corridor between Newark and New York City, and ensure trains keep running even if the centralized grid goes off the rails.
California’s carbon prices fell in its fourth cap-and-trade auction on news the state may increase the amount of free allocations it provides in 2014.
But even though permit sales dropped 13% from May 2013’s record-setting auction, long-term indicators hint the state’s emissions reduction market could wind up stronger than ever.
The Bureau of Land Management has announced the first competitive lease auctions for renewable energy development across its 19 Solar Energy Zones – the start of a potential 23.7GW new solar energy capacity.
Green building is growing fast in the US, and may represent more than half of all commercial and institutional construction as soon as 2016.
Today, millions of people experience LEED projects every day during their daily routine, and 35% of all construction jobs are in green building.
The one thing everyone working on energy issues in America can agree upon is non-existent energy policy action at the national level. But late last week President Obama signed two bipartisan bills that could create a major boost for US renewables generation from an unlikely source – small hydropower.
It’s kind of amazing these bills becoming law hasn’t gotten much attention, since they’re the first real energy legislation to pass Congress since 2009, and could ultimately create 1.2 million green jobs while adding 60 gigawatts of new renewable electricity to the grid.
The growing effects of climate change make adaptation more important every day, but without accurate data to guide planning, government action risks being ineffective or insufficient.
That’s where a new interactive map from the University of Michigan comes into the picture, combining economic, infrastructure, and population data for 225 counties in the Great Lakes region.
Iowa will add 1.05 gigawatts of new wind energy capacity by 2015, thanks to the Iowa Utilities Board’s approval of a $1.9 billion proposal from MidAmerican Energy.
Regulatory approval of the Wind VII project paves the way for construction to start as soon as September 2013, bringing hundreds of green jobs and millions in revenue to landowners and the government.
BM has long been known for building some of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, but what happens when it applies advanced modeling to solving the intermittency of renewable energy?
The answer is “Hybrid Renewable Energy Forecasting,” a new technology already online in China that produces accurate local weather and renewable energy forecasts as far as one month in advance, down to 15-minute increments.
633 advanced energy storage projects encompassing 865 separate systems are currently in operation or under development worldwide, according to Navigant Research’s “Energy Storage Tracker 3Q13.” The industry added 38 new projects during the first half of 2013.
