MiaSolé, in the vanguard of California’s new thin film solar manufacturing start ups, has just made an efficiency advance that gets thin film back into competition with traditional solar. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory has independently confirmed a 15.7% efficiency of the company’s large area production modules (1 square meter … [continued]
Republicans are demanding that President Obama take the extension of renewable tax credits off the table in the deal they negotiated in return for bonus tax cuts for the rich, according to Politico. But Democrats are fighting to allow an up or down vote on an extension of the Recovery … [continued]
The US would have the most to gain percentage-wise from its share of an estimated $2.3 trillion clean energy economy by 2020, a new Pew report finds, if it adopted aggressive clean energy policies such as a national Renewable Energy Standard. Investment dollars follow policy. By 2020 investment would have … [continued]
Image: GOP organizer Rush Limbaugh, who stands to make $2.6 million a year from the Republican tax bill. This week, Republican Senator George LeMieux joined Democrats in a letter to Senate leaders asking that the Recovery Act provisions for renewable energy – due to sunset this month – be extended … [continued]
Despite powerful opposition from the fossil fuel industry in court, a non-profit environmental organization, New Energy Economy, has succeeded in getting New Mexico to adopt a clean energy plan designed to reduce carbon emissions 25% below 1990 levels by 2020. Yesterday, New Mexico’s Environmental Improvement Board adopted the New Energy … [continued]
Many of you have contacted me to ask if the renewable energy provisions of The Recovery Act – like the Section 1603 cash grants for solar – are being extended past Dec 31st in the now Republican-approved tax bill to be voted on this week. They are not. I just … [continued]
As international negotiators meet once more in the ongoing attempt to get international agreement to cut greenhouse gases to safe levels, one idea being presented at the climate talks at Cancun is an international Global – Renewable Energy Standard (G-RES). The American Council On Renewable Energy made the proposal on Friday. … [continued]
One problem besetting climate negotiations, both at Copenhagen and at Cancun, is a lack of trust. This is because there has been no consistent metric by which to measure progress globally. Each nation provides their own monitoring and reporting. The solution, just launched this week at the Cancun climate talks … [continued]
I am so angry this weekend that it is hard to write about clean energy news. US energy policy is held hostage once again by a GOP refusal to allow a fair up or down vote in the Senate by the majority on the expiring Bush tax cuts bill, that … [continued]
On the same day that Senate Republicans filibustered a vote for renewable energy in the USA, by contrast – China has just published an astoundingly ambitious and exciting renewable energy plan for the next ten years. China’s plan is to get a total of 500 Gigawatts of renewable energy on … [continued]
