About 24 municipal buildings in Southern California are about to help ease the strain on the grid created by the peak need for air conditioning on hot California afternoons. Over the next few weeks, a consortium of municipal utilities in California will begin retrofitting government offices and commercial properties with … [continued]
The U.S. Department of Energy has just finalized the environmental assessment in order to guarantee the loan for Abengoa Solar to start construction of the Solana CSP Project, announced in 2007. The decision marks the culmination of a lengthy environmental assessment with 286 pages of referenced impact statements, covering every … [continued]
Oceanlinx; named one of the world’s Top Ten Renewable Energy Investments by the UN, needs to go back to the drawing board to iron out some kinks in the design of its 2.5 MW wave energy power station. A massive swell at the Port Kembla site, 150 meters off the … [continued]
A recent NRDC analysis of a Pew study found that the ten nations leading the world in government investment in renewable power have now passed the US by. The US had the 8th fastest growth over the last 5 years, trailing South Korea, China, Australia, France, India, the UK, and … [continued]
Palo Alto-based Tesla is the only company currently building real four- wheeled electric cars in the US that can go at freeway speeds (and much faster). Its plan has always been to leverage the initial luxury Roadster into funding increasingly affordable models – and it has hit all its goals … [continued]
Environment & Energy Daily has a great count of the votes for the latest iteration of the Climate Bill; the American Power Act, which is finally coming to a cloture vote in June after being scored by the CBO and the EPA. [social_buttons] Passage depends on these 31 Fence Sitters … [continued]
Gary Pierce, one of four commissioners on the Arizona Corporate Commission, that oversees state utilities, is threatening an energy boycott against Los Angeles. The move is reminiscent of the Russian embargo of Natural Gas to Europe a couple of winters ago. Los Angeles gets a quarter of its power from … [continued]
Despite the overall reduction in US electricity demand in 2009 – due to both the recession and to an increase in efficiency technology deployment; the top ten utilities in the nation added 66% more solar to the grid last year than the previous year, according to just released findings from … [continued]
While a Wyoming coal plant and one Chevron refinery are the largest pollution sources for California, the three industries that together account for 40% of California’s GHG emissions include electric utilities, oil refineries and cement manufacturers – so these are the three industries most impacted by California’s climate legislation, AB32, … [continued]
Oklahoma, the state that gave the world Senator James “global warming is a hoax” Inhofe (R-Big Oil), has just passed a proposed 15% by 2015 Renewable Energy Standard, in the House. The Oklahoma Energy Security Act would have to pass its Senate too, to be the law. Or, as Senator … [continued]
