Here’s an interesting guest post, more of a reflective piece, on the greening (or, in some cases, non-greening) of businesses. Worth a read, I think: There have been a lot of interesting shifts in the way that people think about their lives. As technology and education improves, so too … [continued]
Politics and political allegiances change with time. With the current clean energy revolution (still nascent, but growing fast), this powerful (no pun intended) sector is influencing politics quite a bit… or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that what politicians and industry do with this revolution is … [continued]
This is a great video Thomas recently passed on to me. Worth a watch, but ~40 minutes long, so you probably need to set aside some time for it. The whole video is great, but one note at the beginning was rather interesting to me — we are still … [continued]
As stated for many, many months now, Congress needs to extend the production tax credit (PTC) for wind power in order to save tens of thousands of US jobs. And it needs to do so, like,… 6 months ago. It seems the industry is already moving out a lot … [continued]
Max Frankel of the Center for American Progress recently had an interesting post on Climate Progress about what top EV-friendly cities are doing to be so friendly to EVs, based on a new report from the Center for American Progress. Here’s the full post from Max/Climate Progress: Sixteen cities … [continued]
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) recently took an important look at what the end of the 1603 grant program for renewable energy means for developers in the industry. Here’s a summary of that: Certain Types of Projects May Find It Harder to Attract Tax Equity Investors The expiration … [continued]
The US Energy Information Agency (EIA) recently had a pretty interesting and useful post on electricity storage you might be interested in checking out. Here’s a nice graphic from the post, followed by the intro: “Electricity storage can be deployed throughout an electric power system—functioning as generation, transmission, distribution, … [continued]
I didn’t even get into the whole Abound Solar story when the company filed for bankruptcy — didn’t really see the point of it. But Media Matters has published a great piece on it, “What AP Isn’t Telling You About Abound Solar,” that I think is worth a share. … [continued]
Nice story form the folks over at Clean Energy Resource Teams (seems like a good way to promote solar and eco-friendly businesses): On June 2, Minneapolis’ Kingfield Neighborhood Association (KFNA) held it’s Let the Sun Shine Solar Tour, featuring Kingfield businesses that have recently installed or are in the … [continued]
We’ve had a few stories on coal’s inevitable and welcome demise recently. Another story from the Sierra Club continues that message. “Despite what the coal industry would have you believe, the days of cheap, affordable coal fired power are over. That’s the conclusion of the Sierra Club’s most recent report Locked In, … [continued]
