This article first published on RenewEconomy Brazil’s football team, the Selecao, gave Australia’s Socceroos a lesson in the fine arts of football on Saturday (they won 6-0), and it seems that the country’s energy authorities could give Australia a lesson in how to bring in large scale renewables development as … [continued]
The levelized cost of renewable energy in America has fallen by more than 50% over the past four years, according to new analysis from global financial advisor and asset manager firm Lazard Freres & Co.
A new 39 MW wind farm park — built on the site of an old oil shale ash depository — just opened in Narva, Estonia. The 17-wind-turbine-strong wind farm — owned and operated by Eesti Energia — cost €59 million, according to Äripäev.ee/LETA. The new wind farm was built right … [continued]
Originally published on the Clean Energy Resource Team blog. by Fritz Ebinger The National Association of Counties (NACo) and the Distributed Wind Energy Association(DWEA) paired up recently to promote wind power by reducing permitting barriers, while also protecting resident interests. The report, County Strategies for Successfully Managing and Promoting Wind Power, was published in … [continued]
The US Army Corps of Engineers has just announced that it has awarded contracts to 17 private companies to build wind turbines on Department of Defense facilities around the country. It’s the third in a series of four groups of renewable energy contracts for DoD that will eventually total $7 … [continued]
Community renewable energy has significant political and economic benefits, but is often hindered by five major barriers. Read on for a summary of the five barriers, watch them in a 17-minute presentation, or check out the vividly illustrated slideshow. Barrier one is tradition. Utilities are simply used to operating a … [continued]
A recent Ernst & Young (EY) study found that the global cleantech sector grew a staggering $26 billion in the last fiscal year. The study analyzed 424 companies, only including companies that got over half of their value from clean energy business. It found that these 424 companies employed 512,500 people … [continued]
Technically, CleanTechnica‘s first post was on February 7, 2008. However, history can be complicated. In CleanTechnica‘s case, the site was born around that time as one site in a green-focused media network known as Green Options (GO) Media. At some point in 2009, GO Media was sold to Virgance, a … [continued]
This continues my monthly report of 10 of the most compelling clean energy generation, energy conservation technology, and climate change stories encountered over the last month. Over a thousand articles were reviewed across the various clean energy platforms, 30+ were found to be of particular interest and are available in … [continued]
Some cleantech eatin’s for you cleantech lovers (click on the categories for our stories on these subjects): Solar Power Two Strategic Lessons from Distributed PV Today, French energy takes a look at the distribution of PV arrays in Germany by system size based on the latest data up to July … [continued]
