The private-equity firm Terra Firma is planning to create a multi-billion-dollar fund to invest in renewable energy. Teaming up with a Chinese bank, the investment shows that it thinks renewable energy isn’t going anywhere and is only going to grow in the coming years. Together, the companies are expecting … [continued]
Editor’s note: The following is an exclusive CleanTechnica article from one of the world’s top renewable energy leaders, Adnan Z. Amin. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. By Adnan Z. Amin In 2011, while the cost of renewable energy technologies continued to fall, global total investment … [continued]
New hydrokinetic energy technologies that generate electricity by harnessing the energy from ocean waves, tides, and river currents are advancing toward commercial development in the United States. They are not expected to add major power supplies anytime soon, but federal regulators this year approved licenses for two hydrokinetic energy projects to produce electricity from wave power buoys anchored off the Oregon coast and from underwater turbines driven by the current in New York City’s East River. […]
This is a great post on an even greater recent study showing that we can get to a 95% renewable energy world by 2050 with no technology breakthroughs at all. Check it out: No Breakthroughs Necessary: 95 Percent Renewable Energy Possible By 2050 It’s a commonly held belief, even within … [continued]
The New England Marine Renewable Energy Center (MREC) at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth has partnered with the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to advance research and development activities in the field of renewable energy, mainly energy captured from waves, tides and offshore wind. According … [continued]
Spain at last has its own renewable energy cooperative — Som Energia — founded in Girona in the country’s Catalonia region. The group gets involved in profitable renewable energy projects to supply green electricity to its members and partners. The Cooperative has just surpassed the 3,500 membership mark (October … [continued]
Climate change is bringing many uncertainties, especially to the world of water. No continent will be harder hit by climate change than Africa. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has stated that African river basins will be especially affected by climate change, and are expected to face worse droughts … [continued]
In a move linked to its massive blackout last summer, India is getting a ring of wave power plants along its coastline from the Israeli company SDE. In terms of the global competition for renewable energy leadership, that puts the U.S. way back in the pack. SDE is already building wave power plants in China and … [continued]
If you want to see what the U.S.A. energy future looks like under an “all of the above” energy strategy, check out the massive Total Energy USA trade event coming up in Houston, Texas this November 27-29. A quick look at the Total Energy USA schedule reveals a nation speeding toward an energy … [continued]
While there have been many books written about renewable energy and clean technology in recent years, no book provides a clear, concise gameplan for clean technology and renewable energy moving forward like Clean Tech Nation does. Authors Ron Pernick and Clint Wilder, who head up the clean tech research firm … [continued]
