The emerging green economy has stimulated the growth of green jobs all over the map, and Ellwood City provides a great example of the potential that sustainable energy has for revitalizing towns across the U.S. Located in western Pennsylvania near Pittsburgh, Ellwood City is the home of LED specialist Appalachian … [continued]
Tata Power, a subsidiary of the famous Tata Group, is planning to set up India’s largest solar PV power plant with a generation capacity of 50 MW. The company will set up this plant in Mithapur, Gujarat. [social_buttons] Tata Power is working on several projects to expand its generation capacity and even … [continued]
The U.S. military’s drive to replace fossil fuels with sustainable energy could result in an interesting twist: the military could wind up being a net supplier of energy to the U.S. electricity grid, in the form of geothermal power tapped from land owned by the Department of Defense (pdf alert). … [continued]
Allentown, the city that songwriter Billy Joel used as a symbol of 1980’s Rust Belt decline, is showing more signs of an economic revival powered by clean, renewable energy and new energy storage solutions. One indication came earlier this year, when hometown manufacturer International Battery announced that it won a … [continued]
We’ve written about the Solar Impulse airplane here on Cleantechnica before. It is a completely solar-powered plane built in Switzerland. Not long after taking its first flight (in December, 2009) the plane has now just set a new record by being the first solar-powered plane to fly for 24 hours … [continued]
Desert lands in solar-rich Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah will not just supply our nation with abundant, clean, safe, fuel-free solar power – but will also generate very good financial returns for the benefit of the public good nationwide, under a new fee schedule the Bureau of … [continued]
Researchers at Purdue University have developed a concept for a new biofuel process that could enable the biofuel industry to expand by leaps and bounds. Until now, one big obstacle has been the cost of transporting large quantities of heavy plant matter to centralized refineries. The new process would be … [continued]
The state of Tennessee just got its first Bloom Energy “Server”, which turns any gaseous fuels into electricity using its cheaper new kind of fuel cell. Installed in collaboration with the TVA and the University of Tennessee Chattanooga, these 100 KW Bloom Boxes have just been installed on the top … [continued]
Today, PG&E formally came out in opposition to Prop 23, the oil-company-sponsored ballot initiative that is designed to shut down AB32 – California’s progressive climate legislation passed by voters in 2006 and due to be implemented in January 2011. “Since actively supporting the passage of AB 32, PG&E has worked … [continued]
Thanks to a Feed-in Tariff program it began in 2007 that resulted in a fivefold jump in installs, individual Italians are now installing solar on buildings at the astounding rate of 250 MW, or the size of a typical power station, every two months, in a seeming vindication of a … [continued]
