Norstec is a major government initiative that Prime Minister David Cameron calls “a second, clean energy revolution in the North Sea.” It will dramatically increase the amount of offshore wind production in the North Sea. The partnership, first announced in April, includes over 40 key industry and government partners … [continued]
I saw a video on Fox Business this morning about the Mid-Atlantic wind farm proposal, and the correspondents in the video made some controversial claims, so I decided to do a wind power fact check: 1. Wind power CAN provide constant and reliable power. The first dubious claim made … [continued]
As a small business — and a green one — you might sometimes have the difficult challenge of going about things in an eco-friendly way, yet presenting yourself as a professional outfit that can deliver on a big scale. This can create problems in all sorts of ways — … [continued]
Interior Department Secretary Ken Salazar on Friday announced a federal blueprint for large-scale solar power project developments spanning six Western states. The Obama Administration’s Solar Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) refines the approach that’s been taken previously — the Interior Department is now first identifying solar energy development zones … [continued]
Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry has approved 725 megawatts of new renewable power installations in just two months, a pace that sets it on track to exceed end of March 2013’s projected total by the end of 2012. More than 80% of the total approved through the end August are large-scale, non-residential solar PV systems. […]
Editor’s note: We’ve covered the some of the topics below several times (check out our World Wind Power page for a bit more on this), but given how much misinformation there is out there about wind power, we could hammer this home every day and it probably wouldn’t be … [continued]
Editor’s note: this repost from Climate Progress is a follow-up to Andrew’s post yesterday on this same report. There’s a lot of good info in this report, and we might have even one more article on it in the coming days. Industries that support a higher number of “green” … [continued]
A Commerce WTO panel, in its final ruling. left initial anti-dumping duties on Chinese solar PV imports essentially the same, raised anti-subsidy duties substantially, and left a loophole open. […]
US green jobs growth exceeds that for the overall economy, and economies in states where commerce and industry are greener have been doing better than others. The transition to a cleaner, greener US economy is also helping address a longstanding, and worsening, economic malaise: the decline of US manufacturing and growing inequality of wealth and income. […]
According to an industry-sponsored study, the development of 7,000 MW (7 GW) of wind farms offshore in the Mid-Atlantic region could create 70,000 jobs from the states of Virginia to New Jersey. That’s enough power for up to about 2.3 million homes. This development could have a combined economic … [continued]
