San Diego’s Borrego Solar has closed a new, $47 million fund with U.S. Bank and East West Bank, another indication that private sector US financial institutions view solar energy as a viable, sound investment choice. Borrego’s intergrated power purchase agreement cuts customers’ up-front capital costs significantly and improves the cash flow profile of solar energy systems’ projects.
Obama’s budget proposal is out and is a clear win for the environment. It’s not perfect, but it puts us in the right direction. “Once again, clean, renewable energy and environmental sanity are at the heart of the package,” Jeremy Bloom of sister site Red, Green, and Blue writes. Oil … [continued]
Research and analysis of solar PV manufacturing costs and international trade flows shows that Chinese silicon solar PV manufacturers have only a slight cost advantage on their US counterparts, and that excludes transportation costs, the effect of inflation rate differentials and other factors.
Furthermore, the extraordinary rise in Chinese exports of silicon solar PV cells and panels to the US could only be sustained with the support of massive government subsidies.
Sign the two letters to Congress below to help prolong key renewable energy industry incentives that will continue to create tens of thousands of U.S. jobs! http://youtu.be/W1gpxEevFr0 Every renewable energy industry in the country—wind, hydro, solar, geothermal, biomass,…—are working hard right now to get some critical government subsidies continued. … [continued]
Encompassing job creation, manufacturing, and clean energy, support is there for the President’s “Blueprint for an America Built to Last.” Leaders of American business, labor, and entrepreneurship have argued in support of much stronger government leadership focused on US manufacturing, job creation, clean energy, and energy conservation.
A new report by Next 10 has found that green jobs were twice as resilient following economic recession in California. New data published in the 2012 Many Shades of Green: California’s Shift to a Cleaner, More Productive Economy report show that “from January 2009 to January 2010, the state’s overall economy … [continued]
“The EU budget has the potential to create more jobs than it is currently doing if it mainstreams green investment,” the WWF writes. A new report commissioned by the organization and several others* “analyses the cost of each job in each sector including the Common Agricultural Policy, Cohesion Policy, Natura 2000, … [continued]
Below, reposted in full, is a tremendous summary of China’s push to become a green technology leader, China’s obvious manufacturing benefits and how they affect foreign manufacturers, Chinese subsidies for solar, the current solar trade dispute, and how the U.S. should respond (including some important steps Obama has already taken). … [continued]
Boulder City, Nevada is best known as the home of Hoover Dam, once the largest hydroelectric power plant in the country. But the rapid expansion of solar power projects is quickly making a name for the city as the first solar-financed town in America.
We recently decided to team up with Stanford in order to get more of their valuable work and resources out to the public. This first piece is not a typical subject for CleanTechnica, and it’s a highly controversial one. For the most part, we’ve torn into the problems associated with natural gas production today. The following piece is a much more gas-friendly one, but it’s also promotes taking a cautious approach to natural gas production (something that looks like it’s going to happen whether we like it or not) and is focused on the opinions of a true natural gas expert and scientist not associated with any natural gas companies. I almost passed on publishing this one, but I think it is really worth a read, so check it out:
