Obama’s most recent weekly address continues to drill home some of his most important new talking points, and they are, for the most part, very clean-energy and energy-efficiency focused. The video is above, but I’ll pull the points out again here and expound on them a bit: Jobs are … [continued]
Latin America’s largest wind project to date is moving forward as Mexico’s Marena Renovables has placed an order for 396-MW worth of wind turbines with Danish manufacturer Vestas Wind Systems A/S. Vestas for its project in the southern Pacific state of Oaxaca, which consists of 132 V90-3.0 MW wind turbines.
This is a new solar technology I don’t remember reading or writing about yet. Kyosemi Corporation, an optoelectronics company, has created tiny spherical (or Spheral) solar cells. These micro solar cells are just 1-2 mm across but (or because of that) could have wind-ranging applications. Of course, first of all, … [continued]
Demand was initially brisk for the high-end monocrystalline silicon solar photovoltaic (PV) panels manufactured by Helios Solar Works at a new, highly automated 50-MW capacity factory on a brownfield industrial site Milwaukee’s city leaders designated for redevelopment and growth. That is until last summer, when founder Steven Ostrenga began noting “a deep dive in [solar panel] pricing coming out of China that we just couldn’t meet.”
7 more top cleantech stories of the week for your perusing pleasure: Wind Power 1. Gamesa has agreed to sell 4 U.S. wind farms totaling 480 MW of capacity (!) to Canada’s Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. (Algonquin). The price tag? $900 million. Currently, Gamesa is developing and building these wind farms, … [continued]
10 more top clean car stories from the past week (other than our 13 or so clean car and transportation stories): 1. GM has ceased production of its Chevy Volt for 5 weeks. And while some are eager to call the Chevy Volt dead, Chris DeMorro of sister site Gas2 … [continued]
Greentech Media posted a number of solar power charts yesterday on its website, charts which Shayle Kann presented at the SolarTech Solar Leadership Summit in San Jose, California yesterday. This is mostly stuff that any regular CleanTechnica reader would be aware of, but it’s always fun and interesting to see such … [continued]
Important amendments to the highway bill that is in the Senate (S. 1813) will be coming up next week. There is one very good amendment introduced by Senator Stabenow (D-MI) that would extend very important wind and solar energy incentives. And there is an amendment by Sen. DeMint (R-SC) that would … [continued]
by Richard Caperton and Stephen Lacey The Wall Street Journal released another error-riddled editorial against the wind industry this week calling for an end to the production tax credit. The piece is so bad — and features such a broad range of spin and inaccuracies — it deserves a special, point-by-point debunk. The WSJ starts … [continued]
There are many who recognize our Seas contain a vast yet, largely unknown world: mankind’s new frontier that is far closer, with a long history, requiring less investment and perhaps more immediate returns than space. Offshore Wind development is not only a major development into that frontier but a test to see how we may limit or enhance that development with regulations.
