Originally published on Rocky Mountain Institute. By Jules Kortenhorst and Rebecca Cole Last week, RMI’s program to significantly scale the commitment by Fortune 500 companies to source renewable energy was chosen as one of six winners at the Bloomberg New Energy Finance Summit’s Finance for Resilience (“FiRe”) event. FiRe is … [continued]
Wind energy is a tremendous success story world wide, with staggering amounts of innovation. It isn’t given sufficient credit for that and is even unfairly attacked by those opposed to it as old technology. Every aspect of construction, operation, and the business of horizontal axis wind turbines has been subject … [continued]
Originally published on Into the Wind. By Peebles Squire It’s official: Ohioans are big fans of clean energy, according to the results of a new survey released last Wednesday and summarized in the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Out of 600 Ohio voters surveyed, 72 percent responded that they favored renewable energy sources … [continued]
Originally published on Renew Economy. Australian households are almost single-handedly pushing the country towards a clean energy future, spending billions on generating their own electricity and accounting for nearly two thirds of total investment in renewables in Australia in 2013, and virtually all of it in 2014. New global data … [continued]
Originally published on the ECOreport. I have finally seen a wind energy project that works and of course it would be in Denmark! My apologies, in advance, to all the people who are going to protest. I find Jim Wiegand’s research, on how wind turbines are wreaking far more raptor casualties … [continued]
Originally published on ENERGY.GOV. Washington D.C. — In support of the Administration’s all-of-the-above energy strategy, the Department of Energy issued a draft loan guarantee solicitation [this week] for innovative renewable energy and energy efficiency projects located in the U.S. that avoid, reduce, or sequester greenhouse gases. When finalized, the solicitation … [continued]
Originally published on Into the Wind. By Mary Kate Francis Across the country, wind power supporters are thanking their legislators for taking an important step forward in the effort to extend the renewable energy Production Tax Credit (PTC). The Senate Finance Committee, whose members are listed below, approved a bill on … [continued]
As reported earlier this month, India is celebrating reaching 2,600 MW of installed solar power capacity, “thanks to the comprehensive and ambitious National Solar Mission,” amidst other factors. However, despite the massive attention the National Solar Mission receives each month, solar isn’t the only big winner in India’s aim towards … [continued]
Originally published on sister site Planetsave. Agora Energiewende this week released the results of a cost analysis of four different CO2-free power scenarios in Europe. Says Patrick Graichen, executive director of Agora: Wind and solar systems will dominate the power system in increasingly more countries. The battle for the cheapest … [continued]
Originally published on Today in Energy. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electric Power Monthly In 2013, 12 states accounted for 80% of U.S. wind-generated electricity, according to preliminary generation data released in EIA’s March Electric Power Monthly report. Texas was again the top wind power state with nearly 36 million megawatthours (MWh) of … [continued]
