Orix Offers Energy Storage Twist On Solar Leasing
A new residential financing deal packages energy storage with solar panels in a combined rental and lease deal, so homeowners pay no money up front.
A new residential financing deal packages energy storage with solar panels in a combined rental and lease deal, so homeowners pay no money up front.
An industry shakeout will follow the oil price crash, but the survivors will face new competition from micro wind turbines and the distributed wind sector.
A new $25 million Energy Department funding blitz aims at bringing the cost of algae biofuel down to a $3.00 per gallon gasoline equivalent by 2030.
We luv Mark Ruffalo and Leonardo DiCaprio too, but it’s not like they were the only ones who showed up for the People’s Climate March in NYC yesterday.
According to the latest IEA report, renewable energy now accounts for 80 percent of new generation among the 34 developed countries in the OECD group.
Bacardi has been ramping up its sustainability efforts, the latest announcement being a tweak to its sugarcane operations for its signature rum products.
Somebody tried to make #climatebullies happen last spring and it didn’t take, so we thought it would be a nice idea to give them a little assist in advance of the big Climate Week event set for New York City in September. If the climate bullies thing is new to … [continued]
Holy axis of evil, Batman! A dramatic fossil fuel threefer is brewing in Chicago, as mountains of the carbon-saturated fuel petcoke have been piling up in the city at the Koch Industries subsidiary KCBX, and the main source of the petcoke happens to be BP. That’s the Gulf oil spill … [continued]
EPA has just announced a $3.6 million job training program aimed at cleaning up derelict industrial property and other contaminated sites. The new green jobs program, called Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training, provides local residents with training and certification leading to careers in recycling, brownfields assessment and cleanup, wastewater … [continued]
The US Office of Naval Research has been tapped to spearhead a new public-private research effort that will bridge the “Valley of Death” between cutting edge foundational research and the marketplace, all in the name of commercializing the next generation of ultra lightweight metals. Among other things, that translates into … [continued]