MIT’s newly inaugurated David H Koch Institute is expected to save 30% in energy costs and greenhouse gas emissions.
About a fifth of the cost was funded by pollution-auction proceeds from cap and trade at the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI).
This very ironic news that David Koch is one of the many beneficiaries of a cap and trade program he bitterly opposes, was broken by Positioning Green writer Jon Coifman at Climate Progress.
Today is world water day. We’ve written quite a number of posts on different ways water is connected to cleantech and clean energy. Rather than write a whole new post on one or two aspects of this, I’ve decided to do a compilation piece. The following are articles on CleanTechnica (and a few from our sister site Planetsave) on some of the connections between cleantech and water.
As we exit the age of oil, utilities have investigated the various ways that electric vehicles might help stabilize the smart grid.
In the last several years, utilities like PG&E have researched using spent batteries from electric cars for grid storage – once they are too worn out for recharging cars any more.
Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant is about to become the scene of a major experiment in car cannibalization. A new 500-kilowatt solar installation has just gone online, and the project includes a 50-kilowatt-hour facility demonstrating the potential for used electric vehicle batteries in energy storage.
In many parts of the world, onshore wind power is now completely cost-competitive with coal.
With the latest change in the US policy environment, Iberdrola now plans to install only 350 MW over the next two years in the US, NAW reports. Investment banking consultants for Jeffries, say that due to the inconsistency of its renewable policy, the US no longer provides a stable investment … [continued]
New Hampshire’s newly elected veto-proof Republican majority is swiftly consolidating the pro-pollution agenda provided by oil billionaires Charles and David Koch, the heads of Koch Industries. The New Hampshire House passed HB 519 by 246-104 on Wednesday, repealing its membership in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), after a successful … [continued]
In the short time since President Obama’s alternative energy plan was announced, already the prospects look good for clean energy that is cost-competitive with fossil fuel. That’s without even factoring in the avoidable health costs that that the public currently absorbs from high risk, antiquated fuels. The latest case in … [continued]
Here’s a wrap-up of some of the good or big cleantech (and dirty tech) politics stories we didn’t cover from the last week or so, to complement our wrap-ups of big solar and wind energy news and other cleantech news. Obama Says “Climate Change” Again As I noted over on … [continued]
Along with cleantech politics news and other cleantech news from the past week or so, here’s some news on wind and solar energy that we haven’t covered. Ted Turner’s Solar Plant Begins Commercial Operation Founder of CNN Ted Turner has announced that the 30-MW solar power plant developed and built … [continued]
