The story of people the world over who live without electricity is heartbreaking. But in the day and age of renewable energy, more good stories are beginning to emerge. Here is one of them: a young entrepreneur in Mali is building a business to turn lights on for the approximately 99 percent of his countrymen who have no power.
Washington, D.C. leads the U.S. by a wide margin in LEED-certified commercial and institutional green buildings per capita, according to a new USGBC report. […]
A top GE executive is calling the political battle between economy and environment “nonsense.”
In a video interview (featured below) at an international clean energy investment conferencelast week, Mark Vachon, vice president of GE’s successful Ecomagination program, hailed “environmental performance” as a key driver for business. […]
Emissions from power plants in states served by the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative have fallen to their lowest levels since the CO2 auction program launched in 2009, according to a new report from Environment Northeast.
We’ve published a couple of posts on the less-than-concerning “rebound effect” (in particular, when it applies to energy efficiency). Nonetheless, its a popular topic in some media outlets and amongst some institutions. The CO2 Scorecard published a tremendous take-down of the rebound effect (again, when it comes to energy efficiency) … [continued]
Deutsche Bank recently conducted quite a significant study on the financial impact of building retrofits on multifamily housing in NYC. It said in a news release yesterday that this was the most comprehensive such analysis to date. And, the good news is that it indicates that loans for energy … [continued]
Congressional commitment to action on clean energy policy in 2012 is about as secure as Kim Kardashian’s wedding vows.
So with states once again representing the major driver for renewable energy, how can they keep the momentum going at a time when federal enthusiasm is at its lowest level in years? The key, according to a new report from the Brookings Institution, is for states to focus not just on project-level deployment, but to shift some funds toward support broader sustainable economic goals that foster the clean energy economy from the ground up.
And there are still a fair amount of funds to work with on the state level, as the below map illustrates: […]
Solar grid parity, when installing solar power will cost less than buying electricity from the grid, is considered the tipping point for solar power. It’s also a tipping point in the electricity system, when millions of Americans can choose energy production and self-reliance over dependence on their electric utility.
7 more big solar projects, the first one being a behemoth of a solar power plant: 1. Marguerite Fund acquires 36 MW of ginormous, 115-MW Toul-Rosières solar power project. This 115-MW solar power plant, if built today, would be the world’s largest solar PV project (scroll down to the bottom of that page … [continued]
For readers who want to delve deeper into geothermal energy or solar, here are 4 upcoming conferences (or conference series) you might want to check out: Geothermal Energy Finance Forum — January 18, San Francisco On January 18, the Geothermal Energy Association will convene the financial community at … [continued]
