US Business Says Hello To US Wind Energy, Goodbye To Fossil Fuels
US businesses and other non-utility buyers are embracing wind energy hand over fist, according to the latest report from AWEA.
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More Solar Records, Lowering Solar Customer Acquisition Costs… (Clean Energy Link Drop)
Get your clean electricity fixin’s here (after scrolling through our own clean electricity stories): Solar Energy Rooftop/Small-Scale Solar Make Cities Solar Hubs, Says Stanford Study New Homes Must Be Ready For Solar Panels Says San Diego SolarCity Hits Record 4GWh/Day Energy Generation SolarCity To Offer Integrated Microgrid System Bringing Solar … [continued]
Google Shows Off Futuristic Sustainable Campus Design
Google recently released futuristic, high-tech, sustainable-style design plans for its Mountain View, California, headquarters, which promises to be world class. The high-tech giant announced that designers Thomas Heatherwick from Heatherwick Studio and Bjarke Ingels from BIG will spearhead Google’s radical revision of its campus. Plans will include moveable buildings (or as … [continued]
Renewable Energy News Link Drop & Video
If you missed any of our own renewable energy stories, of course, I recommend reading them first. However, if you’ve gone through all of those and want to skim some more top stories, here’s a list I’ve compiled in the past two weeks: Renewables, in General 6 Charts That Show … [continued]
Fun Times Over At The House Natural Resources Committee, With A Northrop-Grumman Twist
If you’re looking for drama, intrigue, and very twisty plot twists, check out the goings-on over at the House Natural Resources Committee.
Corporations With Most New Solar
Solar Love. US commercial solar energy continues gaining steam, with Walmart leading the way in terms of total installed solar power capacity (despite recent criticism for funding anti-solar organizations). The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) has just come out with its third annual Solar Means Business report, showcasing the most … [continued]
Win-Win This Fall: Business Climate & Climate Business
If we can credit a spate of reports this fall, the climate change discussion has begun to move toward common—and more mutually profitable—ground. Decisionmakers have begun to think about climate business: economic and climate action together. Treehuggers, this isn’t just something the Fortune 100 has cooked up to distract gullible … [continued]
Walmart Owners Investing Millions Into Anti-Solar Activities
The heirs and still majority owners of the Walmart fortune, the Walton family, have been spending millions of dollars in recent years funding a huge number of anti-solar energy groups, according to a recent study from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR). If you’re asking yourself, well, what exactly is … [continued]
Google Quits Political Group That Opposed Climate Change Action
Google has announced it will terminate its membership in the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) over the organization’s climate change position.
Fossil Interests Attack Clean Energy Politics: State-By-State Map
The Energy and Policy Institute recently gave renewable energy advocates some valuable election tips in a “follow the money” state-by-state look at anti-renewable groups. Among other efforts, EPI released Attacks on Renewable Energy Policy by Fossil Fuel Interests 2013–2014, with the energy politics infomap featured above. The report tears the … [continued]
