Google/SunEdison Mashup Transforms Oil Field To Solar Power
As part of a $1.5 billion Google renewable energy pledge, the company has chipped in $145 million for an 82 MW solar power plant on a former oil field.
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How To Invest In Solar Projects
By Tam Hunt, owner of Community Renewable Solutions LLC The solar market is booming in the US. We recently surpassed ten gigawatts of installed capacity, just a year after we surpassed five gigawatts. The future is equally bright. With this boom in solar we’re seeing new ways for investors to become involved in this … [continued]
EPA Unearths $3.6 Million For More Green Jobs In Brownfields
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]
Wales Gets Huge New Water Battery But Loses Good Crack
Wales has moved another step forward with the long-planned construction of a pumped hydro energy storage facility, which will reclaim two derelict slate quarries to store energy from local wind farms. It all sounds very sustainable and it is, partly because the sprawling new facility will re-use existing brownfields and … [continued]
Algae-covered Walls To Heat Building
An apartment building in an up and coming section of Hamburg, Germany will attempt to employ the use of millions of microalgae in order to generate some heat. The microalage do this when fed a mixture of liquid nutrients, CO2 and sunlight. The building will not get all of its … [continued]
10 Cleantech Projects
There are so many cleantech projects, business stories, policy stories, scientific advancements, and original pieces I want to write that I can never get to the majority of them. Here’s a quick round-up of some recent cleantech project announcements: IKEA is adding solar to 3 more U.S. stores. Nearly … [continued]
Europe’s UpWind Project Cuts Loose with Gigantic 20 MW Wind Turbine
Europe’s UpWind project is delivering on its promise of developing a 20 MW (megawatt) wind turbine, using only current technology and materials. The largest wind turbines in use today are only about
Hundreds of New Green Jobs Sail into Philadelphia Navy Yard
The Philadelphia Navy Yard is going full speed ahead with its transformation from urban toxic eyesore to a hub for new green jobs and clean energy innovation. The latest step in particular reveals the power of clean energy to create new jobs, even to the extent of pulling new jobs … [continued]
Solar Power Transforms Parking Lots into Green Job Generators
While fossil fuel companies in the U.S. are busily wrecking vast sections of the country’s natural heritage, a new energy resource has been quietly emerging from an unlikely source: parking lots. More parking lots are being converted into solar energy farms that create clean, renewable power while also creating … [continued]
More Green Jobs Will Sprout from Brownfields
The U.S. EPA has just announced that is is allocating an additional $16 million in funding for projects to reclaim brownfields, which are former industrial sites with varying degrees of contamination. The funds are targeted to brownfields projects that create new green jobs in nearby communities. [social_buttons] So far, the … [continued]
