Australia’s Clean Energy Council published a comprehensive blueprint outlining the policy levers necessary to “supercharge a Power Shift” to the country’s energy system. On Tuesday, Australia’s Clean Energy Council (CEC) published Power Shift: A blueprint for a 21st century power system. The report details “a suite of strategic policy and regulatory … [continued]
The PG&E Yerba Buena energy storage project in San Jose, California, resulted from joint efforts between S&C Electric Company, an engineering and construction firm, the Electric Power Research Institute, and the main utility for northern California PG&E. A several-million-dollar grant was also made by the California Energy Commission to fund … [continued]
A new report published by the Australian Clean Energy Council has found that slashing the Renewable Energy Target as proposed by the current liberal government would “smash” the value of clean energy projects that are already operating, and even expose the government to “massive compensation claims” by those developers affected. … [continued]
Originally published on RMI Outlet. By Laurie Guevara-Stone While many people associate cooperatives with a place for hippies to buy organic food, the cooperative movement has actually grown far and wide, creating sustainable enterprises that generate jobs and strengthen local economies. Today, there are nearly 30,000 cooperatives in the United States, with … [continued]
Originally published on EnergyPost. By John Mathews and Hao Tan China’s renewable energy revolution is powering ahead, with the year 2013 marking an important inflection point where the scales tipped more towards electric power generated from water, wind and solar than from fossil fuels and nuclear. This means that its … [continued]
Originally posted on Renew Economy. By Sophie Vorrath. In our Graph of the Day on Monday, we looked again at the record-breaking week of August 10-18 for wind energy in Australia. As it turns out, the entire month of August 2013 was a record breaker, all round – for the National Electricity … [continued]
Yes, 26.53% of electricity generated in China in 2010 was from clean energy according to a new report out by the China Electricity Council (CEC). Total installed power capacity increased 10.07% to 962 GW in 2010 and electricity consumption grew 14.56%, reaching over 4.19 trillion kWh. The portion of that … [continued]
California regulators have just approved yet another 650 MW of solar thermal power for the state. The California Energy Commission (CEC) has voted to license the 500-MW Palen project and the 150-MW Rice project in Southern California, which now brings to nine the number of solar thermal power projects approved … [continued]
A truly massive 709 MW Stirling solar thermal project from Tessera Solar and a tiny 45 MW one from Chevron have won approval from the BLM today as part of a slew of solar projects being rushed to approval by the end of the year, when the Recovery Act cash … [continued]
SRS Energy’s unique thinfilm solar tile, the Solé Power Tile has just passed a key milestone. SRS Energy has obtained an ETL listing report certifying the Solé Power Tile has passed the testing associated with the Underwriters Laboratory (UL) UL 1703 standard. Passing this is the prerequisite for any solar … [continued]
