Countries building TLC – transparency, longevity and certainty – into strong climate change policy frameworks are gaining a competitive advantage over countries that aren’t, according to a new study from DB Climate Change Advisors. China and Germany have emerged as global leaders, while the US continues to lag, and may even lose ground, at least at the federal level.
This is a special guest post by Ben Saffer of Evo Energy. Several good points that I think could be reiterated every day! Enjoy, and go solar.
Other than our dozens of cleantech stories this week, here are a few more you may find interesting
Government would offer very attractive tariffs, over 6-7 times that for conventional sources, to home owners for 25 years.
German rooftops about this size accounted for over 1.8 GW of solar that was installed there last year. German solar power has been very rapidly expanding, because it has generous Feed-in Tariffs that pay solar owners to make power for the grid. This is a sensible policy, as the prospect … [continued]
Paul Gipe of Grist recently had a post on a great story from Ontario that I thought our readers would love to see on here. The underlying point is that Ontario’s feed-in tariffs for solar photovoltaics are going to create tens of thousands of solar jobs for just the cost of … [continued]
While US makers offer dwindling numbers of Building Integrated PV (BIPV) options for generating solar power, European companies are expanding the range of solar products that allow the integration of solar into buildings, and to integrate both solar thermal modules and solar PV modules into one unified BIPV roof cladding … [continued]
This guest post comes to us from Reginald Norris, Executive Vice President & General Counsel for Clean Energy Experts. Clean Energy Experts’s mission is to increase the adoption of economically and environmentally beneficial energy solutions by educating consumers through a portfolio of websites, MyEnergySolution.com and MultifamilyG.com, on the facts about … [continued]
The rationale for subsidizing newer, cleaner, safer forms of energy production is that by paying incentives to increase the pool of early adopters, a mass market is developed faster, which drives down production costs sooner, making a more desirable form of energy cost-effective faster, helped by all of us, in … [continued]
Indian Oil Corporation is looking to diversify into renewable and nuclear energy sectors and has earmarked $430 million for investment in the next five years. [social_buttons] The move comes as no surprise as several other government-owned oil companies have showed interest in investing into renewable energy infrastructure. IOC is looking … [continued]
