DOE Launches Geothermal Regulatory Roadmap For Project Developers
The US Department of Energy has launched an online geothermal regulatory roadmap to help streamline permitting and review for new projects.
The US Department of Energy has launched an online geothermal regulatory roadmap to help streamline permitting and review for new projects.
Wonk Alert: Via the good people over at NREL’s Renewable Energy Project Finance website, here’s an important article on a very important mechanisms that could liberate more renewable energy in the US: Improving the availability of capital to renewable energy (RE) projects represents a critical component to lowering the overall cost and … [continued]
Seventy years ago during World War II the Wymeswold airfield in Britain was used to help protect the free world from barbarism of a kind unseen in Europe since the middle ages and of a scale unprecedented in history. Never before was so much owed by so many to so … [continued]
Offshore wind power may yet not match the overall strength of onshore wind, but the industry is on course grow rapidly to become an €130 billion annual global market by 2020.
A new report from industry consultants Roland Berger, “Offshore Wind Toward 2020,” concludes a combination of industry trends will soon make offshore wind cost competitive with other generation sources in many markets.
This article was originally published on RenewEconomy: The story that has really captured the imagination of our readers this year has been on the Bloomberg New Energy Finance analysis that demonstrated that wind energy was already cheaper than new coal and gas plants in Australia, and solar PV was not all that … [continued]
Steven Chu, the US Secretary of Energy during the past four years, has been a regular celebrity on CleanTechnica. He has done a wonderful job in the position despite numerous (absurd) attacks from the GOP and conservative media. I’m sad to see him go, but I’m also eager to see … [continued]
Anyone who hangs around in the comments section of sites covering wind energy knows one thing — clean energy haters love to talk about wind turbine capacity factor. In particular, they love to chant the now quite untrue claim that wind turbines have a capacity factor of 20-30%. If you’re … [continued]
This is a pretty awesome new offering from NREL. And, as far as we here at CleanTechnica can tell, the data looks as accurate as anything we’ve seen. However, one thing to note is that renewable energy costs are dropping fast, and nuclear and fossil fuel costs are generally … [continued]
A new analysis reveals a staggering 23 gigawatts of current and potential utility-scale photovoltaic capacity across America.
It’s been awhile since I read and wrote about so many huge clean energy stories in one day, or in one week. From clean, renewable energy providing Europe with 70% of its new power in 2011, to solar PV bringing down the cost of electricity in Germany, to the largest offshore wind farm in the world opening in the UK today, and even more big stories in between, this is a time to remember. Another big story, reported by Greentech Media and discovered by researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), is that the levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) from wind power has reached an all-time low.