On the 20th of November, it was announced that China’s green new energy license plates would be rolled out across the nation in three stages. Previously, the green licence plates had been implemented in Shanghai, Nanjing, Wuxi, Jinan, and Shenzhen on the 1st of December of 2016.
Leading rooftop solar company Vivint Solar and leading solar lending platform Mosaic are offering loans to Utah solar energy customers. Vivint Solar has had a busy few months, not the least of which was its strong third quarter earnings reported back in the middle of November, which saw the company … [continued]
(This post is part of our series on Midwest Cleantech Open winners.) Fiber reinforcing bars have been around since the old Soviet Union sought a source of fiber for ballistic-resistant textiles. Peaceful uses started in Japan in the 1980s and moved to Canada before catching on in the States. Despite … [continued]
The World Bank’s Board of Directors has approved a new lending instrument called Program-For-Results (P4R). The instrument is supposed to fund programs, not provide project finance, and is meant to work within a borrower’s existing regulatory framework — what the Bank calls a country systems approach.
Yes, sadly, our politicians are downright hypocrites, especially those on a certain side of the aisle. What they say versus what they vote for (and ask for) are completely opposite in many instances. After joining in the loan guarantee flogging after Solyndra, for example, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) has … [continued]
[social_buttons] It was just a few hours ago when I wrote that I thought I’d be delving into the topic of nuclear energy a little more soon. Well, soon is now. This post is about two nuclear reactors that are an urgent matter to some (in the nuclear industry and … [continued]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/v/SSw1KNbIEtM&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1] . I think it’s commonly known now that Obama is quite supportive of nuclear power. He mentioned it prominently in his State of the Union speech as a form of clean energy (“to create more of these clean energy jobs, we need more production, more efficiency, more incentives. And … [continued]
Carbon Trust is a British non-profit aimed at accelerating Britain’s move to a low carbon economy. As one part of the broad work it does, Carbon Trust offers 0% interest loans to businesses for energy saving equipment. [social_buttons] The organization just awarded its first £500,000 ($788,384) interest-free loan to a … [continued]
