October 11th, 2011 | by Charis Michelsen
The Norwegian government is launching a program to finance renewable energy in developing countries to the UN just as discussions regarding climate finance are going nowhere
September 15th, 2011 | by Susan Kraemer
What a difference it makes whether you live in a good clean-energy-policy state or you don't. Solar incentives in sunny but 95% coal-powered Utah are so low that the entire state has capped rooftop solar with a quota of no more than 107 KW worth of home solar systems allowed per year. At about 5 KW each (Utah homeowners likely have A/C costs to cover) that amounts to only 21 or so homes! That is not an incentive. That is a damper on solar development
September 5th, 2011 | by Susan Kraemer
In what has been called the most significant act of reform in years for power distribution in the United States, FERC Order No. 1000 will help solar and wind projects overcome a significant hurdle that has held up the development of more than 25 GW of solar projects and an uncounted number of wind farms nationwide for lack of transmission. At the end of August, the final day for a rehearing of the controversial rule passed. Despite heated opposition from large non-renewable energy providers, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) ruling, initiated by pro-renewable FERC chief Jon Wellinghof, appointed by President Obama in 2009, is now law
September 1st, 2011 | by Susan Kraemer
In its first solar investment in Australia, GE has partnered with US thin-film producer First Solar and local state-owned energy firm Verve Energy to build a solar farm ten times larger than any in the country. It will supply electricity for a desalination plant in Western Australia, which has a mandate to use renewable power for all new desalination projects
August 30th, 2011 | by Susan Kraemer
In contrast to recent widespread corporate media scaremongering about the lights going out because the Obama administration EPA is now finally forcing the dirtiest coal plants offline, a just-issued new report by the nation's largest regional transmission operator PJM Interconnection, says... Nu-uh
August 30th, 2011 | by Susan Kraemer
While we were all fuming during the ridiculous bra-waving by the GOP over whether we should pay our bills or not, a rather startling bit of actual legislation was being proposed in their Tea Party House, as revealed by Ethan Elkind at Legal Planet
August 22nd, 2011 | by Susan Kraemer
Every state that has a Renewable Energy Standard (RES) - or Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) as these mandates were originally called - has slightly different rules regarding hydro power.
August 1st, 2011 | by Susan Kraemer
Hydroelectric power has long been left out of renewable energy counts, on the assumption that it creates some greenhouse gas emissions as vegetation caught in damned rivers rots. But that may be about to change, with the results of new research just published by Dr. Jonathan Cole in Nature Geoscience finding that hydroelectric power reservoirs are responsible for only about a sixth of the carbon dioxide and methane previously attributed to them
July 21st, 2011 | by Susan Kraemer
Finally noticing that it really will need new low carbon airplanes in order to land in Europe starting in 2012, at least one airline in the US has just ordered the aircraft it will need to do that. American Airlines just placed the largest order in history for a new fleet of fuel efficient airplanes, according to Green Car Congress. The 460 new planes meet the EU climate regulations to lower airline carbon emissions
July 20th, 2011 | by Susan Kraemer
Since putting itself on the market for renewables with its 33% renewable energy requirement, California has become like a wildly [&hellip
July 13th, 2011 | by Susan Kraemer
New Jersey continues its incredible solar development - now rivaling California's, as a result of its membership in RGGI and participation in regional cap and trade and renewable energy policy that makes new clean energy investment more competitive with fossil energy through the sale of SRECs
July 11th, 2011 | by Susan Kraemer
After months of Tea Party-type astroturf attacks by the Australian coal industry, Prime Minister Julia Gillard has prevailed in introducing a comprehensive carbon tax on the top 500 polluters in the country to move the heavily coal-dependent Australian economy to a more sustainable future based on clean renewable energy, in the country's most comprehensive economic reforms in a century. The support of the Green Party turned the tide, according to the Canberra Times
July 8th, 2011 | by Andrew
Investments in renewable energy grew 32% worldwide in 2010, reaching a record $211 billion, with investment in faster-growing developing economies surpassing that in developed economies for the first time
June 27th, 2011 | by Susan Kraemer
The world has had plenty of warning that the EU was going to require that all aircraft landing in Europe have lower CO2 levels by 2012, or pay harsh greenhouse gas fines
January 13th, 2011 | by Susan Kraemer
In nearly four decades since the Clean Water Act was passed, the Environmental Protection Agency has never vetoed any mining [&hellip
January 10th, 2011 | by Susan Kraemer
From 1995 to 2008, during a period of average total job growth of 13% in California, the green job sector [&hellip
January 10th, 2011 | by Susan Kraemer
(This is actually a guest post, as forwarded to me by the NRDC: I’ll just provide all the necessary illustrations. [&hellip
