7 more top cleantech stories of the week for your perusing pleasure: Wind Power 1. Gamesa has agreed to sell 4 U.S. wind farms totaling 480 MW of capacity (!) to Canada’s Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. (Algonquin). The price tag? $900 million. Currently, Gamesa is developing and building these wind farms, … [continued]
Here’s a wrap-up of some of the good or big cleantech (and dirty tech) politics stories we didn’t cover from the last week or so, to complement our wrap-ups of big solar and wind energy news and other cleantech news. Obama Says “Climate Change” Again As I noted over on … [continued]
Susan has written a number of times on here how Republican Senators have used and abused the filibuster in recent years (especially last year). Really, a lot of people have — it is painfully obvious. As you may have heard, there’s a strong push now to pass some form of … [continued]
States that already meet or exceed Renewable Energy Standards of 15% by 2021 would not be held back by the latest Democratic attempt to pass nationwide legislation requiring that utilities at least provide a minimum supply of clean energy. Enviros are dismayed by the feeble requirements in Senator Bingaman’s Renewable Energy … [continued]
When I wrote on the possibility of a Renewable Energy Standard (RES) coming back from the dead a couple weeks ago, based on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s statement that an RES was “absolutely” a possibility, I had hope, but not a lot of faith. Not long before that, Reid … [continued]
I wrote a piece over a month ago on the possibility of getting a nationwide renewable energy standard (RES) passed despite the demise of comprehensive climate and clean energy legislation in the Senate. Since then, though, I thought the possibility of getting an RES through an almost nonfunctional Senate sort … [continued]
There are a lot of ways you can throw the blame after the horrible death of a comprehensive climate change and clean energy bill, and the seeming death of a national Renewable Energy Standard (RES). You can blame: the Republican party and a broken Senate the media immoral billionaires … [continued]
[social_buttons] I just wrote about the struggles of getting a Republican to support anything regarding clean energy in my post on PACE’s chances of getting into the upcoming energy bill. So, I won’t write at length about that again. But there’s still a struggle going on for another biggie that … [continued]
[social_buttons] It is really quite sad what Republicans have done to the Senate and what they are doing to the country and the world as a result. Even conservatives Dick Schmalensee, who served on President George H.W. Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers, and Jonathan Kay are calling out their colleagues … [continued]
[social_buttons] If you haven’t heard by now, the U.S. Senate Energy Committee advanced a big piece of solar energy legislation last week (prior to the killing of the climate and clean energy bill). Vermont senator and Green Jobs Committee chairman Bernie Sanders got his “Ten Million Solar Roofs” bill through … [continued]
