China Leads as Global Clean Energy Investment Jumps 24 Percent in Q2 2012
Global clean energy investment jumped 24% during Q2 2012 to reach $59.6 billion, led by China’s 92% financing surge. […]
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36 Organizations Push for Strong 2030 Renewable Energy Push
36 leading organizations recently teamed up to “fight for a new American Clean Energy Agenda and create a renewable energy reality by 2030,” anti-nuclear organization NIRS (Nuclear Information and Resource Service) states. And it’s about time, isn’t it? Many of these organizations have been fighting for clean energy for … [continued]
80% Clean, Renewable Energy by 2050: More Than Possible, But Need More Political Will (&…
So, if you haven’t seen the news, NREL released a report last week showing that we could power 80% the US with already commercially available clean, renewable energy technology by 2050. Now, before getting into the key findings from the report, I think it’s useful to put this into … [continued]
Maryland Going Green as Its Clean Energy Industry Expects Great Things
The clean energy industry is apparently doing rather well – in other words, let’s stop trying to […]
One Step Closer to Invisible Solar Cells in Our Windows
The company is known for its development of see-through solar cells (which we’ve talked about before), and this week it’s just a little closer to making its almost invisible solar cells […]
Solar Tech Improvements; Solar Project News; Solar Manufacturing News… (Solar Energy News Roundup)
Other than the solar energy news we’ve already posted on, here’s some more solar energy news from the last week or so from around the cleantech interwebs: Solar Technology News Solar nanowire array may increase percentage of sun’s frequencies available for energy conversion. Changing the concentration of indium allows … [continued]
Report: China Doing Most Global Warming Abatement, World Still Far Behind Necessary Target
The DB Climate Change Advisors has released its latest Global Climate Change Policy Tracker report [PDF], its fourth. The report has quite a bit of interesting info in it. Most important, from a global perspective, is that “the best case global outlook” based on potential current targets still leaves us is … [continued]
US Retakes #1 Spot in Clean Energy Investment in 2011
New research on clean energy financing in the Group of Twenty (G-20) nations released by The Pew Charitable Trusts shows that investment grew to a record $263 billion in 2011, a 6.5 percent increase over the previous year, with the United States beating out China in the race to secure … [continued]
DOE Launches 6-Year, $180mm Offshore Wind Development Initiative
The energy policy winds are increasingly shifting in favor of renewable energy resources as Energy Secretary Chu announced the launch of a six-year, $180mm initiative to kick-start development of the US’ vast offshore wind energy resources.
Renewable Energy Investment Attractiveness: China #1, US #2, Germany #3
Ernst & Young released its quarterly Country Attractiveness Indices report (CAI) for renewable energy today. There are some quite interesting observations regarding the state of and projections for renewable energy (and specific renewable energy sectors) within the report, but the ranking of the top countries in the index remains the same: … [continued]
