The carbon tax debate continues in the US Congress as sponsors and stakeholders assert carbon-pricing legislation would address the most challenging, and interrelated, problems facing the US today. Amounting to a tax on carbon emissions, the discussion draft’s sponsors are soliciting public feedback on how best to allocate proceeds.
Building capacity – capacity in terms of human resources, particularly – is key to driving the transition to a clean green energy system and society forward. Under the Obama Administration, federal government agencies – the EPA, Departments of Energy, Interior, Defense, and others – have been playing a leading role … [continued]
A thorough analysis of US residential electricity consumption from Opower yields important insights regarding usage, energy efficiency and reducing carbon footprints.
A blue-ribbon panel of energy experts assembled to make recommendations regarding improving energy efficiency asserts that the U.S. could double energy productivity by 2030, yield average annual household savings of $1,000, and create one million new jobs along the way.
Group buying programs have caught on fast in the US, helping reduce the up-front cost of installing solar PV systems. Via HGACBuy, municipal and state government agencies are getting in on the act.
2012 proved to be a record-setting year for US wind power in more ways than one even as a key federal tax credit seemed doomed to expire.
Able to work collaboratively across party lines and the public and private sectors, a new report maps Colorado, Iowa and Ohio’s success in clean energy economic development.
The Solana utility-scale concentrating solar power (CSP) project, capable of storing solar-generated electricity and delivering it in the evenings and at night in order to help meet peak demand, is 80% complete. A workforce of more than 2,000 is on site installing Solana’s 32,000 parabolic trough solar energy collectors, one of a range of benefits the project has brought to the Pheonix area …
Though still considered a long shot, bipartisan support for instituting a tax on the largest US carbon and greenhouse gas emitters is being revived. Coupling it with payments to taxpayers and emphasizing the economic benefits would help muster support, according to policy experts. […]
The federal OCS lease grants NRG Bluewater exclusive right to submit one or more plans to BOEM to conduct activities in support of offshore wind energy development spanning 96,430 acres some 11 nautical miles off the coast of Delaware. […]
