Rainfresh Harvest’s solar PV–small wind power system was just one of more than 170 green energy sites open to the public during this year’s Green Energy Ohio Tour, which displayed the robust vitality and vibrancy of the state’s fast-growing sustainable development and green energy movement. […]
The Cleantech Open bills itself as the largest cleantech accelerator. It’s mission to “find, fund and foster entrepreneurs with big ideas that address today’s most urgent energy, environmental and economic challenges.” Its North Central regional program, founded in 2010, will be holding its 2012 Innovation Expo & Awards event in Minneapolis on Thursday, October 18. […]
An enormous wind farm in Oregon is now generating about 845 MW for California. The Shepherds Flat Wind Farm has 338 turbines from General Electric. Each is rated at 2.5 MW. Shepherds Flat is one of the largest wind farms in the world. It is located in Eastern Oregon … [continued]
California has been pushing towards a goal of connecting itself to a much larger carbon market, and is well on its way to that goal with its forthcoming emissions trading scheme with Quebec in 2013, the state’s chief air regulator said on Monday. Mary Nichols, chairperson of the California … [continued]
Said to be “the most thorough study ever conducted of a U.S. offshore wind farm,” Deepwater Wind invested three-years and $7 million in completing the permit applications for the proposed 30-MW Block Island Wind Farm, a project that management sees as a stepping stone on the path toward carrying out much larger projects off the US northeast and mid-Atlantic coast.
Demonstrating its ability to reliably cultivate sufficient quantities of biomass from algae growing in saltwater ponds in Western Australia’s desert, Aurora Algae’s preparing to scale its pilot system to commercial production. Aurora’s means of harnessing algal photosynthesis to sustainably produce a wide range of essential goods, including food, fuel, bio-pharmaceuticals and fertilizer, could have profound impacts on people living in arid and dryland areas around the world.
The 26-MW San Fermin PV plant in northeastern Puerto Rico’s Loiza comes with a built-in weather station, frequency and voltage regulation capabilities, a back-up energy storage system, and is built to withstand hurricane-force winds and flooding. […]
Spanning a wide range of state government involvement in promoting and fostering ongoing clean energy progress, included among the bills is one that would reduce the time and cost of obtaining permits for rooftop solar energy systems, and another to enhance clean energy coordination and collaboration between the state and US Dept. of Defense in California. […]
This is a great post on an even greater recent study showing that we can get to a 95% renewable energy world by 2050 with no technology breakthroughs at all. Check it out: No Breakthroughs Necessary: 95 Percent Renewable Energy Possible By 2050 It’s a commonly held belief, even within … [continued]
A guest post from the White House: By Secretary Steven Chu, Todd Park, and Nancy Sutley Imagine it is a scorching hot summer day, and your smart phone beeps, asking if you’d like it to raise your home thermostat a degree or two to save money. Or, envision an easy-to-use … [continued]
