Tag Archives: clean energy
Virginia: Clean Energy Mecca?
Researchers assessing the state’s potential for renewable energy say Virginia could realistically meet half of its nearly 20,000-megawatt power demand by the year 2035 with clean, sustainable sources like solar, onshore and offshore wind, and biomass. The George Mason University study, prepared for the Virginia Conservation Network, a coalition of renewable energy advocates and environmental [...]
Obama Discusses Climate Change in Rolling Stone Interview
In an hour-long interview with Rolling Stone, “Ready for the Fight,” President Obama talked about a wide range of issues, including two words he’s rarely mentioned since taking office: climate change. Obama said: “Part of the challenge over these past three years has been that people’s number-one priority is finding a job and paying the [...]
Bloomberg Statistics: Clean Energy Growing Fast
This list of sustainability indicators by Bloomberg illustrates several important points related to energy, including how much the most highly profitable and polluting industries on the planet live off our tax money. Take these two numbers, for instance: $409 billion: “worldwide government subsidies given to the fossil-fuel industry in 2010.” $66 billion: “global subsidies for [...]
The U.S Army Has $7 Billion to Spend on Renewable Energy
Increasingly, it’s not just the uniforms in the U.S. Army that are green anymore. The Army, and indeed the armed forces in general, are increasingly looking to renewable energy like solar and wind to supply secure energy sources domestically and simultaneously providing safer, easier to transport energy sources in theater. Most recently the Army said [...]
Greece Touts Green Energy 2050 Roadmap
Greece’s prime minister, Lucas Papademos, has declared investments in green energy, a national priority vital for reviving the rapidly falling economy of the country. He has touted investments in renewable energy, which will include a solar initiative worth 20 billion Euros as well as expressing the country’s wish to become the largest exporter of green [...]
Is the U.S Ditching Clean Energy for Fossil Fuels?
The story of American energy used to be that we consumed and imported too much, that fossil fuel reserves were finite, and that a technical breakthrough in clean alternatives would save us. How 20th century. The new narrative of American energy is this: We’ve been using less. A national boom in oil and gas production [...]
Investing: How to Play the Cleantech Energy Boom
The Energy Report: Your research at Raymond James covers a number of alternative energy and biofuel companies. Can you give us a brief description of the various cleantech industry segments? Pavel Molchanov: The cleantech arena comprises four key areas in terms of what’s investable in the public equity markets today. Solar carries the biggest market [...]
West Coast Clean Energy Jobs = On Fire
With a regional GDP contribution of $47 billion and over half a million jobs created in 2010, the clean energy economy is alive and well on the West Coast. And the potential for continued growth in jobs and investment is enormous with more regional collaboration, according to a report released last week by members of [...]
Minnesota Aims to be 100% Solar and Wind Powered
Many skeptics see solar and wind as holding little more potential than the small percentages they currently offer to total grid power. But the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, a group based in Takoma Park, Maryland, see the potential for 100% in certain regions. According to a study released Tuesday, March 13, the state [...]