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Is It Time for Solar to Push Back?
Solar now enjoys a powerhouse set of assets that many industriesspend dearly to acquire: explosive growth, wide and deep public support, and a base of authentic citizen advocates – many of whom aren’t in the industry but see it as a key part of America’s future. Those assets have converted solar from a nice curiosity [...]
The Hemp House by Push Designs #420
Push Designs has completed constructing the first Hemp House in the U.S. Built inAsheville, NC, the sustainable house, which has been created from arenewable hemp-based material, called Hemcrete, features several green and energy-saving materials on the inside aswell. Hemcrete is a sustainable material that has been made from hemp,water and lime. The breathable material purifies [...]
China’s Clean Energy Push
Fresh from releasing “Out of the Running?,” a report that compares clean energy investments in China, Germany, and Spain, senior staff including KateGordon and JulianWong, from the Center for American Progress brought a select groupof Senate staffers to visit China in April to meet with policymakers,academics, and companies to better understand China’s clean energyeconomic development [...]
Bush and Obama Push Clean Energy Technology
No this wasn’t a joint press conferencebringing together both the Republican and Democratic parties to call for a rapid deployment of clean energy technology in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico BP oil spill. But today sees both the current US president Barack Obama and formerpresident George W. Bush both saying in their own [...]
China’s Energy Push, Pt. II
Here’s the continuation of my article yesterday on China’s energypicture. One African official said back in 2006 that negotiating with theChinese may take longer, but they can pressure China more because theyare desperate for resources. Another official said, “The U.S. will talkto you about governance, about efficiency, about security, about theenvironment. The Chinese just ask [...]
China’s Energy Push
Following my recent post about China’sscramble for energy and their nonrenewable energy plan, I cover here the nonrenewable push. Renewable energy supplies about 7.5% of all energyneeds for China, says the EIA, close to our 7% figure in the U.S. Hence, nonrenewable energy sources are especially important over the next fewdecades for both the U.S. [...]
DOE: $350 Million Push for Clean Energy in Developing World
Speaking at the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen this morning, UnitedStates Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced a new initiative tohelp developing nations adopt clean and renewable energy sources,including major support for solar technologies. The Renewables and Efficiency Deployment Initiative – or Climate REDI – has four components, said Chu: The Solar and LED Energy [...]
Senators, Congressman Push to Keep Solar Jobs in U.S.
Following closely on the heels of Evergreen’s decision to outsource to China,a quartet of legislators representing three different states and bothsides of the political spectrum introduced earlier this week a bill intended to bolster solar manufacturing jobs in the United States. A bipartisan piece of legislation supported by the Solar Energy Industries Association, the Solar [...]
Suntech (STP) Continues Push Into US Market (STP)
There’s a good article in the NY Times today discussing the push of China into the US solar market,particularly Suntech (STP) which has admitted to pricing panels atbelow cost in order to gain US market share. Just a few days ago thecompany claimed to now have 25% of the California market. As we reported here [...]