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The Princeton Review’s Green Colleges Honor Role
The Princeton Review researches issues of sustainability as they pertain to college and every year they publish their green ratings. In April,2010, they partnered with the U.S. Green Building Council to produce The Princeton Review’s Guide to 286 Green Colleges. The Princeton Review’s second annual Green Rating evaluates colleges anduniversities on their environmentally-related policies, practices [...]
China’s Role in the Global Clean Energy Market
This is slightly dated by now but I want to be sure this is postedfor posterity’s sake. In mid-May I participated in a panel discussionat the China Environment Forum at the Wilson Center here in Washington,DC. The topic of discussion was “Decarbonizing King Coal: Growing U.S.-China Clean Technology Cooperation“, and my fellow panelists Ming Sun [...]
The Role of U.S. Utilities in the Clean Energy Industry
One of the biggest components of reducingAmerica’s dependence on fossil fuels is utility companies’ adoption andpromotion of renewable energy. At times it seems that many utilities are moving very slowly toimplement the usage of clean energy sources. Navigant Consulting (NYSE: NCI) has recently released a report, "The 21st CenturyElectric Utility: Positioning for a Low-Carbon Future," [pdf] [...]
China’s Role in the Global PV Industry
Last week, I participated in the North American PV Fab ManagersForum, part of the Intersolar North America conference in SanFrancisco. One of the hot topics was the role of China in thephotovoltaic (PV) industry. Asia in general and China in particular have come to be a major presence on the PV manufacturing scene. Chris Hartshorn [...]
The Role for Salt in Solar Thermal
There’s a new fluid coming to traditional solar thermal systems. Tyco Flow Control has come up with a way to replace therminol, theoil in the tubes in parabolic solar thermal, with molten salt. Solarthermal developers already use tanks of molten salt to store heatcollected in the daytime to produce power in the evening or night. [...]
Solar’s Role in Rebuilding Haiti
Thecatastrophic earthquake that has all but leveled Haitian capitalPort-au-Prince, left tens of thousands dead or missing, and crippledthe country’s infrastructure certainly didn’t spare alternative powersources like generators or solar installations. Some solar arrays arestill up and running and providing much-needed power, though, whilestill others are being reassembled out of the wreckage. In an insightful blog [...]
Immelt: Government has to play a ‘key role’ in clean energy investments
This is a Wonk Room repost. WR has been reporting from the Clinton Global Initiative conference this week. Earlier this year, the American Society for Civil Engineers roundly panned America’s disintegrating infrastructure, giving it an overall D grade and estimating that “it would take a $2.2 trillion investment… over the next five years to bring [...]
New Inverter Architectures Seen as Disruptive Technologies
Untilrecently, the electronics used in PV systems – inverters and Balance ofSystem (BoS) have been an overlooked and underinvested part of thesolar ecosystem – despite being a multi-billion dollar market in itselfand a product that serves as the principle point of failure in almostall solar power installations. But lately, there has been a surge in [...]