Weekly Clean Energy Roundup January 30, 2008

New International Clean Energy Fund to Battle Climate Change DOE to Invest $114 Million in Small-Scale Cellulosic Biorefineries Hawaii and DOE Sign Agreement to Advance Hawaiian Clean Energy Intel Corporation Leaps to Top of the EPA Green Power List DOE Selects 20 Teams for the 2009 Solar Decathlon ASHRAE Publishes Energy Design Guide for K-12 School Buildings New International Clean Energy Fund to Battle Climate Change President Bush committed on Monday to provide $2 billion over the next three years for a new international clean energy technology fund. The President mentioned the fund during his final State of the Union Address, while an accompanying White House fact sheet includes the funding commitment and touts the fund as a tool to help confront climate change throughout the world. The new fund will increase and accelerate the deployment of all forms of cleaner, more efficient technologies in developing nations like India and China. It will also help leverage substantial private-sector capital by making clean energy projects more financially attractive. President Bush first proposed the fund in September 2007 at the First Major Economies Meeting on Energy Security and Climate Change. See the White House fact sheets on the energy aspects of the […]

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