WCI Releases Comprehensive Plans for Regional Cap and Trade
Western Climate Initiative is pushing ahead with plans to begin carbon trading in 2012.
Energy Bill Includes Homestar Program, Hydraulic Fracturing Disclosures
Energy bill lacks ambition, but it does have positive elements.
Global Finalists Announced in Small-Business Challenge
World Challenge 10 rewards businesses bringing economic, social and environmental benefits to local communities.
Weekly Clean Energy Roundup: July 29, 2010
DOE’s New Energy Hub to Develop Fuels from Sunlight DOE: $30M for Energy-Efficient Housing Partnerships DOE, DOD Announce Clean Energy Agreement Maine, Nova Scotia Signs Ocean Energy Agreement Unmanned Solar Aircraft Soars 14 Days International Renewable Energy Agency Gets Global Status DOE announced on July 22 the creation of the "Fuels from Sunlight Energy Innovation Hub" to develop revolutionary methods of generating fuels directly from sunlight. The Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP), led by the California Institute of Technology in partnership with the DOE’s Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, will operate the initiative. JCAP will bring together leading researchers in an effort to simulate natural photosynthesis for practical energy production. The goal is to build an integrated solar energy-to-chemical fuel conversion system. The hub will receive up to $22 million in Fiscal Year 2010, then an estimated $25 million a year for the next four fiscal years. Research will be directed at finding the functional components needed to assemble a complete artificial photosynthetic system, including light absorbers, catalysts, molecular linkers, and separation membranes. The hub will then integrate those components into an operational solar fuel system and will develop scale-up strategies to move the product from the lab to commercial […]
California Renewable Energy Projects Threatened by Federal Delays
State says DOE loan guarantee process is holding up projects that must break ground by the end of the year.
ECOtality, Coulomb Technologies Release EV Charger Updates
ECOtality unveils its Blink charging station: Coulomb announces N.A. and European partnerships.
Saft, Acciona Team Up on Solar Energy Storage
French battery company and Spanish solar developer collaborating on three-year project.
Novomer Awarded $18.4M in DOE Funding
Project aims to convert waste CO2 into polymers for commercial products.
Sharp To Double Module Production in UK
Japanese firm will expand production from 250 MW to 500 MW per year in Wales.
Tough Year for the Wind Industry
This article is reprinted from the June issue of our green investing newsletter, Progressive Investor. To learn about which green stocks to invest in, and to read the rest of the issue, subscribe or just purchase this issue. After a strong 2009, the problems associated with the recession and lack of a US energy policy caught up with the wind industry this year. Wind supplied 2% of the world’s electricity in 2009. Even during the dog days of the recession, installations charged ahead 31%, ending the year with a breathtaking 38,343 MW in new capacity for a cumulative world total of 158,505 MW. It was the highest growth rate in the last eight years. Also of note, China surpassed the US as the largest wind turbine market, installing 13,803 MW, and reaching a total of 25,805 MW. China accounted for over a third of the world’s wind installations in 2009, more than doubling its cumulative capacity for the fourth consecutive year. The US also had a record-breaking year, installing over 10,000 MW. China introduced a feed-in tariff for new onshore wind plants, but because of inadequate transmission capacity about 25% of its existing wind capacity has yet to be connected […]
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