Weekly Clean Energy Roundup: April 22, 2009

EIA Projects Faster Clean Energy Growth with Recovery Act Funds EPA: Greenhouse Gases Pose Threat to Public Health Obama Administration Charts Course for High-Speed Rail DOE to Award $41.9M in Recovery Act Funds for Fuel Cells DOE to Award $10M for Plug-in School Buses DOE to Invest $4B in Smart Grid Technologies NREL: Utility Green Power Sales Increased 20% in 2008 EIA Projects Faster Clean Energy Growth with Recovery Act Funds Despite the challenges presented by the current global recession, the stimulus provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) is expected to spur energy efficiency gains and greater long-term growth in renewable energy than previously expected, according to DOE’s Energy Information Administration (EIA). The EIA released its Annual Energy Outlook in March, but that publication reflected the situation in November 2008, before the full effects of the recession were clear and before the passage of the ARRA. Last week, the EIA updated the publication to include an energy outlook without the stimulus of the ARRA and an outlook that accounts for the ARRA. The biggest near-term impact of the ARRA is a jump in renewable power generation (excluding hydropower), exceeding 300 billion kilowatt-hours by 2012, compared to falling […]

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