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The Green Week in Review is a podcast, hosted by SustainableBusiness.com News Editor Bart King. It’s posted every Friday morning and is about 15 minutes long. You can listen to it through your browser or download it to a portable MP3 player. Sign up for our General News RSS Feed and it will be automatically downloaded to your computer’s media player each week. In this week’s show… Obama Pushes for Additional Clean Energy Tax Credits DOE Report Highlights Economic Impact of Advanced Vehicle Investments DOE Completes Recovery Funding For Cutting-Edge Cleantech Research Feds Establish Solar Demonstration Zone in Nevada California Sues Fannie, Freddie Over PACE Programs Genetically Modified Salmon: Coming Soon? Plus, a summary of the week’s top cleantech headlines. ++++ Email comments or questions to bart@sustainablebusiness.com
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DOE: $92M for Groundbreaking Energy Research Projects Solar Demonstration Site Chosen in Nevada Desert DOE-Funded Clean Energy Projects Win 8 R&D 100 Awards EPA Proposes 2011 Renewable Fuel Standards Swiss Solar Plane Makes First Night Flight U.S. Utilities Must Embrace Clean Energy to Remain Competitive DOE Awards $92 Million for Groundbreaking Energy Research Projects DOE announced on July 12 that it awarded $92 million in Recovery Act funds for 43 cutting-edge research projects that aim to dramatically improve how the U.S. uses and produces energy. DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) is coordinating the work in 18 states. The research projects are designed to accelerate innovation in green technology while increasing U.S. competitiveness in grid-scale energy storage for renewables, power electronics, and building efficiency. This round of ARPA-E grants focuses on three areas: Grid-Scale Rampable Intermittent Dispatchable Storage (GRIDS), Agile Delivery of Electrical Power Technology (ADEPT), and Building Energy Efficiency Through Innovative Thermodevices (BEET-IT). GRIDS projects seek affordable, large-scale energy storage needed to enable widespread use of wind and solar power. This program is searching for revolutionary new storage technologies that exhibit energy, cost, and cycle life that is comparable to that of pumped hydropower but which are modular and […]
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The Green Week in Review is a podcast, hosted by SustainableBusiness.com News Editor Bart King. It’s posted every Friday morning and is about 15 minutes long. You can listen to it through your browser or download it to a portable MP3 player. Sign up for our General News RSS Feed and it will be automatically downloaded to your computer’s media player each week. In this week’s show… A summary of the week’s top cleantech headlines. ++++ Email comments or questions to bart@sustainablebusiness.com
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DOE: $1.45B Loan Guarantee to Abengoa Solar Abound Solar Gets $400M Loan Guarantee DOE, DOI to Spur Offshore Renewable Energy Projects USDA: $4.2M in Woody Biomass Projects Progressive Automotive X Prize Narrows Field IEA: Energy Tech Revolution is Underway DOE Offers $1.45 Billion Loan Guarantee to Abengoa Solar DOE has offered of a conditional commitment for a $1.45 billion loan guarantee to Abengoa Solar to finance the construction and start-up of a concentrating solar power (CSP) generating facility in Solana, Arizona. President Obama announced the offer on July 3. The 250 MW plant will the first six-hour thermal energy storage system in the US. The plant, located 70 miles south of Phoenix, will supply electricity for about 70,000 homes through a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) with Arizona Public Service Company. Abengoa estimates the Solana project will employ 1,600 workers during construction and will create more than 80 skilled permanent jobs. Additionally, two assembly factories will be constructed on site, and a mirror manufacturing facility will be sited just outside Phoenix in Surprise, Arizona to supply the 900,000-plus mirrors. The Solana project brings the total amount of CSP supported by DOE to nearly 650 MW. See press releases from DOE […]
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DOE Offers $1.45 Billion Loan Guarantee to Abengoa Solar DOE has offered of a conditional commitment for a $1.45 billion loan guarantee to Abengoa Solar to finance the construction and start-up of a concentrating solar power (CSP) generating facility in Solana, Arizona. President Obama announced the offer on July 3. The 250 MW plant will the first six-hour thermal energy storage system in the US. The plant, located 70 miles south of Phoenix, will supply electricity for about 70,000 homes through a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) with Arizona Public Service Company. Abengoa estimates the Solana project will employ 1,600 workers during construction and will create more than 80 skilled permanent jobs. Additionally, two assembly factories will be constructed on site, and a mirror manufacturing facility will be sited just outside Phoenix in Surprise, Arizona to supply the 900,000-plus mirrors. The Solana project brings the total amount of CSP supported by DOE to nearly 650 MW. See press releases from DOE and Abengoa, the president’s video announcement, the DOE Loan Guarantee Program Web site, and the Solar Energy Technologies Program Web site. Solar Panel Manufacturer Gets $400 Million DOE Conditional Loan Guarantee Also on July 3, President Obama announced a […]
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The Green Week in Review is a podcast, hosted by SustainableBusiness.com News Editor Bart King. It’s posted every Friday morning and is about 15 minutes long. You can listen to it through your browser or download it to a portable MP3 player. Sign up for our General News RSS Feed and it will be automatically downloaded to your computer’s media player each week. In this week’s show… DOI, DOE To Expand Collaboration on Offshore Renewables NYPA Applying For Offshore Wind Farm Lease State Roundup: New Jersey Wind Legslation, Washington Electric Highway Mass Audubon Backs Cape Wind Project on Bird Issue Plus, a summary of the week’s top cleantech headlines. ++++ Email comments or questions to bart@sustainablebusiness.com
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Canadian Oil Sands Could Lead U.S. Oil Imports This Year EV Project Expands To LA, DC Smart EV Coming to the US in Fall 2010 DOE Awards $76M for Energy-Efficient Building Technologies 5 More States Reach Weatherization Milestone FERC Proposes Transmission Planning, Cost Sharing Methods Canadian Oil Sands Could Lead U.S. Oil Imports This Year By the end of this year, Canadian oil sands will probably be the leading source of crude oil imports into the US, according to a new study by IHS CERA. Canada is already the primary source of crude oil imports into the US, and has been steadily increasing its production of crude oil from oil sands while its conventional oil production has declined. Production from oil sands more than doubled over the past nine years, growing from 600,000 barrels per day in 2000 to 1.35 million barrels per day in 2009. Assuming that production rate is sustained this year, oil sands will produce more petroleum than conventional sources in Canada this year, and U.S. imports of petroleum from Canadian oil sands will be greater than imports from any other country. According to IHS, Canadian oil sands could provide 20%-36% of U.S. oil imports by 2030. […]
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Japan Deploys Solar Sail in Space DOE: $24 Million for Algal Biofuels Research USDA Report: Roadmap for U.S. Biofuel Energy Goals MIT Study: Natural Gas to Help Reduce GHG Emissions Honda Announces Price for CR-Z Hybrid Coupe University of Michigan Wins American Solar Challenge Japan Deploys a Solar Sail in Space The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has successfully deployed a solar sail in outer space. While solar energy has successfully powered small cars and airplanes, nobody has yet managed to use it to propel a spacecraft – that goal is now within reach. JAXA’s Small Solar Power Sail Demonstrator, or IKAROS (Interplanetary Kite-craft Accelerated by Radiation of the Sun), was launched on May 10 and on June 10, JAXA confirmed it was successfully expanded. The concept of a solar sail, which could use the pressure of sunlight to propel a spacecraft, has been a dream of both scientists and science fiction writers. Though the concept is roughly 100 years old, IKAROS will be the first practical demonstration of the technology. The sail is made of an extremely thin, flexible plastic and includes thin-film solar cells on part of its surface to generate electricity. The sail was deployed by spinning […]
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The Green Week in Review is a podcast, hosted by SustainableBusiness.com News Editor Bart King. It’s posted every Friday morning and is about 15 minutes long. You can listen to it through your browser or download it to a portable MP3 player. Sign up for our General News RSS Feed and it will be automatically downloaded to your computer’s media player each week. In this week’s show… Monsanto Wins Limited Victory in Supreme Court Proposal For Whaling Quotas Fails to Advance Federal Court Blocks Deepwater Drilling Moratorium Plus, a summary of the week’s top cleantech headlines. ++++ Email comments or questions to bart@sustainablebusiness.com
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As President Obama said in his speech, America has postponed getting off our oil addiction for decades. In the late 1970s, President Carter made the first call to wean ourselves off from oil – if we had done it then, the job would have been completed in 1985. Recent polls show that Americans want the government to prioritize renewable energy. A poll conducted by Benenson Strategy Group found that 63% of likely 2010 voters support an energy bill that limits pollution and encourages companies to use and develop clean energy. Why then is the energy bill languishing in the Senate? The House approved a bill a year ago, and versions have passed in Senate committees. It’s time for a Senate vote, but like every single bill since Obama entered office, Republicans filibustered it, forcing 60 votes for passage instead of a simple majority. Those 60 votes are nowhere to be found because conservative Democrats and all Republicans are against the bill. How can that be if the majority of Americans are in favor of it? Typical criticisms of the bill – it will destroy jobs, destroy our economy and increase taxes – are simply not true. The Environmental Protection Agency […]
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