California Proposes Auction to Boost Solar Energy
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009 Posted in Energy, Green News | Comments OffKind of like a feed-in tariff, but possibly much better California has proposed setting up an open bidding process for mid-size solar projects. Under the scheme, utilities would rank bids by price and accept all of the ...
California Proposes Auction to Boost Solar Energy
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009 Posted in Energy, Green News | Comments OffKind of like a feed-in tariff, but possibly much better California has proposed setting up an open bidding process for mid-size solar projects. Under the scheme, utilities would rank bids by price and accept all of the ...
Videos Of Chu, (Bill) Clinton, Gore, Pickens, Reid, Van Jones, Villaraigosa, Wirth, And Zoi At The National Clean Energy Summit 2.0
Friday, August 28th, 2009 Posted in Energy, Green News | Comments OffVideos are now available (here) for the “National Clean Energy Summit 2.0 on Jobs and the New Economy” at UNLV in Nevada August 10. Participants at the National Clean Energy Summit 2.0 in Las Vegas, NV, ...
Islay To Be Entirely Powered By Tides
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 Posted in Energy, Green News | Comments Offby Tim Webb ScottishPower is to build turbines in the Sound of Islay that will generate enough electricity for the island's 3,500 inhabitants – and its famous distilleries ScottishPower is planning a tidal energy project that will supply ...
Fighting Back, Several Senators Are Working to Strengthen the Climate and Clean Energy Bill
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 Posted in Energy, Green News | Comments Offby Brad Johnson Guest blogger Brad Johnson has an excellent summary of efforts to make the American Clean Energy And Security Act stronger in a post first published here Even as some of their colleagues try to place ...
U.S. Government Seeks To Limit Federal Energy Use
Friday, August 21st, 2009 Posted in Energy, Green News | Comments OffThe U.S. federal government is the single largest energy consumer in a nation that consumes more energy than any other in the world. Overall, federal primary energy use has decreased by 25 percent from 1985 to ...
ReneSola Awarded £425m Contract To Build Solar Power Station In China
Friday, August 21st, 2009 Posted in Energy, Green News | Comments OffBy Terry Macalister The sun came out on a London-listed solar company, ReneSola, today when it was awarded a deal to develop a $700m (£425m) power plant in northern China, to become operational next year. Shares in the ...
Ambitious Solar Project to Use Recycled City Wastewater
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009 Posted in Energy, Green News | Comments OffBy Daniel Flahiff Four thousand acres of private land in the Mojave desert are slated to become the site of an ambitious new concentrating solar power (CSP) plant: Hualapai Valley Solar (HVS). Named one of the Top ...
Ambitious Solar Project to Use Recycled City Wastewater
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009 Posted in Energy, Green News | Comments OffBy Daniel Flahiff Four thousand acres of private land in the Mojave desert are slated to become the site of an ambitious new concentrating solar power (CSP) plant: Hualapai Valley Solar (HVS). Named one of the Top ...
eSolar Launches First Solar Tower in US
Friday, August 7th, 2009 Posted in Energy, Green News | Comments OffHere at Worldchanging, it feels like we’ve been following the brilliant possibilities of concentrated solar power (CSP) since Archimedes and the Greeks set Roman ships ablaze with sunlight reflected off their bronze shields. Finally, on August ...
Solar Into Space
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009 Posted in Energy, Green News | Comments OffBy Anna Simpson California buys energy generated in space Californians could be catching the rays come rain or shine if the world’s first space-based solar power project gets off the ground. Plans to send a solar farm ...
Energy Efficiency Gains in U.S. Could Cut Sharply Energy Use, Study Says
Thursday, July 30th, 2009 Posted in Energy, Green News | Comments OffA crash program to improve the energy efficiency of American homes, offices, and factories could slash energy consumption by 23 percent by 2020 and produce $1.2 trillion in savings, according to a report by the McKinsey ...
Home Solar Arrays Expand Rapidly in California
Friday, July 17th, 2009 Posted in Energy, Green News | Comments OffThe number of California homes with solar panels has grown from 500 a decade ago to 50,000 today, helping California produce 500 megawatts of solar-powered electricity — equivalent to a major coal-fired power plant — during ...
How bad for the climate is algal oil?
Thursday, July 16th, 2009 Posted in Energy, Green News | Comments OffLots of people are buzzing about algal fuels, which promise to turn vats of seawater and CO2 into biofuels much like oil, and seem real enough that ExxonMobil is investing $600 million in the technology to ...
How bad for the climate is algal oil?
Thursday, July 16th, 2009 Posted in Energy, Green News | Comments OffLots of people are buzzing about algal fuels, which promise to turn vats of seawater and CO2 into biofuels much like oil, and seem real enough that ExxonMobil is investing $600 million in the technology to ...
Green Bundle of Energy
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 Posted in Energy, Green News | Comments Offby Roger Valdez Portland joins Vancouver in code changes that encourage urban renewables. Last week I heaped praise on Portland’s plans to revise their city building codes to encourage family-friendly courtyard housing. This week, I ...
Video: A Greener Empire State Building
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 Posted in Energy, Green News | Comments OffThe U.S. government PR team celebrates the green retrofitting of the Empire State Building with this 2-minute video, which features the the building management, commercial tenants and others lauding the "simple tactics" used to achieve massive ...
Video: A Greener Empire State Building
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 Posted in Energy, Green News | Comments OffThe U.S. government PR team celebrates the green retrofitting of the Empire State Building with this 2-minute video, which features the the building management, commercial tenants and others lauding the "simple tactics" used to achieve massive ...
Obama To Open U.S. Lands To Large-Scale Solar Power Projects
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 Posted in Energy, Green News | Comments OffU.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said his department is studying whether 670,000 acres of federal lands in six Western states are suitable for the construction of large-scale solar power projects. Salazar, appearing in Las Vegas with ...
Obama To Open U.S. Lands To Large-Scale Solar Power Projects
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 Posted in Energy, Green News | Comments OffU.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said his department is studying whether 670,000 acres of federal lands in six Western states are suitable for the construction of large-scale solar power projects. Salazar, appearing in Las Vegas with ...