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Unlocking Our Nation’s Wind Potential
Wind is an important source of clean, affordable American energy. Wind power supplies nearly 5 percent of our nation’s electricity demand across 39 states, and it’s getting cheaper every year thanks to new strides in wind technology and policy. Since the 1980s, the...
Shell Hydrogen: Balancing the Electric Power Grid
How might the transport fuel mix look 20 years from now? Will liquid fuels be in decline? And how will the world reduce CO2 from vehicles? In recent years, Shell has taken steps towards hydrogen, specifically, supplying hydrogen that can be converted to power electric...
2014 another record-setting year for solar: the U.S. reached 20 gigawatts of total installed capacity; up 30 percent over 2013
According to the DOE Solar Technologies Office, GTM Research and the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) released the U.S. Solar Market Insight 2014 Year in Review report last week, which revealed another record-setting year for solar: the U.S. reached 20...
Energy Department’s SunShot Initiative Trains Veterans for Solar Jobs
America's military veterans have the leadership qualities and talent we need to move the clean energy economy forward. Nonetheless, when the time comes to leave the service, transitioning to any new career presents a challenge for many service members. To help them...
Toyota, Nissan, and Honda to Jointly Support Hydrogen Station Infrastructure Development
Corporate Japan February 12, 2015 Toyota Motor Corporation Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. Honda Motor Co., Ltd. February 12, 2015 - Toyota Motor Corporation, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., and Honda Motor Co., Ltd. have agreed to work together to help accelerate the development of...
New Study from Lawrence Berkeley Lab Shows Solar Improves Home Value
A new SunShot-funded study led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory found that home buyers have been willing to pay more for homes with host-owned PV systems. Home buyers will pay about $4 more per watt of PV installed across various states, housing and PV...
One out of Every 78 New US Jobs is a Solar Job
January 15 marked an important day for America’s clean energy economy with the release of The Solar Foundation’s annual National Solar Jobs Census, which shows the solar industry’s explosive growth is creating thousands of new, highly skilled jobs throughout the...
Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz Soft on Hydrogen
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Congress Delivers Critical Blow to Wind Power
As Environment America prepared to unveil its report More Wind, Less Warming: How American Wind Energy’s Rapid Growth Can Help Solve Global Warming at a press conference today, the U.S. House of Representatives showed that it continues to resist a clean energy future....
Renewables are now Scotland’s biggest energy source
If we're to protect our planet for future generations, it's paramount that governments invest in renewable sources of energy. Scotland appears to have turned that corner, after government figures revealed it's now generating more power from "clean" technologies than...
Obama to Introduce Sweeping New Controls on Ozone Emissions
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is expected to release on Wednesday a contentious and long-delayed environmental regulation to curb emissions of ozone, a smog-causing pollutant linked to asthma, heart disease and premature death. The sweeping regulation, which...
Honda’s First Wind Farm in Brazil Produces 100% Renewable Energy for Automaker
Xangri-lá, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, November 26, 2014 - Honda Energy do Brasil Ltda. (Honda Energy), Honda's wind power generation business subsidiary in Brazil, today began operation of its wind power generation facility and held a ceremony to commemorate the start...
OPEC Decision Likely to Crash U.S. Fracking Industry
At its meeting today in Vienna, Austria, the 12 member countries of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) voted to keep their output target unchanged despite a 30 percent slump in the oil price since June, due primarily to the explosive growth in...
Closed Landfill to Host 5 MW Solar & Fuel Cell Power Plant in Bridgeport, CT
The Connecticut Siting Council has approved the City of Bridgeport’s Green Energy Park consisting of 9000 solar panels and a 2.8 MW fuel cell installation at a an old and unused landfill. According to the City, the approval is the final regulatory green light for the...
The Mouse House is smarter than our federal government
Seems like the House of Disney knows something the current administration does not!
Half of Germany’s Power Supplied By Solar, 22 Gigawatts Equal To 20 Nuclear Plants At Full Capacity
German solar power plants produced a world record 22 gigawatts of electricity per hour — equal to 20 nuclear power stations at full capacity — through the midday hours on Friday and Saturday, the head of a renewable energy think tank said. The German government...
Boeing Unveils Unmanned Phantom Eye Demonstrator
ST. LOUIS, July 12, 2010 — The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] today unveiled the hydrogen-powered Phantom Eye unmanned airborne system, a demonstrator that will stay aloft at 65,000 feet for up to four days. "Phantom Eye is the first of its kind and could open up a whole...
Extra solar panels in Spain driving down prices
December 23, 2008 - Cleantech Group best of the web pick Some installers and developers snatch up panels at bargain prices, while credit crunch limits others' participation. The cost of solar panels in dropping in Europe thanks to a growing inventory languishing in...
New wind farms, subsidies planned
Government will help install hydrogen fuel cells in homes as part of renewable energy driveIn an effort to expand the supply of renewable energy to Korean households and support its producers, the government laid out an action plan that includes the construction of a...
Scientists explore how the humble leaf could power the planet
Researchers at Imperial College London embark on ‘artificial leaf’ project to produce power by mimicking photosynthesis