Article Archive for January 2009
During Wednesday’s State of the State address, New York Governor David Paterson laid out a proposal for a ‘45 by 15? plan which would have 45 percent of the state’s electricity needs come from renewable …
It has been reported in the Spanish newspaper El País last week, that Spain will buy 6 million tonnes of CO2 emission rights from Eastern Europe, in order to fulfill the Kyoto Protocol. However this …
Mike Strizki, an engineer in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, is building up a small business that saves big money on energy costs for his customers. Normally he builds grid-independent systems for celebrities like Johnny Depp, …
A new company called Laurus Energy claims it has found the cheapest way to deliver clean power in North America. The company is using underground coal gasification which accesses coal that lies farther underground than …
A test algae bioreactor project run by GreenShift Corporation was just awarded a $375,000 grant by the Montana Department of Commerce and may, if it works out as hoped, pave the way for commercialization of …
It was announced today that Progress Energy Florida has signed a contract with Westinghouse Electric Company LLC and The Shaw Group Inc.’s Power Group for the engineering, procurement and construction of two nuclear units for …
Connecticut’s solar rebate program is one of the most generous in the United States and because of this is very popular. Since 2005, more than $85 million has been doled out for 815 residential solar …
There is a lot of breaking news everyday around the globe in the renewable energy, or clean tech sector. Here is a summary of what has happened over the last week, mostly in China, …
Mountain-top removal coal mining is obliterating vast swaths of Appalachia
in Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia – image credit: The Sierra Club
The Governor of Kentucky, Steve Beshear, recently released a new energy plan that serves …
The Ohio Energy Office wants to entice developers to include those efficient energy-generation methods in single- and multifamily homes by offering $3.5 million in grants for solar hot-water systems and wind turbines.
The goal is to …
