Thursday, May 23, 2013
Yesterday, President Obama released his 2013 Energy budget, which, according to Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, makes critical investments in innovation, clean energy and national security, while emphasizing the President's commitment to an all-of-the-above...
If you were looking for a good reason to head to sunny California in February, I've got one. Come to the Renewable Energy World Conference and Expo, co-located with Solar Power-Gen Conference and Exhibition and get all jazzed up about renewable energy...
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) develops an outlook for international energy markets every year. The most recent report, the International Energy Outlook 2011 (IEO2011), released in September 2011, projects markets through 2035. As part...
Listening to a recent roundtable discussion among American utility executives, I was surprised to learn that most of them factor in the price of carbon when accounting for future energy costs. I thought that boat had passed in 2009 when the Cap and Trade...
The third quarter of 2011 was the concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) industry's best one yet, say analysts. Four MW of the technology, spread out over three projects, were installed mostly in the Southwestern U.S. More CPV is expected to go online by year's...
For the past two years, the North American renewable energy industry was able to take advantage of a powerful financial vehicle, namely the 1603 Grant in Lieu of Tax Credit that was offered to developers of qualifying projects. But with the grant set...
In May 2011, after record snowmelt caused a surge in cheap hydropower for Bonneville Power Association (BPA), the utility made a bold move and decided that it would not accept wind power from wind farms with which it had signed power purchase agreements...
This week more than 750 large companies, small businesses and organizations sent a letter to Congress calling for a one-year extension of the Department of Treasury's Section 1603 Program.
Today the international trade coalition (ITC) announced its ruling on the trade dispute between U.S. and Chinese solar manufacturers. According to a press release issued by SolarWorld, the company that initiated the dispute and founded the Coalition for...
The Solar Foundation released its National Jobs Census last week at Solar Power International (SPI) in Dallas, Texas. The good news is that the solar power industry added almost ten times more jobs over the past year than the overall U.S. economy, which...
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