Ernest Moniz, President Obama’s newly nominated Energy Secretary, shares much with his predecessor, Steven Chu, outgoing head of the Department of Energy (DOE) and who is returning to an academic chair at Stanford University. Both men are prominent academic physicists, with…
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Despite naysayers, green energy keeps growing | GreenBiz
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Clean-energy programs find themselves squarely in the cross hairs of the GOP this election season. After pillorying the White House over Solyndra’s collapse, the House has been griping about everything from military spending on renewables to Obama’s failure to lower…
Lessons form California’s daunting carbon challenge | Global CCS Institute
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Among US states, California is leading the race to explore and implement ways to lower its greenhouse gas output. Its goal: to cut emissions to one-fifth of 1990 levels by mid century. As such, other states and nations are closely…
Clean Energy Makes Big Strides, but Just How Sustainable is the Growth? | GreenBiz
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Global investment in clean energy capacity expanded by 5 percent in 2011 to $260 billion. The growth comes despite the considerable drag from economic crisis in Europe and weak growth in the U.S. The new research, compiled by Bloomberg New Energy…
Despite Boom in Renewables, Risks Could Hurt Further Growth | GreenBiz
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“Alternative” energy is officially not so alternative anymore. Last year, for the first time ever, spending on projects to generate electricity from renewable sources eclipsed the amount spent to build conventional fossil fuel plants. In 2010, renewable projects drew $187…
Method, Deutsche Bank, Bloomberg Among Firms Betting on WindMade | GreenBiz
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Would knowing that more wind energy was used to manufacture a cell phone lure you to buy it instead of a similar model made with regular power? The wind industry hopes so. It’s making a high visibility bet that most…
Offshore wind for Cleveland? Wind Energy Can Create Jobs, Reduce Carbon Footprint | The Fiscal Times
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Cape Wind, the planned $2.7 billion wind farm off the coast of Cape Cod, Mass., in Nantucket Sound, got the green light in April from the Interior Dept., the most important approval so far in the project’s nine-year odyssey. Even so,…
Cape Wind: The War Over Offshore Wind Is Almost Over | BusinessWeek
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It’s no longer if, but when, where, and how many wind farms will go up along the U.S. coast Wind farms are springing up in Midwestern fields, along Appalachian ridgelines, and even in Texas backyards. They’re everywhere, it seems, except…