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Clean Tech Headed for Stagnation

May 14, 2012 by Matthew Stepp
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To be sure, the U.S. clean energy industry has been in a period of rapid growth, largely due to historic federal investments in the research, development, deployment, and manufacture of clean technologies. From 2009 through 2014, the federal government will invest a total of $150 billion, or the equivalent in magnitude to government... [read more]

Are solar subsidies unnatural but unavoidable?

May 14, 2012 by Alex Chapman
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Wind energy has become the favourite whipping boy in the renewable energy world. However, solar energy has its critics as well. Wind energy opponents are usually current or prospective neighbours of turbine installations. Solar energy naysayers are typically actual or would-be economists.“Why should we invest in solar photovoltaic... [read more]

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Saudi Arabia to Unleash Solar by Investing $109 Billion

May 14, 2012 by Rhys Clay
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Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest exporter of crude oil plans to install a solar capacity of 41,000 megawatts by 2032. Critics have noted that to achieve this, Saudi Arabia would need to produce and export approximately half of the world’s total annual installed capacity of solar. Can the country achieve this ambitious target? [read more]

Getting to Cost-Competitive Solar Energy

May 11, 2012 by Clifton Yin
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SunEdison founder and former Carbon War Room CEO Jigar Shah took to the pages of The Huffington Postand GigaOm recently to downplay the need for aggressive clean energy innovation. “We actually have all of the cost-effective technology [we] need” to mitigate climate change, he says in the former piece, singling out Bill Gates’ and writer... [read more]

Everyone on the planet helps subsidise fossil fuels by £45 per year

May 9, 2012 by David Thorpe
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NASA's James Hansen  Fossil fuel companies get between $400 and $500 billion in subsidies per year. This must end. The first major scientist to alert the world to the dangers of climate change, NASA's James Hansen, has issued a new challenge to the world based on the latest science surrounding the issue. In a new paper... [read more]

E15: A Fuel Before Its Time

May 4, 2012 by Mark Green
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E15 – gasoline containing 15 percent ethanol that has EPA approval  – is one of those ideas that looks good on paper but seems headed for problems in the real world. API’s Bob Greco, director for downstream and industry operations, outlined some of them for reporters during a conference call:Testing so far shows the higher... [read more]

Fossil Fuel Subsidies Blocking Clean Energy?

May 4, 2012 by Nino Marchetti
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A study just published in the journal Nature Climate Change suggests that fossil fuel subsidies in some developing nations stand most in the way of clean energy. For a livable climate, developing nations must bypass the fossil age as they grow their 21st century economies.The paper, Assessing the costs of photovoltaic and wind... [read more]

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After Fukushima, will a new feed in tarriff solve Japan's energy issues?

May 3, 2012 by André Semmler
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A quick update on the status of Japan's FIT talks and its possible implications for the expansion of renewables. [read more]

Are Solar Subsidizers Making the Same Mistake as Oil Producers in the 30's?

May 2, 2012 by Alex Chapman
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Short-term thinking is the bane of the energy world. It has been so since the early days of the oil business, and it remains so with today’s market for solar photovoltaic power generation. In the former case, oil producers were guilty of the flawed thinking. In the latter, it is the producers of public energy policy.An oil reservoir is... [read more]

Senate Appropriations Bill for Energy and Water FY2013 Finds Approval

April 30, 2012 by Megan Nicholson
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The Senate Appropriations Committee approved the FY2013 Energy and Water Appropriations bill on Thursday, delineating funds for the Department of Energy, the Army Corps of Engineers, and the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Reclamation. Overall, the legislation enacts $33.36 billion in appropriations for FY2013, with $27.13... [read more]

Making Sense of Misleading Talk about Cap-and-Trade in Europe and the USA

April 26, 2012 by Robert Stavins
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Various advocates have labeled the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) and the EU-ETS as near “the brink of failure” because of the recent trend of very low auction prices. Not true! [read more]

Failing to Communicate the Promise of Transportation Investments

April 24, 2012 by Deron Lovaas
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The Miller Center at the University of Virginia (full disclosure: my alma mater) rolled out its latest report, fittingly entitled “Are We There Yet? Selling America on Transportation” (pdf here). It’s based on a conversation they convened last fall, which in turn was a session following up on a 2010 conference on transportation policy.... [read more]

The Hard Truth: Even Liberals are Big Fans of Oil Subsidies

April 23, 2012 by Robert Rapier
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Survey Says…If you were to survey people and ask the question “Should we subsidize oil companies?” — the overwhelming majority would undoubtedly respond “No!” The notion that we are subsidizing oil companies generates outrage in many people, but in this article I will show why these subsidies aren’t going to go away any time soon. The... [read more]

Feed-In Tariff Sets Up Japanese Solar For Growth

April 23, 2012 by Nino Marchetti
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Like many other countries upping their renewable energy game, Japan is pulling out all the stops to encourage new growth from solar and wind power. After the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Japan has to find other alternative energy solutions to nuclear, and is proposing a new feed-in tariff (FIT) scheme to encourage solar and wind... [read more]

Support Grows for Clean Tech Subsidy Reform

April 20, 2012 by Breakthrough Institute
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Support is building for policies to encourage the growth of a globally competitive, subsidy independent clean tech sector in the United States, as moderate Republicans, industry insiders and analysts expressed keen interest in reforms that would drive production of cheaper, more innovative forms of energy."I think that there could be... [read more]