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Renewable Energy Grid Parity Reality Check
The latest estimates from the International Renewable Energy Agency shows that onshore wind is already at grid parity with fossil fuel electricity and that solar might be at grid parity in certain select regions by the year 2020.[read more]
EU Energy Briefing: R&D, Internal Market, Chinese Solar Panels & Energy Summit [VIDEO]
An extensive update on the latest EU policy developments and what to expect for the near future in the field of energy policy, including the Internal Energy Market, Research, Development & Innovation, and Chinese solar panels.[read more]
EU May Make German Industry Pay for Renewables
Making households pay a disproportionate amount of the bill for renewable energy is quite obviously unfair and will lead to an inevitable political backlash against subsidizing renewables.[read more]
Denmark: Community Wind Energy Movement in Retreat [INFOGRAPHIC]
Denmark is seen as the great wind energy success story. But the number of ordinary Danes participating in the wind power sector actually decreased for many years.[read more]
Massachusetts Solar Energy Installations More Than Quadrupled Between 2010-2012
Recently released Massacusetts Clean Energy Center data shows that residential solar installations have more than quadrupled between 2010 and 2012 in the state.[read more]
Memorial Day Driving By The Numbers [INFOGRAPHIC]
The oil industry uses high prices to make big profits, spends them to keep their tax breaks, and then pushes for more dirty, unconventional oil like Canadian tar sands — which will not have any impact on gasoline prices.[read more]
Tesla’s Early Loan Repayment Earns Praise From Energy Department
Tesla used the DOE loan to transition its business model from building high-end roadsters to accelerate the development of its relatively affordable Tesla Model S sedan.[read more]
Wind Energy and the Myth of Widespread Negative Pricing
Wind only sets the market price if it is the most expensive resource on the system, and that almost never happens because wind has a zero fuel cost. If wind is setting the price, everything else in the area has been turned off.[read more]
Solar Energy: As Germany Goes, So Goes Vermont?
The German program was an inspiration to the crafters of Vermont’s May, 2009 feed-in tariff law, the energy-generation lynchpin of the state’s plan to use 90% renewables by 2050.[read more]
Is China's Solar Energy Business Not-for-Profit? [VIDEO]
Solar energy is not a complete solution today in China, but the leadership is quite intelligent about technology and science and engineering. They have a clear a strategy baked into five-year plans. China is going to stay committed.[read more]
Renewable Energy Standards: North Carolina 1, ALEC 0
Clean energy advocates in North Carolina have won a major battle in the opening stages of a nationwide fossil fuel-funded war against renewable energy standards in America.[read more]
Climate Change and Anthropogenic Sea Level Potholes
Depletion of groundwater reserves has more than doubled in recent decades as a result of population growth and the increased demand on groundwater reservoirs for drinking water and the irrigation of croplands.[read more]
Is Solar Energy Prepared to Enter a Post-Subsidy World? [VIDEO]
Let's start out with a fact: the free market for energy is a myth. Every country uses subsidies in some way to encourage production and dictate consumption of different forms of energy.[read more]
Encouraging Solar Energy Development in Hawaii [INFOGRAPHIC]
Hawaii is one of the American states cracking ahead to make a switch to clean, solar power. As usual, government incentives play a key part in promoting a switch to renewable energy.[read more]
Which Country Saw a 20,000% Increase in Clean Energy Investing?
No, it’s not China. If you only glance at clean energy investment in the past year, you’ll see a marked decline in most areas of the globe. But not all; it was up by more than 50 percent in non-G20 countries.[read more]
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