Subsidies

renewable energy costs

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 policy

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]

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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]

Danish wind energy

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 boom?

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]

price at the pump

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]

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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 grid

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 inspiration?

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]

solar in Shanghai/Shutterstock

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]

North Carolina renewables

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]

groundwater depletion

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]

solar energy/shutterstock

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]

Hawai'i solar energy

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]

clean energy investment

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]