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The Art of PV War

May 18, 2012 by Nigel Morris
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The U.S. Department of Commerce today handed down it’s preliminary report on alleged dumping by Chinese solar manufacturers in the US market.The landmark findings handed down concluded that Chinese manufacturers were guilty of dumping solar cells and panels into the U.S. market, and imposed preliminary margins of 31.14 %... [read more]

Gamesa Ditches Virginia Offshore Wind Project

May 17, 2012 by Nino Marchetti
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Spanish wind-power company Gamesa is pulling the plug on Virginia. Gamesa’s first offshore wind turbine prototype was planned for installation off Cape Charles, Va., but now the company says it will cite the turbine in Arinaga Quay in the Canary Islands.Gamesa said it expects to begin installation of the G128-5.0 megawatt (MW)... [read more]

Are Chesapeake's Problems A Red Flag For Shale Gas?

May 17, 2012 by Geoffrey Styles
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Chesapeake Energy has been in the news a lot, lately, concerning both the significant challenges it faces in financing its ambitious development program, and its high-profile CEO, who was recently forced to relinquish his role as Chairman. The company's stock is trading for half its value one year ago and less than a fourth of its 2008 peak. [read more]

Rethinking the role of government in cleantech

May 17, 2012 by Dallas Kachan
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Another year, another wringing of the hands over tax credits and incentives for clean technology. It’s time to end government handouts in clean technology, policymakers need to focus on setting mandates and standards and start ratcheting back subsidies and credits. [read more]

Cleantech A Beacon In The California Gloom

May 15, 2012 by Nino Marchetti
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According to the 2012 California Green Innovation Index, compiled by Next 10, the state’s investment in the clean technology is doing more than innovation. It’s also helping California grow its economy and cut emissions after one of the worst recessions in history devastated the housing sector and reduced the real estate tax base of... [read more]

Assessing Arun Majumdar's Legacy at ARPA-E

May 15, 2012 by Clifton Yin
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Last week saw the unfortunate news that Dr. Arun Majumdar will resign – effective June 9 – from the U.S. Department of Energy, where he has served as the head of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) since October 2009. His departure is a “big hit for energy innovation policy,” ITIF’s Matt Stepp commented (... [read more]

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]

Emerging signs of health in the global PV industry?

May 11, 2012 by Nigel Morris
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Although most pundits agree that 2012 will be a very tough year for the PV majors, some good news has finally started emerging.The first story is about the price of silicon, the raw material that feeds our industry and is the source of so much opportunity and at times, so much pain.Although the days of an almost monopolistic... [read more]

Renewable Revolution: Don’t Worry, It’s Coming

May 9, 2012 by Nino Marchetti
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California currently has just 524 solar projects over 1 megawatt (MW) — but  an incredible 17,707 such solar projects will be on the grid by 2017 [PDF]. This is a huge change! And California is not the only state with such massive change coming.The U.S. is about to go through an incredible metamorphosis when it comes to energy... [read more]

How CBO Got it Wrong on Fuel Consumption and the Highway Trust Fund

May 8, 2012 by Deron Lovaas
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The authors of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) study released last week must have been sniffing gas fumes when they drastically overestimated the effects of the proposed fuel economy standards on the Highway Trust Fund. The study claims that proposed changes to the corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards would amount... [read more]

Current and Projected Costs for Biofuels from Algae and Pyrolysis

May 7, 2012 by Robert Rapier
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Can algal biofuel actually be competitive with petroleum? Recent DoE studies suggest it will. [read more]

Getting Things Done: What's at Stake for Congress in the Transportation Bill

May 4, 2012 by Deron Lovaas
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Did you see this eye-catching opinion piece about the polarization in Congress drawn from a new book by a couple of authors who wrote The Broken Branch: How Congress is Failing America and How to Get it Back on Track (which is worth a read as well)? There was another one in the same paper (the Washington Post) about... [read more]

Resources from Space?

May 4, 2012 by Geoffrey Styles
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Last week a company called Planetary Resources, Inc. announced its intention to develop the means of exploiting minerals from near-earth asteroids on a for-profit basis.  This news got some attention for its novelty, particularly at a time when the concerns of most companies are distinctly earthbound.  It also attracted... [read more]

Are Energy Efficiency Investments Being Discouraged by the Way the Federal Tax Code Treats Depreciation?

May 3, 2012 by Ethan Rogers
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Is it possible that something as mundane as the treatment of depreciation by the federal tax code could be negatively impacting investments in energy efficiency? That is the question ACEEE attempts to answer in the new white paper, Depreciation: Impacts of Tax Policy. The paper is the third in a series of four working papers that examine... [read more]

New twists for UK nuclear new build

May 3, 2012 by Dan Yurman
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China and Russia seek opportunities after German utilities withdraw from the marketChina's State Nuclear Power Corp., a government owned enterprise, is in talks to fund the Horizon nuclear power project originally organized by German utilities RWE and EON. The Chinese firm is said to be in talks with Toshiba, which owns Westinghouse,... [read more]