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Portraits of the Solar Energy Market: How Key States Are Faring
A look at how states' solar energy markets are faring. With more than 3.1 gigawatts of capacity installed last year, the U.S. market seems healthy and continues to grow. However, some states are in better shape than others.[read more]
Clean Energy Policy: A Three-Legged Stool
We need all three: Innovation, Deployment and a Price on Carbon. The right answer isn't one or two of these policy areas. Appropriate and comprehensive clean energy policy is a three-legged stool.[read more]
100 Percent Renewable Energy is 100 Percent Possible
Even those in favor of renewable energy have been known to debate how much of our power it can provide. But at the conference, the question was not whether we can get to 100%. Instead, speakers asked, How do we get there?[read more]
Promising Outlook for Solar Energy Forecasting
Solar energy continues to grow in the United States, but its relative unpredictability remains a hurdle. A research team is working to create detailed 36-hour forecasts of incoming energy from the sun.[read more]
Clean Energy Market Values Set To Nearly Double By 2022
Despite 2012 troubles, global clean energy markets remain strong and will nearly double within ten years, according to Clean Edge's annual industry report.[read more]
Thoughts on Ending Energy Poverty and Copenhagen's Zero-Sum Game
Some food for thought here: Nathan Wyeth pens a very thoughtful column on the Copenhagen climate summit focused on the key challenges of fueling sustainable global development and expanded energy-access to the billions of energy poor worldwide, via the new WRI-affiliated blog, NextBillion.net: Excerpts below with emphasis added:...[read more]
European Commission unveils plans but no new money for low-carbon technology
This month, the European Commission published development roadmaps for seven key low carbon technologies. Thy relate to wind, solar, bioenergy, CCS, nuclear technologies, as well as smart grids and energy efficiency, for the period 2010 and 2020. In 2007, the EU adopted a Strategic Energy Technology Plan. It set out a...[read more]
GE, clean tech and your tax dollars
Let me state my bias upfront: I’m am admirer of GE and its chief executive, Jeff Immelt, and the company’s ecomagination initiative. GE and Wal-Mart are, as I have written, the most influential companies in America, and it’s great that they are serious about becoming more sustainable, and working with their customers and suppliers to do...[read more]
IEA Sends Message to Copenhagen Delegates: $10 tn Needed to Combat Climate Change
Originally posted at the Breakthrough InstituteMassive investment in clean energy technology, to the tune of approximately $10 trillion over the next two decades, is needed to combat climate change, according to the International Energy Agency's early release of the World Energy Outlook 2009. The new IEA report argues that the focal...[read more]
World Wide Reactor Deployment
Scientists of the Reactor Physics Group at Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Grenoble, France, together with Sylvain David have made important contributions to Molten Salt Reactor technology during this decade. They are among the most important and far reaching energy thinkers in the world, yet outside of the narrow...[read more]
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