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Tax Credits for Energy Efficiency: Get Em While They’re Hot!

November 1, 2011 by Peter Troast
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The federal tax credits available for energy efficiency upgrades including insulation, air sealing products, energy efficient appliances, windows and more is set to expire on December 31, 2011. If you’d like to take advantage of the tax credit, any products need to be purchased and installed by then. The federal tax credit for energy... [read more]

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As DOE Wraps Up Recovery Act Energy Investments, Does Clean Tech Funding Cliff Loom?

September 30, 2010 by Jesse Jenkins
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With Recovery Act funding coming to a close, private financial markets still largely frozen, and Congress increasingly dead-locked over almost all new spending measures, can clean energy momentum continue, or is the American clean energy sector poised to tumble off of a clean tech funding cliff? [read more]

Post-Stimulus Transition for Renewable Energy

September 13, 2010 by Geoffrey Styles
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One of the largest uncertainties affecting the US renewable energy sector is how it will make the transition from the special subsidies provided under last year's stimulus bill (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009) back to the "normal" incentives available prior to the financial crisis and recession. The key element of this... [read more]

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Calling all Troops for Smart Grid Deployment

September 9, 2010 by Anto Budiardjo
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In 2009, the Smart Grid industry was filled with hope for what the $4.5 billion in U.S. government stimulus dollars could mean for the acceleration of Smart Grid deployments.Hundreds of utilities applied for American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funding, $4.5 billion in awards were announced, and scarecrows danced on power lines... [read more]

Big Misunderstandings about ARRA Stimulus for Clean Energy

April 7, 2010 by Arno Harris
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A few weeks ago I flagged a story in the Christian Science Monitor titled "Stimulus Funds for Clean Energy Largely Unspent" because I thought it deserved a clarifying 'blog post. The story repeats several big misunderstandings about the status of renewable energy programs included in the American Recovery... [read more]

What Happens When the Stimulus Ends?

February 27, 2010 by Terrence Murray
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As we near the end of the first quarter of 2010, the renewable energy industry is asking “what next?” Indeed, as appetite (and dependence) by renewable energy companies for federal money keeps growing, many of the stimulus’ key provisions, including the very popular direct cash grant program, are slated to end at the end of the... [read more]

Faith-based economics

February 3, 2010 by Marc Gunther
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Did the stimulus package jump-start the economy? Will climate regulation create jobs? Are clean energy subsidies an efficient way to curb pollution? Is health-care spending worth it? And how worried, really, should we be about budget deficits? Those are questions for economists. With those issues in the news, economists are in demand.... [read more]

GE and Washington: Too cozy?

January 31, 2010 by Marc Gunther
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Since 2004, when I wrote a story for FORTUNE called Money and Morals at GE, I have been an admirer of General Electric and its CEO, Jeff Immelt. My admiration deepened when GE unveiled EcoMagination, its effort to solve important environmental problems. Immelt and GE also led the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, an alliance of big... [read more]

Walking and chewing gum at the same time*

January 18, 2010 by John Whitehead
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The abstract for "green stimulus," economic recovery, and long-term sustainable development (by Jon Strand and Michael Toman): This paper discusses short-run and long-run effects of"green stimulus" efforts, and compares these effects with"non-green" fiscal stimuli. Green stimulus is defined here as short-run fiscal stimuli that also... [read more]

Green Skeptic on Job Creation: FoxBusiness

January 15, 2010 by Scott Edward Anderson
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I was on FoxBusiness yesterday, talking with Stuart Varney about the green jobs number that has come out from the Obama administration. There were three points I wanted to make on the subject: 1.) What qualifies as a green job? What counts? We need a clear definition to determine whether the accounting is accurate and the impact is... [read more]

California's renewable pipeline nearly 70 GW

January 1, 2010 by Big Gav
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Reuters has a report on California's burgeoning pipeline of renewable energy projects - California's renewable pipeline hits nearly 70 GW. Renewable energy projects proposed in California total nearly 70 gigawatts, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said on Tuesday, a large pipeline that could help the state meet its renewable energy goals... [read more]

That's not quite right, is it? (part 1)

December 7, 2009 by John Whitehead
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I agree with this from today's Krugman:...cutting greenhouse gas emissions is affordable as well as essential. Serious studies say that we can achieve sharp reductions in emissions with only a small impact on the economy’s growth. However:Action on climate, if it happens, will take the form of “cap and trade”: businesses won’t be told... [read more]

Paying the Bill for Electric Vehicles

November 18, 2009 by Geoffrey Styles
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Perhaps it's merely a sign of the times, when a billion is the new million and firms in many industries have found it easier to get capital from the government than from bankers, bondholders and shareholders, but the price tag implicit in the recommendations of a new cross-industry group formed to promote electric vehicles is startling... [read more]

The Real Policy Lesson From the Chinese Wind Turbine "Scare"

November 10, 2009 by Yael Borofsky
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Originally posted at the Breakthrough InstituteBy Yael Borofsky and Jesse JenkinsOutcry over a planned Texas wind farm, which will be the first project to import wind turbines from a Chinese manufacturer, has resulted in calls to prevent government stimulus money from funding the project. As Bloomberg reported, in a letter to U.S.... [read more]

Take Advantage of Energy Efficiency Tax Credits Before it's Too Late

November 9, 2009 by Peter Troast
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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act - "the stimulus package" to us common folk - includes a slew of economic incentives for homeowners looking to save money by making their homes more energy efficient.    But the clock is ticking: the 2009 deadline for energy efficiency improvements eligible for the tax credit is... [read more]