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The Tennessee Valley Authority announced that it is resuming new enrollments in its Generation Partners pilot project to encourage renewable energy use across the TVA service territory. Click here for full story
Australian climate change legislative policy is once again in an active state of play. At her initial press conference on 24 June 2010 Prime Minister Gillard announced that, if her government is returned at the next election, she would vigorously pursue an ‘argument for change’. Click here for full story
Australian companies are becoming concerned about the impact of potential alternatives to the Federal Government’s CPR Scheme, according to a new survey. Click here for full story
Former Australian of the Year, Professor Tim Flannery, has told delegates at the Climate Adaptation Futures conference on Queensland's Gold Coast that it is vital a carbon pollution reduction scheme (CPRS) is introduced. Click here for full story
In Australia, the government will begin implementing energy content-based taxation of all fuels, effective July 1 2011, to address the tax disadvantage of domestic Australian ethanol compared to imported ethanol. The Australian Biofuels Association announced June 24 that all Biofuels will be placed into two of the three “energy content bands”. Click here for full story
UK-based fuel cell developer AFC Energy has deployed an alkaline fuel cell system, which is now in operation at Linc Energy’s underground coal gasification (UCG) demonstration facility in Chinchilla, Australia. Click here for full story
One of India's leading power company, in the private sector area, Tata Power said that it is going to acquire substantial assets in the wind power sector.
The power company said that it is going to acquire 20.95 MW of operating assets in the wind power sector. These are situated in Maharashtra and the company from which it is going to takeover is Niskalp Energy.Click here for full story
Canada’s Enbridge will invest $500m (C$525m) in the 250MW Cedar Wind Energy Project in Colorado, which Renewable Energy Systems Americas (RES-Americas) will build under a fixed-price engineering, procurement and construction contract. Financial details of the contract were not released.
Construction of the project, which a US affiliate of Enbridge will own and operate, is scheduled to begin shortly with “substantial completion” expected in late 2011, the company says.Click here for full story
Bob Wigley's Green Investment Bank Commission has delivered a blueprint for how private sector funds can be successfully diverted into funding essential investment, particularly in energy. Click here for full story
Economists must trust predictions from climate scientists and stop tinkering around the edges of the climate change debate, a top federal bureaucrat said last night. Click here for full story
THE federal government has been accused of playing with semantics in telling the G20 it had no fossil fuel subsidies to phase out under an agreement by world leaders last year. Click here for full story
Fostering a clean energy revolution is much easier said than done, particularly in the current environment. Clean energy ETFs may seem like a slam dunk, but there is plenty of risk surrounding this sector at present. Click here for full story
Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN) introduced S. 3464 – dubbed the “Practical Energy and Climate Plan Act” – on June 6, 2010. The bill’s biggest flaw is that it establishes no overall limit or price signal on the carbon pollution that is driving global warming.
AN international conference on the Gold Coast this week will hear Australia will be one of the hardest hit developed countries when climate change starts to bite. Click here for full story
A national recycling scheme for cans and bottles would save the NSW public $168 million a year, according to an independent study using data from a secret federal government report. Click here for full story
Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, Senator Penny Wong, has welcomed the passage of the enhanced Renewable Energy Target and Building Energy Efficiency legislation through the Parliament. Click here for full story
The Energy Networks Association (ENA), as the peak national body for Australia’s energy network businesses, has today welcomed the historic announcement that The Hon Julia Gillard MP has been elected as the first ever female Prime Minister of Australia. ENA also congratulates The Hon Wayne Swan MP on being elected as Deputy Prime Minister. Click here for full story
The project that inspired other states to push for offshore windfarms was the Cape Wind project. The project is the first offshore windfarm with federal approval in North America. It is located off of the coast of Cape Cod.
Another global brand name, Westinghouse, is entering the photovoltaic market, this time with an interesting variation of panel design. Click here for full story
The Alternative Technology Association (ATA), Australia’s leading household sustainability organisation, voiced its strong approval of the passing of the Renewable Energy Target (RET) amendments by the Australian Parliament. Click here for full story
In 2005, a light bulb went off for GE, which pledged to spend $1.5 billion on alternative technology by 2010. Their Ecomagination department eclipsed that goal in 2009 and has recently committed a further $10billion to the cause. Masdar City in Abu Dhabi will be the first to showcase the results. Click here for full story
Portuguese renewable energy company EDP Renovaveis SA ( EDPR.LB) through its U.S. unit Horizon Wind Energy LLC has secured $141 million of institutional equity financing from Wells Fargo Wind Holdings LLC, EDPR said in a regulatory filing Monday. Click here for full story
Converting the contents of dustbins into carbon-neutral biofuel for cars and renewable energy is the kind of 21st century alchemy that tackles several environmental challenges simultaneously. Click here for full story
At the same time on Friday as Trade Minister Simon Crean was signing the deal to export brown coal to Vietnam, Climate Change Minister Penny Wong issued a press release welcoming the passage of the enhanced Renewable Energy Target and Building Energy Efficiency legislation through the Federal Parliament. Click here for full story
Take the tech specs of Porsche’s latest 918 Spyder prototype unveiled at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show. With a silver streamlined body and a convertible overhead, the seats are placed so low between the front and rear wheels that the driver’s bum almost touched the ground. Click here for full story
When it comes to geothermal energy, Australia may not hold the top spot in the utilization of this renewable energy, but the potential is certainly there. Click here for full story
TAX changes that allow accelerated depreciation and a review of the official energy-rating system for commercial buildings remain key demands of the property industry despite new landmark greenhouse legislation. Click here for full story
THE Bendigo Sustainability Group is calling on the federal government to look at a new renewable energy resource for Central Victoria that could be a first for Australia. Click here for full story
Viaspace, Inc. (Otcbb: VSPC) announced Monday that it would be supplying iits proprietary Giant King Grass as a renewable energy crop to German biogas producer RuBa Energie GmbH. The Irvine, Calif.-based company says the test plot marks the first time its Giant King Grass has been planted in Europe. Click here for full story
Just in time for students’ summer vacation, DTE Energy has introduced Renewable EnergyVille on its website. This online village is filled with activities and clever games focused on renewable energy. Click here for full story
Capitalizing on the Gulf oil spill, ethanol makers are launching a bold public relations offensive touting their clean environmental image as they lobby the Obama administration to allow more of the corn-based fuel in American gas tanks. Click here for full story
Abu Dhabi is to co-host with the US a preparatory meeting for the world’s first Clean Energy Ministerial meeting next month as part of a process intended to help accelerate the global transition to clean energy technologies. Click here for full story
Australia’s First Zero-Energy Teaching and Research Building Unveiled, Inhabitat by Bridgette Meinhold, 06/25/10 Griffith University in Australia recently secured funding for a $21 million dollar research facility that will be the country’s first zero-emission and self-powered building driven by solar-hydrogen energy. Click here for full story
The recent economic downturn has not eliminated the global trend of growing environmental awareness amongst consumers. Energy consumers in the B2B sector need to respond to the wishes of their own customers by seeking greener energy supplies. Click here for full story
Australia moved on Tuesday to give clean energy investors greater certainty over investment returns as part of efforts to have a revised renewable energy scheme approved by parliament. Click here for full story
Australian architecture firm Cox Architects has designed the country’s first zero-emission self-powered teaching and research building. Click here for full story
It's hard to argue there is a fuel or energy technology more important to the future economy of United States and maybe the world, than natural gas. There's a lot of it in the U.S., it's cleaner than the two biggest energy sources, coal (for electricity) and oil (for transportation), and it has the potential to at least partially displace both of them. Click here for full story
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