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An Australian climate change research group says the Hunter Valley is well placed to manufacture base-load solar thermal power.
Click here for full storyWhile fossil fuel companies in the U.S. are busily wrecking vast sections of the country’s natural heritage, a new energy resource has been quietly emerging from an unlikely source: parking lots. More parking lots are being converted into solar energy farms that create clean, renewable power while also creating more green jobs in solar cell manufacturing, installation, and sales.
Click here for full storyThe US Department of Energy has offered a $17 million conditional loan guarantee to support a 20-megawatt energy storage project in New York State.
Click here for full storyIn Spain, even the rising industry of renewable energy is not immune to the realities of the country’s sizable debt and broader economic woes. Just last month, the Spanish government slashed subsidies for any new wind or solar thermal projects in the country.
Click here for full storyMy NRDC colleague, Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, writes here: "What is going on with Big Oil this year? The Gulf. Spills in Minnesota and Salt Lake City. And now, very bad news from Michigan, where crews are cleaning up after yet another major oil infrastructure failure.
Click here for full storyAccording to the data, during the year 2008 and 2009 the total electric power produced from renewable energy sources increased by 20% from 5.6% to 6.7%. The wind energy has made a record growth of 31% during the period and currently represents nearly 2.5% of the total electric power produced during the period in the UK.
Click here for full storyDespite repeated pledges to phase out fossil fuel subsidies and criticism from some quarters that UK government support for renewable energy technologies is too generous, global subsidies provided to renewable energy and biofuels are dwarfed by those enjoyed by the fossil fuel industry.
Click here for full storyEnergy from wood, corn and plants has the potential to replace as much as a fifth of Germany’s oil consumption within a decade, according to a study by a renewable energy lobby group.
Click here for full storyChina's energy use has more than doubled over the last decade to overtake the United States as the word's biggest user, according to preliminary data from the International Energy Agency. As the data from the IEA shows, China has gone from using 1,107 million tons of oil equivalent (Mtoe) in 2000, to 2,131 Mtoe in 2008 and is estimated to have consumed 2,265 Mtoe in 2009.
Click here for full storyOcean Power Technologies, Inc. has signed a groundbreaking Settlement Agreement with 11 federal and state agencies and three non-governmental stakeholders for its utility-scale wave power project at Reedsport, Oregon. This agreement represents a major step towards the grant of the first license ever issued by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for a commercial-scale wave power project in the US.
Click here for full storyIncreasingly affluent and energy-hungry nation reflects the dramatic increase in the wattage of China's economy.
Click here for full storyUNCERTAINTY on carbon policy has resulted in debt held against one of the country's most emissions-intensive power stations, Loy Yang B in Victoria, being downgraded to one step above junk status.
Click here for full storyTHE climate change morass, with the two major political parties refusing to tackle the issue, will hurt business and the economy. And business is beginning to demand more than an ad hoc approach that will lead to market failures.
Click here for full storyThe time has come for society to face up to the true cost of our energy consumption, says Barry Brook. By 2030, nuclear may be leading the march.
Click here for full storyAustralian businesses spent $75.4 billion on energy during 2008-09, according to figures released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
Click here for full storyThe Alternative Technology Association (ATA) applauded the Victorian Government’s release of its Climate Change White Paper. “This White Paper sets a new climate change policy and action benchmark for Governments in this country,” said the ATA’s Chief Executive Officer Ian Porter.
Click here for full storyLEADERS at the Pacific Islands Forum will work to make the most of a windfall expected from a $US100 billion ($110 billion) ''climate aid'' fund agreed at climate change talks in Copenhagen.
Click here for full storyCouncils in the UK should do "absolutely nothing" to tackle climate change unless a stringent global deal on reducing carbon emissions is reached through the United Nations, which includes developing as well as developed countries – according to Lord Lawson, writes Dean Carroll.
Click here for full storySwedish Environment Minister lays out his county's approach to climate change negotiations and argues a collaborative approach would put pressure on US and China to agree to a legally binding global climate agreement.
Click here for full storySiemens will help a Florida power generator capture the carbon dioxide emissions from a coal-fired power plant on Tampa Bay. The pilot test seeks to demonstrate Siemen's Postcap technology, which absorbs CO2 with an amino acid salt formulation.
Click here for full storyA new Australian green investment fund was launched yesterday, amid claims it is the first climate-change advocacy fund in the world. Green funds typically work by investing only in renewable energies or companies which maintain high ethical standards with regard to environmental issues, but the joint venture between Australian Ethical Investments and the Climate Institute will take a different approach.
Click here for full storyA HIGH-TECH company has called for a less draconian, more flexible approach to ''greening'' old buildings to encourage small business to spend money on refurbishments.
Click here for full storyConcerted political and regulatory support by governments around the world, and the financial incentives that they provide for innovation, are seen as crucial factors in the continuing growth of the cleantech sector.
Click here for full storyPrivate equity firms want to invest in the cleantech sector but are holding back because a lack of regulatory control and government financial incentives makes it too risky, according to research released Friday.
Click here for full storyTHE Australian Greens will use their likely Senate power to urge the government to reconsider a high-speed rail link along Australia's east coast, with a new poll showing 74 per cent of people favour the idea.
Click here for full storyLI Ka-Shing, Asia's richest man, has bought EDF's British electricity network business for £5.8bn in a deal that will see its £500m pension deficit for UK workers reduced by a quarter.
Click here for full storyAt a time when the state is reeling under power shortage and looking to strengthen renewable energy sources, 1527.6 MW of renewable energy projects have been cancelled.
Click here for full storyGlobal subsidies for fossil fuels dwarf support given to renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power and biofuels, Bloomberg New Energy Finance said.
Click here for full storyThe Statement delivered by Chris Huhne in the House of Commons reconfirmed the Government's long-term commitment to expanding renewable energy, with the announcement of a Renewables Delivery Plan.
Click here for full storyAfter supposedly abandoning the much-touted cap-and-trade scheme due to a lack of support, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid introduced a scaled-back $15 billion energy bill that supporters hope will muster enough votes. But it’s already coming under attack from all angles, and critics are warning that the carbon regime could still be in the cards.
Click here for full storyThe U.S. needs to rethink its policies on using nuclear energy, says NextEra Energy Chief Executive Lew Hay
Click here for full storyAs solar and wind energy are moving from niche businesses to big global industries, companies around the world could realize big rewards if they became leaders.
Click here for full storyThree ''exceptional'' heatwaves across Australia in 2009 helped make it the nation's second hottest year on record and contributed to a new worldwide report which has found global warming is for real and has not ''stopped'', as some sceptics have suggested.
Click here for full storyAustralia needs to do more on climate change and have an adequate mining tax, says a Nobel Prize-winning economist.
Click here for full storyLABOR'S push to cut greenhouse gas emissions through the use of energy efficiency schemes was yesterday dealt another blow when building industry heavyweights discredited the star ratings being applied to hundreds of thousands of homes.
Click here for full storyThe Spanish government and solar- power producers almost reached an agreement on reducing subsidies to the industry before officials suspended talks to assess savings from a clampdown on fraud, according to a memo from industry representatives at the meeting.
Click here for full storyGlobal subsidies for fossil fuels dwarf support given to renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power and biofuels, Bloomberg New Energy Finance said.
Click here for full storyJohn F. Kennedy, in the wake of the Bay of Pigs fiasco, once said that "victory has a thousand fathers, but failure is an orphan." Not so climate change legislation, which has now failed in both the US Congress and the Australian Senate.
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