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Florida call for truly clean, renewable, energy jobs

Florida Mayor Calls for State to Foster Renewable Energy Jobs, Clean Energy Footprints, 1 April 2010, Tom Larson, Renewable energy expansion can drive Florida jobs growth–we just need to post our “Open for Business” sign. Orange County, Florida (home of Orlando), is inviting cleantech investments, in engineering, manufacturing and development of innovators by entrepreneurs and at our centers of higher education. This is the Sunshine State: Continue reading →

April 2, 2010 Posted by | renewable, USA | , , , , | Leave a comment

China leads, USA way behind, in renewable energy policy

China Leads G-20 Nations In Renewable Energy Finance And Investment Solar Industry:25 March 2010 For the first time, China led the U.S. and other G-20 members in 2009 clean energy investments and finance, according to a new study by The Pew Charitable Trusts. Last year, China invested $34.6 billion in the clean energy economy – nearly double the U.S.’ total of $18.6 billion.

Over the last five years, the U.S. also trailed five G-20 members (Turkey, Brazil, China, the U.K. and Italy) in the rate of clean energy investment growth. Continue reading →

March 26, 2010 Posted by | China, climate change, renewable | , , , | Leave a comment

China leaping ahead in renewable energy

China – A Powerhouse in Renewable Energy, Renewable Energy World, March 21, 2010, “China missed the first industrial revolution, missed the computer revolution, and the biology revolution – they want to be a leader in the green revolution.” And indeed, China is now the third largest producer in the wind power market and one of the fastest-growing in domestic wind installations. For the fourth consecutive year, China has more than doubled its wind installations.

And offshore wind, a technology with a great deal of sex appeal, is yet another story. While China installed its first major offshore wind farm near Shanghai and is 9th in the world as far as total offshore capacity, the U.S. is not even on the list.

China is also the world leader in PV manufacturing and production –

March 22, 2010 Posted by | China, climate change, renewable | , , , | Leave a comment

Colorado becoming a leader in renewable energy jobs

Colorado is the new energy frontier, Michael Bowman, THE HUFFINGTON POST, 12 March 2010, Colorado is emerging as an international player in the next great technological and industrial revolution. The impending state renewables bill is aggressive, job-creating, and could result in as many as 100,000 homes being equipped with solar panels, small wind turbines, or other clean energy sources…. Continue reading →

March 13, 2010 Posted by | renewable, USA | , , , | Leave a comment

Don’t try to mix renewable energy and nuclear power

.New nuclear projects will take massive amounts of capital and years to ramp up, and only a few will get built. Renewable projects are relatively smaller and cheaper to build and can be constructed quickly, which means jobs can be created more quickly.

You got your uranium in my biomass! Why renewable policies and nuclear don’t mix, Renewable Energy World, Jennifer Zajac, 12 March 2010“…….There was a series of commercials in the 1980s for Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups in which one actor would exclaim, “Hey, you got chocolate in my peanut butter!” and the other actor would respond, “You got peanut butter on my chocolate!” Then an announcer would say, “Two great tastes that taste great together!”Today, lawmakers at the state and federal level are mixing renewable energy policies with nuclear energy. They shouldn’t, because unlike chocolate and peanut butter, biomass and uranium do not go great together….. Continue reading →

March 13, 2010 Posted by | 2 WORLD, renewable | , , , | Leave a comment

Renewable energy – both practicable and popular


The study was released just days after a new poll from Elon University in Elon, N.C. found overwhelming public support in North Carolina for developing the state’s renewable energy capacity. Nearly 80% of the poll’s respondents said they favor new wind energy facilities in the mountains or on the coast, while more than 83% favor construction of solar facilities.

Challenging conventional wisdom on renewable energy’s limits, FACING SOUTH, 9 March 2010, “……groundbreaking study out of North Carolina … suggests that backup generation requirements would be modest for a system based largely on solar and wind power, combined with efficiency, hydroelectric power, and other renewable sources like landfill gas. Continue reading →

March 9, 2010 Posted by | renewable, USA | , , , | Leave a comment

Solar energy set to race ahead in Colorado

Clear Skies Ahead For Colorado Clean Energy Get Solar, by Margaret Collins in Sunday, March 7th 2010 Colorado’s commitment to clean energy may soon be second only to California’s. Late on Friday, the Colorado Senate passed a bill that would increase the state’s renewable portfolio standard (RPS) to 30 percent by 2020– Continue reading →

March 8, 2010 Posted by | renewable, USA | , , , | Leave a comment

Fossil fuel industries move to block renewable energy sources

Fossil Fuel Producers Ramps Up Fight Against Alternative Energy Sources  by: Oilprice.com March 04, 2010
A fight brewing over the allocation of costs for transmission lines to connect wind and solar power plants to end users is the latest sign that fossil-fuel electricity producers are stepping up the fight against renewable energy sources. Continue reading →

March 5, 2010 Posted by | renewable | , , | Leave a comment

Solar Energy prospects looking up in India

Budget 2010 puts money where mouth is for Solar Energy, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, By Ameet Shah and Sourabh Sen, 4 March 2010,

The 2010-11 budget is great news for renewable energy, and in particular solar energy, in India. In November of last year, the Government of India took a major stride forward in driving sustainable development with the announcement of the National Solar Mission targeting 20,000MW of installed solar power by 2022. But the fact that they’ve now included it in the budget is a critical step.

While the NSM set the vision for solar in India, the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission’s tariff order laid out the details. These guidelines further strengthened the case for investing in the Indian solar sector by setting preferential feed-in-tariffs and declaring long term (25 year) power purchase agreements…http://blogs.wsj.com/india-chief-mentor/2010/03/04/budget-2010-puts-money-where-mouth-is-for-solar-energy/

March 5, 2010 Posted by | climate change, India, renewable | , , | Leave a comment

Potential for 100% U.S. electricity from wind power

U.S. Wind Energy Potential Someday Could Power Entire Country  EarthTechling, by Susan DeFreitas, February 23rd, 2010 “…..the US has the potential to produce a whole lot of juice using nothing but turbines–enough, in fact, to power the entire country on an annual basis.  But over 12 times that much energy?? Those are the new numbers, according to a new study released by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Continue reading →

February 24, 2010 Posted by | climate change, renewable, USA | , | Leave a comment

Renewable energy gaining influence in U.S. Congress

. the idea of a national energy standard is growing in popularity. Most of the populace has accepted clean energy as a definite part of our future, and players in Congress are beginning to respond

Renewable Energy Industry Flexes its Muscles CalFinder 24 Feb 2010, As a year expected to be a booming one for renewable energy closes out its second month, the industry is looking to iron out the details that will ensure 2010 is a year to remember. Continue reading →

February 24, 2010 Posted by | climate change, renewable, USA | , , , | Leave a comment

Electricity for Australia 100% from renewables?

Australia Group Rolls Out Plan for 100% Renewable Energy by 2020’There Are No Technological Impediments’ solve climate, by Stacy Feldman – Feb 22nd, 2010
A report to be released in the first half of this year finds that Australia can use solar and wind power to produce 100 percent of its electricity in 10 years using technologies that are available now. Continue reading →

February 23, 2010 Posted by | renewable | , , , | Leave a comment

Google can now boost affordable renewable energy

it seems that Google is only immediately seeking the right to exercise more control over electricity pricing to more effectively gain access to affordable renewable energy………The company founders invested in the electric car manufacturer Tesla, and Eric Schmidt has even presented a comprehensive plan to the U.S. government showing exactly how the country could quickly change to deriving all of it’s energy from renewable sources.

Google can now buy and sell bulk energy – TECH.BLORGE.com

February 21, 2010

February 22, 2010 Posted by | 2 WORLD, climate change, renewable | , , , | Leave a comment

China’s renewable energy future coming fast

…wind power could meet all China’s electricity demand by 2030..

Green energy for China  environmentalresearchweb 20 Jan 2010 “…..China is relying heavily on coal but is also turning increasingly to non-fossil energy sources. Its nuclear programme often gets the headlines, but in 2008 China had as much wind capacity in place as it had nuclear capacity……….wind has now more than doubled- Continue reading →

February 22, 2010 Posted by | China, climate change, renewable | , , , , | Leave a comment

The coming revolution – decentralised renewable energy

Today’s younger generation is growing up on the Internet and collaborating in distributed global social spaces. Why shouldn’t they also be empowered to generate and share their own renewable energy on a distributed continental intergrid?Just as the distributed information and communications revolution created millions of jobs, the distributed renewable energy revolution will follow suit.

‘Empathic Civilization’: Jeremy Rifkin 17 Feb 2010 Where The Jobs Are Today, the information and communications technologies that gave rise to the Internet are being used to reconfigure the world’s business models and power grids, enabling millions of people to collect renewable energy and produce their own electricity in their homes, offices, retail stores, factories, and technology parks and share it peer-to-peer across smart grids, just as they now produce and share their own information in cyberspace. This is a Third Industrial Revolution and will create millions of new jobs. Continue reading →

February 18, 2010 Posted by | climate change, decentralised | , , , | Leave a comment

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