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Clean-Energy Finance to Beat Beltway Blues
As the country looks for new sources of clean energy finance while Congress remains paralyzed, we might have missed the most obvious funders that have been right under our noses for years.
Read MoreLong Island Solar Farm – How Public/Private/Federal Partnerships Can Make Big Things Happen
In early 2012, the Long Island Solar Farm, located in Upton, NY on Long Island, was given the Renewable Energy World’s “Excellence in Renewable Energy – Reader’s Choice Award.”
Read MoreThe Growing Pains of Small Wind: Part II
2011 was a tough year for small wind incentive programs. Over the past 12 months, California, Oregon, New Jersey, Wisconsin, and Minnesota all experienced some kind of suspension or significant reduction of their incentives for wind turbines.
Read MoreFunding Growth: State Clean Energy Funds Can Help Invent the Future
These are tough times for the dream of clean energy and green jobs.
Read MoreThe Growing Pains of Distributed Wind
The small and mid-scale wind industry is in a unique place in its development: it’s past the stage of an emerging market, but not-yet-fully fledged. And as many states have been discovering, this phase of the industry is full of growing pains.
Read MoreClean Energy Scale Up: Do It Like We Did Bridges and Roads
How can the world finance a massive scale up of clean energy technologies?
Read MoreEnergy Innovation – All the Angles
On November 17th, several groups hosted an important conference on energy innovation in Washington, DC.
Read MorePower Outages and Natural Disasters: Which Ones are Avoidable?
Another storm and millions lose power. It’s a familiar story, in this era of more severe and unusual weather events.
Read MoreState Support for Clean Energy Jobs: A Way to Avoid Congressional Gridlock and Unlock the Job Creation Engine
Obama should look to states for clean energy jobs as a way to avoid Congressional gridlock and controversies, and unlock the job creation engine at the local level.
Read MoreSolyndra, Solar Panels and Supersonic Planes: What’s the Difference if One Fails?
Recently, the US government lost a few hundred million dollars on a new investment in a failed technology. But no one seemed to notice.
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