Question: What is the world’s total energy consumption, in Watts? Answer: Can be found HERE. Relevance: 80% of the Earth’s energy (the total you see on the Answers page) is generated by burning hydrocarbons – a process that’s clearly unsustainable. …
(Continued from earlier…) To date, 1,179 solar projects with total investments of over $1.3 billion in 42 states have been built with support from this program. In 2009, the U.S. installed about 435 megawatts of solar. That doubled to about 1,000 …
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As the residential solar market matures in the Southern US, investors should be asking themselves which solar outfits are on the verge of growing into a project developer, capable of delivering big systems to the utilitie
What can the U.S. renewable energy world expect in 2011? As everyone knows, President Obama signed the bill at the end of 2010 extending a number of energy provisions through 2011, including the U.S. Tax Grant Program (TGP) 1603 – …
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I try to stay up on the more exciting goings on in power transmission because of its obvious relationship to the penetration of clean energy generally. Less than 2% of our current grid-mix in the US is renewables at this …
Looking to future career and job training in green technology, a new Associate of Arts degree starts this spring in an area reinventing itself for the future – Toledo. “Green technology is becoming more and more important in our energy-driven society. …
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Abengoa Solar announced recently that it has finalized $1.45 billion in financing to build the world’s largest parabolic trough concentrating solar power plant. Called Solana, the new project will be located about 70 miles southwest of Phoenix, Arizona. Abengoa signed …
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A big part of the burgeoning cleantech market is education, as millions of people begin to ponder the process of bringing themselves up to speed on the basics of wind turbines, solar panels, EV charging infrastructure, etc. Each week I …
When we discuss global warming here, we (predictably) get a range of reactions, including the comments of the deniers, like this one: NASA has stated that ALL the planets in our solar system are heating up. I would say that …
