I could hear a collective moan from progressives when they saw that President Obama is proposing a 13 percent cut in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) budget to $8.97 billion. The immediate conclusion they might have drawn is that …
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Recently many states have chosen to deregulate their energy markets. This means that homeowners and consumers can choose who generates the power that they use. This is done in part to lower utility prices and to let competition drive the …
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I often refer to Moore’s Law, which posits that the effectiveness of technology increases exponentially over time. I talk cavalierly about how this “law” (named for Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, which originally applied to the number of transistors that could …
Moore’s Law — Does It Apply To Renewable Energy? Read More »
China invested US$34.6 billion in clean energy projects during 2009 – almost double US investments in the same period. US commentators view China as the next solar powerhouse or not serious about renewables at all. In reality it is a lot more complicated.
$3.7 billion was invested into renewable energy and cleantech companies in 2010, says Thomson Reuters data for National Venture Capital Association & PricewaterhouseCoopers. The good news is that venture capital investments rose 76% from 2009, which was a dark year …
[The Vector] Venture Capital Funding for CleanTech Up in 2010 Read More »
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 …
[The Vector] Expected Impact of Energy Provision Extensions: What Next? (Continued) Read More »
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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