Green Power
Hans-Josef Fell, Father of the Feed-in Tariff
Submitted by staff on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 06:00
ShareThisI dropped by the Bundestag office of Germany’s Green MP Hans-Josef Fell the other day. Fell is a fascinating character and is one of the figures hailed as “the father of the feed-in tariff (FiT)” — Germany’s law that guarantees private producers of renewable energy a fixed, higher-than-market rate for their e
Winners and Losers in the Renewable Energy Race
Submitted by staff on Thu, 05/10/2012 - 08:23
ShareThisAccording to a recent Pew Charitable Trust report entitled, “Who's Winning the Clean Energy Race,” the United States overtook China in green energy investments during 2011 after lagging behind for the previous two years.
When you add up asset finance, public markets, venture capital, and small distributed investments together, we
Exxon's Big Bet on Shale Gas Won't Pay Off if Clean Energy Scales
Submitted by Earth News on Wed, 05/02/2012 - 09:40
ShareThisFor several years now, we’ve been making the case that the clean energy industry has to dramatically scale its advocacy investment to meet an aggressive disinformation campaign trained against it by the fossil lobby. We’ve found increasing receptiveness to that message, but we still run into people who think we’ve got tin foil on
Why "Passive Activities" May Be Clean Energy's Biggest Hurdle
Submitted by staff on Wed, 04/25/2012 - 06:00
ShareThisIf you care about the future of the American renewable energy industry, you need to learn what the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) calls “passive activities.” Because these important rules mean that as long as the U.S. relies on the tax code to provide renewable energy incentives, renewable energy can only grow as fast as Wall
Another Great Example of (Non-Solar) Guerrilla Marketing
Submitted by staff on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 03:30
ShareThisI love finding guerrilla marketing examples on YouTube. Unfortunately, I rarely find ones that are related to solar. Bummer. Nevertheless, it’s always great to get inspired, and below is a wonderful model that you might be able to adapt…if you’re willing to push that button.
Watch this video first, and then we’ll discuss
Rural Africa Looks Beyond the Grid
Submitted by staff on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 07:00
ShareThisIn picking South Africa for last year's meet-up, the COP-17 climate change talks prompted some inevitable grumbles. Why was the global climate change industry holding its jamboree in a country that, despite its commitment to renewables, pumps out so much CO2?
Sponsor PennWell's Wall of Honor To Recognize Military Service Personnel
Submitted by staff on Mon, 04/09/2012 - 12:30
ShareThisExhibitors and attendees at PennWell's 2012 events in the U.S. can become sponsors of the Wall of Honor.
Chile's Uncertain Renewable Energy Future
Submitted by staff on Mon, 04/09/2012 - 06:00
ShareThisIn May 2011 Carlos Slim, the Mexican business magnate, predicted that Chile will be the first Latin American nation to attain the status of a developed country. Chile's GDP per capita of US$15,400 in 2010 puts it far ahead of most of its neighbours and with economic growth for 2011 slated at 6.5 percent, the country would appear to be well on course to achieve Slim's forecast.
Trade-in the 20th Century Electric Grid, Don't Trade-off Local Energy
Submitted by staff on Thu, 04/05/2012 - 06:00
ShareThisIn a New York Times Sunday Review piece last month — Drawing the Line at Power Lines — Elisabeth Rosenthal suggested that our desire for clean energy will require significant tradeoffs:
There are pipelines, trains, trucks and high-voltage transmission lines. None of them are pretty, and all have environmental drawbac
Top Six Reasons We Need a Better Definition of Clean Energy
Submitted by staff on Mon, 03/26/2012 - 13:49
ShareThisUnited States Senator Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Bingaman (D-NM) has just introduced his clean energy standard legislation, and yes, it has every energy source in it, except energy efficiency. Can a clean energy standard include all energy sources - and should it?
