Outlook for US Offshore Wind Projects: Favorable with High Gusts
The United States is viewed as one of the next big markets for offshore wind generation. Now that the Cape Wind project is considered more likely than not to proceed and the favorable political climate towards renewables, it is not a question of whether U.S. offshore wind farms will get built but how many.
New EPA Rule Will Require Use of Best Technologies to Reduce Greenhouse Gases
LOS ANGELES– U.S. EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson announced today in a keynote address at the California Governor’s Global Climate...
Let’s launch the ‘next revolution’
As global leaders convene in New York City for UN climate change talks and the Clinton Global Initiative, the world...
New Energy Frontiers Expand Global Connections
WASHINGTON: One cannot open a newspaper without reading the word globalization, yet vast areas of the world are left out...
Largest Solar Tower Plant Begins Operation
Seville, 23 September 2009 – Their Majesties, Don Juan Carlos and Doña Sofía, today presided over the inauguration of Abengoa’s...
Impacts of Climate Change Coming Faster and Sooner
The pace and scale of climate change may now be outstripping even the most sobering predictions of the last report of the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC). An analysis of the very latest, peer-reviewed science indicates that many predictions at the upper end of the IPCC's forecasts are becoming ever more likely.
‘Climate Smart’ World Within Reach, says World Bank
WASHINGTON, September 15, 2009 – Developing countries can shift to lower-carbon paths while promoting development and reducing poverty, but this...
Schneider Electric creates a €3 million socially responsible venture capital fund
Schneider Electric announces the creation of a global socially responsible venture capital fund called Schneider Electric Energy Access, with an...
World’s First Floating Wind Turbine Swtiches On
Written by Philip Proefrock on 09/21/09 The energy company Statoil has begun operation of the first full-size Hywind floating wind...
Large Scale C02 Sequestration Trial Begins at WV Coal Plant
NEW HAVEN, W.Va. — Poking out of the ground near the smokestacks of the Mountaineer power plant here are two...