West Virginia lowered the bar on renewable energy this week when Governor Earl Ray Tomblin signed into law Tuesday the repeal of its Alternative and Renewable Energy Portfolio, enacted in 2009. In doing so, West Virginia became the first state of the 29 that currently have renewable energy targets to completely eliminate previously passed standards. […]
Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Heising-Simons family announced today the launch of a Clean Energy Initiative that will support state-based solutions to establish an American energy systems that is clean, reliable and affordable. The $48 million initiative will provide grant funding to a broad range of stakeholders with the goal of creating a stronger, cleaner energy system that […]
All those senators currently debating in Washington D.C., calling the Keystone XL pipeline approval bill an urgent “jobs creation bill,” are looking for jobs in all the wrong places. Solar installation alone added more jobs in 2014 than both the oil and natural gas sectors—jobs that can’t be outsourced. Photo credit: The Solar Project They […]
When Ohio Governor John Kasich signed SB 310, a two-year freeze of the state’s renewable energy and energy efficiency standards, last June, he was leading the way—backwards. Ohio became the first state to roll back standards that were already in place, passed in 2008 in an uncontroversial unanimous bipartisan vote. Those standards—which required that, by […]
President Obama’s recent announcement that he wants to begin normalizing relations with Cuba generated news around the world. But the Cuban province of Granma may soon be making headlines for another reason: its embrace of renewable energy. Cuba wants to generate 24 percent of its energy from renewables by 2030 with the Granma province as […]
Thom Hartmann exposes the secret dirty war to stop solar power on his Screwed News last week. Brendan Fisher, general counsel for Center for Media and Democracy, joins Hartmann to discuss the war waged by ALEC, the Koch brothers and Walmart’s Walton family trying to prevent Americans from going solar. Watch here as Hartmann and Fisher answer why this war is being waged and […]
2014 was an exciting year for renewable energy. After a three-year slump in renewable energy finance, investment grew last year, with records level seen for the amount spent on wind farms, as well the construction of both new wind and solar capacity. Last month, wind turbines alone provided around 1,279 megawatt-hours (MWh) of electricity to […]
Tea Party members and environmentalists typically make strange bedfellows. But in Florida those groups are coming together over the idea that small-scale, distributed solar energy should be not only allowed but encouraged—and that big utility companies should not stand in their way. Florida liberals and conservatives agree that solar panel owners should be allowed to sell electricity […]
Bonaire (pop. 14,500), a small island off the coast of Venezuela, is famous for its beautiful marine reefs, which are visited by 70,000 tourists every year. What many of the tourists don’t realize is that the majority of the electricity powering their needs comes from renewable energy. Yet for the residents of Bonaire, the switch […]
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