Renewable Energy

Largest Solar Array for Department of Defense Coming to Arizona Army Base

Largest Solar Array for Department of Defense Coming to Arizona Army Base

A U.S. Army base near the Mexican border will soon be home to the U.S. Department of Defense’s largest solar array on a military installation. The U.S. Army announced Monday that Fort Huachuca, in Southeast Arizona’s Cochise County, on April 25 will break ground on a solar array with panels that collectively will provide one quarter […]

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    World’s Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund to Invest in Clean Energy

    World’s Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund to Invest in Clean Energy

    How are investors, businesses and governments doing on the road to the Clean Trillion goal of $1 trillion per year invested in clean energy? Here are my thoughts on the progress and challenges we’ve seen recently. Progress Norway announced in March that it would require its $840 billion sovereign wealth fund (the largest in the world) to […]

    How 76 State Representatives Crushed an ALEC-Funded Attack on Renewables

    How 76 State Representatives Crushed an ALEC-Funded Attack on Renewables

    Good news from America’s heartland: A bipartisan coalition in the Kansas House stood with Kansans this week in support of clean and renewable energy, turning back yet another attempt to repeal the state Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) aimed at fostering homegrown resources like wind and solar power. Specifically, 76 members of the Kansas House of Representatives defeated a […]

    The Turbine That Could Transform Wind Energy by Flying the Highest

    The Turbine That Could Transform Wind Energy by Flying the Highest

    At first glance, you might mistake the potential future of wind energy as a blimp—the type of added effect perfect for flying over a carnival or football game. Instead, the BAT—Buoyant Airborne Turbine—is a wind turbine inside of an inflatable, helium shell capable rising 1,000 feet above ground. Altaeros Energies, a firm housed at small business […]

    Why Investing in Aging Coal Plants is a Losing Bet

    Why Investing in Aging Coal Plants is a Losing Bet

    This entry is the first of a two-part follow up to the blog Long wrote last fall. This first entry focuses on the national story, the next entry will focus on coal in the west. Across the U.S., economics are increasingly favoring investment in renewable energy at the expense of dirty coal energy. As the price of solar […]

    144 Bipartisan Congress Members Request Wind Tax Credit Renewals

    144 Bipartisan Congress Members Request Wind Tax Credit Renewals

    There are 80,000 people in the U.S. who are employed in the wind energy industry—an industry that has secured $105 billion in investments since 2005. At the same time, the cost to deploy the energy has dropped by 43 percent in four years and wind has risen to become the fifth-largest power source in the U.S. […]

    How Wind Energy Can Conserve Europe’s Water and Save Billions

    How Wind Energy Can Conserve Europe’s Water and Save Billions

    It’s no secret that multiple countries within the European Union have a strong track record in onshore and offshore wind energy. However, the latest report from the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) frames the advances of wind energy around an issue that won’t disappear anytime soon—water security. EWEA’s Saving Water With Wind Energy begins with statistics […]

    ALEC-Affiliated Legislator Leads Charge to Repeal Renewable Energy Standard

    ALEC-Affiliated Legislator Leads Charge to Repeal Renewable Energy Standard

    Here in the Midwest we are seeing the perennial first signs of Spring: a few early buds are appearing on the magnolia trees, rivers and lakes are starting to thaw, and of course, ALEC and the Koch brothers are pushing yet another pointless and harmful attack on Kansas’s wildly successful Renewable Energy Standard. This year’s bill, Senate Bill 433, is sponsored by the Kansas Senate’s Committee […]

    How California Will Use Renewables to Replace Massive Nuclear Plant

    How California Will Use Renewables to Replace Massive Nuclear Plant

    By Sierra Martinez California took another major and symbolic step this month with its decision to rely significantly on energy efficiency and other clean energy resources to help replace electricity once generated by the San Onofre Nuclear Generation Station (SONGS) serving San Diego and the greater Los Angeles area. The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) made official […]