By Laurie Guevara-Stone A trip to Varese Ligure, Italy, will bring you face to face with a charming town of pastel-colored houses and a plethora of restaurants serving dishes with organic porcini mushrooms and chestnuts. Stop at the bustling markets and you will see Italians who have traveled from far and wide to purchase the locally […]
Scotland is on the fast track to using 100 percent renewable energy by 2020. The country got 40 percent of its power from renewable sources last year—a 24-percent improvement from 2010. To show just how far behind the U.S. is from that mark, Juan Cole skips over a nation-to-nation comparison in favor of pitting the […]
By Ryan Koronowski The U.S. House of Representatives has already gone on vacation back to their districts and the Senate effectively adjourned for 2013 on Friday, meaning that the one-year extension of the Wind Production Tax Credit (PTC) will expire on Jan. 1, 2014. The PTC is a $0.022 per kilowatt-hour tax credit on the power that new wind […]
U.S. Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus. Photo credit: Center for American Progress Though the head of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee chair says he wants to revamp the nation’s energy tax credits, a draft he presented Wednesday shows his preference to let some expire while consolidating others. There are currently 42 energy tax incentives, including 16 […]
Plenty of additions can add to a home’s market value, and a roof with solar panels is no exception. The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory‘s (LBNL) Electricity Markets and Policy Group released a report with the numbers to prove it, too. According to LBNL, home values can increase by $5,911 for each kilowatt (kW) of solar energy […]
Photo courtesy of Shutterstock As the calendar continues ticking on a vital renewable energy tax credit set to expire in two weeks, 24 U.S. senators sent a letter to the Senate Committee on Finance in hopes of preserving jobs, investments and a path to clean energy. While the renewable energy Production Tax Credit (PTC) and its […]
The largest single order of wind turbines for an onshore energy project is coming to the U.S. Siemens announced today that MidAmerican Energy purchased 448 turbines to be deployed in five different projects in Iowa. Collectively, the turbines have a capacity of 1,050 megawatts (MW). “This represents not only the largest order for onshore wind turbines […]
By Bentham Paulos Renewable electricity records are being broken every day. In early October, Germany hit a 59 percent renewable peak, Colorado utility Xcel Energy peaked at 60 percent wind at the beginning of the year and Spain got its top power supply from wind for three months leading into 2013. But that’s chump change compared with Denmark. According to data from Energinet, […]
A massive coalition of nonprofit organizations, businesses and General Assembly members banded together today for a single cause—pushing the Obama Administration for offshore wind development in the U.S. The 230-plus-member group wrote a letter to the president arguing that he should “redouble” support for offshore wind projects. The group says offshore wind is in line […]
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