Impressive numbers from the wind industry’s record-breaking 2012 continued to come out this week with the news that American wind power generation shot up 17 percent last year, producing more than 10 percent of the electricity in nine states, up from the five that hit double digits in 2011.
Those...
Voluntary emission reductions (VERs) focus on sustainability rather than just carbon reduction and allow renewables projects to produce truly game-changing results. So says Tom Morton of ClimateCare, a developer and marketer of this type of offset internationally. ‘It’s important to intervene...
Britain will offer renewable energy developers contracts for the power they generate ahead of electricity market reforms due to go into force next year to avoid delays that may threaten the U.K.’s low-carbon ambitions.
The government will provide so-called investment contracts to successful applicants...
A bipartisan group of US Senators, led by Michael Bennet (D-CO) and Jerry Moran (R-KS), have sent an open letter to the US Treasury and IRS asking them to speed up their clarification of new language in the renewable energy production tax credit (PTC).
Other US Senators signing the letter include:...
Brazil’s requirement that wind turbine suppliers buy locally is increasing costs for providers from Vestas Wind Systems A/S to Suzlon Energy Ltd., who say the rule will probably drive away some companies.
Turbine makers must buy or make all of their main parts domestically for buyers of the equipment...
Could the conservative heartland sate of Iowa breach the dam holding back feed-in tariffs for renewable energy in the US when self-styled “progressive” states such as California continue to dawdle? That is the possible implication of a vote by the Agriculture Committee of Iowa’s state...
Japan’s wind power industry will see a boom in installations similar to an increase in solar capacity in the nation since last year, a lawyer advising domestic and foreign investors said.
Solar and wind have the best chances to expand in Japan’s clean energy market after the government increased...
Surrounded by countries with significant hydrocarbon stores, Armenia’s own fossil fuel reserves are limited to a small number of lignite or brown coal mines. Some oil reserves exist, but they are too deep to be economically viable. As a result, electricity generation depends on imported nuclear...
Large-scale deployment of renewable energies has so far been concentrated in Europe and in the U.S., but that is changing. Take wind energy, solar PV and CSP (Concentrated Solar Power), for instance: 44 percent, 35 percent and 23 percent, respectively, of new capacity for the next five years will be...
Clean Edge’s Annual Trends Report Finds Increased Deployment, But Global Market Value Increases Only Slightly, Up 1 Percent, to $249 Billion
PORTLAND, Ore. & OAKLAND, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Although 2012 proved to be an unsettling and difficult year for clean energy, the fundamental...
