Apple to install 20-MW solar array at NC-based data center

Published on Feb 21 2012 // architecture and design, business, solar energy
Apple to install 20-MW solar array at NC-based data center
Apple will soon install a 20-megawatt solar power facility to offset the energy used by its enormous data center, located in Maiden, North Carolina. When completed, this solar array will be the largest supporting data center operations. The nearest competition is located New Jersey and owned by McGraw-Hill. The...

Clinton signs deal to expand oil drilling in Gulf of Mexico

Published on Feb 20 2012 // Environmental Policy, fossil fuel
Clinton signs deal to expand oil drilling in Gulf of Mexico
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton signed a deal today with Mexico’s foreign minister that will allow the United States and Mexico to work together to drill for oil and gas along their respective borders in the Gulf of Mexico. This fulfills an obligation President Barack Obama made to Mexican president...

EU reports over a million employed in renewable energy in 2011

Published on Feb 18 2012 // business, economy, renewable energy
EU reports over a million employed in renewable energy in 2011
Treehugger reported this week that the European Union now uses renewable energy for 12.4 percent of its total gross energy consumption. This is an 11.5 percent increase from 2009. In a report titled “The State of Renewable Energies in Europe,” the European Union Member States revealed that...

Failed tax credit extension will result in massive wind industry layoffs

Published on Feb 17 2012 // Environmental Policy, wind energy
Failed tax credit extension will result in massive wind industry layoffs
The U.S. wind power industry is reeling after Congress failed to renew a tax credit that provides an income tax credit of 2.2 cents per kilowatt-hour for electricity produced by wind turbines. Proponents of the tax credit extension for wind power tried to “tuck” it into a bill that would...

O’Malley lobbies Senate committee for offshore wind development

Published on Feb 15 2012 // Environmental Policy, wind energy
O’Malley lobbies Senate committee for offshore wind development
Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley was questioned in Annapolis on Tuesday by the Maryland State Senate Finance Committee on the details of his offshore wind energy proposal. The committee will decide whether or the not the governor’s proposal will go on to stand a full vote by the Senate. At the...