Activist-turned-entrepreneur Paul Fenn's effort to bring affordable sustainable energy to California could be revolutionary -- and electricity giant PG&E isn't happy about it at all.READ»
Hydropower is one of the least sexy forms of renewable energy. It doesn't involve flashy silicon panels, massive turbines spinning amidst Midwestern cornfields, or heat stored beneath the Earth's crust. But hydropower, or power ...READ»
I have spent most of this month researching and writing about emerging green careers for a book about that subject, and the effort has made me aware of the many factors that must be in place before an emerging career can reach the ...READ»
Omega Service Maintenance is happy to have completed contracts with an
extremely important agency, the New York Department of Environmental
Protection. One of the DEP’s newest projects is a potential
West-of-Hudson Hydroelectric ...READ»
The phone rang at 6:00 a.m. to tell me that my monthly appearance on CNBC to discuss our "CEO See-Ya" column had been postponed, thanks to the breaking news that Disney CEO Michael Eisner's long awaited successor would be Robert ...READ»
Texas is home to the world's biggest wind farm, according to officials at E.ON Climate & Renewables. The wind energy company recently put the finishing touches on its 781.8 megawatt (MW), 627-turbine facility in Roscoe, Texas. ...READ»
Yesterday (September 22), President Obama addressed the United Nations Climate Change Summit with a speech focused on how the United States is "determined" to combat Climate Change. While the Waxman-Markey bill has been held up in the ...READ»
The Department of Energy gave a big boost to solar and wind projects across the United States yesterday when it handed out nearly $503 million to companies in an attempt to raise their prospects of receiving outside capital. The ...READ»
California pushes forward with it's $360 million solar heating program offering financial incentives and market developments through 2018. Similar solar water incentives are setting the standard for renewable ...READ»
The problem: Five Arizona cities--Phoenix, Mesa, Glendale, Scottsdale, and Tempe--are facing severe cash shortages. The solution: selling billions of gallons of wastewater to the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station in a move that ...READ»
Geothermal power plants are the ugly ducklings of the energy world; they're not as big or flashy as wind and solar plants, and most of their energy-producing magic happens underground. But a new $25 million geothermal plant being ...READ»
The world's largest wind farm, dubbed the London Array, has been given the go-ahead after months of doubt caused by Shell pulling out of the project. The project, funded by E.ON, Dong Energy, and Masdar, is back on thanks
to ...READ»
LG, yes the same LG whose logo may be stamped somewhere on your HDTV or cell phone, has just announced it's entering the water treatment business. It's for the good of people, and for LG's bottom line.READ»
Only one week after unveiling three plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) charging stations in San Francisco, Mayor Gavin Newsom announced the submission of a permit application to bring renewable ocean energy off the city's ...READ»
Wind power in the U.S. appears to have taken a turn for the worse this week with T. Boone Pickens' announcement that he is scrapping plans to build the world's biggest wind farm in Texas. But according to the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), the wind situation isn't too dire--yet. te9ju5mi2aREAD»
We knew something like this was coming. Obama said it in his State of the Union address: "To create more of these clean-energy jobs, we need more production, more efficiency, more incentives, and that means building a new generation ...READ»
I’ve interviewed hundreds of business outthinkers, and one
of the most common patterns of success is “coordinate the uncoordinated.”
We’ve seen this work for companies like Credit Justice Services, an
ethonomic credit ...READ»
The country that unleashed ABBA, IKEA and H&M on the world is gearing up to impress us once again--this time with Europe's largest wind farm. Swedish company Markbygden Vind AB wants to build 1,101 wind turbines in the northern ...READ»
The jury is still out on whether the Obama administration will pass a cap-and-trade bill, but at least one utility is gearing up for potential regulations. Calpine Corp. announced this week that it plans to build the first power ...READ»
