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Based in Berkeley, California, Chris Morrison is a freelance business reporter who focuses on renewable energy and cutting-edge tech. Until recently, he was a staff member at VentureBeat, a news site about innovation and venture capital, where he headed up coverage of clean technology. Chris continues to contribute to VentureBeat...- more about Chris Morrison »
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- Energy Roundup: Vestas Layoffs, Geothermal Setback, Nuclear Waste Fight, and More
- Vestas trims 1,900 workers despite rising profits -- The world's top wind turbine manufacturer, Vestas, is cutting free almost 10 percent of its workforce despite a 70 percent rise in first-quarter profit over last year. The reason is a largely regional downturn in the market, with the pain is focused...
- Blog posts 2009-04-29
- The Five Geothermal Companies to Watch
- Geothermal energy, which uses the planet's sub-surface heat to generate electricity, is a valued resource because it doesn't emit greenhouse gases and can provide baseload power, in contrast to more unreliable sources like wind. For many years, the only problem has been that geothermal power is not readily accessible. ...
- Blog posts 2009-05-29
- Energy Roundup: Chinese Trade Barriers, Socialist Oil, Geothermal Delays and More
- China building barriers to protect home energy industry -- Despite its scolding of other countries that consider tariffs and other protectionist measures, China is making sure that only its own companies can compete on its home turf, even as it becomes one of the world's largest markets for clean energy....
- Blog posts 2009-07-15
- Wind Power Poised For a Possible Fast Recovery
- The beginning of the recession marked a dramatic turn for the wind industry. Having previously grown by leaps and bounds, wind developers suddenly found themselves almost entirely cut off from financing. Even banks that weren't failing slowed or stopped their lending. Wind has been particularly sensitive to...
- Blog posts 2009-08-31
- Altarock Halts Drilling at First Geothermal Well
- Altarock Energy can't catch a break. After running into local opposition earlier in the summer, when the New York Times published a story suggesting the geothermal energy company could cause earthquakes, it has now run into a tough rock formation at its first site, forcing it to stop drilling and...
- Blog posts 2009-09-03
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- Week in Renewables: Obama vs. Public Opinion, and New Energy Bets
- To commercialize renewable energy technologies, must we first believe in climate change? The question deserves closer examination after this week's Presidential address and the concurrent release of a major study. "The naysayers, the folks who would pretend that this is not an issue, they are being marginalized,"...
- Blog posts 2009-10-25
- Energy Roundup: Suncor-PetroCanada Merger, Energy Warfare, Mitsubishi's Electric Car, and More
- Fort Hills oil sands has bright future under merged Suncor and PetroCanada -- Shareholders approved the merger of Suncor and PetroCanada, forming a behemoth company with 15 major projects, mostly in the oil sands. Lower costs, rising oil prices and the merger have helped the delayed Fort Hills project and outgoing CEO Ron...
- Blog posts 2009-06-05
- Notes on Energy in the Stimulus Package
- President Obama's stimulus package passed today in the United States House, wrapping up the first step of its journey to passage. Although the bill must make it past Republican opposition in the Senate, it's almost certainly in the clear. Because of its massive size -- at $819...
- Blog posts 2009-01-28
- Sempra Energy's New Power Lines Will Be First Of Many
- A new highway to nowhere has just been approved at the cost of California taxpayers, but it's not the sort of highway America is best known for. Instead, electrical utility owner Sempra Energy has been granted permission to build a $2 billion power line into the Sonoran Desert over...
- Blog posts 2008-12-19
- Greentech Abroad: Australia's 20 Percent and a Million Electric Cars For Germany
- Major moves toward clean energy are taking place in other developed countries as governments find ways to navigate between today's recession and worries of future global warming. In Australia, lawmakers have just passed plans to generate 20 percent of all electricity from renewable sources by 2020, while Germany aims to...
- Blog posts 2009-08-20
- Duke's CEO Says Solar Power is More Important Than Wind
- Utilities have a tough job in picking which expensive, relatively unproven renewable energy technology to place their chips on. Solar and wind power get about equal face-time in the news, trailed by smaller contenders like geothermal, but which gets the most press isn't necessarily a good indicator of which will...
- Blog posts 2009-09-23
- Hydrogen Funding Reversal Provides a Cautionary Tale
- Those wishing for immediate government support of all forms of green energy technology are forewarned: Once a technology is government-supported, it may be nearly impossible to get rid of, even if it proves not to be a great option. That's the case with hydrogen, for which Department of Energy secretary...
- Blog posts 2009-07-30
- NIBMYism Builds Over California Transmission Projects
- Without more major power lines, it may be impossible to get energy from big renewable power plants to the towns and cities that need them. A whole range of companies are relying on this new transmission capacity, including solar thermal startups like Ausra and Brightsource, wind companies like Vestas, and...
- Blog posts 2009-05-11
- Transportation Takes the Day in Cleantech Funding
- Maybe funding for cleantech companies is stabilizing -- or maybe there's just excitement over a particular segment. The latest report detailing cleantech fundings is out, and of its $1.2 billion in deals, up 12 percent over last quarter, almost exactly half went to companies in transportation. The...
- Blog posts 2009-07-02
- Hobbled by Recession, Cleantech Still Takes the Investment Crown
- Venture investors love cleantech, to the point of investing more there than they do any other industry, including biotech and the internet. That's the latest word from the Cleantech Group and Deloitte, which track investments in the sector on a quarterly basis. Granted, the word "cleantech" has...
- Blog posts 2009-09-30
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