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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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- Renewable Energy Plans Taking Shape in China and India
- China and India have proven resistant to international pressure to adopt emissions targets. But the two giant countries, together representing a third of the world's population, also aren't totally ignoring their problems. A series of recent announcements shows that both are casting about for the most cost-effective way to develop...
- Blog posts 2009-08-11
- Renewable Energy Firms May Buy Old Ford Plant
- Green energy advocates have been saying it all along: If the industry gets a chance, it will recreate the manufacturing base in America. So far, that thesis has been hard to prove. They need a really clear example -- an example like two renewable energy companies buying Ford's shuttered Wixom...
- Blog posts 2009-08-26
- Union Shakedowns Face Renewable Energy Companies
- "It's not a warm fuzzy thing they're doing," says a Sierra Club spokesman of union labor tactics against renewable energy companies. "It's a very self-interested thing." But the question, never quite asked by Todd Woody in an article about unions in the New York Times, is whether it's acceptable for...
- Blog posts 2009-06-25
- When the Environment Becomes a Trade Issue
- Is China is attempting to "steal" technology from the United States, or is it just asking for what it deserves? Politicians are clashing over whether developing countries should get free access to renewable energy and efficiency technology, or whether standard intellectual property laws should stand. For several...
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- Energy Roundup: Europe's Solar Play, Offshore Wind Flies, Climate Vote Approaching and More
- Europe plans massive solar power project -- If $555 billion can be raised for construction, Europe could someday have a massive electrical network sending solar power from Northern African deserts to the chilly states of the EU. The Desertec consortium of 20 companies, with support from national governments, will hold...
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- Energy Roundup: Global Warming Doomsday, New Solar Thermal, High Altitude Wind and More
- Global warming is already here, says government study -- While some effects of global warming can already be seen, the future holds problems like droughts, flooding, forest death and crop diseases, according to a new report by the U.S. Global Change Research Program. Some areas are disproportionately affected; parts of...
- Blog posts 2009-06-17
- Austin Energy Stumbles With Green Power Program
- A few years ago, Austin Energy's GreenChoice program in Austin, Texas was rated top in the country for delivering cheap renewable energy to Texan customers who signed up. Since then, prices have skyrocketed, and the utility is considering passing off the costs to its regular customers, a change that could...
- Blog posts 2009-07-20
- Another Ambitious Wind Transmission Project Falls
- It's often said that without transmission reaching from the country's sunniest and windiest areas to cities, renewable energy won't be able to take off. Too bad none of them are actually being built. Following T. Boone Pickens' decision to drop a huge transmission project in Texas, a project called the...
- Blog posts 2009-07-17
- An Oil Company Finally Opts to Go Green
- It's not a major company like BP, Exxon, or Shell -- although it's about 40 percent owned by the last. But Showa Shell Sekiyu, a refiner in Japan, may still count as the first example of an oil company staking its future not just a tiny percentage of profits on...
- Blog posts 2009-09-08
- Week in Renewables: Slow Motion Legislation, Solar Acquisitions
- Any hopes renewable energy companies had that new climate change legislation would be quickly passed were dashed this week, with negotiators deciding to hold off until next year. by Chris Morrison
- Blog posts 2009-11-08
- 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
- Week in Renewables: A Solar Google, Algae on the Road, Striking it Rich in China
- The most significant renewable energy news of this week starts with an odd new entrant to the solar market: Google wants to make mirrors for solar thermal installations. It decided to find its own way after becoming "disappointed" with the lack of great ideas showing up in renewable energy. Solar...
- Blog posts 2009-09-11
- European Commission Calls for Massive Renewable Energy Investment
- Hoping to break its reputation as a low-innovation zone, the European Commission is recommending that the area spend almost 8 billion euros yearly between 2010 and 2020 on renewable energy technologies, raising its competitiveness with the United States and Asia. The EU is coming in behind similar...
- Blog posts 2009-10-07
- Oil Producing Countries See a Grim Future for Themselves
- Those who believe the oil industry interferes with renewable energy finally have solid evidence for their fears, but not against the major Western companies like Exxon and Shell that usually take the blame. The Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries OAPEC has come out against the policy of other governments...
- Blog posts 2009-02-16
- San Jose's Cleantech Officer on Renewables, Recession and the Stimulus
- While San Francisco's mayor Gavin Newsom gets plenty of attention -- often national -- for his renewable energy initiatives, an equally large city just to the south, San Jose, has been outspoken in its own quiet way. What that means is that it often aims its message at businesses, rather...
- Blog posts 2009-02-26
- Verasun, Other Ethanol Producers May Face Overwhelming Odds
- The body blows just keep coming at the nation's ethanol producers, among them big names like Verasun, Pacific Ethanol and Aventine Renewable Energy Holdings. Like everyone else, ethanol makers have been hit by the recession's broad problems, including tight credit. But a side-effect of the falling economy,...
- Blog posts 2009-01-13
- Dueling Studies -- Does Renewable Energy Create or Destroy Jobs?
- Energy becomes a more politicized issue every day. Case in point: A new study showing that the renewable energy industry actually destroys jobs. Coming from Spain's Juan Carlos University, the study "reveals with high confidence," in its own words, that each new job in the green sector destroys 2.2 jobs...
- Blog posts 2009-04-10
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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
- 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
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