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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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- Solar Development to Speed Up Next Year
- The United States government has finally decided to help lift some of the bureaucratic hassles involved with renewable energy, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced yesterday. The Bureau of Land Management, historically a somewhat obscure regulator, will work to expedite approval for over a dozen major solar projects on...
- Blog posts 2009-06-30
- 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
- Japan Boosts Prospects of Solar Power From Space
- Forget putting solar panels in sunny places like the desert. Japan is ready to skip the entire atmosphere and launch a massive solar installation into space, with a new deal between its aerospace agency and three big companies. by Chris Morrison
- Blog posts 2009-11-11
- 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
- On Rooftops, A Newly Attractive Form of Solar Power
- It may not be attractive to your pocketbook, but at least it'll look slick: Dow Chemical has unveiled a new solar rooftop shingle that converts the sun's rays to electricity. The shingles work just like solar panels, but without the bulky and ugly mounting systems used to attach panels to...
- Blog posts 2009-10-07
- Week in Renewables: Neglected Nuclear, Falling Winds, Solar Redemption
- Should, or should not nuclear energy be considered a renewable? That's more of a long-running question than a news item from this week, but Department of Energy head Steven Chu did take the opportunity last Friday to again throw his weight behind nukes, saying that the government...
- Blog posts 2009-09-27
- Schools Line Up to Install Solar Panels
- Schools in our society seem to be perennially cash-strapped, unable to spend extra on frills even if they might make the educational experience better. So it's somewhat surprising that more and more schools are lining up for solar power, some in multi-million dollar deals. The most recent...
- Blog posts 2009-06-10
- In China, the Price is Right For Solar
- Proponents of solar power in the United States may soon have reason to be green with envy over their Chinese peers. Shi Lishan, a spokesman from China's National Energy Administration, says that the country will soon pass a 1.09 yuan per kilowatt hour feed-in tariff for solar power, equal to...
- Blog posts 2009-06-03
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- Energy Roundup: Big Solar, Russian Threats, Biofuel and Solar Bankruptcies
- PG&E ups the stakes for BrightSource Energy -- Major California utility Pacific Gas & Electric has increased a previous agreement with BrightSource Energy for 900 megawatts of solar thermal power to 1,310 megawatts, which would make it the largest single solar plant in the world. Although BrightSource still needs a...
- Blog posts 2009-05-13
- 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
- NRG and eSolar Join a Growing List of Utility-Scale Solar Projects
- Plans to create massive solar farms in southwestern states are multiplying, with companies that were tiny startups only a year or two ago promising to supply electricity for tens of thousands of homes and businesses. The latest, announced yesterday, is NRG Energy, a New Jersey-based utility, making a deal for...
- Blog posts 2009-02-24
- BrightSource and Edison Bring Back Big Solar
- Big Solar didn't stay away for very long. While the recession had a dampening effect on plans for large installations of wind, solar and other alternative energy forms, including pushing back groundbreaking on T. Boone Picken's wind farm and likely delaying the world's largest solar panel installation, solar thermal startup...
- Blog posts 2009-02-12
- 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
- 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
- NRG Energy Teams With First Solar For Houston Project
- First Solar has snagged its latest utility-scale solar deal, alongside NRG Energy. The two will build a 10 megawatt plant that will supply the city government of Houston, Texas with 1.5 percent of its energy needs, according to the Houston Chronicle. The plant itself will come in...
- Blog posts 2009-09-24
- Eight Energy Projects the Stimulus Bill Could Fund
- The stimulus bill currently inching its way through Congress and Senate is intended to quickly add jobs, by pouring money into projects that can get underway immediately. Yet with over $800 billion poised to flood into the economy, it's surprising how hazy the details are. Most of the money is...
- Blog posts 2009-02-09
- Why Arizona's Solar-Powered Train Won't Work
- Another day, another proposal for a multi-billion dollar rail line in the United States. An Arizona company called Solar Bullet wants to build a 220 mile-per-hour train from Tucson to Phoenix, a journey of about 115 miles. Aside from the whopping $27 billion price tag for just the first phase,...
- Blog posts 2009-05-13
- Roundup: The New Coda, Texas Kills Solar Bill, First Solar Investigated and More
- Coda unveils cheaper electric car -- Cheap, when it comes to electric cars, is a highly subjective label. At a price of $45,000, the Coda, an all-electric car by an eponymous company owned by Miles Electric with a range of about 100 miles, will be half the price of a...
- Blog posts 2009-06-04
- PG&E Agrees to Grab Headlines With Space Solar Deal
- Today's hot news story is one that surely inspired cackles of glee at the marketing department for Pacific Gas & Electric, the utility that is taking all comers in hopes of meeting a potential requirement of 33 percent renewable energy by 2020. I mention marketing and not, say, business development,...
- Blog posts 2009-04-14
- Energy Roundup: Kansas Allows Coal, China Notches Up Solar, Cap and Trade Loopholes and More
- Struggling coal slips one through -- Several days after LS Power finally gave up on plans for a 750 megawatt coal plant in Michigan, to the general glee of environmentalists, Sunflower Electric is benefiting from the departure of Kansas governor Katherine Sebelius, now the U.S. secretary of health and human...
- Blog posts 2009-05-05
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