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- A Review of Overseas Financing Mechanisms and Incentives for Commercial Renewable Energy Projects
- The key objectives of this paper were to examine how commercial (non-research and development) renewable energy projects have been financed in European EC and others and North American countries, highlighting likely future trends; determine the level and type of any financial, contractual or market incentives available in each country for...
- White papers 2001-11-29
- State Incentives for Renewable Energy: Case Studies on Program Effectiveness
- Over the years, states have provided various financial incentives to promote the use of renewable energy technologies. Such incentives include grants, loans, and rebates, as well as credits or exemptions for income, sales, and property taxes. While existing databases such as the National Database of State Incentives for Renewable Energy...
- White papers 2003-07-14
- The Database of State Incentives for Renewable Energy: Local Government and Community Programs and Incentives
- This paper presents a review of local government and community programs and incentives for renewable energy as collected and catalogued by the Interstate Renewable Energy Council's IREC Database of State Incentives for Renewable Energy DSIRE project. More than 200 programs, incentives, policies, or projects have been implemented by over 100...
- White papers 2003-07-15
- National Summary Report on State Financial and Regulatory Incentives for Renewable Energy
- This paper documents the variety of mechanisms that states are using to support renewable energy and is intended to serve as a comprehensive guide to this activity. This paper is organized by state, with individual chapters for all fifty states. This is a departure from past reports whose chapters were...
- White papers 2000-12-01
- Local Government and Community Programs and Incentives for Renewable Energy: National Report
- This paper presents a summary of the renewable energy programs and incentives of 45 communities in 23 states as collected and catalogued by the Interstate Renewable Energy Council's IREC Database of State Incentives for Renewable Energy DSIRE project. Also included are summaries of state initiatives that impact implementation of renewable...
- White papers 2000-12-01
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- The Energy MBA: A Career Path in Transition
- Even while the industry is in flux, traditional oil and gas companies and alternative energy firms need top management talent. Top feeder schools:...
- Articles 2009-02-09
- 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
- Renewable Energy Resources for Texas
- Due to its size and diverse climate, Texas has tremendous potential to harness clean, renewable energy resources such as wind, solar and biomass. These resources are abundant, large enough in fact to meet all of the state's energy needs. The key lies in developing technologies that can tap this immense...
- White papers 2001-03-29
- Case Studies on the Effectiveness of State Financial Incentives for Renewable Energy
- Several overarching themes emerged from interviews with stakeholders in the six case-study states regarding issues both internal and external to incentive programs that encourage and discourage the adoption of small-scale renewable energy technologies in their respective states. First, external factors will be discussed; illuminating the backdrop against which these incentive...
- White papers 2002-09-01
- The costs (and benefits) of climate change policy -- without all the hoopla
- If you are tired of all of the nonsense about the recent climate nonsense (SuperFreakonomics, Climategate) and want to read something reasonable about climate change economics, try the last CBO Economic and Budget Issue Brief [PDF] title "The Costs of Reducing Greenhouse-Gas Emissions." If you aren't into 12 pages of...
- News items 2009-12-01
- Tax Revenues from Wind Farms More Than Offset Tax Incentive, GE Study Estimates
- NEW YORK -- GE Energy Financial Services, a unit of GE (NYSE: GE), unveiled today a study estimating that a federal tax incentive set to expire Dec. 31 for wind energy projects more than pays for itself through tax revenues from the projects' income, vendors' profits and individual workers' wages....
- Research articles 2008-06-18
- 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
- CAPITAL BRIEFS.(Briefs)(laws and regulations on waste management, energy conservation and air pollution control)
- LEGISLATION GENERAL ENVIRONMENT Colorado: Senate Bill 145 enacts the Renewable Energy Incentives Act and provides that any county may offer an incentive in the form of a county property tax or sales tax credit or rebate...
- Research articles 2007-05-14
- Energy demand to rise 35 percent by 2030 -- Exxon Mobil
- IRVING, Texas, Dec. 9 UPI -- Rising energy demand over the coming two decades will require investment in all potential sources of energy, Exxon Mobil said Tuesday in its latest report. The report, "New Outlook for Energy: A View to 2030," predicted energy demand would be about 35 percent higher...
- News items 2009-12-09
- A Summary of the Experience of Wind Energy Support Through the NFFO: Wind Energy Fact Sheet 6
- This paper provides details of the development of the wind energy market in the UK and the success of schemes supported under the Non-Fossil Fuel Obligation. The incentive for the UK Government to provide support for renewable energy technologies lies in their potential contribution to secure, diverse and sustainable energy...
- White papers 2002-02-26
- NRCan: Dhaliwal Launches $260-Million Investment in Wind Energy.
- NORTH CAPE, CANADA, May 22, 2002 A new Government of Canada program will help increase the amount of wind energy available across the country by 500 percent. The Honourable Herb Dhaliwal, Minister of Natural Resources Canada NRCan, today launched the Wind Power Production Incentive...
- Research articles 2002-05-22
- 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
- Will The Fortune 500 Save the Solar Industry?
- The economy may be giving renewable energy companies plenty to fear in the year to come, but not all the forecasts are gloomy. At a time when analysts are predicting shrinking venture capital investment and companies are shelving plans for new factories, some industry insiders are predicting at least one...
- News items 2009-08-07
- CEC Cites 25 Ways to Improve Energy Efficiency in Transportation Fuels
- Increasing the use of ethanol and other renewable fuels in transportation vehicles, implementing pricing incentive programs and continuing to push for more fuel-efficient vehicles are three of the 25 recommendations the California Energy Commission CEC Increasing the use of ethanol and other renewable fuels in transportation vehicles, implementing pricing incentive...
- Research articles 2005-10-12
- Ten clean technology predictions for 2010
- For several years now, as each year comes to a close, we've been issuing predictions for the coming one. While we certainly acknowledge we've not necessarily gotten each one right in years past, a great number of our predictions have proved prescient (see Eight cleantech developments to watch for in...
- News items 2009-11-30
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