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- Stimulus Energy Fund Tracker: 1.2% Spent, $36.2B To Go
- The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act -- aka stimulus money -- put aside nearly $37 billion big ones for the Department of Energy to spend (that includes $4 billion under the loan guarantee program) back when the bill was signed Feb. 17 into law. So far, $9.5 billion has been awarded....
- Blog posts 2009-08-24
- Researchers: Renewable Energy Jobs Are Safer
- The push for renewable energies has one more feather to put in its cap: improved health for its workforce and the potential of evading death, at least while on the job. As more workers shift from fossil fuel-related jobs to those in renewable energy, their health should improve, according...
- Blog posts 2009-08-20
- Green Groups: Investors Beware of Oil Sands
- Greenpeace has taken the approach of 'investor protector' in its battle against Canadian oil sands. The environmental group, along with PLATFORM and Oil Change International, published its "Rising Risks" report Monday warning investors of the potential economic falloutfor international oil majors who are relying more on unconventional oil -- those found in...
- Blog posts 2009-07-27
- Energy Roundup: China Solar Subsidy, Vestas Workers Revolt, Halliburton CEO's Recovery Doubts and More
- China boosts solar sector with massive subsidy plan -- China will subsidize 50 percent of the investment for solar power projects, an unprecedented plan that could spur more than $10 billion in private funding and make the country a leading market for solar equipment. The subsidies also will be extended to power...
- Blog posts 2009-07-21
- Cash for Clunkers Pilfers Renewable Energy Loan Program
- Cash for clunkers, the popular federal car trade-in program that ripped through $1 billion in a less than a month, has been extended thanks to money pilfered from a different stimulus fund that provides loan guarantees to clean energy projects. The Senate approved Thursday night extending the clunkers program by providing another $2 billion,...
- Blog posts 2009-08-07
- Energy Roundup: Obama's Green Week, Takeovers and Bidding Wars, and More
- Massive offshore drilling proposal delayed for further review -- The Obama Administration this week continued its effort to undo some of President Bush's last-minute drilling and environmental decisions. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Tuesday stalled a five-year drilling plan that would affect some 300 million offshore acres. Salazar hasn't scrapped...
- Blog posts 2009-02-17
- Energy Roundup: Aquamarine's Big Catch, Power Grab For Grid, and More
- Aquamarine lands massive ocean power deal -- Aquamarine Power will develop 1,000 megawatts of wave and tidal power by 2020 in a joint deal with Airtricity, the renewable energy development division of Scottish and Southern Energy. Edinburgh, Scotland-based Aquamarine's plan to build two different prototypes -- one using tidal and...
- Blog posts 2009-02-24
- Oil Giants Wade Into Renewables Pool
- It's not a free-for-all, yet. But more oil producers and refiners -- even the ones who have dragged their feet for years -- are testing the renewable energy waters. Oil companies have primarily dipped their toes into ethanol, once the bane of refiners' existence, including Valero's bid earlier this month for...
- Blog posts 2009-02-25
- Solar Tax Credit Hooks Another Major Utility
- The solar investment tax credit is turning out to be the bait the industry needs to keep money flowing in an economy running short on investors willing to fund renewable energy projects. When the federal tax incentives package was passed last October, which included the solar investment...
- Blog posts 2009-02-26
- Climate Change Bill Passes on Razor-Thin Margin, Tougher Battle Lies Ahead
- Maybe it was Al Gore's effort via telephone or Nancy Pelosi's chocolate-covered Dove bars. Heck, maybe it was all of those last minute concessions to please lawmakers in farm states. After weeks of negotiations and compromises and nearly seven hours of debate on the House floor, the American Clean Energy Act,...
- Blog posts 2009-06-27
- Energy Roundup: Sahara Solar Plan, U.S-China Climate Talks, Nabucco Gas Pipe Accord Signed, and More
- Backers of Sahara solar power plant project sign initiative -- A dozen major companies including Siemens, German insurer Munich Re and utilities RWE and Eon signed a renewable energy initiative Monday aimed at developing electricity via solar power plants and wind farms in the Sahara desert. The Desertec Industrial Initiative is the...
- Blog posts 2009-07-13
- Green Shoots Hint at Recovery of Renewable Energy Investment
- Investment in the global renewable energy industry slowed considerably in 2008 and went into a freefall in the first quarter of 2009. But a recent study by New Energy Finance reveals a few green shoots of recovery have begun to appear. The 2009 Global Trends in Sustainable...
- Blog posts 2009-06-09
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- McKinsey: Energy Efficiency Is the Answer
- The consultant firm McKinsey & Co. issued a new report that tells us a lot about what we already know: energy efficiency is the cheapest way to cut greenhouse gas emissions; and a web of barriers -- yup, that includes you, me and your neighbor with the leaky windows -- remains. The...
- Blog posts 2009-07-29
- T. Boone Pickens Courts American Indians
- In his never-ending pursuit of U.S. energy independence, Texas billionaire T. Boone Pickens took his message Wednesday to American Indians. His plea? Support the construction of wind turbines and solar panels on tribal land. Pickens spoke to American Indians at the annual Sovereignty Symposium in Oklahoma about...
- Blog posts 2009-06-04
- Energy Roundup: UTS Scoffs at Bid, OPEC Stalls Drilling, and More
- UTS gives Total bid cold shoulder -- The board of Canadian oil-sands explorer UTS Energy called the unsolicited $506 million bid from energy giant Total "inadequate," "opportunistic" and recommended its shareholders reject it. Total, the world's sixth-largest energy company, has said it plans to invest $10 billion to $15 billion to develop oil sands in...
- Blog posts 2009-02-09
- Energy Roundup: Chu Backs FutureGen, World's Largest Laser, and More
- FutureGen might just have a future -- Energy Secretary Steven Chu met with FutureGen Alliance officials today and said the project has merit, a move that suggests the troubled near-zero emission coal-fueled plant might have a new life under the Obama administration. FutureGen, a project aimed at generating electricity while permanently storing carbon dioxide...
- Blog posts 2009-03-30
- Virent Energy, Shell Poised for Second-Gen Biofuels Race
- Now that the dust kicked up over the Environmental Protection Agency's proposed rules for the biofuels industry has settled just a little bit, it's worth taking a look at Virent Energy Systems and Royal Dutch Shell, companies well-positioned in the advanced biofuels race. The EPA released this week its draft regulations requiring biofuels to...
- Blog posts 2009-05-07
- Energy Roundup: Clunkers Says Adieu, Cleaner Oil Sands, Chevron Revs Up Lobby Engine, and More
- Cash for clunkers says ba-bye -- The cash for clunkers program, which was revived by a $2 billion lifeline earlier this month, will end Monday. The Car Allowance Rebate System or CARS program, as its officially known, has recorded more than 457,000 dealer transactions worth $1.9 billion in rebates, according to...
- Blog posts 2009-08-21
- Energy Roundup: Rocky Iraq Oil Auction, BG Jumps Into U.S. Shale, Top 10 Green Cities, and More
- BP, CNPC scores only contract in Iraq oil auction -- Foreign companies bidding on Iraq oil contracts have shied away from the narrow terms and low price the government is willing to pay for their services. Only one of the eight contracts has been secured. BP and China's CNPC beat out...
- Blog posts 2009-06-30
- Energy Roundup: Oil Lobby Jumps 30%, Nissan's Electric Car, Cleantech VC Funding Spikes, and More
- Oil-and-gas companies boosts lobbying efforts -- Even the "inside the beltway" lobbying machine could not escape the global recession and credit crunch. Overall, the amount of money spent to lobby Congress and the Obama administration fell 1 percent to $814.6 million in the second quarter. There were a couple of exceptions, notably...
- Blog posts 2009-08-03
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