After being eclipsed by residential property-assessed clean energy financing in 2014, commercial PACE projects lined up considerable funding in 2015, and not just in California. The Connecticut Green Bank just announced that […]
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Are Oil Companies Cooking Their Books?
Substantial impairment charges may change an investor’s appetite for an oil company given the potential impact on future cash flows. via Forbes – Energy http://ift.tt/1IYs5RM
EIA’s newly designed coal web pages provides easier access to coal data
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) redesigned the weekly Coal Production report and combined two price reports into a single Coal Markets product to improve access to EIA’s coal data. Users can […]
Will the U.S. Finally Get a Unified Power Grid?
The long-delayed Tres Amigas superstation would help move up to 20 gigawatts of electricity around the continent via IEEE Spectrum Recent Content http://ift.tt/1Qvlu4n
The World’s First Securitization of Off-Grid Solar Assets
This week, pay-as-you-go solar firm BBOXX said it plans to lead the first-ever securitization of off-grid assets. The plan is to lower its cost of capital as it scales in developing countries. Despite improvements […]
Metal Powder: the New Zero-Carbon Fuel?
In the iron economy, you’d retrofit coal plants to burn iron powder, then recycle it using renewable energy via IEEE Spectrum Recent Content http://ift.tt/1MhwoCI
Congress Is on the Verge of Passing Multi-Year Extensions for Solar and Wind Tax Credits
House Republicans unveiled legislation late Tuesday night that included multi-year extensions of tax credits for solar and wind. The credit extensions were attached to a broad set of spending measures as part […]
Paris and Building on the Future
The Paris Agreement, a truly landmark climate accord, which was gaveled through on Saturday, December 12, 2015, at 7:26 pm (Paris time) at the Twenty-First Conference of the Parties (COP-21), checks all […]
California Net Metering 2.0 Keeps Retail Rates for Rooftop Solar
California regulators have proposed a future net metering regime that will preserve retail payments for residential rooftop PV.However, the proposal would add new interconnection costs and non-bypassable charges to distributed solar systems, […]
The coming electrification of everything
Stored electricity, increasingly derived from renewable sources, will entirely replace fossil fuels as the preferred method to power everything in our lives. via Renew Economy http://ift.tt/1NMKf9j
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