While most Americans wait around to see what’s waiting for them under the Christmas tree, it looks like New York State’s clean energy industry got to open its present a few days […]
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12 Hydrogen And Fuel Cell Stocks
While many people think first about hydrogen when they think of fuel cells, fuel cells are not limited to hydrogen. They are a set of related technologies, many of which can generate […]
Developing Countries Subsidize Fossil Fuel Use, Artificially Lower Prices
The International Energy Agency (IEA) annually estimates global fossil-fuel consumption subsidies that measure what many developing countries spend to provide below-market cost fuel to their citizens. In 2012, IEA found that fossil […]
Germany’s Largest Utility Ditches Two Long-Term Contracts For Coal Power
The move could signal yet another shift in Germany’s power mix, as renewables boom and expected electricity prices for 2014 drop. The post Germany’s Largest Utility Ditches Two Long-Term Contracts For Coal […]
How the $5 billion bankruptcy of a Chinese coal company’s could trigger financial panic
For years now, economists have worried that China’s debt has pushed it to the brink of financial crisis. But if China is insolvent, why haven’t there been any big defaults yet? Here’s why: […]
Conservative Donors Pump $1 Billion A Year Into Climate Denying Groups, Study Finds
The first extensive study of groups that oppose action on climate change found they have received more than $900 million a year from 2003-2010, with the number growing every year. The post […]
Can the cost of solar in the US compete with Germany?
A recent Deutsche Bank report projects global newly installed photovoltaic (PV) capacity will reach 50 GW annually in 2014, a roughly 50-percent increase over anticipated new installed capacity during 2013. Germany’s been the longtime […]
China doubles pace of adding renwables amid pollution cut
China doubled the pace of adding renewable energy capacity in the first 10 months of the year as the government worked to cut pollution in its largest cities. Including nuclear power, the nation […]
CA Regulators May Challenge Utilities for Blocking Hybrid Solar-Storage Systems
In California, state regulators are getting ready to resolve a long-running conflict between the state’s big three investor-owned utilities, their customers, and companies that want to add batteries to solar PV systems. […]
Has Concentrated Solar Power Run Out of Steam in the US?
Planning for new concentrated solar power (CSP) development in the U.S. almost disappeared in 2013 as developers turned to smaller, more achievable PV installations. “The 2013 trend in CSP is that not […]
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