Displaced Tortoises for Solar in Mojave Roils Environmentalists

Construction of such large-scale green-energy projects has splintered environmental groups. When concern over global warming was at a peak, national organizations such as the Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council threw their support behind...

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Cost Cutting: Is QBotix the BOS Innovation Solar Needs?

Watch Bokhari discuss the QBotix technology at Solar Power International, along with an animated demonstration, in the video below: Balance of systems (BOS) accounts for about 50 percent of the installed cost of a solar system. A traditional tracking...

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Green Tech States Are Not Necessarily Democratic

Most people would expect blue Democratic states to be eager to embrace clean tech and green jobs, the authors assert, with red Republican states resolutely declining to join in the action. However, according to the report, in the 10 states where clean...

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The Demonization of Clean Tech: The Five Biggest Myths

As a longtime analyst at clean-tech research firm Clean Edge and contributor to the recently published book Clean Tech Nation (coauthored by Clean Edge colleagues Ron Pernick and Clint Wilder), I should be on the front lines defending the clean-tech...

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Securing Skills for a Successful Offshore Wind Industry

Skills – Where Are We Now? At the moment we are facing a significant skills gap in the industry and this needs to be addressed to reach the positive employment figures which are possible. There are two levels to this skills gap — firstly, the...

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Worldwide PV Equipment Market Squeeze Continues

After declining in the first quarter to its lowest level since the start of the data program, second quarter worldwide completed orders actually increased slightly, up two percent quarter-on-quarter. However, the reported billings of $706 million were...

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Studies Cite Increased Demand for Wind Power, Other Renewables

According to the Global Consumer Wind Study 2012 (GCWS), the desire for more renewable energy options was voiced by 85 percent of survey respondents, with 49 percent saying they'd have no problem digging deeper into their pockets to support companies...

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Blackstone to Buy Vivint for $2B and Support Its Expansion in Solar and Beyond

When the deal closes, which should come before the end of the year, it will give Blackstone control over 50 percent of the company, reported the New York Times. The rest of the company is owned by the management, according to Reuters. Vivint built...

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Siemens to Cut 615 US Wind Energy Jobs as New Orders Dry Up

"The industry is facing a significant drop in new orders, and this has an unfortunate consequence on employment in this segment of the power industry," Munich-based Siemens said today in a message to employees that was obtained by Bloomberg. The cuts...

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Is the EU Abandoning Biofuels?

At present, biofuels represent 4.5% of the EU's transportation fuel consumption, with essentially all of this coming from food crops – so, essentially, food crop-based fuels would be capped at not much above existing levels – not much room for growth....

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Mining for Energy Efficiency Opportunities in NYC Buildings

If markets thrive on information, then New York City recently unlocked a gold mine for the energy efficiency industry. The city became the first in the US to make public how well (or poorly) each large, private building within its borders performs...

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China Solar Manufacturer LDK Looks for Buyer

There are quite a few developments on the solar energy front today, led by the release of new financial results from LDK (NYSE: LDK), the weakest of China's major solar panel makers, that show a company in the midst of a meltdown. Meantime,...

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PV Firms and Utilities Eye Residential Storage

"When we take the literal definition of grid parity for PV, nothing is going to change,' he says. 'No customer looks at PV and calculates the levelised cost of energy - the average customer couldn't do that." The next bit, though, is where it gets...

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19 Companies Urge Congress To Extend Wind Tax Credit

The diverse coalition of firms, which includes Ben & Jerry's, Johnson & Johnson, Levi Strauss, Starbucks, and Yahoo!, says that raising taxes on the wind sector would be bad for businesses that buy large amounts of wind electricity. These companies...

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Incremental Advances in Wave Power Technology Not Enough to Temper OPT Q1 Losses

"We're still at the point where the car industry was of not knowing whether the engine should be at the front or the back," quips Christopher Barry, chair of the Ocean Energy Technical and Research panel at the Society of Naval Architects and Marine...

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Brookfield Renewable Energy Likely To Vote Against Western Wind Management in Proxy Battle

The transaction was seen as a signal that Brookfield intends to bid at least C$2.25 for Western Wind in its upcoming sale, and so the company's stock has been trading for slightly more than C$2.25 since the announcement. Despite this, the Brookfield/Goodman...

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Four Charts Provide Distributed Solar Lessons from California

A new study for the California Public Utilities Commission explores the "Technical Potential for Local Distributed Photovoltaics in California."  Basically, it's one of the more in-depth analyses of local solar power in the country, suggesting...

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Distributed Generation Will Make Electric Grids More Secure, Expand Access

As our society continues to become more wired, the impact of a sudden power outage – such as what occurred in India in early August – becomes increasingly severe and disruptive. With more and more businesses – including mission critical facilities like...

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The Big Question: What Can We Expect over the Next 12 Months?

Maria van der Hoeven, Executive Director, International Energy Agency Renewable energy continues to grow in the face of both economic crisis and subsidy reductions in key markets. The technology portfolio is expanding, with generation from wind, solar...

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Suntech Reducing Solar Cell Production Capacity

Suntech gained 6.6 percent to 93 cents an American depositary receipt (ADR) at the close in New York, the most since Sept. 11. Each ADR represents one ordinary share. Suntech will cut production capacity for solar cells to 1.8 gigawatts,...

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"No More Solyndras" Act passes the House

The bill aims to end the loan guarantee program through the U.S. Department of Energy by preventing DOE from issuing loan guarantees on applications received after the end of 2011, and sets new restrictions on existing applications and loans. The legislation...

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