More than one hundred wind energy representatives are traveling to Washington D.C. this week for a special lobbying effort to push for a national renewable energy standard.
Speaking in Denver, Colorado Governor Bill Ritter said preliminary figures from a new report show that renewable energy has generated about 90,000 jobs directly and indirectly in Colorado. Addressing attendees of the second annual Colorado New Energy Economy Conference, Ritter said that Jefferson County alone has about 500 renewable energy companies. The Governor cited the wind [...]
Colorado Governor Bill Ritter on Tuesday announced the first recipients of $10 million in grants under the “New Energy Communities Initiative.” Ritter said the 14 projects will stimulate economic growth, create new jobs, enhance sustainability and lead to more livable communities all across Colorado. Gov. Ritter made the announcement Tuesday morning during a keynote address at [...]
The U.S. Department of Energy will seek applications for funding for the research, development, and demonstration of enhanced geothermal systems (EGS), an advanced geothermal technology that drills deep wells into hot rocks, fractures them, and circulates a fluid through the fractures to extract heat. EGS technologies can be used to create new geothermal reservoirs or to [...]
[From my post originally published at CleanTechnica on 6.3.2008] Houston, TX – The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Lab has just announced three research and development partnerships with Siemens and the University Houston. NREL Director Dan Arvizu made the announcement at a press conference on Tuesday at the American Wind Energy Association’s annual [...]
[Originally posted at CleanTechnica on 5.18.08] For those of you who are bettin’ folks, traders on the Chicago Climate Exchange view the Democrats as more bullish on cap-and-trade systems. So if you’re betting on a Democratic victory, you’ll want to buy those contracts now, in anticipation of a price spike on Nov. 5 (Politico). Toyota Prius sales [...]
A report released on Monday by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) indicates that the U.S. could meet 20% of its electricity needs with wind energy by 2030. While achieving that goal is technically feasible, the report estimates it would require $197 billion in investments, especially in the infrastructure of interstate transmission. Unfortunately, the DOE [...]
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced that it will contribute $50 million in federal funding to nine demonstration projects to modernize the nation’s electrical energy grid, with the goal of reducing the peak load electricity demand by 15 percent over five years. The list of demonstration projects are as follows: 1.Allegheny Power will develop [...]
One of my almae matres, Colorado State University has finally launched the business-end of its long-awaited renewable energy “supercluster.” The supercluster will serve as a clean tech incubator, moving research and development of clean energy and energy efficiency from the lab to the marketplace. CSU President Larry Penley joined Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter and Colorado [...]
[Originally posted at CleanTechnica on March 13, 2008]. In my first post about the feast or Famine Cycles of American Clean Energy Development, I touched upon the up and down nature of federal funding for renewable energy deployment in the late 70s and early 80s. The following examination adds some more context with a [...]
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