Energy policy
Created on Wednesday, 01 May 2013 / Industry News
Tags: Google. republicans, North Carolina, renewable energy, renewable energy policy, clean energy, data centers
May 1 -- On a sunny day last month, while a few Republican legislators tried to neuter the state’s 2007 renewable energy law, Gov. Pat McCrory basked in the limelight of a major economic development ... [ +++ ]
May 1 -- On a sunny day last month, while a few Republican legislators tried to neuter the state’s 2007 renewable energy law, Gov. Pat McCrory basked in the limelight of a major economic development ... [ +++ ]
Created on Thursday, 07 March 2013 / Industry News
Tags: Renewable Energy Policy, Production Tax Credits, Investment Tax Credits, Master Limited Partnerships
March 7 -- There are better ways of providing tax support to renewable energy, […] like allowing investors to form things called master limited partnerships, which offer tax benefits that encourage investment. ... [ +++ ]
March 7 -- There are better ways of providing tax support to renewable energy, […] like allowing investors to form things called master limited partnerships, which offer tax benefits that encourage investment. ... [ +++ ]
Created on Tuesday, 05 March 2013 / Industry News
Tags: Kansas, Wind Energy, Renewable Energy Policy, RPS, Renewable Energy Standard, Sam Brownback
March 5 -- Maybe it was a pro-business posture on development of Kansas’ wind energy industry. Or maybe it was the reminder that a renewable energy standard was a tradeoff to clear the way for construction ... [ +++ ]
March 5 -- Maybe it was a pro-business posture on development of Kansas’ wind energy industry. Or maybe it was the reminder that a renewable energy standard was a tradeoff to clear the way for construction ... [ +++ ]
Created on Tuesday, 05 March 2013 / Industry News
Tags: Renewable Energy Policy, Kansas, Missouri
March 5 -- Lawmakers are stooping to some dirty tactics to attack clean energy on both sides of the state line. >>View Article [ +++ ]
March 5 -- Lawmakers are stooping to some dirty tactics to attack clean energy on both sides of the state line. >>View Article [ +++ ]
Created on Monday, 04 March 2013 / Industry News
Tags: ARPA-E, Renewable Energy Policy, Renewable Energy Technology, National Defense
March 4 -- The 2013 ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit concluded Wednesday with a final networking session in the Technology Showcase, providing a final opportunity for exhibitors and attendees to find future ... [ +++ ]
March 4 -- The 2013 ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit concluded Wednesday with a final networking session in the Technology Showcase, providing a final opportunity for exhibitors and attendees to find future ... [ +++ ]
Created on Monday, 04 March 2013 / Industry News
Tags: Renewable Energy Policy, EPA, Secretary of Energy, Gina McCarthy, Ernest Moniz
March 4 -- President Obama on Monday nominated Gina McCarthy to head the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Ernest Moniz as the next Energy secretary. At an event Monday at the White House, Obama ... [ +++ ]
March 4 -- President Obama on Monday nominated Gina McCarthy to head the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Ernest Moniz as the next Energy secretary. At an event Monday at the White House, Obama ... [ +++ ]
Created on Thursday, 28 February 2013 / Slideshow
Tags: Solar Energy, Photovoltaics, Royal Dutch Shell, Renewable Energy Policy
February 28 -- Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) says solar power, a business it abandoned four years ago, may expand into the world’s biggest source of energy in the next half century. The proposition that ... [ +++ ]
February 28 -- Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) says solar power, a business it abandoned four years ago, may expand into the world’s biggest source of energy in the next half century. The proposition that ... [ +++ ]
Created on Wednesday, 27 February 2013 / Industry News
Tags: Bipartisan Policy Center, energy policy, BPC, renewable energy, ARPA-E, EPA, clean energy, energy efficiency
February 27 -- The Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) today unveiled over 50 energy policy recommendations developed by its Strategic Energy Policy Initiative, which is co-chaired by former Sen. Byron ... [ +++ ]
February 27 -- The Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) today unveiled over 50 energy policy recommendations developed by its Strategic Energy Policy Initiative, which is co-chaired by former Sen. Byron ... [ +++ ]
Created on Monday, 25 February 2013 / Industry News
Tags: Renewable Energy Policy, Federal Renewable Standard, Renewable Portfolio Standard, RPS
February 25 -- The Obama administration and Congress need to enact an ambitious, practical energy policy. They can start with a national standard for renewable energy. Many states have laws that require ... [ +++ ]
February 25 -- The Obama administration and Congress need to enact an ambitious, practical energy policy. They can start with a national standard for renewable energy. Many states have laws that require ... [ +++ ]
Created on Thursday, 21 February 2013 / Industry News
Tags: Renewable Energy Portfolio Standards, Renewable Energy Policy, RPS, Nevada, Harry Reid
February 21 -- U.S. Sen. Harry Reid called on Nevada lawmakers to tighten the state's renewable energy standards in a wide-ranging speech Wednesday. >>View Article [ +++ ]
February 21 -- U.S. Sen. Harry Reid called on Nevada lawmakers to tighten the state's renewable energy standards in a wide-ranging speech Wednesday. >>View Article [ +++ ]
Created on Thursday, 14 February 2013 / Industry News
Tags: Hydropower, Renewable Energy Policy, National Hydropower Association, Hydropower Regulatory Efficiency Act
February 14 -- The House unanimously approved a bill 422-0 Wednesday that would remove barriers for small hydropower development and could eventually expedite permitting for other hydropower projects. ... [ +++ ]
February 14 -- The House unanimously approved a bill 422-0 Wednesday that would remove barriers for small hydropower development and could eventually expedite permitting for other hydropower projects. ... [ +++ ]
Created on Thursday, 14 February 2013 / Industry News
Tags: Solar Energy, Energy Policy, State of the Union, President Obama, SEIA
February 14 -- Rhone Resch, of the Solar Energy Industries Association sees a robust clean-energy industry as important to America's future. Here is what he said about the State of the Union address. >>View ... [ +++ ]
February 14 -- Rhone Resch, of the Solar Energy Industries Association sees a robust clean-energy industry as important to America's future. Here is what he said about the State of the Union address. >>View ... [ +++ ]
Created on Thursday, 14 February 2013 / Industry News
Tags: Wind Energy, President Obama, State of the Union, Federal Tax Credits, Energy Policy, First Wind
February 14 -- First Wind, a renewable energy company headquartered in Boston, commended President Obama for the clean energy vision outlined in his State of the Union address and called for policies that ... [ +++ ]
February 14 -- First Wind, a renewable energy company headquartered in Boston, commended President Obama for the clean energy vision outlined in his State of the Union address and called for policies that ... [ +++ ]
Created on Wednesday, 13 February 2013 / Industry News
Tags: State of the Union, President Obama, alternative fuels, renewable fuel, renewable energy, energy policy
February 13 -- President Obama proposed a program in Tuesday's State of the Union address that would divert some revenues from federal oil-and-gas drilling into research for alternative fuel technology. ... [ +++ ]
February 13 -- President Obama proposed a program in Tuesday's State of the Union address that would divert some revenues from federal oil-and-gas drilling into research for alternative fuel technology. ... [ +++ ]
Created on Tuesday, 12 February 2013 / Industry News
Tags: Renewable Energy Policy, Renewable Energy Standards, RPS, National Energy Policy, National Renewable Energy Goal, Tax Credits
February 12 -- The U.S. clean energy economy needs national policy to innovate, manufacture, and compete globally. While the global clean energy marketplace is expanding rapidly, the competitive position ... [ +++ ]
February 12 -- The U.S. clean energy economy needs national policy to innovate, manufacture, and compete globally. While the global clean energy marketplace is expanding rapidly, the competitive position ... [ +++ ]
Created on Monday, 11 February 2013 / Industry News
Tags: Renewable Energy Policy, Renewable Fuel Standard, Lisa Murkowski, Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources, Biomass, Biopower, Alternative Fuels
February 11 -- On Feb. 4, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources, released an energy blueprint that calls for a wide variety of changes ... [ +++ ]
February 11 -- On Feb. 4, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources, released an energy blueprint that calls for a wide variety of changes ... [ +++ ]
Created on Monday, 11 February 2013 / Industry News
Tags: Renewable Energy Finance, Market Trends, Renewable Energy Policy
February 11 -- The president of the American Council On Renewable Energy, Retired Vice Admiral Dennis McGinn, discusses where renewables are headed, and how to pay for projects. >>View Article ... [ +++ ]
February 11 -- The president of the American Council On Renewable Energy, Retired Vice Admiral Dennis McGinn, discusses where renewables are headed, and how to pay for projects. >>View Article ... [ +++ ]
Created on Monday, 11 February 2013 / Industry News
Tags: Solar Power, Germany, Alaska, feed-in tariffs, Renewable Energy Policy, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
February 11th -- Germany doesn’t get an enormous amount of sunlight, relatively speaking. Its annual solar resources are roughly comparable to Alaska’s. Just about every single region in the continental ... [ +++ ]
February 11th -- Germany doesn’t get an enormous amount of sunlight, relatively speaking. Its annual solar resources are roughly comparable to Alaska’s. Just about every single region in the continental ... [ +++ ]
Created on Friday, 08 February 2013 / Industry News
Tags: Senator Murkowski, energy policy, clean energy, national energy plan, policy
February 8 -- The Alaska senator's "all of the above" plan calls for the continued domestic development of nearly every source of energy - including oil, gas, coal, nuclear, wind, solar and hydropower. ... [ +++ ]
February 8 -- The Alaska senator's "all of the above" plan calls for the continued domestic development of nearly every source of energy - including oil, gas, coal, nuclear, wind, solar and hydropower. ... [ +++ ]
Created on Thursday, 31 January 2013 / Industry News
Tags: RPS, policy, ALEC, AWEA, SEIA, renewable energy policy, state policy
January 31 -- Solar and wind energy trade groups have quit the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) over its bid to scuttle state-based green electricity mandates, according to a published ... [ +++ ]
January 31 -- Solar and wind energy trade groups have quit the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) over its bid to scuttle state-based green electricity mandates, according to a published ... [ +++ ]
