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Obama Biofuel Budget Spills Few Details, Still Attacked By House GOP
April 12 -- Enviros hoping for details on President Obama’s promised biofuel push got a few answers yesterday in the president’s new budget, which still left some questions as to how the administration plans to pay for expensive new biofuels research. >>View Article
Union Station Switches To Wind Power
April 12 -- The historic train depot signed a contract with Herndon, Va.-based Washington Gas Energy Services that will see it purchase renewable energy credits from a network of wind farms in order to offset its annual energy consumption. >>View Article
NJ May Start Funding Renewable Energy Energy Storage
April 12 -- New Jersey's proposal to start funding renewable energy storage projects comes at the same time that the state is cutting renewable energy funding down to $7.5 million for 2014. >>View Article
RPS Attacks Go Against The March Of History
April 11 -- Last month in Phoenix, I watched the very conservative governor of Arizona, Jan Brewer, deliver a brief keynote speech to open the second day of the CleanTech Future conference put on by CleanTech Connections and the Arizona Commerce Authority. Nineteen floors above the impressive solar PV arrays at Arizona State University's downtown campus across the street, Brewer extolled the virtues of solar and other clean energy as a business boon for her state. >>View Article
Four Charts That Show The U.S. Spends Too Little On Energy Research
April 11 -- At his confirmation hearing this morning, Energy Secretary nominee Ernest Moniz told the Senate that the United States spends far too little on energy R&D. “We are underinvesting by a factor of three,” he said. Is that accurate? Many energy experts have, indeed, argued over the years that the U.S. government should do a lot more to invest in innovative new energy technologies — particularly if we want to address global warming. >>View Article
Renewable Energy: Filling The Megawatt Void
April 11 -- If any sector would seem unlikely to be singled out for its robust dealmaking outlook, renewable energy might seem to be it. After a surge in investment and in installations over the past decade, renewable energy seemed to run out of road in 2012, undermined by extreme competition, low natural gas prices and limits on government assistance in a budget-constrained environment. >>View Article
Wind-Power Generated In California Marks A Record Peak
April 10 -- California wind power generators produced a record 4,196 megawatts of electricity Sunday evening, the state's grid operator reported. >>View Article
Iowa Senate OKs Alternative Energy Tax Credits
April 10 -- The Iowa Senate has approved tax breaks for electric and natural gas fueling stations and those who install solar panels. >>View Article
NREL Initiative Aims For Lower-Cost Solar
April 10 -- NREL has launched an initiative to build an open-source database from solar facilities across the country, giving the private market tools to develop investment vehicles to tap low-cost public capital. >>View Article
Doug Duncan - How To Encourage Clean-Energy Job Growth
April 10 -- Repealing its renewable energy law could impact North Carolina's new and expanding clean energy job base, says professional logger association executive director. >>View Article
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