China: Spending $372B on Energy Conservation
China is spending $372 billion on energy conservation and anti-pollution measures over the next three-and-a-half years, reports Reuters. The measures, meant to reduce China’s dependence on fossil fuels...
View ArticleThe 2012 Election: It’s All About Energy
Recently, GTM asked how the results of the 2012 election will impact U.S. greentech, but a new poll suggests that question put the horse before the cart. The first question is how greentech will impact...
View ArticleThe “Renewables Club” Formed by 10 Countries
If an international treaty to cut carbon emissions hasn’t worked how about using the opposite approach? Instead of focusing on ”eliminating the bad” perhaps a shift toward “increasing the good” can...
View ArticleSolar Wheelchair Wins Competition
A student team from the University of Virginia School of Engineering won first place in the 2012 World Cerebral Palsy Day “Change My World in One Minute” competition with their prototype design of a...
View ArticleSolarCity Raises 2013 Guidance
SolarCity (SCTY), the newly public, fast-growing installer and financier of distributed energy, is having a breakout 2013. The company just raised its 2013 guidance to 270 megawatts deployed, up from...
View Article2010 American Solar Challenge Underway
The 2010 AmericanSolar Challenge (ASC2010) is officially underway! On Saturday, solar-powered vehicles took off at noon from BrokenArrow, Oklahoma, en route to the Chicago suburb of Naperville. ASC is...
View ArticleChina and the Clean Energy Race
Its been busy and its time to playcatchup on some of the work I’ve been doing in recent weeks. Let mestart by republishing a recent conversation I had with Derek Thompson ofThe Atlantic, originally...
View ArticleHave We Even Entered The Clean Energy Race Yet?
Will we ever get it? That’s the question I asked myself after reading a Reuters piece on Wednesday, which basically focused in on how pathetically backwards our thinking has become when it comes to...
View ArticleHas China Won the Cleantech Race?
China is emerging as the clear leader in the race for global dominance in the clean tech sector according to a report from the World Watch Institute (WWI). Not only has Beijing pulled ahead of the...
View ArticleProperty Owners Race to Cash in on Commercial Solar Grant
In 2009, the United States federal government converted a 30 percenttax credit for business owners who power their property with solarenergy into a 30 percent treasury grant. What’s the difference?...
View ArticleLiberty Interactive Invests $300M in Solana
Abengoa Solar’s first giant concentrating solar power system in the U.S., the 280 megawatt Solana Project, is nearly complete and is in The post Liberty Interactive Invests $300M in Solana appeared...
View ArticleNelson Mandela and Climate Change
Former South African President Nelson Mandela, who served 27 years in prison for anti-apartheid activities and led his continent into a new The post Nelson Mandela and Climate Change appeared first on...
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