Twenty of the world's leading off-grid clean energy entrepreneurs sent a letter today to World Bank Group president Robert Zoellick requesting $500 million in financial commitments to help them deliver on the world's energy access goals.
Conservative America's fight against the advancement of a new energy economy continues to evolve. The latest development is a concerted campaign to discredit the wind industry and shift public opinion against the technology.
A new survey from Stanford University shows that American support for government action on global warming has dropped over the past two years.
Oil and gas pipeline giant Enbridge Inc. has invested $5 million in Mississauga, Ont.-based Hydrogenics, a leading maker of proton-exchange membrane fuel cells and electrolysis systems for producing hydrogen gas from water.
Electricity rates in Germany drop by up to 40% during the hours in which solar power or wind power are active -- and this is what Merit Order ranking is all about, using the cheapest available electricity source first - and then filling in the gaps with more expensive coal-fired electrical power generation.
The White House and BP have been hiding the truth about the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf.
Despite all the political rhetoric, the bottom line hasn't changed: carbon emissions are increasing in every corner of the planet. This is largely due to the fact that the global economy is so unequivocally tied to fossil fuel consumption.
Could it be that the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gas is the same country that spends more on green technology than any other country?
Riopaila Castilla, Columbia's largest sugar producer by market share (20%), recently announced that its board of directors approved a proposal that would allow the company to build a 35-megawatt biomass cogeneration plant at a cost of around $48 million.
Researchers assessing the state's potential for renewable energy say Virginia could realistically meet half of its nearly 20,000-megawatt power demand by the year 2035 with clean, sustainable sources like solar, onshore and offshore wind, and biomass.
