New England

Beacon Power Corporation (Nasdaq:BCON) has finalized a $43 million loan guarantee from the Department of Energy for an innovative flywheel energy storage project in

If there’s one thing that the state of Maine and the province of Nova Scotia share, it’s lots of coastline. So, in a positive demonstration of international renewable energy cooperation, the two governments will be working together to develop tidal energy and offshore wind power.

This is the final section of my three-part interview with MREC director John Miller. 

In this section we discuss the necessity of public policy in the development of America's marine energy industry.  We also explore what MREC is doing to promote and develop wave and tidal technologies.

This is Part II of my three-part interview with John Miller, director of the Marine Renewable Energy Center.

Part I provided a brief explanation of carbon credit trading, but now the question is whether or not such a market is effective in stemming global warming. The answer is not as straight forward as one might think.

The Way it Could Be:

This is the first part of my three part interview with John Miller, the director of the Marine Renewable Energy Center (MREC).

Part I: “Introduction to Marine Renewable Energy Center”

Things are looking “up” for Heritage Aviation. In fact, Heritage Aviation is the first general aviation facility in United States to include renewable energy.

Three Sustainable Features for Heritage Aviation

When determining how to prioritize action using, by definition, limited resources, one criteria should be whether something is "win-win-win," offering benefits across multiple arenas for the same investment dollars. If one of those wins is 'paying for itself', then the prioritization should go even higher.

Governor John Baldacci of Maine understands wind energy partly because he’s traveled to Spain, Germany and Norway to learn about it, and partly because he has the listening ears of New England's movers and shakers.