It may seem hard to believe that the state that led the way in oil is also leading the way in renewable energy, but that’s exactly what’s happening in Texas.
Last week, wind turbines on the ERCOT energy grid produced 6,272 MW of energy. This is a record for Texas wind energy, however, it is not [...]
The East Coast offshore wind farm known as the Cape Wind project has been in the news off and on over the past few years and it appears now that some regulators want to try to anticipate the next challenges instead of waiting for them.
The Cape Wind offshore wind farm has been delayed, stopped, pushed [...]
With “experts” stating that the recession is over or that we are due for another drop, it is tough to say how our current economy is actually doing. But, the State of Arizona has stated the down economy is causing them to pull out of a regional cap-and-trade agreement set to begin in 2012.
The interesting [...]
Now that there has been a few days to really dissect the Obama Administration’s 2011 U.S. Federal Budget, we find that there is some good news for clean technology.
Even though at first glance the major headlines of the 2011 budget showed an increase to $54 Billion in loan guarantees for nuclear power and an extremely flimsy [...]
Even through the recession, alternative energy was still able to make an impact, push forward and create jobs. Nearly 10,000 megawatts of wind power electrical generation came on-line in 2009.
To put that in perspective, enough wind power was added in the U.S. last year to power 2.4 million homes.
This was a tremendous accomplishment given the [...]
Wind turbines and “farms” are being to show up in the most unlikely of places. This week, 3 wind turbines have finally begun operating in Antarctica.
Antarctica is one of the harshest environments in the world yet many scientists risk their lives to study in these conditions to determine how we are effecting the environment.
Typically, these [...]
Given enough time and determination, many of today’s Green Businesses are proving that any Green Innovation can be developed and produced. The latest Green Innovation is currently under construction in the United Kingdom (U.K.) and is an initial step in helping the maritime shipping industry reduce its carbon footprint.
B9 Energy might be a name some [...]
In an interesting turn of events, it seems that foreign companies from nations such as Spain and China invest more capital in U.S.-based wind power projects than U.S.-based investors.
With the billions of dollars in U.S. stimulus funds that were suppose to be directed toward U.S. renewable energy projects, only a few millions of dollars was [...]
With Copenhagen underway many leaders are beginning to divulge some of their plans to help their countries meet their own alternative energy mandates.
The latest pledge comes from a group of 9 European countries to develop a North Seas “Supergrid” offshore wind farm.
Ireland, the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Sweden, Denmark, France, and Germany have [...]
Offshore wind farms in the U.S. appear to be in a never ending struggle to get built. No matter how much promise these wind farms have, they seem to face new road blocks once they get past old ones.
The newest politically tricky problem that has arisen over Maryland’s offshore wind farms has actually come from [...]