All Posts Tagged With: "clean energy"

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Clean Energy Top Priority, U.N. Chief Tells NREL

NREL, through its numerous partnerships with the U.N., is playing a crucial role in making that happen and building a sustainable world, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told a crowd of researchers assembled at NREL’s Research Support Facility.

26Aug2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Former Governor Ritter Joins Western Advocates to Urge State Leadership on Clean Energy

The report entitled Western Grid 2050: Contrasting Futures, Contrasting Fortunes finds that with intentional policymaking and planning today, the West can successfully transition to a clean energy economy that will deliver job, environmental and public health benefits for decades to come.

25Aug2011 | admin | 3 comments | Continued
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NREL’s 2011 Executive Energy Leadership Program

Applications are still being accepted for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s 2011 Executive Energy Leadership Program (Energy Execs). The program educates public and private sector decision-makers through a non-technical approach about clean energy options.

11Mar2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Two Years Into The Stimulus

LIke it or not, one thing is clear according to a new report –
The Recovery Act is poised to achieve its goal of doubling clean energy capacity over the next two years. The Transportation Sector received the greatest stimulus boost in terms of sheer dollar allotment with more than $22 billion to promote the development, production, and purchase of energy efficient transportation solutions and technologies.

1Feb2011 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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Brookings Institution Report: Mountain West Poised to Lead Energy System Transformation

The report encourages the U.S. to move proactively and aggressively to build the proposed Intermountain West network of high-powered energy innovation commercialization centers, and thereby creating the “next economy” in the mountain region and nationally.

6Sep2010 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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Why is Dirty Energy Still So Cheap?

The clean tech sector has experienced remarkable success in the past few years, yet there still remains one huge roadblock from mass implementation – cheap fossil fuels. Some may think this is simply a matter of free-market capitalism at work. The real truth is that petroleum and coal industries continue to receive massive subsidies from governments around the world, while renewable energy firms receive only a small fraction of that amount.

23Aug2010 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
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Boulder Stumbles Going Green

For all the solar panels arrayed on the roof of the municipal building on the corner of Broadway and Canyon, the roar of traffic tells a different story. The people of Boulder are just as wedded to their cars as they are anywhere else in America. The city has tried hard to try to get people to use public transport. But the buses crossing this busy intersection are all virtually empty. “Changing behaviour at a community level is not easy and it doesn’t happen at a rapid pace,” admits Jonathan Koehn, Boulder’s regional sustainability co-ordinator, during a tour of some of the city’s green initiatives.

2Aug2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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China’s Energy Grab Is No Green Affair

China’s clean energy spending, indeed, is at a high monetary level, but what the President fails to mention is the utterly massive level of spending that the Chinese have embarked upon in pursuit of expanding their traditional energy portfolio. As Kate MacKenzie points out in her recent Financial Times piece, Chinese national oil companies have embarked on a “mega-spree” of fossil energy foreign acquisitions, accounting in fact for almost 20% of the world’s global deal value in the first quarter of 2010.

12Jul2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Clean Transportation Sector –
FedEx Introduces First All-Electric Trucks

The parcel delivery gian is expanding its alternative-energy vehicle fleet with the first all-electric FedEx parcel delivery trucks in the United States. Four purpose-built electric vehicles are slated to hit the road in Los Angeles soon.

29Mar2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Clean Energy Battered, Not Broken

A cascade of events have discouraged such folks – to the degree that many are taking a silver-lining perspective on the clouds gathering around attempts to transform the energy industry in Colorado and beyond.

2Feb2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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CSU Startup Aims to Manufacture Next Generation Batteries

Colorado State University’s Clean Energy commercialization arm, Cenergy, has co-founded a new company that, it says, will manufacture batteries up to 1,000 times more powerful, 10 times longer-lasting and cheaper than traditional units.

18Dec2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Salazar to Climate Skeptics: “You’re Wrong”
and the U.S. will Cap Emissions

“Some people don’t even accept that climate change is real,” the former Democratic senator from Colorado said in Copenhagen, where nearly 200 countries are meeting to negotiate a new treaty to combat global warming. “I believe they are wrong.”

11Dec2009 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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ITN Energy Systems Awarded $4.9 Million
ARPA-E Grant From DOE

The funding will support technology development using the Littleton-based cleantech incubator’s proprietary roll-to-roll production process to reduce the cost of electrically controlled smart windows for net-zero energy buildings.

10Nov2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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