All Posts Tagged With: "Renewable Energy"
Feeling Blue About Green? Reasons for Cleantech Optimism
With the first high profile cleantech company failures, the euphoria of the cleantech bubble has burst creating pessimism about the future of cleantech as a whole. I say, hogwash! History says we have many reasons to be optimistic. Just because things look bad today doesn’t mean the world is coming to an end! We humans have a hard time stepping back and getting a perspective on things that span long periods of time and it’s easy to get lost in the fear and distress of the day. But as a cleantech venture capitalist, I am almost required to be optimistic. How else could I make high-risk investments in early stage companies?
18Nov2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Defense Department Accelerating Clean Energy Innovation to Save Lives, Money
DoD has 450 ongoing renewable energy projects producing or procuring 9.6 percent of its energy from clean sources in fiscal 2010. Renewable energy spending by the department is projected to reach $3 billion by 2015 and $10 billion by 2030.
25Sep2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Plug Wars: When Cities Take Back the Power
The City of Boulder is weighing whether to renew its 20-year franchise agreement for electricity with Xcel, or to create its own municipal utility. The rub? The city has pegged contract renewal to reduction of carbon emissions á la Kyoto Protocol goals (greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2012). Boulder officials dismiss recent offers by Xcel (like offsetting carbon emissions with renewable energy) as window dressing to disguise the utility’s heavy carbon emissions statewide.
11Aug2011 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
Ownership (and Money) a Cure for NIMBY
NIMBY has been misunderstood by the clean energy community. It is not a knee jerk, it’s a market failure. When citizens see a new wind or solar energy project, it shouldn’t be from the sidelines. They should see it from the front seat …
12May2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Renewables Face New Challenges — Will They Be Ready for Prime Time Any Time Soon?
NREL Director Dan Arvizu, speaking Monday at the the EnergyBiz Leadership Forum in Washington, D.C., warned that potential federal budget reductions, if enacted, could derail or delay by years crucial progress on clean energy technologies that would benefit the nation. His full remarks:
1Mar2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Survey: Western Voters Favor the Environment — Despite Struggling Economy
The economic rationale of relaxing environmental standards is a non-starter with the voters surveyed. What’s more, 54 percent indicated they’d be willing to pay at least ten dollars more per month to increase the use of renewable energy to generate electricity in their state.
24Feb2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
US Renewable Energy Market Likely To Fall
Without Incentives
The domestic wind-power industry, which has struggled this year amid low power demand and depressed prices for fossil-fueled power generation, will continue to slide if the cash-grant program is not extended, said Michael Garland, chief executive of wind-power developer Pattern Energy.
11Oct2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
National Perspective — U.S. Energy Use is Dropping and Shifting to Renewables
The research reveals that energy use is dropping at a pace that is faster than would be expected based on the slowing economy alone. What’s more, the growth in renewable energy, coupled with increased use of natural gas, is displacing significant amounts of coal.
25Aug2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Weld County Approves ‘Manure Energy’ Plant
Using 24 covered anaerobic digesters, the solid waste disposal site will turn cattle manure into a gas that could supply power to as many as 22,000 homes.
22Jul2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
U.S. Business Leaders Call for Revolution in Energy Technology Innovation
The key, they say, is reforming and strengthening U.S. investment in energy innovation — the most critical element to securing America’s future. This isn’t just another clean energy advocacy group. Members range from Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Chad Holliday, former CEO of DuPont, to GE’s Jeff Immelt and Lockheed Martin’s former chair, Norm Augustine.
1Jul2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Summit County:
Biomass Energy Benefits Not a Slam-Dunk
Biomass energy from beetle-killed trees is often touted as a possible win-win scenario, but as Bob Berwn reports from Summit County, it’s not quite as simple as chopping up the wood and feeding it into wood-fired boilers.
6Jun2010 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
Colorado Considers More Oversight of Tri-State
Driving the PUC’s look at the wholesale power supplier are concerns about climate change, uncertainty about future development costs and state mandates for more renewable energy. All that warrants a comprehensive look at statewide energy use, the commission says. Tri-State, however, questions the commission’s legal authority to oversee its plans.
21May2009 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
BLM to Get $305M Facelift — Including Funds
for Renewables
The money will be used to update BLM facilities, trails and roads, as well as help jumpstart renewable energy projects, with $41 million allocated to alleviate the backlog of pending applications for solar and wind energy projects on BLM lands.
4May2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
National, Regional and State Updates
>> Lobbyists Swarm Washington Touting Energy Ideas
>> States Anxious as Obama Shapes Climate Policy
>> A Natural Gas Glut Adds to Industry Downturn
>> State Lawmakers Ready for More Oil and Gas Debate
>> Carbondale is Solar Happy
Pike Research– Renewables DG Market to Exceed $60 Billion within Five Years
The Boulder-based market research firm says global system revenues for sub-utility scale Renewable Distributed Energy Generation (RDEG) rose 76% in 2007 and 2008 to an estimated $29.9 billion by the end of last year.
19Mar2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Thorny Issue of Power-Line Siting Threatens Energy Progress
The dispute over power-line siting authority surfaced in Washington, D.C. last week. And it has the potential to derail all of the well-intentioned renewable-energy programs now underway in Colorado and the West.
16Mar2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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