All Posts Tagged With: "Renewable Energy"

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Study Advocates Western Power Switch From Coal
to Nuclear

While some previous studies have emphasized the high cost of carbon taxes or caps, the new study shows that replacing coal with more gas generation, as well as renewable sources like wind, solar and geothermal energy, would result in only a moderate increase to consumers in the cost of electric power – at most, 20 percent.

4Apr2012 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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