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SOURCE: iht.com By Ted Plafker BEIJING: China gets nearly 70 percent of its energy from coal, according to the National Bureau of Statistics, and more than 23 percent from oil and natural gas. Nuclear and renewables furnish 7 percent: somewhere in there is solar. Yet this year the Hurun Report, a ranking of the 1,000 . . . → Read More: Solar power’s bright future in China SOURCE: eponline.com October 29, 2008 The Network for New Energy Choices has issued its 2008 report cards grading state policies that allow farmers, homeowners, ranchers, and small business owners who generate renewable energy to connect to the grid and receive credit for the electricity they produce. This year’s “Freeing the Grid” report has . . . → Read More: Group Gives Texas an ‘F’ for Low Solar Power Incentives SOURCE: Reuters *Alternative energy cos need credit to fund growth *Solar panel prices could fall faster than expected *Downturn could determine solar winners and losers By Nichola Groom – Analysis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – “Going green” doesn’t have quite the cachet it used to, at least on Wall Street. Investors in renewable energy stocks . . . → Read More: ‘Green’ loses cachet on Wall Street SOURCE: triplepundit.com The Europeans are serious about nanotechnology to wean countries off using fossil fuels in the next century. There´s considerable interest in setting up a solar grid that is global because the sun consistently shines on some part of the planet. The technologies European scientists say are going to dominate the sustainable energy . . . → Read More: European Scientists: ‘Let’s Set Up A Global Solar Energy Grid’ SOURCE: cleantechnica.com Written by Andrew Williams Published on October 25th, 2008 Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have discovered a new way of storing energy from sunlight that could lead to ‘unlimited’ solar power. The process, loosely based on plant photosynthesis, uses solar energy to split water into hydrogen and oxygen gases. When . . . → Read More: MIT energy storage discovery could lead to unlimited Solar Power SOURCE: BusinessWeek By Adam Aston October 23, 2008, 5:00PM EST As global financial markets melted down in October, Congress handed a gift to America’s green energy industry: It renewed and broadened a set of tax credits for wind and solar power, geothermal, tidal energy, and more. The move did little to prop up eco-energy . . . → Read More: Will Demand for Solar Homes Pick Up? SOURCE: LA Times By Gale Holland Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has announced a private-public partnership to bring solar power to 15 California State University campuses and the system’s Long Beach headquarters. “California is going green and we are doing it first and we are doing it fast,” Schwarzenegger said this week at a news conference . . . → Read More: 15 CSU campuses to get solar power SOURCE: dailytech.com Shane McGlaun (Blog) – October 22, 2008 12:24 PM Project hopes to send enough solar power from space to a ground station to illuminate one light bulb Solar power is great in that it can generate virtually free power from the energy of the sun. The catch is that existing solar power . . . → Read More: One Light Bulb Project Hopes to Launch in 2010 SOURCE: newsday.com By ANGELA DELLI SANTI |Associated Press Writer October 22, 2008 TRENTON, N.J. – Gov. Jon S. Corzine has laid out a vision for New Jersey‘s energy future. The proposal issued Wednesday includes an increasing reliance on renewable sources like wind and solar power, creating clean-energy businesses and jobs . . . → Read More: NJ gov introduces energy master plan SOURCE: thedailygreen.com October 20, 2008 at 9:55AM by Dan Shapley A “new energy economy” is emerging in the United States. Now. That’s the way Lester R. Brown, founder of the Earth Policy Institute and one of the most influential voices on buidling a sustainable economy, sees it. Here’s a look at the bones of . . . → Read More: 7 Signs the New Energy Economy Is Here From Texas to Delaware, Hopeful Signs |
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