The wind industry has been getting a lot of love of late from the Obama administration. The president spent Earth Day at an Iowa factory that makes wind turbine towers and announced new regulations for offshore wind farms. Meanwhile, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has been talking up the potential of offshore wind to generate as [...]
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Tailwinds for the wind industry
Posted in alternative energy, climate change, Clipper Windpower, environment, green grid, green policy, offshore wind, renewable energy, wind power, tagged Clipper Windpower, enXco, Iberdrola Renewables, Obama administration, Suzlon, wind industry on April 24, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Wave energy developers face rougher waters
Posted in green policy, wave energy, wave power, wind power, tagged Department of the Interior, FERC, wave energy projects, wave farms on April 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Wave farm developers must overcome more hurdles to get their projects approved under an agreement signed Thursday ending a feud between two federal agencies that warred over the regulation of offshore wind and wave farms. A jurisdictional dispute between the U.S. Department of the Interior and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission had left in limbo [...]
Google to map green energy zones
Posted in alternative energy, Ausra, BrightSource Energy, endangered species, energy, enviro startups, environment, First Solar, Google, green startups, green tech, PG&E, renewable energy, solar energy, solar power plants, Southern California Edison, SunPower, wind power, tagged Google, Google Earth, green energy zones, Map Green Energy, renewable energy projects on April 1, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Can Google help defuse a simmering green civil war between renewable energy advocates and wildlife conservationists in the American West? That’s the idea behind a new Google Earth mapping project launched Wednesday by the Natural Resources Defense Council and the National Audubon Society. Path to Green Energy will identify areas in 13 western states potentially [...]
Offshore wind and wave farms dispute settled
Posted in energy, environment, green policy, offshore wind, renewable energy, water tech, wave energy, wave power, wind power, tagged Department of the Interior, FERC, Grays Harbor Ocean Energy, offshore wind farms, wave farms on March 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Infighting among U.S. federal agencies over regulation of wind and wave energy development on the outer continental shelf ended Tuesday with an accord that gives the Department of the Interior oversight of offshore wind farms while the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission gets jurisdiction over wave and tidal projects. While the deal brokered by Interior Secretary [...]
Green energy grows: $325 billion by 2018
Posted in alternative energy, biofuels, renewable energy, solar energy, wind power, tagged biofuels, Clean Edge, renewable energy, solar energy, wind power on March 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Worldwide revenues from the solar photovoltaic, wind and biofuels industries jumped 53% in 2008 to $116 billion and is on track to grow to $325 billion by 2018, according to a report released Tuesday by West Coast market research firm Clean Edge. Last year’s boom, however, is unlikely to be repeated in 2009, given the [...]
Portugal floats offshore wind farm plan
Posted in alternative energy, Clipper Windpower, energy, enviro startups, offshore wind, Principle Power, renewable energy, wind power, tagged Energias de Portugal, Jon Bonnano, offshore wind farm, Portugal, Principal Power on February 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Image: Principle Power Portugal has become a prime spot for wave energy farms, given the coastal conditions and the government’s support for renewable energy projects. Now Portuguese energy powerhouse Energias de Portugal has signed an agreement with Seattle’s Principle Power for a deep-water floating wind farm. It’s the second floating wind farm for Principle Power, [...]
China: The new wind superpower
Posted in alternative energy, climate change, energy, environment, global warming, green collar jobs, the green economy, wind power, tagged China, Germany, United States, wind industry on February 3, 2009 | 15 Comments »
photo: Todd Woody The numbers are in, and as expected 2008 set a record year for the worldwide wind industry as new wind farms generating a total of 27,000 megawatts of greenhouse gas-free electricity came online, according to the Global Wind Energy Council. The quick-click headline was that the United States overtook the world’s green [...]
The wind vs. coal jobs debate
Posted in alternative energy, environment, global warming, green collar jobs, green grid, wind power, tagged coal industry, green jobs, wind farms, wind power on February 2, 2009 | 7 Comments »
photo: Todd Woody When Green Wombat offered up as a “talking point” the observation that the wind industry now employs more people than coal mining, the post set off some vociferous chatter in the blogosphere, fueled in part by my inadvertent error of referring to the “coal industry” in a subsequent reference rather than “coal [...]
Wind jobs outstrip coal mining
Posted in energy, environment, green cars, green collar jobs, wind power, tagged coal industry, employment, green jobs, wind industry, wind power on January 28, 2009 | 33 Comments »
photo: Todd Woody Here’s a talking point in the green jobs debate: The wind industry now employs more people than coal mining in the United States. Wind industry jobs jumped to 85,000 in 2008, a 70% increase from the previous year, according to a report released Tuesday from the American Wind Energy Association. In contrast, [...]
Obama’s new green grid regulator
Posted in alternative energy, green grid, renewable energy, solar energy, solar power plants, wind power, tagged Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, FERC, green grid, Jon Wellinghoff, renewable energy on January 26, 2009 | 3 Comments »
photo: FERC The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, or FERC, is one of those acronym agencies that regulates a key aspect of the United States economy – the electricity grid – but tends to operate under the radar. Not any more. With President Barack Obama’s appointment of FERC Comissioner and renewable energy advocate Jon Wellinghoff as [...]
