Tag: business
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ALEC Agenda Reveals Anti-Renewable Energy Strategies for December Summit
[caption id="attachment_311192" align="alignright" width="401"] Graphic credit: The Oldspeak Journal[/caption] The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) had no success influencing states to roll back clean energy standards this year, but that doesn’t mean the organization is done trying. For the first time, ALEC posted an online agenda for its Energy, Environment and Agriculture (EEA) task force, which will meet at the States…
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Electric Bike Sales Soar Worldwide
[caption id="attachment_311115" align="alignright" width="359"] Photo credit: Pressebild Eurobike[/caption] While data from the National Bike Dealers Association shows that Americans bought nearly 19 million bicycles in 2012, electric bike sales finished at less than 1 percent of that amount However, the 159,000 e-bikes sold from 2011 to 2012 in the U.S. still show plenty of growth.…
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U.S. Wind Industry Poised for Rebound After Dismal First Half
A rush by utilities to take advantage of a federal tax credit made late 2012 a historic time for the wind energy sector. The Production Tax Credit (PTC) expired Dec. 31, 2012, bringing installations to a screeching halt in early 2013. Though Congress temporarily extended the PTC two days later, the industry installed just 1.6 megawatts…
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Find out Which Businesses, Cities and Universities Use 100 Percent Green Energy
More and more businesses, municipalities and universities are promoting themselves as efficient, but only a select few can honestly say they use 100 percent clean energy. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) celebrated those green energy consumers yesterday by releasing its 100% Green Power Users list. The list is comprised of organizations in the agency’s…
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3 Tech Companies Using Renewables to Combat Data Center Energy Crisis
It takes a lot of energy to enable web users to stream videos, downloads books and other online activities—about the same amount it would take to power 30 nuclear power plants. Data centers around the world use about 30 gigawatts, or 30 billion watts of electricity, according to Green House Data. U.S. data centers account…