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  • Reports Unveil Roadmap to Clean Energy Future for Washington State

    With hydropower accounting for 69 percent of generating capacity, Washington State has one of the nation’s cleanest energy profiles. Still, 14 percent of the state’s grid is powered by coal and that portion accounts for 81 percent of the state’s climate pollution from electricity. The majority of the electricity comes from a coal plant in Colsrip,…

  • Solar: The Solution to America’s Energy and Economic Crisis

    Rhone Resch, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), praised the rise of the solar energy sector while attempting to galvanize its stakeholders at the three-day Solar Power International 2013 event in Chicago. Resch welcomed visitors to the gathering, which began Monday, with the following address: “Since 2006, when the solar Investment Tax Credit…

  • Middle-Class Homeowners Biggest Buyers of Rooftop Solar

    If you thought there was financial exclusivity in installing residential rooftop solar panels, think again. Households with middle-class income—$40,000 to $90,000—are adding panels to their roofs more frequently than any segment, according to a report from the Center for American Progress (CAP). “Middle-class homeowners are overwhelmingly taking advantage of rooftop solar,” said Mari Hernandez, a…

  • Energy Efficiency Firms Lead ‘Global Cleantech 100′ List

    Peter Miller The new Global Cleantech 100 list of private companies breaking barriers with their clean technology ideas and executions across the worldwide economy finds that energy efficiency companies not only continue to dominate the list, but are growing in influence.    For the past five years, the Cleantech Group has published an inventory of 100 companies it believes are most…

  • IKEA Continues to Lead in Solar Energy Installations

    IKEA has commenced work on a new solar panel array that will double the amount of generation at a store just outside, Boston, MA. The retailer, which installed solar projects on 39 of its 44 U.S. locations last year, recently began work on a 58,575-square-foot addition to its Stoughton, MA location. The addition will make space…