Tag: Energy
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Global Solar Photovoltaic Industry Likely Now a Net Energy Producer
For the first time since the boom started, the electricity generated by all of the world’s installed solar photovoltaic (PV) panels last year probably surpassed the amount of energy going into fabricating more modules, according to Michael Dale, a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford’s Global Climate & Energy Project (GCEP). With continued technological advances, the global…
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Cleveland City Council Passes Resolution Supporting Ohio’s Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Laws
ECOWATCH — Last night, Cleveland City Council voted unanimously, 17-0, on an emergency ordinance, Resolution No. 13, supporting energy efficiency and renewable energy, and urging Governor Kasich and the Ohio General Assembly to preserve Ohio’s cost-saving energy efficiency and renewable energy laws …
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Renewable Energy Provides 82 Percent of All New U.S. Electrical Generating Capacity in First Quarter 2013
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY COALITION — According to the latest Energy Infrastructure Update report from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Office of Energy Projects, renewable energy sources accounted for 82 percent of all new domestic electrical generating capacity installed …
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Groups Petition DOE to Revise Out-of-Date Policy for Approving Natural Gas Exports
SIERRA CLUB — The LNG export applications now before the DOE will significantly alter the shape of American energy policy if granted even in substantial part, and have the potential to make the U.S. one of the largest exporters of natural gas in the world …
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Court Victory for Opponents of Fracking in California
CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY / SIERRA CLUB — Today, a federal judge has ruled that the Obama Administration violated the law when it issued oil leases in Monterey County, Calif., without considering the environmental impacts of hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking. The ruling came in response to …