Tag: Featured Business
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Cuomo Announces $210 Million to Jump Start NY Green Bank
The State of New York jump started the deployment of renewable energy, green businesses and jobs this month with a $210 million investment. Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced the funding this month for the creation of the New York Green Bank to encourage power projects that use clean energy instead of fossil fuels. Ever since…
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13 Renewable Energy Breakthroughs of 2013
By Kiley Kroh and Jeff Spross While the news about climate change seems to get worse every day, the rapidly improving technology, declining costs, and increasing accessibility of clean energy is the true bright spot in the march toward a zero-carbon future. The year had more clean energy milestones than we could fit on one…
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Failure to Pass Tax Credit Creates Uncertainty for Wind Industry
By Ryan Koronowski The U.S. House of Representatives has already gone on vacation back to their districts and the Senate effectively adjourned for 2013 on Friday, meaning that the one-year extension of the Wind Production Tax Credit (PTC) will expire on Jan. 1, 2014. The PTC is a $0.022 per kilowatt-hour tax credit on the power that new wind…
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Solar Cost Reduction Goal Way Ahead of Schedule
Less than three years in, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) solar cost reduction initiative has risen far above expectations. The DOE announced the SunShot Initiative in February 2011 with the goal of encouraging a price drop for utility scale installations by 75 percent by 2020. So far, the federal department has achieved about 60 percent.…
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Brooklyn Whole Foods Wows With Solar, Wind, EV Chargers, Greenhouse and More
The outside of the newly opened Whole Foods on Brooklyn, NY’s Gowanus Canal contains more examples of renewable energy and efficiency than some companies have throughout their entire operations. Solar and wind energy work together to completely power two Skypump electric vehicle charging stations and 19 LED streetlights. The Sanya SLSTM streetlights, by New York, NY-based Urban…