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4 Infographics Show How Much Solar Power Is Installed in the U.S.
The record-setting third quarter for U.S. solar energy installations brings the nation’s total to a whopping 10.25 gigawatts (GW). That’s enough to make the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) predict that the U.S. could finally rise up the ranks to beat Germany in new solar photovoltaic (PV) installations next year. Included in that figure—the country’s second-best quarter—was the…
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How Wind Met All of Denmark’s Electricity Needs for 90 Hours
By Bentham Paulos Renewable electricity records are being broken every day. In early October, Germany hit a 59 percent renewable peak, Colorado utility Xcel Energy peaked at 60 percent wind at the beginning of the year and Spain got its top power supply from wind for three months leading into 2013. But that’s chump change compared with Denmark. According to data from Energinet,…
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Top 11 Stories in 2013 on Powering the Internet With Renewables
By David Pomerantz 2013 has been a whirlwind of exciting developments for the growing idea that the Internet should be powered with clean energy, and it couldn’t happen at a better time. As access spreads around the world and people watch more streaming videos and share more photos, the Internet has the potential to become…
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Feds Provide $150 Million in Clean Energy Tax Credits
[caption id="attachment_315220" align="alignright" width="360"] Photo courtesy of Shutterstock[/caption] The transition to renewable energy that everybody from college professors to the president speaks about won’t happen without manufacturing more of the technology needed to make it possible. That’s why the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced today that it would provide $150 million in tax credits to companies that…
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65 Percent of Americans Say EVs Essential to Future, Just 1 Percent Drive Them
Though fewer than 1 percent of the U.S. population drives an electric vehicle (EV) or plug-in hybrid, four out of ever 10 households could begin doing so with little or no change to their driving habits and vehicle needs. That data comes from the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) and Consumers Union, which issued a report Wednesday based on…