Tag: Renewables
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How a Wyoming Wind Farm Could Save California $750 Million
By Ari Phillips [caption id="attachment_321081" align="alignright" width="360"] Photo credit: www.CGPGrey.com/Flickr Creative Commons[/caption] California law says that a third of the state’s energy must come from renewable sources by 2020. A proposed 500-square-mile, $8 billion wind farm developed by Anschutz Corp. in Wyoming could provide up to 3,000 megawatts of this power, or about three nuclear…
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Why You Should Celebrate Renewable Energy’s Disruption of Old Utilities
By Amory B. Lovins [caption id="attachment_321018" align="alignright" width="360"] Photo credit: Black Rock Solar[/caption] Renewables are making headway in Europe and bringing a low-carbon electricity system to the forefront. Renewables were 69 percent of new capacity added in 2012 in Europe and 49 percent in the United States. Not surprisingly, this threatens utilities unwilling to let…
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Which States Have the Most Solar Jobs?
Building on its National Solar Jobs Census report, The Solar Foundation (TSF) today released “deep-dive” data on the solar job markets in California, Arizona and Minnesota, as well as updated estimates of employment in each of the 50 states and Washington D.C. With 47,223 employees, California has more than five times the amount of solar employees…
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India Seeks $500 Million Loan For World’s Largest Solar Array
[caption id="attachment_320920" align="alignright" width="360"] Photo credit: Solar Energy Corp. of India[/caption] India could become home to the largest solar array on the planet, but it will take more than $4 billion. The country made the initial step this week to request a $500 million World Bank loan to help finance the first phase of a…
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50,000 Wind Energy Supporters Call on Incoming Senate Committee Leader to Extend Tax Credit
As Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden takes leadership of the Senate Finance Committee, his inbox is filling up with requests to prioritize the renewal of the wind production tax credit (PTC). Rob Hogg, an Iowa state senator, created a Climate Parents petition to send to Wyden, encouraging him to do what he can to obtain a PTC renewal.…