Tag: Renewables

[caption id="attachment_311192" align="alignright" width="401"] Graphic credit: The Oldspeak Journal[/caption] The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) had no success influencing states to roll back clean energy standards this year, but that doesn’t mean the organization is done trying. For the first time, ALEC posted an online agenda for its Energy, Environment and Agriculture (EEA) task force, which will meet at the States…

[caption id="attachment_311192" align="alignright" width="401"] Graphic credit: The Oldspeak Journal[/caption] The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) had no success influencing states to roll back clean energy standards this year, but that doesn’t mean the organization is done trying. For the first time, ALEC posted an online agenda for its Energy, Environment and Agriculture (EEA) task force, which will meet at the States…

 A rush by utilities to take advantage of a federal tax credit made late 2012 a historic time for the wind energy sector. The Production Tax Credit (PTC) expired Dec. 31, 2012, bringing installations to a screeching halt in early 2013. Though Congress temporarily extended the PTC two days later, the industry installed just 1.6 megawatts…

More and more businesses, municipalities and universities are promoting themselves as efficient, but only a select few can honestly say they use 100 percent clean energy. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) celebrated those green energy consumers yesterday by releasing its 100% Green Power Users list. The list is comprised of organizations in the agency’s…

Vote Solar and the Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC) recently published report cards grading each state on policies related to net metering and interconnection—two measures that are critical in utilities allowing people to generate their own power. California, Massachusetts, Oregon and Utah each received “A” grades in both categories of the seventh annual Freeing the Grid report. Only…