Tag: Featured Business
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Solar Industry’s Sizzling Start to New Year Could Lead to More Broken Records
With the coldest winter in two decades gripping much of the country this year—and wild price swings for natural gas rattling the markets, not to mention American consumers—it’s easy for many people to overlook the “hot start” in 2014 for solar energy. But so far this year, it’s been good news followed by even more…
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Renewable Energy Provided 99 Percent of New Power Generation in January
The new year began with as green a bang as any renewable energy advocate could have hoped for. Renewable sources provided nearly 100 percent of the new power generation installed in the U.S. in January, according to new data from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Of the 325 megawatts (MW) of added generation, only 1…
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4 Ways the Green Climate Fund Can Help Developing Countries
By Alex Doukas The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has big ambitions: It aspires to become the main global fund for providing climate change finance, contributing to activities like the design of resilient cities and the expansion of low-emission power generation. However, it faces crucial questions about how it will allocate its funds to achieve its many mitigation and adaptation…
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Dozens of EV Charging Stations Hit Las Vegas Strip
When members of the both the public and private sectors talk about expanding the electric vehicle (EV) market, they rarely lose site of a key obstacle—making charging more widely available. Though plug-in vehicle sales surged by more than 80 percent last year, potential EV drivers remain concerned about charging accessibility. EV proponents want more chargers…
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Huge Solar Farms On California’s Public Lands Could Power 170,000 Homes
By Emily Atkin [caption id="attachment_322746" align="alignright" width="360"] Photo credit: First Solar[/caption] The Obama administration on Wednesday announced that it has given final approval to two sizable solar projects on public lands near the Nevada-California border, which when operational are expected to provide a combined 550 megawatts of renewable energy, or enough to power about 170,000 homes and…