Tag: Featured Business
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Interactive Map Shows All 47,000 Wind Turbines in the U.S.
As wind energy advocates fight for the renewal of a critical, expired wind energy tax credit and hope for the development of an offshore industry, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has taken note of the onshore wind turbines installed around the country. All 47,000 of them. That’s the USGS’ installation estimate for the country as of…
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5 Incubators That Are Shaping the Future of Green Business
If you’re a startup housed by a business incubator, odds are you’re in good hands. The National Business Incubation Association (NBIA) estimates that 87 percent of the firms that have graduated from their member incubators are still in business. The organization also says that those graduates create jobs, revitalize neighborhoods and innovate new technologies at a much…
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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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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…