03.12.2010 | BY CHRIS HOLLY
Just days after four Democratic senators moved to impose “buy American” requirements on renewable energy developers seeking federal stimulus funding, three wind developers—including one involved in a controversial Texas wind plant--announced...
03.11.2010
The emirate of Qatar, one of the world’s largest natural gas producers, last week announced it was diversifying into solar energy through a joint venture with SolarWorld AG to build the first polysilicon plant in the Arabian peninsula. Germany-based...
03.10.2010 | BY JOHNATHAN RICKMAN
The Senate was poised to approve late Tuesday a one-year extension of a biodiesel tax incentive that the industry says is crucial to maintaining its viability as it faces stiff competition from low-cost petroleum diesel. A proposed extension of the $1 per...
03.08.2010 | BY JOHNATHAN RICKMAN
In a finding that managed to perturb both wildlife groups and oil and natural gas industry officials—while also threatening wind, solar and transmission development in the West—the Interior Department’s Fish and Wildlife Service Friday...
03.04.2010 | BY GEORGE LOBSENZ
Four Democratic senators, saying millions of taxpayer dollars are going to support clean energy manufacturing jobs in other countries, Wednesday called on the Treasury Department to suspend an economic stimulus program for renewable energy projects until they...
03.04.2010
Looking to transform uncontrolled hazardous waste sites into incubators of clean energy, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory last week announced plans to evaluate the feasibility of...
03.03.2010
The Interior Department said Tuesday that opponents and proponents of the Cape Wind project have failed to resolve their differences over the proposed 468 megawatt wind farm offshore Cape Cod, meaning the agency will decide...
03.02.2010
Randall Luthi, former director of the Interior Department’s Minerals Management Service under the George W. Bush administration, Monday was named president of the U.S. trade association representing both offshore oil and gas drillers and renewable...
03.01.2010 | BY CHRIS HOLLY
Arizona legislation to allow utilities to use nuclear and hydro generation to meet a state renewable electricity standard was dropped last week after utilities and solar companies blasted the measure and a Chinese solar manufacturer threatened to cancel plans...
02.25.2010
In what company officials said will be the largest such plant in the United States and one of the world’s largest, an affiliate of oil major Chevron announced Tuesday it is teaming with German solar manufacturer Concentrix Solar to build a 1 megawatt...
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