Clean Energy Direct :: Water
08.24.2010 | Eric Lindeman
In what it describes as the largest ocean energy “power plant” ever installed in U.S. waters, Ocean Renewable Power Co. said it has successfully generated grid-compatible power from tidal currents at its Cobscook Bay site in Eastport, Maine, while... 08.17.2010
Warning that traditional cost-benefit analyses don’t necessarily work with renewable energy, David Fridley, a staff scientist at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, warns that development of alternatives to... 08.03.2010 | Eric Lindeman
In its third study on U.S. energy and national security since 2006, CNA’s Military Advisory Board has found that the nation’s current energy posture undermines economic security and poses an urgent threat to national security but, more... 08.03.2010 | Eric Lindeman
Coinciding with an independent report recommending a strong energy efficiency and renewable energy partnership between the departments of Defense and Energy, DoD and DOE signed a memorandum of understanding last week with the goal of accelerating clean energy... 08.02.2010 | Eric Lindeman
Pledging to work cooperatively on renewable ocean energy, the U.S. state of Maine and the Canadian province of Nova Scotia entered a memorandum of understanding last month according to which the new partners will share information on renewable electricity... 07.27.2010 | Eric Lindeman
Global defence, security and aerospace company BAE Systems is partnering with Scotland's wave energy developer Aquamarine Power as part of a $1.6 million project valued to support a 30 month research, development and demonstration project aimed at achieving... 07.16.2010 | Jackson Robinson
In our three decades of Green Investing®, never have the environmental challenges loomed so large, nor has the investment universe of sustainable solutions been this compelling. The BP catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico is the most recent in a rapidly... 07.13.2010
In its quarterly report on utility compliance with the state’s renewable portfolio standard, the California Public Utilities Commission said last month that the state’s three investor-owned utilities collectively obtained 15.4 percent of their... 07.06.2010 | Jeff Beattie
British Columbia lawmakers approved sweeping legislation last month that is designed to dramatically expand the province’s clean energy production but does so by substantially stripping authority from the province’s independent energy regulator... 06.29.2010 | George Lobsenz
In the first such legislation in the nation, the California State Assembly has approved a bill that would direct state utility regulators to establish requirements for investor-owned utilities to deploy energy storage systems to back up intermittent...
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