The sight and sound of spinning turbine blades on windy stretches of the Australian coast and on inland hills are becoming more common as legislators and consumer demand make renewable energy part of the mainstream.
Its interest in Converteam shows its interest in the renewable energy space is a part of its profit model.
And there is no question that when it comes to protecting seniors on Medicare, when it comes to protecting businesses, small and large, that are part of our renewable energy sector, especially wind energy, that this President has been making very strong policy arguments, and that at a substantive level as well as at a level of support from the American people, he's winning those arguments.
However, Environment Minister Paul Wheelhouse highlighted the poll suggesting that 77% of SNP supporters, 76% of Liberal Democrat supporters, 68% of Labour supporters and 55% of Conservative supporters "support the continuing development of wind power as part of a mix of renewable and conventional forms of electricity generation".
For its part, the city says that renewable energy would immediately comprise half of its offerings for the same cost that its citizens now pay Xcel.
The U.S. was on a path to increase the use of solar electricity, thanks in most part to government mandates and incentives for renewable energy generation.
FORBES: Suntech Cuts Back Solar Production, Lays Off 50 In Arizona
The SDLP's Joe Byrne confirmed his party's support for the motion, but qualified it by saying that the latter part of the motion, which calls for renewable energy sources "instead" was too prescriptive, and that the potential of fracking should be examined.
The clean energy investments are part of an ongoing initiative at Google to develop renewable power sources that are less expensive than coal, with the goal of converting entirely to clean energy by 2030.
That financial engineering depends in large part on the tax incentives the federal government offers for renewable energy projects.
FORBES: SolarCity Prices Its IPO But Is It A Solar Company Or A Financial Firm?
It is part of Google.org's effort to help bring about renewable energy that is cheaper than coal by investing in companies, research and policy development.
The Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Export Initiative, a coordinated effort to promote renewable energy and energy efficiency exports, is the most recent program launched as part of this national export effort.
FORBES: Clean Energy Exports? Think Energy Audits, Not Solar Panels
Storing energy is a problem that has long troubled physicists, but with renewable energy and its variable nature becoming an increasingly large part of our energy mix, the need for energy storage has become unavoidable.
Renewable technologies, such as wind power, wave power and biomass power, are a tiny part of the energy mix, and are more expensive than nuclear power.
Until the day when the world can supply its colossal energy needs with 100% renewable energy, we need to decarbonise existing fossil-fuel power production, and CCS is a vital part of the carbon abatement strategy.
Burning biomass fuel sources such as wood, sunflower husks or animal faeces is part of the government's plans to get 15% of the UK's energy from renewable sources by 2020.
The second part of his big-tent party's proposed "new deal" includes pumping money into renewable energy research and other green technologies, as well as money for robotics and medical research, in an attempt to give Japan the lead in emerging industries also identified by America's neo-New Dealers as promising industries.
The Department of Energy sponsored the contest as part of its commitment to education, and in particular its commitment to engage students in the topics of renewable energy and energy efficiency.
WHITEHOUSE: Winning High-School Students Drive Dashboard Design
In the United States, over the past five years, thanks in part to tax credits from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and ratepayer-funded subsidies for renewable energy, more than 150 large-scale wood-burning power plants have been proposed around the country, said Booth and Sheehan.
FORBES: Massachusetts Addresses "Biomass Loophole" and Limits Subsidies
应用推荐