Businesses oppose Wisconsin clean energy plan

Wisconsin's business community is divided over Gov. Jim Doyle's clean energy plan that calls for increasing the use of renewable fuels and opens the door to nuclear power, with opponents saying the new mandates will weaken Wisconsin's already struggling manufacturing sector.

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Md. to buy wind and solar power from 4 projects

Maryland officials announced plans Tuesday to fill nearly a quarter of the government's annual electricity needs with power supplied by clean energy projects from the Delaware coast to the Appalachian ridge tops.

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Hawaii moves ahead with undersea power cable plans

Hawaii is moving forward with plans to build an undersea cable to carry wind-generated electricity from Maui County to power-hungry Honolulu.

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Obama to give clean energy speech at MIT

President Barack Obama is scheduled to give a speech on clean energy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology while in town for a fundraiser for Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick.

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Report: Investors gamble on clean tech

Investors are gambling on green energy, pouring $4.1 billion into fledgling clean technology companies last year, an accounting firm concludes. But 2009 could produce a "crippling retrenchment" without government help.

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TAIPEI: Taiwan has unveiled what it calls Asia's biggest solar power plant as the island, which imports almost all its energy, seeks to tap into clean renewable resources, the government said Wednesday.

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PROVIDENCE — A clean-energy developer related to the Chevron oil and gas company will install and operate up to four wind turbines on public land in coastal Narragansett. It would be the first large renewable-energy project that uses state-owned property in Rhode Island.

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An oil company wants to invest its profits in clean-burning American natural gas. A Hungarian billionaire and a "green" politician want to stop it. This is the real Climate-gate scandal.

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Voter support for offshore oil drilling remains as strong as it was during last year's presidential election, but many also continue to believe individual states should be able to stop it off their own coastlines.

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A geologist has gone on trial in Switzerland for allegedly causing earthquakes while drilling for hot rocks to produce clean energy.

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Energy, that is. With few energy resources of its own, Japan is literally reaching for the stars in its attempt to turn unlimited clean energy into reality by 2030.

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According to a recent IEA WIND report, wind energy is rather smoothly integrated as system operators get on-line production levels and forecasted production estimates in their control rooms.

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Understand how to take advantage of growing opportunity in clean energy, organics, remediation and many other areas.

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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Governor Edward G. Rendell announced today that one of the world's leading companies in electric vehicle technologies, CT&T Co.

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"Now, instead of just noise pollution and air pollution, angst and frustration, heavy traffic can actually generate clean electricity.

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Energy companies are abandoning the sinking ship of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in droves over its opposition to clean energy action, whether by the EPA or by Congress.

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America invented the renewable energy industry but China is surging ahead with its renewables program and is on track to overtake the US as the world's largest market for new wind power installations.

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Key pre-Copenhagen international climate emergency economics report - AUSTRALIA ranks last among wealthy countries in being ready to compete in a clean energy future or play its part in a strong climate treaty

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Watching both the health care and climate/energy debates in Congress, it is hard not to draw the following conclusion: There is only one thing worse than one-party autocracy, and that is one-party democracy, which is what we have in America today.

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The rental power plants are, at best, a quick and dirty fix. A quicker and cleaner one might have been if last winter the turbine blades in the government's own generation plants had been replaced with modern, aerodynamic designs.

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A little-discussed provision in the clean energy bill, the Clean Energy Deployment Administration, would have a huge impact on the U.S. clean tech industry, as this guest post by CAP's Jake Caldwell explains.

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Entrepreneur Bill Gross' Pasadena firm has had its ups and downs. But it is energized since turning to clean tech, including ESolar, which is opening an innovative solar power facility in Lancaster.

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excerpt: ""Armey played his part leveling an array of attacks on any effort to transition to a clean energy economy. As the hearing progressed, most of the witnesses spent their time recycling months-old debunked studies.

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California despite it economic woes rejects Oil deal because of the Industries woeful environmental track record...

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excerpt: ""While Ohio is traditionally thought of once being a center of auto manufacturing, there was such a strong tradition of light-bulb production in the state that the world's largest maker of light bulbs, General Electric, located the headquarters of its light bulb divisi …

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While most wind turbines look much the same, the contest to tap that power is more like wacky races than Formula 1.

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Barbour has long been an advocate for big polluting companies, and has reaped political and financial benefits from these efforts. His record makes him an obvious choice to speak in opposition to clean energy policies

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Some promising signs from the DOE on embracing more nuclear energy. But power plants coming by 2015-16... not fast enough. With the money passed in the stimulus packages we could have plants being finished by 2012-13.

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I have questioned the reasons for not using wave energy in the past but thought it boiled down to NIMBY attitudes -- this article explores the reasons a bit farther.

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