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The e-Letter on Clean Technology from Clean Edge
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Welcome to Cleanwatch. Each issue offers the latest news, events, and other resources on clean energy, transportation, water, and materials.
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By Clint WIlder
“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
As a new year begins for the clean tech industry, maturation is a theme that comes to mind. And if we think of clean tech not only as a growing global industry, but as a fundamental global transition – as so many of its leaders and participants do – we can chart its progress along Gandhi’s oft-cited dictum of other transitions in history.
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Clean Edge’s Top 10 News Stories of 2013
The following were the most-read stories of the year.
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The U.S. wind energy industry had its strongest year ever in 2012, the American Wind Energy Association announced, installing a record 13,124 megawatts of electric generating capacity.
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Connecticut, New York and Massachusetts now outrank California, Arizona and New Mexico in the amount of money each ray of sunlight can generate for homeowners.
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Renewable energy (from wind, solar, geothermal, biomass, and other sources) accounted for 49 percent of the nation’s added electricity capacity in 2012 – its largest share ever and more than the 33 percent share of new generation capacity from natural gas.
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American wind power’s generation shot up 17 percent last year, and produced more than 10 percent of the electricity in nine states, up from five states in 2011.
Clean Edge News
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Improving energy efficiency in buildings by 30 percent would create a $275 billion market for advanced technology, engineering and design services, and construction activity in the U.S
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Corning Incorporated and View Inc., have announced a strategic development agreement to leverage their combined capabilities to advance View’s dynamic glass.
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Massachusetts and eight other states have reached an agreement to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants by 90 million tons over the next six years.
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Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have designed a low-cost, long-life “flow” battery that could enable solar and wind energy to become major suppliers to the electrical grid.
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Skyonic Corporation is commencing construction on the Capitol SkyMine plant in San Antonio, Texas.
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Although 2012 proved to be an unsettling and difficult year for clean energy, the fundamental global market drivers for clean technology remained largely intact.
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