Have electric cars lost their spark? Has the sun set on solar? It’s not easy being green. By the look of so many hyperbolic and overused mainstream media headlines these days, you’d likely come to the conclusion that the days of alternative energy integration are over. Quite frankly, nothing could …
Ceres Newsletter: Climate Change is Hitting the Slopes
Ceres Newsletter – June 2013 Press and Media Press Release: Investors Highlight Policies That Could Spur Multi-Billion Dollar Opportunity in Energy Efficiency Investments Blog: Water Protection Gets Shortchanged in Proposed Fracking Rules (National Geographic) News Story: Investor Group Proposes ESG Disclosure Rules(Environmental Leader) Press Release: New Study: More U.S. Mutual Fund Companies Supporting Climate …
Alternative Energy:British Support For Renewable Energy Continues To Grow
Alternative Energy British Support For Renewable Energy Continues To Grow Discussing Climate Change in a Hot and Cold World Wales’ First Full-Scale Tidal Energy Generator Receives Funding 54% Of Spain’s Electricity Generation In April From Renewable Value in concentrating solar power to add to electric grid calculated New mechanism …
Green Transition Scoreboard® Finds Over $4.1 T in Private Green Investments
St. Augustine, FL, March 4, 2013 – The year 2013 promises long strides away from the fossil-fueled Industrial Era as illuminated by the Ethical Markets Green Transition Scoreboard® (GTS) which tracks private investments growing the green economy worldwide since 2007, finding $4.1 trillion invested or committed as of Q4 2012. …
Global Wind Energy Outlook 2012
The Global Wind Energy Council and Greenpeace International are pleased to present this fourth edition of the Global Wind Energy Outlook for 2012, the latest product of a collaboration that goes back to 1999. A lot has happened in the intervening years. Wind power has now established itself as a …
US Smart Grid Systems Provider Lands Scottish Wind Farm Contract
US Smart Grid Systems Provider Lands Scottish Wind Farm Contract Posted: 04 May 2012 10:23 AM PDT Photo courtesy: EDF Renewables Chicago?s S&C Electric Co. is capitalizing on Europe?s drive to develop its wind energy resources. S&C?s European subsidiary, S&C Electric Company Europe Ltd., has won a ?multimillion-pound contract? from …
Wind Tops 10 Percent Share of Electricity in Five U.S. States
Wind Tops 10 Percent Share of Electricity in Five U.S. States J. Matthew Roney www.earth-policy.org/data_highlights/2012/highlights27 Earth Policy Release Data Highlight April 14, 2012 A new picture is emerging in the U.S. power sector. In 2007, electricity generation from coal peaked, dropping by close to 4 percent annually between 2007 and …
Smart Public Policies Key to Powering Up Africa’s Clean Energy Potential
PRESS RELEASE Smart Public Policies Key to Powering Up Africa’s Clean Energy Potential Africa Launch of ‘UN International Year of Sustainable Energy for All’ Held in Nairobi Nairobi/Geneva, 21 February 2012 – Opening up energy markets to private sector investment through the introduction of smart government policies will be the …
Geothermal Power Heating Up Worldwide
GEOTHERMAL POWER HEATING UP WORLDWIDE www.earth-policy.org/plan_b_updates/2011/update98 By J. Matthew Roney Earth Policy Release Plan B Update June 16, 2011 In 1904, Italy’s Prince Piero Ginori Conti became the first person to use thermal energy from within the earth to turn on the lights—five of them, to be precise. Now, more …
The International Green Energy Council Collaborates With Hannover Messe 2011
Hannover Messe Features: The E – Energy Center is a special display for providers of energy-sector hardware and software solutions. One of the big themes at the Center will be smart grids – fully integrated systems that intelligently manage electricity generation, distribution and storage as well as load balancing. Other …