Bolstered by the solar energy industry, Vice President Joe Biden has made it clear the need to renew funds for future research and incentives.
Here’s an excerpt from Apollo Alliance Clean Energy:
The solar energy industry and Vice President Joe Biden are calling on Congress to renew a renewable energy grant program that is set to expire by year’s end. Extending the grants could create 20,000 new solar energy jobs, while allowing the program to expire could mean the industry would shrink by 56 percent, warns one study.
A piece at RenewableEnergyWorld.com presents a hopeful look at how clean energy job growth will shape up in the coming year.
A $300 million Clean Energy Investment Fund that will deepen clean energy ties with India and help develop low carbon energy in South Asia may be the most important clean energy victory to come out of President Obama’s recent trip to India and the Far East.
A new Pike Research report says government incentives could put more than 1.4 million hybrid and electric vehicles on Asia’s roads by 2015.
Exelon Corp. – America’s largest nuclear power operator – say it plans to invest $5 billion in clean energy by 2015.
GE announced the first round of winners in its Ecomagination Challenge, which will ultimately dole out $200 million in awards to smart grid and other clean technology ideas.
The Environmental Defense Fund’s Fred Krupp lays out a “New Path Forward on Climate Change.”
Reshaping a clean energy standard to include nuclear energy and so-called clean coal may be one way of gaining Republican supporters, according to a piece at Greentechmedia.
Armed with a video and determination, speakers working with the Oakland, California-based Alliance for Climate Education hope to make climate science meaningful for young people.
Researchers at the University of Rhode Island have identified four ways to harness solar energy from America’s roads.
