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The Growing Pains of Small Wind: Part II
2011 was a tough year for small wind incentive programs. Over the past 12 months, California, Oregon, New Jersey, Wisconsin, and Minnesota all experienced some kind of suspension or significant reduction of their incentives for wind turbines.
Read MoreFunding Growth: State Clean Energy Funds Can Help Invent the Future
These are tough times for the dream of clean energy and green jobs.
Read MoreThe Growing Pains of Distributed Wind
The small and mid-scale wind industry is in a unique place in its development: it’s past the stage of an emerging market, but not-yet-fully fledged. And as many states have been discovering, this phase of the industry is full of growing pains.
Read MoreClean Energy Scale Up: Do It Like We Did Bridges and Roads
How can the world finance a massive scale up of clean energy technologies?
Read MoreEnergy Innovation – All the Angles
On November 17th, several groups hosted an important conference on energy innovation in Washington, DC.
Read MorePower Outages and Natural Disasters: Which Ones are Avoidable?
Another storm and millions lose power. It’s a familiar story, in this era of more severe and unusual weather events.
Read MoreState Support for Clean Energy Jobs: A Way to Avoid Congressional Gridlock and Unlock the Job Creation Engine
Obama should look to states for clean energy jobs as a way to avoid Congressional gridlock and controversies, and unlock the job creation engine at the local level.
Read MoreSolyndra, Solar Panels and Supersonic Planes: What’s the Difference if One Fails?
Recently, the US government lost a few hundred million dollars on a new investment in a failed technology. But no one seemed to notice.
Read MoreFuel Cells for Supermarkets
Supermarkets are turning out to be an important early market for stationary fuel cells.
Read MoreDebt Deal Puts States Back in the Clean Energy Driver’s Seat
The recent debt ceiling deal announced this week means two things for clean energy. One, forget Washington as a source of significant new funding and programs for a long time. Two, look once again to the states to keep momentum on clean energy alive.
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