Clean Energy Digest

Leaders from the United Kingdom and France are working on a bold plan that would allow the EU to meet renewable energy targets by importing solar power generated in Africa.
According to a story on EurActiv.com, Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy are supporting a plan that would involve the construction of massive solar plants in North [...]

The much loved (just kidding) Internal Revenue Service issued a notice last week indicating that utilities are now able to benefit from production tax credits for renewable energy. The change to the code allows utilities who directly invest in or develop renewable power projects to be granted the 1.9 cent per kilowatt hour [...]

The Wall Street Journal recently published a special feature section on the topic of energy. A few of the stories focused on clean energy issues including the ones listed below.
The Case For and Against Nuclear Power “Proponents insist that nuclear is a necessary alternative in an energy-constrained world, while opponents are convinced that the costs [...]

The New York Times reported yesterday that was putting a freeze on solar esolar nergy projects. The story was titled Citing Need for Assessments, U.S. Freezes Solar Energy Projects. While the title plays up the very popular theory that the Bush administration is against new clean energy sources, the facts of the story fail to [...]

Here are some notable clean energy news items for the week of June 8, 2008.
Duke Energy to invest $100 million in solar power “Duke Energy Corp said on Monday it plans to spend $100 million to install solar panels at up to 850 homes, schools, stores and factories in North Carolina.”
New solar farm goes [...]

Here are some notable clean energy news items for the week of May 18, 2008.
Biopower Systems Builds Ocean Power Technologies “Yet Sydney, Australia, based BioPower Systems, in seeking to prove the old dictum that you can’t improve on nature, has done just that: building two ocean power conversion systems modeled around a shark’s fin and [...]

Here are some notable clean energy news items for the week of May 11, 2008.
Biggest U.S. Solar Rooftop Planned “A Pennsylvania energy company is putting up what it says will be the largest rooftop solar installation in the country. The 1.7-megawatt solar system will go on the rooftops of eight buildings at the Summit, N.J., [...]

GM is conducting a pilot program called Project Driveway that provides 100 hydrogen fuel cell powered cars to drivers in New York, California and Washington, D.C. The vehicle in provided is a hydrogen-powered Chevy Equinox sport utility vehicle.
A writer from the New York Daily News took the vehicle for a test drive and reported, [...]

Here are some notable clean energy news items for the week of May 4, 2008.
Start-Ups Race To Produce ‘Green’ Cars “Spurred by the belief that the market for fuel-efficient vehicles is about to take off, a slew of tiny car companies is springing up in Europe and the U.S. They are racing to produce the [...]

I’ve mentioned Google’s RechargeIT initiative before but found something interesting about it recently that is worth sharing. Google has installed a chip in each of their test vehicles to track the performance of the cars. According to the RechargeIT site, ” All of these cars are outfitted with data recording devices that track technical [...]