Clean Energy Digest

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 [...]

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 and [...]

Here are some notable clean energy news items for the week of April 27, 2008 Duke Renewables Pipeline Triples in 12 Months “Duke Energy said Friday that its renewable energy development business has increased its “pipeline” of projects to more than 3,000 MW and has 280 MW of wind capacity under construction in Texas and [...]

Offshore wind projects have proven to be a very tough sell so far in the United States. The most notable project to date has been the 420 megawatt Cape Wind proposal off the coast of Massachusetts. Seven years into the process we still don’t know if the project will ever be approved. There are other [...]

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The last week has seen a real spike in activity around solar technologies. Here are some of the headlines. U.S. Department of Energy Invests in Solar Cities – Twelve cities have been selected and will receive $200,000 each, “to integrate a variety of solar technologies, such as solar water heating, solar photovoltaic electric systems, and [...]

The state of Texas is the wind capital of the United States. The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) recently released their annual wind capacity report and Texas leads the U.S. with a capacity of 4,446 megawatts. California is a distant second with 2,439 megawatts of wind capacity. California also lead in capacity added in 2007 [...]

Recent information from the Energy Information Administration indicates that the U.S. has made strong gains in the area of wind power. But we still have a long way to go until the U.S. wind fleet makes up a meaningful percentage of total generation. “Wind-powered generation for all of 2007 was 20.9 percent higher than in [...]

Clean energy news items for the week of March 9, 2008. New Jersey receives at least two offshore wind project proposals “New Jersey regulators have received at least two proposals for its wind grant solicitation seeking bids to build an offshore wind farm with capacity of up to 350 MW.” New Connecticut Whole Foods Market(R) [...]

Here are some clean energy news items that you might find interesting. Oilman Plans Huge Wind Project “Then why is Pickens, who runs BP Capital Management, a private equity firm, and Mesa Power, building a 4,000-megawatt wind energy facility in Pampa, Texas, in the Panhandle section, which could cost as much as $10 billon?” Green [...]