Clean Energy Digest

The latest Energy In Brief posting by the Energy Information Administration (EIA) is very instructive on the topic of U.S. government subsidies for energy. I consider it recommended reading for anyone who wants to understand the level of government investment and how it effects energy production in the U.S.
In total, renewable energies were subsidized to [...]

Mayor Michael Bloomberg has offered up an ambitious plan for wind power development in and around New York City. A story in the New York Times today reports on the mayor speaking at a clean energy conference in Las Vegas yesterday.
“Mr. Bloomberg said he would ask private companies and investors to study how windmills can [...]

It’s election season in the U.S. and talk of energy plans is all the rage. And while wind gets its fair share of press perhaps politicians should look offshore for something more than drilling.
The United States has thousands of miles of coastline that is rated either excellent, outstanding or superb for wind power potential by [...]

T. Boone Pickens explains the current situation and describes his plan to reduce America’s dependence on foreign sources of energy.

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Oil baron T. Boone Pickens has a plan for America’s energy future. The PickensPlan sets a course that leverages America’s wind resources to wean the country of dependence on foreign oil.
Pickens’ plan is a very basic one in theory. America beefs up wind-powered generation to 20% or more of our total capacity. America in turn [...]

Notable clean energy investments for the week of May 18, 2008.
Iberdrola commits $8B investment to U.S. cleantech sector “Spanish utility and renewable heavyweight Iberdrola has revealed that it will invest a hefty $8 billion in the American cleantech sector over the next 3 years. Though it plans on focusing most of its investment activities in [...]

Notable clean energy investments for the week of April 27, 2008.
Government of Canada Invests Over $13.6 Million in Vancouver’s Fuel Cell Industry “The Government of Canada today announced a $13.6 million investment in the National Research Council (NRC)’s Vancouver-based fuel cell and hydrogen industry and officially opened the Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Gateway”
DOE Makes up [...]

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 offshore [...]

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 with [...]

A revolutionary new kind of wind energy may someday come to an ocean near you. Floating wind platforms can be sighted far offshore to take advantage to stronger winds found in deep waters. A story called Wind Power That Floats provides more details. The video below shows how one such platform was built.
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