Ted Turner taking coal funds to create solar odd couple
They’re unlikely business partners: a billionaire environmentalist and one of the largest coal-burners in the U.S. More »
Shell’s chief technology officer talks about his job – and how a child’s toy inspired an offshore idea
Shell Chief Technology Officer Gerald Schotman sat down with FuelFix to talk about the joys and challenges of his job. More »
Solar-powered plane heads toward Texas on cross-country trip (photos)
A solar-powered airplane has taken off from Northern California on the first leg of a planned journey to several U.S. cities., with a mid-way stop planned in Texas. More »
Clean technology investors shift focus to drilling
As profits from wind, solar, biofuels and other alternatives have fallen short of expectations — and as the fossil fuel business boomed — venture capitalists have stretched the definition of clean technology to fuel clean technology investment funds. More »
Republicans back renewable energy tax benefit bill
Renewable energy developers may win some tax benefits from Congress that only oil and gas companies can enjoy right now, under a bipartisan bill introduced in the Senate last week. More »
Clean energy investment drops worldwide amid subsidy cuts
Clean energy investment slid 22 percent to its lowest level in four years as nations pared subsidies for technologies from wind turbines to solar power and financing in China and Brazil stalled. More »
City bonds boosting solar energy projects
Solar-energy installations are set to receive record loans this year through a U.S. municipal finance tool modeled after one that backed $17 billion of sewers and sidewalks in the past decade. More »
Renewables could feed all New York power needs, academics say
A new study says New York could get the power it needs from wind, water and sunlight by 2030 with a concerted push, though the state’s decade-long effort to significantly boost green energy shows how challenging that could be. More »
Japan to become largest solar market after China
Japan will probably become the largest solar market in the world after China this year, boosted by an incentive program that offers above-market rates for energy from renewable sources, according to a Bloomberg New Energy Finance said in a research note. More »
BP wind sale highlights renewable energy struggles
BP is putting its wind business on the block, its latest retreat from renewable energy as the company moves to focus on its core oil and gas operations. More »
New England renewable energy plan a hard sell
Establishing a New England market to buy renewable energy seemed a laudable goal when governors committed last year to bulk purchases of wind and solar power to knock down the price while reducing the region’s reliance on fossil fuels. But putting together details is snared in a patchwork of rules, state laws and disagreements over how even to define alternative energy. More »
Americans want energy focus on renewables, not oil, poll finds
A new Gallup survey shows that Americans want the government to focus more on tapping sources of clean or renewable energy. More »
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