By Herman K. Trabish | Greentech Media | Link to article In conjunction with the National Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas, hosted by Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) and featuring former President Bill Clinton as the keynote speaker, BrightSource Energy (BSE) invited media on a tour of its now half-complete Ivanpah solar power plant. Co-owned […]
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Spinning Facts to Suit Industry Interests: New California Manufacturers & Technology Association report is full of holes
July 11, 2012
Source: EDF Blog – California 2.0 | Link to article By Jamie Fine, PhD and Ruiwen Lee Jamie Fine is EDF’s Senior Energy economist, and a graduate of UC Berkeley’s Energy Resources Group; Ruiwen Lee is an economics fellow and graduate of Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. California’s energy and […]
Wind credit with bipartisan backing gets lost in election-year fray
July 4, 2012
Source: E&E Publishing, LLC | Link to article The ongoing campaign to extend a tax break vital to the wind industry is experiencing something of an identity crisis. On the one hand, the credit has broad bipartisan support and efforts to extend it have been championed even by some freshman Republican lawmakers swept into office […]
Balance Of Power: Clean Energy And Desert Wildlife
May 3, 2012
Source: Forbes.com LLC™ | Link to article This guest post was written by Johanna Wald, a senior attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council in San Francisco. I’ve had the great luck to spend my nearly forty year career protecting western lands. But about five years ago, I realized two things that changed the course […]
MidAmerican Solar and First Solar Announce Start of Major Construction on Largest Solar Project in the World
May 3, 2012
Source: MarketWatch.com | Link to article DES MOINES, Iowa – May 3, 2012 – This week, MidAmerican Solar and First Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR) marked the start of major construction at Topaz Solar Farms, located in San Luis Obispo County, Calif. The 550-megawatt photovoltaic project will employ approximately 400 workers during its three-year construction period; […]
NRG Energy, MidAmerican Solar and First Solar Celebrate 100 MW Milestone for 290 MW Agua Caliente Solar Project
April 26, 2012
Source: NRG Energy, Inc. | Global Energy World | Link to article The region may be the best resource—and best-kept secret—in the geothermal sector. Representatives from NRG Energy, Inc., MidAmerican Solar and First Solar, Inc. gathered with federal and local officials today at the 290 MW (AC) Agua Caliente solar project in Yuma County, Ariz., […]
EnergySource’s New Geothermal Plant Is Online Near the Salton Sea
March 22, 2012
By Herman K. Trabish | Greentech Media | Link to article The region may be the best resource—and best-kept secret—in the geothermal sector. The EnergySource 49.9-megawatt Hudson Ranch I geothermal plant went on-line in the Salton Sea geothermal field on March 9. It is the first in that field to come on-line in twenty years. […]
Hello, sunshine: Palo Alto utility to pay locals for solar energy
March 7, 2012
By Marla Dickerson | LA Times | Link to article Soon after the earth shook under Japan last March, NRG Energy Inc. felt aftershocks halfway around the world Green energy may be losing momentum inside the Beltway. But officials in the heart of Silicon Valley are betting on the sun. This week, the Palo Alto […]
CEO Leads NRG From Nuclear to Solar, Natural Gas
March 6, 2012
By Leslie Kwoh | WSJ | Link to article Soon after the earth shook under Japan last March, NRG Energy Inc. felt aftershocks halfway around the world When the earthquake triggered a meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, the independent power producer was building two nuclear reactors in Texas. Amid regulatory uncertainty in the […]
