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Archive for March, 2012

Denmark is known for being a world leader in wind electricity. But there’s so much more to the country’s renewable energy sector that deserves attention.
Geothermal Energy News – RenewableEnergyWorld.com

Enel Green Power announced this week that it has been awarded three more geothermal exploration concessions in Chile, moving it closer to opening up one of the world’s most abundant geothermal resources.
Geothermal Energy News – RenewableEnergyWorld.com

At this point, it would have been easy for President Obama to distance himself from solar energy, wind power, algal biofuels or any other technology that’s held up as proof that the government should have a hands-off strategy to clean energy.
Geothermal Energy News – RenewableEnergyWorld.com

Senator Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Bingaman (D-NM) has just introduced his clean energy standard legislation, and yes, it has every energy source in it, except energy efficiency. Can a clean energy standard include all energy sources – and should it?
Geothermal Energy News – RenewableEnergyWorld.com

A recent reassessment of the India wind energy market blows the lid off of previous capacity estimates.
Geothermal Energy News – RenewableEnergyWorld.com

We all dream of a renewable-dominant future and are working hard to get there. We also know there is a long road ahead of us, but at a recent American Associate for the Advancement of Science meeting, Sandy MacDonald, director of the NOAA’s Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL), gave some hopeful words of encouragement. According to a three-year ESRL study, solar and wind power could provide 70 percent of the continental U.S. electricity needs by 2030.
Geothermal Energy News – RenewableEnergyWorld.com

Renewable Energy (RE) will likely enter business schools under the banner of sustainability. Good though this is, managing energy in all forms increasingly belongs in business strategy – not in technology studies, environmental sciences, or public policy alone – and deserves business school attention in its own right for at least four reasons.
Geothermal Energy News – RenewableEnergyWorld.com

A bipartisan group of Senators who proposed an extension of the federal Production Tax Credit on Thursday. Proposing the two-year extension were Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Mark Udall (D-Colo.), Scott Brown (R-Mass.), Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), Dean Heller (R-Nev.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), and Michael Bennet (D-Colo.).
Geothermal Energy News – RenewableEnergyWorld.com

Last Tuesday, March 13, Congress failed to act to renew the 1603 Treasury Grant program, and that’s not only a loss for the entire solar industry, but other renewables too.
Some may see 1603 as a program that only benefits large scale solar, but 1603 indirectly benefits the residential solar community, as well as solar thermal, and all other
Geothermal Energy News – RenewableEnergyWorld.com

Brazil has long been a leader in the production of ethanol. In the past few years, it has laid the groundwork to becoming an international force in wind energy. But the country has been a non-player in the solar industry with just one 1 MW solar project under its belt. Now, the state government appears to be ready to make a major investment in the solar industry.
Geothermal Energy News – RenewableEnergyWorld.com