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Reports of Clean Energy’s Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
If the notion “he who lives by the subsidy dies by the subsidy” is true, then oil, gas and nuclear companies must be dying a thousand deaths. “A Sad Green Story,” the recent New York Times article by...
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New Report Indicates Solar Power Job Growth in the U.S.
Good news from the economic solar power front. The Solar Foundation (TSF), an independent nonprofit solar education and research organization, earlier this week announced that its third annual National...
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New York Rising
Some big solar news from New York! This week, in his 2013 State of the State, Governor Andrew Cuomo made some significant solar proposals. Proposals that will work to fundamentally transform the...
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Sunny Earth Day for the New York State Legislature
Solar is really shining in Albany’s Earth Day activities this year. This week, the New York State Senate unanimously passed legislation to extend the successful NY-Sun program for 10 years and make New...
View ArticleWhere to Find Energy Efficiency Business Opportunities
No one would disagree that this is a good time to be in the energy efficiency business. Another report, this one out last week, signals just how good. Conducted by Comverge, the survey of more than 100...
View ArticleBringing High-Speed Rail to America
Imagine the last time you took a trip between two American cities. Maybe you had to wait in line at a crowded airport; maybe you spent hours in traffic in a car or a bus. Or maybe you made the trip...
View ArticleSolar Power Lands in the Heart of Coal Country
For generations, getting a job in Central Appalachia has almost always translated into “going into the mines.” The coal industry has dominated the economies in West Virginia, Kentucky, and parts of...
View ArticleWind Energy Creating New Jobs
How great is it when one good thing creates a bunch of other good things? According to national averages provided by the American Wind Energy Association, the 201-megawatt Nobles Wind Farm in...
View ArticleTrends in Wind Energy Recruitment
Europe has a challenge ahead, in terms of renewable energy targets. The UK government has signed up to a commitment which states that by 2020, 15% of energy production will come from renewable sources....
View ArticleBenefits of High-Speed Rail Draw A Crowd
Since the Department of Transportation announced the availability of an additional $2.4 billion for high-speed rail projects last month, governors and members of Congress from both major parties have...
View ArticleDC Solar on the Move
“We the undersigned residents of the District of Columbia urge our City Council to pass the Distributed Generation Amendment Act of 2011 to help put more solar on the rooftops of our home city. Let’s...
View ArticleHow Obama Could Get His Job Groove Back
I wrote back in January about how more private sector jobs had been created in 2010 than in Bush’s entire 8 years in office. I think this was a significant accomplishment. But there were and are a...
View ArticleThe Link Between American Energy and Prosperity
October is Energy Action Month — a national effort to focus on the critical link between American energy and prosperity, highlight the tremendous potential of clean energy technologies to create new...
View ArticleSolar Power Spurs Job Creation in the US
Alternative energy is not only good for the environment; it’s good for job creation, too. According to the Solar Foundation, 100,237 Americans are now working in the US solar industry. The statement is...
View ArticleNew Website Asks For Support For Wind Power Jobs
A new website called SaveUSAWindJobs launched by the American Wind Energy Association aims at involving Americans with wind power and put pressure on government to extend the Production Tax Credit...
View ArticleWind Industry Makes $10 Billion Case for Tax Credit
Nearing grid parity, wind industry wants to “finish the job” As much as they wished otherwise, the seemingly annual rite whereby the wind industry trots out all those nifty pie charts and bar graphs...
View ArticleEnergy Jobs Debate Intensifies in Washington
Our nation’s capital is swirling with hot air about the fate of energy-related jobs, from fossil fuel (the high-profile Keystone XL pipeline) and wind energy, specifically the expiration of the federal...
View ArticleCA Shared Solar Bill Would Mean 12,000 Jobs, $7.5 Billion in Economic Activity
We released a new report yesterday shining light on how California legislation to expand access to rooftop solar and other renewables would create thousands of local jobs and deliver impressive...
View ArticleCensus Shows Another Year of Double-Digit Solar Job Growth
Our friends at The Solar Foundation released the latest National Solar Jobs Census yesterday – and it confirms that 2013 was another banner year for solar employment. We just love to bring this kind of...
View ArticleGlobal Renewable Energy Jobs Grew By 14 Percent in 2013, Study Says
Renewable energy jobs grew by 14 percent to 6.5 million employees worldwide last year, led by the solar panel industry, according to a new report from the International Renewable Energy Agency....
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