Renewable Energy Stock Trading Alert: Ram Power. (TSX:RPG) Gains over 36%

Renewable Energy Stock Trading Alert: Ram Power. (TSX:RPG) Gains over 36% Category: Investment, Renewable Energy News about Ram Power New York, NY - October 11, 2012 (Investorideas.com renewable...

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GAO Study Highlights US Governance Challenges At The Water-Energy Nexus

 Sustainable stocks and flows of water and energy are essential to societal health and well-being. Moreover, the two are inextricably linked and mutually dependent. Demand for both continue to rise in the US, with this year’s historic drought emphatically highlighting the economic, social and environmental costs, disruption...

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Puerto Rico Solar Power Plant Built to Withstand Hurricanes, Deliver Power Reliably in All Types of Weather

 With the delivery of 26 megawatts (MW) of Canadian Solar’s CS6P-P high-performance PV panels, Spain’s TSK Solar is on track to bring online Uriel Renewables-Coqui Power LLC’s San Fermin solar power plant in the northeastern Puerto Rico town of Loiza. The Loiza solar power project is notable in several aspects of its design,...

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Department of Defense Launches Attack on Climate Change

The U.S. Department of Defense has been among the most aggressive leaders on climate change action under the Obama Administration, and it has just stepped it up to the next level. Last week, DoD released the new Climate Change Adaptation Roadmap, its blueprint for addressing the effects of climate change in a national security context....

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Final Word On China Solar Duties Due (Sort Of)

The U.S. Commerce Department will announce a final decision today on duties in the China solar trade dispute that has split the U.S. industry and raised fears of a global trade war. Of course, for several months the government has already been collecting duties on certain Chinese solar imports. And, just to be clear, this won’t be the...

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Suntech Launches Massive Saudi Arabian Solar System

Christmas Day for the rest of us was celebrated in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with the inauguration of the massive King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center’s (KAPSARC) 3.5 megawatt solar energy field in Riyadh by Saudi Aramco President and CEO Khalid A. Al-Falih. The massive energy field stretches out over...

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Polls Divided on Fracking

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has again put off the decision on whether to lift the moratorium on hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, in New York. The famously cautious Cuomo has to weigh public opinion that is split down the middle. A Siena College poll found that  Forty-five percent support and 42 percent oppose fracking...

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German Solar PV In January — €1.52/Watt

Reposted from Solar Love: German solar PV power prices continue to fall. According to the latest data, the price of solar power for solar power plants with up to 100 kW of capacity has dropped to €1.52 per watt (or $2.03 per watt). Here’s a chart on solar’s long price drop in Germany, via a German PV website: And below’s...

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Environmental Commissioner of Ontario to release 2011/12 Annual Report, Part II

Environmental Commissioner of Ontario to release 2011/12 Annual Report, Part II The Environmental Commissioner of Ontario , Gord Miller will release his 2011/12 Annual Report, (Part II), Losing Our Touch, at a media conference in the Queen's Park Media Studio at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, October 2, 2012. Category: Investment,...

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Riverside County’s Property Assessed Clean Energy Program Tops $100mm, Goes State-Wide

Homeowners are helping fuel the transition to a clean energy economy, conservation, and more efficient use of energy, water, and other natural resources. Home to the most successful Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) program in the nation, California’s Riverside County has announced that its HERO (Home Energy Renovation Opportunity)...

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Texas Wind Power Transmission Set to Skyrocket as Energy Exec Hints at End of Nukes

A $7 billion project that will send wind power from remote areas in West Texas to Dallas, Houston and other big cities is on the verge of completion, and that could pound yet another nail into the coffin for U.S. nuclear power and, for that matter, coal. The new Texas wind power project was authorized by the state’s Public Utility...

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Why Keystone XL is Not in the U.S. National Interest

Secretary of State John Kerry’s first major international meeting came with Canadian foreign minister John Baird. At the press conference, Secretary Kerry faced (and essentially shunted aside) questions about Keystone XL.  A Climate Hawk as U.S. Senator, Secretary Kerry faced a difficult situation: Canada is pushing hard...

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Lock-In Wedges to Address Climate Change

Nearly a decade ago then-CEO of BP, Lord John Browne, gave a landmark presentation on climate change mitigation in the City of London. He introduced to the broader interest group (the work had already circulated in the academic sector) the idea of stabilization wedges, which had been developed by Stephen Pacala and Robert Socolow at Princeton...

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10 Huge Lessons We’ve Learned From Solar Power Success In Germany

Fox & Friends last week had the apparent bravery (or ill-conceived agenda) to mention Germany’s huge solar power success. We’ve written three articles in response to the Fox & Friends clip: Another article that might help those who have been confused by Fox & Friends is this one (which I’ve been planning...

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