Despite dire predictions at the start of 2009, the U.S. wind industry battled the odds to make record gains last year. According to the American Wind Energy Association’s end-of-year report, the industry installed nearly 10,000 megawatts of new capacity in 2009, which represents an annual increase of 39% compared to 2008 figures. Thanks to swift [...]
Rep. Jay Inslee (WA-01) joined the US Department of Labor to announce $5.9 million in clean energy job training funds for the Washington State Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board. The funding is part of the State Energy Sector Partnership and Training grant awards program, authorized by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. [...]
Gov. Pat Quinn today announced a $1.7 million state grant for the Illinois Community College Sustainability Network (ICCSN) to expand green educational and training offerings throughout Illinois’ community college network. Part of the funding will be used to establish Green Jobs Centers at three Illinois campuses, including Southwestern Illinois College’s (SWIC) Belleville Campus.
Fears the United States will lose a battle with China to create clean technology for a climate-changing world don’t fly with Silicon Valley venture capitalists (VCs), according to a recent Reuters survey. The California financiers have an impressive track record, having funded small companies that eventually turned into Google, Yahoo and scores of other giants [...]
Panasonic Corporation has been awarded the SAM Gold Class distinction for two consecutive years by SAM (Sustainable Asset Management), one of the world’s most highly recognized asset management companies for sustainability investments. Every year, SAM researches on companies’ with strong CSR initiatives and performances based on economic, environmental and social dimensions. From approximately 2,500 of [...]
San Diego will be the place to be this summer for an estimated 10,000 of the nation’s top professionals in the energy, water, transportation and environmental industries. EngEx 2010, taking place at the San Diego Convention Center from July 29 – 31, will make America’s Finest City home to some of the top technologists, researchers, [...]
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Iowa’s once-thriving biodiesel industry supported thousands of green jobsthroughout the state. But hit with volatile oil prices, the global credit crunch and the lapse of the federal biodiesel tax incentive, almost half of the state’s biodiesel plants have gone idle or permanently closed their doors. In Washington, D.C. today, Governor Chet Culver testified before a [...]
Science should be at the heart of a reinvention of the UK’s economy according to Nick Clegg, leader of the Liberal Democrats. Speaking at the Royal Society today, he criticised a past overreliance on finance and consumer services which had left the economy ‘battered’ and urged a new focus on manufacturing and research.
Recently the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) released the Eastern Wind Integration and Transmission Study (EWITS). This unprecedented two-and-a-half year technical study of future high-penetration wind scenarios was designed to analyze the economic, operational, and technical implications of shifting 20 percent or more of the Eastern Interconnection’s electrical load to [...]