Michigan Governor Jennifer M. Granholm hailed clean-energy expansions by the Dow Chemical Company in wind, solar, advanced-battery manufacturing, and other projects in Midland, totaling more than $1 billion, that will create more than 6,900 new jobs. The company plans to invest $952 million in future projects and has leveraged an additional $161 million from the [...]
The Department of Energy recently awarded the Delaware Nation, a federally-recognized Indian tribe located in Oklahoma, a $250,000 National Energy Technology Labs Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant that will fund solar panel roofing for the tribe’s governmental building. As reported in the Examiner-Enterprise, the new roof will support the environmentally friendly and energy efficient [...]
The Ivanpah project, located in southeastern California, is an approximately 400 megawatt solar power facility consisting of three separate solar thermal power plants. When constructed, the project will produce enough clean energy to power 140,000 homes and nearly double the amount of solar thermal energy produced in the U.S. today. The power generated from these [...]
Wired Magazine reports that the amount of wind power that theoretically could be generated in the United States has tripled in the newest assessment of the nation’s wind resources. Current wind technology deployed in nonenvironmentally protected areas could generate 37,000,000 gigawatt-hours of electricity per year, according to the new analysis conducted by the National Renewable Energy [...]
Energy company EDF plans to build France’s biggest solar-power plant at the Euro Disney theme park resort on the outskirts of Paris. A sweeping structure would see solar cells cover huge canopies built above Euro Disney’s 11,000-space car park, which is one of the biggest in Europe.
The first and only college in New England to offer a training program in wind power technology will soon see a meteorological tower erected on the north end of campus to measure wind speed and direction and serve as a valuable teaching tool for students enrolled in the popular program. Through a collaborative effort, Northern [...]
Applications are currently being accepted for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s (NREL) 2010 Executive Energy Leadership program (Energy Execs). Energy Execs is a leadership program focused on educating business, community and government leaders about clean energy solutions through renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies. The 5-month leadership program gives executive decision [...]
With the state of Connecticut expected to lose thousands of jobs this year, Zerodraft is hiring. The company, which weatherizes homes to increase energy efficiency, is adding more employees to deal with an increase in business driven by federal grants. Over the next several months, owner Paul Paris Jr. expects to create five new jobs [...]
Through its Leicester City Campus in the United Kingdom (UK), De Montfort University offers distance learning based Graduate programs in Environmental Quality Management. International, as well as resident UK, students can obtain a Master of Science, Post Graduate Diploma or Post Graduate Certificate in this area, drawing from study modules of interest in Air, Water, [...]