The Wind Industry in the United States is facing cost pressures, foreign competition, European specifications, limited value-added opportunities, construction challenges, questionable federal support. As a result the supply chain is coming together to focus on key issues that are choking growth and threatening the future, it’s now. The Great Lakes Wind Network has organized a two-day conference on [...]
The U.S. General Services Administration’s (GSA) Denver Federal Center (DFC) campus is nearing the completion of its nearly 7 megawatt (MW) solar photovoltaic (PV) project. This project combined, with an existing 1.2 MW solar park, will provide more than 15% of the DFC’s electrical needs annually. The combined capacity of all of the solar arrays [...]
The New York Assembly announced the passage of legislation to reauthorize and improve the Article X power plant siting law, provide for an on-bill recovery program for Green Jobs-Green New York Customers, and identify strategies to increase solar energy generation in New York. “The residents and businesses of New York need clean, affordable and reliable [...]
According to two new reports, green jobs in Tennessee are growing and will continue to provide job opportunities for workers in Tennessee. The studies, funded by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration, identify the number of green jobs in Tennessee in 2010, expected vacancies in the companies surveyed, and additional jobs created [...]
PlotWatt, the company helping individuals and businesses reduce energy bills through personalized smart meter data analysis, is the winner of GE’s Ecomagination Challenge, Powering Your Home. The company also announced it has secured $1 million in a seed round of funding led by Felicis Ventures. The PlotWatt residential product’s algorithms analyze smart meter data [...]
Sandia National Laboratories researchers — competing in an international pool of universities, corporations and government labs — captured three prestigious R&D 100 Awards in this year’s contest, and were cowinners of a fourth. R&D Magazine presents the awards each year to researchers whom its editors and independent judging panels determine have developed the year’s 100 [...]
The U.S. Department of Labor has awarded six organizations a total of $38 million in Green Jobs Innovation Fund grants to serve workers in 19 states and the District of Columbia. “This grant program is an important part of the administration’s efforts to equip workers with the necessary knowledge, skills and abilities to succeed in [...]
Climate Change and Emissions Management (CCEMC) Corporation Announces $15 Million in Funding for Renewable Energy Projects in Northern Alberta. Slave Lake is one of three communities in northern Alberta that will benefit from renewable energy projects supported by the Climate Change and Emissions Management (CCEMC) Corporation. Projects in High Level and Hairy Hill, near Vegreville, [...]
On June 17, 2011 Mediaplanet published a Sustainable Future awareness campaign distributed within USA Today to millions of readers. Achieving Responsible Business Practices “Humanity is now using 50 percent more services from the earth each year than it can replenish,” writes Skrzyniarz, of Sustainable Life Media in the publication’s introduction that sets the tone for [...]