Category: Renewables – Business

(Continued from earlier…) To date, 1,179 solar projects with total investments of over $1.3 billion in 42 states have been built with support from this program. In 2009, the U.S. installed about 435 megawatts of solar. That doubled to about 1,000 …

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What can the U.S. renewable energy world expect in 2011? As everyone knows, President Obama signed the bill at the end of 2010 extending a number of energy provisions through 2011, including the U.S. Tax Grant Program (TGP) 1603 – …

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I’ve been writing a great deal about the power of strategic business partnerships recently.  And, until this moment, I’ve forgotten to mention one of my most trusted allies and best-respected friends, John Tyson, CEO of Amerivon.  Imagine if you will …

Green Consumer Products Gain Market Share – But Which Supply Chain Partners Are Best? Read More »

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What is your contribution to the world? This may sound like a weird question to ask a large group of people, most of whom I don’t know personally. But here’s a thought: If you’re making a career in clean energy, …

Clean Energy and Your Contribution to the World Read More »

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Do you remember the wonderful 1987 movie “Wall Street” with Gordon Gecko (Michael Douglas) and Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen)? Well, I just got off the phone from a cold call from an aggressive young promoter from Morgan Stanley who brought …

The Oil Industry, Ethics, and Wall Street Read More »

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I have two radio interviews lined up for tomorrow in which I’ll be interviewed about my book.  I’m pleased to note that requests are coming in at a fairly good pace, though I don’t take too much credit for that …

Clean Energy on the Radio: “Brainstormin’” Read More »

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Will renewables dominate our energy future? Without a doubt. Who will get rich in the process? Now there’s a good question. Here’s a post I put up on EnvironmentalLeader.com that attempts an answer. I like these folks at Environmental Leader …

Who Will Get Rich As We Migrate to Renewables? Read More »

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A big part of the burgeoning cleantech market is education, as millions of people begin to ponder the process of bringing themselves up to speed on the basics of wind turbines, solar panels, EV charging infrastructure, etc. Each week I …

CleanTech – Training and Education Read More »

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We hear a great deal about partisan bickering in Washington, but according to a webinar I attended this morning on power transmission, the governors of each state on the eastern seaboard of the US from Maine to Virginia are all …

Electric Power Transmission — Technology in Flux Read More »

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What will the new energy future look like? Black & Veatch, a global engineering, construction and consulting firm based in Kansas, offers a view. The company provides energy report to its clients, including those in the electric utilities and related energy …

[The Vector] Energy Future’s “New Normal” Read More »

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