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• Electronic Atlas Maps U.S. Renewable Energy Resources
  Feb 8, 2012 - www.nrel.gov
  
  A new geospatial application developed by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) allows users to easily and accurately map potential renewable energy resources in the United States.
  
  
• A how-to guide to slashing California's greenhouse gas emissions by 2050
  Dec 1, 2011 - energy-daily.com
  
  What will a day in the life of a Californian be like in 40 years? If the state cuts its greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050 - a target mandated by a state executive order - a person could wake up in a net-zero energy home, commute to work in a battery-powered car, work in an office with smart windows and solar panels, then return home and plug in her car to a carbon-free grid.
  
  
• Ride the energy superhighway
  Nov 28, 2011 - Julian Cribb - canberratimes.com.au
  
  Could Australia become the world's next energy superpower? This is not an academic question. It's about how this country can drive not only its own but also Asian economic development for centuries to come.
  
  

• Global renewable energy share in 2035: 18%
  14 November 2011 - Kari Williamson - renewableenergyfocus.com
  
  The renewable energy share of the global energy mix could rise from 13% in 2010 to 18% in 2035, according to the International Energy Agency's (IEA) 2011 World Energy Outlook.

• Resources For Upgrading Home Appliances
  Oct. 7, 2011 - partselect.com
  
  Upgrading home appliances can be an opportunity for homeowners to make their existing home appliances sounder. This can mean making them so that they are more energy efficient or just provide more benefits for the time they are being used. Other reasons for why homeowners may want to upgrade their home appliances have to do with safety issues or stopping something adverse from happening or continuing to happen. For example, old microwaves may give off some radioactivity, and other older home appliances may even display signs of having lead paint. Going further than upgrading home appliances and actually buying new appliances also has a positive effect on one's wallet . Buying new appliances even will raise the value of the home that a person resides in.

• 2010 Global Recap: A Year of Continued Growth
  Sept. 30, 2011 - renewableenergyworld.com
  
  PARIS -- Renewable energy continued its global surge in 2010, accounting for about half of the 194 gigawatts of new installed capacity, according to the REN21 Renewables 2011 Global Status Report.

• EPRI Assesses Status of 8 Key Power Generation Technologies
  Sep 1, 2011 - renewablesbiz.com
  
  The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) released a report today on the near- and long-term cost, performance, and technology status for eight central-station power generation technologies likely to dominate the U.S. generation mix over the next two decades.

• Global consumers crave green energy in survey-Vestas
  Aug 5, 2011 - af.reuters.com
  
  NEW YORK, June 28 (Reuters) - Consumers around the world overwhelmingly support the rollout of renewable energy, but many have mistaken views about "green" products, according to a survey conducted by TNS Gallup for Vestas Wind Systems.

• State-of-the-Art Control Center
  Jul 21, 2011 - Yakout Mansour - renewablesbiz.com
  
  High-tech Tools Integrate Renewables

• NV Energy Launches Renewable Transmission Intiative
  Jul 14, 2011 - energyboom.com
  
  NV Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NVE) is one of Nevada's largest power utilities providing electricity to 2.4 million customers. With its most recent announcement, the company will soon be producing energy for customers outside of Nevada.

   

• June 5, 2011 - Eric Wesoff - greentechmedia.com
  June 5, 2011 - Xinhua - energycentral.com
  
  Tonight's episode: Our Bulk Power System: The Fascinating World of Scheduling and Moving Electrons.
  
  
• China to upgrade power grids in rural areas in coming five years
  June 5, 2011 - Xinhua - energycentral.com
  
  China's top economic planer has issued a notice asking local governments to upgrade their rural power grids in a bid to boost the nation's rural power infrastructure and improve the lives of rural residents in the next five years.
  
  
• A Hidden Renewable Resource
  May 22, 2011 - Bill Opalka - renewablesbiz.com
  
  A “hidden resource” for clean power generation is being promoted in Congress and throughout the states, one that its supporters point out is being wasted without anyone noticing. The waste heat from industrial processes now has an advocacy group and a fledgling effort to get it recognized where financial players would notice–in the tax code.
  
  
  
• National Coal Expert: "Mining is a Loser" in Practically Every Way
  May 21, 2011 - Mike Casey - renewableenergyworld.com
  
  Anytime coal’s cost to America is discussed, the coal industry reflexively talks about what an economic lifeline it is for the states in which it operates. Headwaters Economics, a Bozeman-based think tank focusing on natural resource issues, has a solid new study that’s getting national attention for undercutting those claims. For instance, the Headwaters study finds that “[f]ossil fuel production has not insulated energy-producing states from fiscal crisis,” that “[f]ossil fuel extraction has a limited influence at the state level on economic indicators such as GDP by state, personal income, and employment,” and that “[t]he volatility of fossil fuel markets poses obstacles to the stability and long-term security of economic growth in energy-producing regions.”
  
  
• Renewables Integration
  May 21, 2011 - nxtbook.com
  
  As more emphasis is put on going green and weaning the U.S. off expensive and dirty fossil fuels, utilities continually find themselves at the focal point of green energy initiatives.
  
  
• Alternative Energy Watch: China Plans to Spend Big on Grid; Equipment Maker Gets Big Order (SOLR, AMAT, LDK, CREE, VECO, AMSC)
  May 21, 2011 - 247wallst.com
  
  Alternative energy news today begins with a new order for sapphire crystallization furnaces and ends with a story on development in China’s national electricity grid.
  
  
• Tata Power commissions 3MW solar power plant in India
  May 21, 2011 - Chris Whitmore - pv-tech.org
  
  India's largest private power utility firm, Tata Power, has commissioned a 3MW solar power plant in Mulshi. The project, which is one of the largest in the entire country and the first built in the province of Maharashtra, is spread over 12 acres and took nine months to complete.
  
  
• When Will China's Energy Use Stop Growing?
  May 21, 2011 - Saqib Rahim - ClimateWire - scientificamerican.com
  
  China's energy use should flatten out sometime around 2030, with a similar leveling off of its greenhouse gas emissions, a federal researcher said yesterday.
  
  
• Global Energy Futures and Human Development: A Framework for Analysis
  May 15, 2011 - Alan D. Pasternak - Department of Energy
  
  This paper explores the relationship between measures of human well-being and consumption of energy and electricity.
  
  
• Climate change panel: renewable energy to be key
  May 15, 2011 - Associated Press - energycentral.com
  
  The world's top scientific body concluded that renewable energy in the coming decades will be widespread and could one day represent the dominant source for powering factories and lighting homes, according to a draft report obtained by The Associated Press Thursday.
  
  
• UA looking at air-storage system as alternative green-energy source
  May 08, 2011 - energycentral.com
  Solar power and wind energy are popular in the green movement, but when there's no wind or sun, there's no power.
  
  
• California is expanding its carbon-trading program to three Canadian provinces
  May 08, 2011 - energycentral.com
  
  California officials announced Tuesday that the state will expand its newly adopted carbon-trading program to three Canadian provinces, creating the largest regional cap-and-trade system in North America.
  
  
• Energy Use Down, Renewables Up
  May 01, 2011 - Bill Opalka - renewablesbiz.com
  
  Renewable energy is growing steadily even while the overall economy slumps and energy use from other sources is falling.
  
  
• 100% Renewable Energy Indeed Possible, say Stanford U. Researchers
  May 01, 2011 - sustainablebusiness.com
  
  The world can be powered by renewable energy in 20-40 years - using technology available right now, says Stanford researcher Mark Jacobson.
  
  
• Chaos in energy sector drives gains in clean energy
  May 01, 2011 - Adam Shell - energycentral.com
  
  Funds that invest all their cash in companies tied to alternative energy, clean technology, the oil industry and other natural resources soared 13.7% in the first three months of the year, benefiting from turmoil in the oil-rich Middle East and the anti-nuclear sentiment after the accident in Japan.
  
  
• Peak power demand to triple in two decades, forum told
  Mar 30, 2011 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - energycentral.com
  
  The peak power demand in the Kingdom is expected to triple during the next two decades from 43 gigawatts in the summer of 2010 to more than 120 gigawatts in 2030, Khalid M. Al-Sulaiman, vice president for Renewable Energy at the King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy (KA-CARE), said at the inauguration of the Third Saudi Solar Energy Forum held at the Faisaliah Hotel here on Sunday.
  
  
• PRESS RELEASE: ACORE Releases Updated State-by-State Report on Renewable Energy for 2011
  Mar 13, 2011 - turner - acore.org
  
  March 7, 2011 — The American Council On Renewable Energy (ACORE) today released the 2011 update and redesign of its report, Renewable Energy in America: Markets, Economic Development and Policy in the 50 States, as an online resource and a product of ACORE’s mission to scale-up renewable energy in America. Compiling updated financial, market, resource potential, and policy information in a single easily-accessed resource, the report is intended to be an executive summary for all who are interested in the highlights of the renewable energy sector in every state.
  
  
• Coal Ash Plan Raises Fears in Missouri Community
  Mar 12, 2011 - Voice of America News/ContentWorks - energycentral.com
  
  Coal consumption is increasing in many parts of the world, driven by skyrocketing energy demands in rapidly developing countries like China. But with coal comes pollution: from climate-changing carbon dioxide to coal ash, the powdery toxic waste left over from burning coal to produce electricity.
  
  
• U.S. Military Links Alternative Energy Research to Lives--and Dollars--Saved
  Mar 09, 2011 - David Biello - scientificamerican.com
  
  Inventing the future of energy may be key to improving U.S. national security, economic prosperity and health
  
  
• ‘Green Economy’ Needs $1.3 Trillion Investment Per Year, UN Says
  Mar 06, 2011 - Alex Morales - bloomberg.com
  
  
  Nations can kick-start a “green economy” by redirecting $1.3 trillion a year from industries that overuse resources to 10 areas ranging from forestry to buildings, the United Nations Environment Program said.
  
  
• Are Greenhouse Gases Upping the Risks of Flooding, Too?
  Feb 27, 2011 - scientificamerican.com
  
  
  Climate change caused by rising concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is causing more extreme rainfall and snowfall--and floods
  
  
• Coal's hidden costs top $345 billion in U.S.: study
  Feb 27, 2011 - Scott Malone - Reuters
  
  
  BOSTON (Reuters) - The United States' reliance on coal to generate almost half of its electricity, costs the economy about $345 billion a year in hidden expenses not borne by miners or utilities, including health problems in mining communities and pollution around power plants, a study found.
  
  
• Fossil fuels replaced by 2050
  Feb 19, 2011 - Tulsa World - energycentral.com
  
  
  Almost all of the world's demand for energy for electricity, transportation and heating could be met from renewable sources such as wind, solar and geothermal power by 2050, WWF International and Ecofys said.
  
  
• How to move to 100 percent renewables by 2030
  Feb 13, 2011 - Andrew Restuccia -thehill.com
  
  
  What would it take to switch the world’s entire energy infrastructure to renewables like wind and solar by 2030?
  
  
• Global Renewables War Is On: US Missing in Action
  Jan 21, 2011 - Martin Rosenberg - RenewablesBiz.com
  
  The world war on renewables is on. China. India. And the United States - along with Denmark and others - are out to battle for supremacy in what will be the next turn in the industrial revolution.
  
• The Big List: 2010's Biggest Renewable Energy Projects
  Jan 10, 2011 - Renewableenergyworld.com
  
  Renewable energy development continued at a good pace this year, with record-breaking projects announced almost as often as once per week.
  
  
• GE Announces Largest Single Electric Vehicle Commitment
  Dec 06, 2010 - Energy Central
  
  GE announced today it will purchase 25,000 electric vehicles to convert half of its Capital Fleet Services business by 2015 - making it the largest-ever single electric vehicle commitment.
  
  
• Transmission as an Enabler: Planning Needed
  Nov 02, 2010 - Nicholas Brown - energybiz.com
  

  For too long transmission planning has been nothing more than an afterthought in providing electric service to end-use customers. This simply must change, and determining how to pay for a robust transmission network is critical.

• Vietnam Signs Agreement to Purchase Electricy from Laos
  Nov 02, 2010 - BBC Monitor - Energy Central
  

  Vietnam and Lao have signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) for the Sekaman Hydro-electric Power Plant 1, one of major energy cooperation projects between the two countries.

• Bringing Electricity to Poorer Countries
  Oct 22, 2010 - Ken Silverstein - energybiz.com
  

  The path to prosperity begins with electrification.
  

• Environmental champion Hermann Scheer dies
  Oct 20, 2010 - renewableenergyfocus.com
  
  One of Germany's most outspoken environmental politicians has died, at the age of 66. Hermann Scheer, a Social Democratic member of the German parliament, was a leading campaigner for renewable energy, in particular solar power.
  
  
• Switch to nodal grid system could trouble Texas electric providers
  Oct 18, 2010 - Elizabeth Souder - The Dallas Morning News - McClatchy-Tribune
  
  A new "nodal" electricity grid system could put your retail electricity provider out of business.
  
  
• Renewables Continue Remarkable Growth
  Oct 12, 2010 - Renewable Energy World
  
  Renewables had another banner year in 2009, with policy, investment and market development activity across a spread of nations - as recorded in the REN21 Renewables 2010 Global Status Report.
  
  
• Water map shows billions at risk of 'water insecurity'
  Oct. 5 - Richard Black - BBC News
  
  About 80% of the world's population lives in areas where the fresh water supply is not secure, according to a new global analysis.
  
  
• Smart meters get a high grade from survey
  Sep 28, 2010 - Purva Patel - Houston Chronicle
  
  The vast majority of smart meters installed in Texas are measuring and recording electric usage accurately, according to a state-ordered study.
  
  

• World Energy Consumption to Rise 49 Percent By 2035

  Aug 6, 2010 - Leadership/All Africa Global Media
  
  World energy consumption will increase by 49 per cent in the next 25 years, driven by rapidly developing countries such as China and India, the Energy Information Administration has said.

• Increased use of electricity to beat heat eventually could mean higher bills

  Aug 6, 2010 - Elwin Green Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - McClatchy-Tribune
  
  Consumers striving to keep cool are helping to raise the price of coal.
  
  
  
• New Report: U.S. Electric Utilities Must Embrace Clean Energy, Energy Efficiency to Compete in 21st Century
  Jul 12, 2010 - Business Wire
  
  The most successful utilities in the 21st Century will be very different from those of the 20th Century.
  
  
• Egat urges new power plant, Asean grid
  Jul 12, 2010 - Yuthana Praiwan - Bangkok Post - McClatchy-Tribune
  
  Power reserves for Thailand over the next five years may be at critical levels unless a new power plant can be built on schedule as described in the Power Development Plan, says the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand.
  
  
• EIA: World Energy Use Up 49% By 2035, Led By Emerging Nations
  May 25, 2010 - Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
  
  Global energy consumption will rise 49% between 2007 and 2035, led by economic growth in developing nations, the US Energy Information Administration said Tuesday.
  
  
• Renewables Hit the Big Time
  May 25, 2010 - Jennifer Kho - RenewableEnergyWorld.com
  
  A review of the world's biggest existing and planned renewable energy projects in the solar, wind, tidal, geothermal and wave energy sectors.
  
  
• Egypt gets World Bank loan for power project
  May 21, 2010 - Xinhua
  
  Egypt has reached a 220 million U.S. dollars loan agreement with the World Bank for a power transmission project, Egyptian media said Friday.
  
  
• China's installed power capacity to reach 900 mln kw by year end
  May 21, 2010 - Xinhua
  
  China's installed power generation capacity will surpass 900 million kilowatts by the end of 2010, Zhang Guobao, head of China's National Energy Administration, said Friday.
  
  
• New ‘Compendium of Best U.S. Practices’ in Energy Efficiency,
  Renewable Energy Aims to Drive Deployment Worldwide
  May 20, 2010 - ACORE
  
  hree leading energy efficiency and renewable energy organizations – the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP, an international body), the Alliance to Save Energy (Alliance) and the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) – have jointly released their Compendium of Best Practices: Sharing Local and State Successes in Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy from the United States, in which state and local governments share the key elements of their programs, lessons learned and what made each program a success.
  
  
• China, U.S. seek deeper clean energy cooperation
  May 20, 2010 - Xinhua
  
  China and the United States Thursday pledged to deepen clean energy cooperation as U.S. commerce chief led a large green power delegation to Beijing.
  
  
• U.N. says green economy depends on metal recycling
  May 18, 2010 - usatoday.com
  
  A green global economy will require much high recycling rates of specialty metals like lithium, neodymium and gallium, says a new United Nations report.
  
  
• U.S. Climate Bill Cuts Carbon, Expands Oil Drilling
  May 18, 2010 - Simon Lomax - businessweek.com
  
  Two U.S. senators will introduce climate-change legislation tomorrow that gives coastal states a share of revenue from expanded offshore oil and natural-gas drilling in a bid to win support for greenhouse gas limits.
  
  
• Anatomy of a Power Purchase Agreement
  May 17, 2010 - Eric Wesoff - greentechmedia.com
  
  We’re building an industry from ground zero
  
  
• Seattle picked to lead national effort on LED street lights
  Apr 20, 2010 - intelligentutility.com
  
  The U.S. Department of Energy announced today that Seattle City Light will lead a new national effort to promote the installation of energy efficient light emitting diode (LED) street lights.
  
  
• Colombia says willing to export electricity to drought-hit Ecuador
  Apr 13, 2010 - Xinhua
  
  Colombia is ready to sell electricity to Ecuador to help ease the power shortage caused by a severe drought in the neighboring country, Minister of Mines and Energy Hernan Martinez said Monday.
  
  
• Renewable Energy - Edited by T J Hammons
  Apr 5, 2010 - sciyo.com
  
  

  GENI had a hand in several of these chapters, and hosted several panel sessions that became part of the book.
  Tom Hammons gets a lot of the credit for seeing this project to completion.

• Governor Signs Two Bills to Spur Renewables, Green Manufacturing
  Mar 31, 2010 - California Energy Markets
  
  Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Monday signed SB X8 34, a bill designed to expedite the licensing of large solar-power plants in the desert and create a state-run mitigation program for environmental impacts. On Wednesday Schwarzenegger signed SB 71, a measure that would eliminate sales and use taxes on clean-technology manufacturing equipment.
  
  
• Constellation NewEnergy Signs Agreement to Supply New York Stock Exchange with Wind Energy
  Mar 31, 2010 - Business Wire
  
  Constellation Energy (NYSE: CEG) announced today that its subsidiary, Constellation NewEnergy, Inc., has entered into a green electricity purchase agreement with the New York Stock Exchange,
  
  
• Global solar photovoltaic installations reach a preliminary 6.4GW in 2009, says EPIA
  Mar 30, 2010  - Mark Osborne - pv-tech.org
  
  Preliminary 2009 market figures for the PV industry have been issued by the European Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPIA), after its recent workshop was held in Rome, Italy. The EPIA said that 6.4GW of newly installed capacity was achieved in 2009, reaching a total capacity of over 20GW worldwide.
  
  Mixing up a solution for greenhouse gases
  Mar 23, 2010 - wbcsd.org
  
  It seems like alchemy: A Silicon Valley start-up says it has found a way to capture the carbon dioxide emissions from coal and gas power plants and lock them into cement.
  
  
• National Renewable Energy Laboratory launches strategic energy analysis institute
  Mar 22, 2010 - hydroworld.com
  
  The U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has established a new global institute dedicated to analyzing, speeding and smoothing the transition to sustainable energy worldwide.
  
  
• NREL Launches Strategic Energy Analysis Institute
  Mar 18, 2010 - National Renewable Energy Labboratory
  
  The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) announced today that it has established a new global institute dedicated to analyzing, speeding and smoothing the transition to sustainable energy worldwide.
  
  
• Mapping European renewable energy statistics
  Mar 18, 2010 - Renewable Energy Focus
  
  A mapping service allowing visual comparison of renewable energy statistics in Europe is now available from the specialist search engine for renewable energy and energy efficiency, reegle.
  
  
• Green energy revolution expected in Kingdom
  Mar 9, 2010 - Amjad Parkar - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News
  
  Saudi Arabia and the Gulf signalled their intention to kick-start a renewable energy revolution in the region on Monday.
  
  
• New way to produce electricity discovered
  Mar 9, 2010 - Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Energy Cnetral
  
  A team of Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientists say they've discovered a phenomenon that might lead to a new way of producing electricity.
  
  
• Chinese dominance in clean energy equipment will have worrying effect on energy politics
  Mar 8, 2010 - Datamonitor - Energy Central
  
  China's rise to become the world leader in the production of clean tech equipment and rare earth metals will have negative consequences for the West in both economic and political terms. Aside from resulting in the eastward migration of industry players, the trend will allow China to gain control over the sector in a manner reminiscent of OPEC.
  
  
• Berkeley Lab Releases New Analysis of the Potential Renewable Energy Supply
  Feb 25, 2010 - Energy Central
  
  Berkeley Lab and Black & Veatch developed a new analytical tool to compare the economics of renewable resource areas for different load areas in the Western Interconnection and how different policies and uncertainties may affect resource selection and transmission expansion.
  
  
• Exploration of Resource and Transmission Expansion
  Feb 25, 2010 - Andrew Mills, Amol Phadke, and Ryan Wiser
  
  Exploration of Resource and Transmission Expansion Decisions in
  the Western Renewable Energy Zone Initiative
  
  
• New Analysis of the Potential Renewable Energy Supply and Transmission
  Feb 24, 2010 - Berkeley Lab
  
  “Exploration of Resource and Transmission Expansion Decisions in the Western Renewable Energy Zone Initiative.”
  
  
• 3TIER Completes REmapping the World
  Feb 24, 2010 - Renewablebiz.com
  
  3TIER® today announced the completion of its REmapping the World ™ initiative, which was launched in March 2008 to address the biggest barrier to global renewable energy adoption – the lack of reliable information regarding resource potential and availability.
  
  
• UN urges for more ambitious action to cut greenhouse gas emission
  Feb 23, 2010 - Xinhua
  
  The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) said Tuesday that countries will have to be far more ambitious in cutting greenhouse gas emission if the world is to effectively curb a rise in global temperature at 2 degrees Celsius or less.
  
  
• Two federal agencies join V.I. in renewable energy project
  Feb 22, 2010 - Constance Cooper- The Virgin Island Daily News
  
  The Virgin Islands and U.S. departments of Energy and Interior have entered into an agreement to move the territory away from its dependence on fossil fuels.
  
  
• Copenhagen Accord By-the-Numbers
  Feb 22, 2010 - Institute for 21st Century Energy
  
  In our previous paper, Copenhagen Accord and Discord: COP-15 and the Many Roads to Mexico, we laid out some of the policy and process issues surrounding the Copenhagen Accord. In this paper, we take a look at what impact the Accord could have on global emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs).
  
  
• Electric car lets drivers sell back unused watts
  Feb 22, 2010 - Dick Ahlstrom - Yellowbrix
  
  AAAS annual conference: Researchers have come up with the ultimate vehicle - an environmentally friendly electric car that plugs into the wall to sell power back to the electricity company.
  
  
• Small Reactors Generate Big Hopes
  Feb 18, 2010 - Rebecca Smith - Wall Street Journal
  
  A new type of nuclear reactor—smaller than a rail car and one tenth the cost of a big plant—is emerging as a contender to reshape the nation's resurgent nuclear power industry.
  
  
• 2010 Ooutlook For Renewable Energy
  Feb 9, 2010 - AWEA
  
  Today, top executives in the renewable energy sector gathered to applaud 2009’s strong renewable energy development but emphasized the need for Congress to swiftly enact key policies to continue accelerated growth across the entire sector in order to add jobs and boost economic growth in 2010.
  
  
• Energy Storage on Ice
  Feb 9, 2010 - Collin Sullivan - Scientific American
  
  Ice Energy has a novel solution for the electricity challenges of the 21st century: Make Popsicles.
  
  
• In Utah, company aims to store energy in air
  Feb 7, 2010 - Paul Foy - Associated Press
  
  A Utah company plans to dig a series of underground caverns that it hopes to one day fill with compressed air, releasing it to generate electricity by turning a turbine and solving one of the most vexing problems facing the clean-energy industry - how to store power.
  
  
• Hawaii on track toward renewable power goal
  Jan 28, 2010 - Mark Niesse - The Associated Press
  
  Two years into Hawaii's ambitious project of vastly increasing the amount of power it gets from renewable sources, state leaders say the islands are on track.
  
• Southern Company and Ted Turner Join Forces to Explore Renewable Energy Projects
  Jan 26, 2010 - PRNewswire
  
  Southern Company CEO David Ratcliffe and visionary business leader and environmentalist Ted Turner today announced a strategic alliance to pursue development of renewable energy projects in the United States.
  
  
• Recommendations for renewable energy policies in China
  Jan 22, 2010 - REN21
  
  Growing recognition of the important role that renewable energy can play in tackling climate change and ensuring energy security has led to a rapid boom in the industry over the last five years. According to the Renewables Global Status Report 2009 Update, annual renewable energy investment has increased fourfold since 2004 to reach USD120 billion in 2008.
  
  
• Background Paper: Chinese renewable status report 2009
  Jan 22, 2010 - REN21
  
  This report was commissioned by REN21 and produced in collaboration with the Chinese Renewable Energy Industrial Association (CREIA) and technology experts from various Chinese research institutions and private sector. Financing was provided by the United States Department of States, Asia Pacific Partnership (APP) Programme.
  
• Clean-Tech Job Forecast 2010
  Jan 22, 2010 - Kevin Brown and Steve Kyryk - Clean Edge
  
  With their fingers on the pulse of clean-tech hiring trends, we asked Senior Partner Kevin Brown and Vice President Steve Kyryk of Hobbs & Towne Executive Search (HTI) to provide insight into the impact of the 'Great Recession' on the industry and areas for opportunity in 2010.
  
  
• Popularity of electric cars will force governments to alternative taxes: analysts
  Jan 19, 2010 - Ross Marowits - The Associated Press
  
  The eventual popularity of electric cars will force governments to consider alternative revenues as they prepare to wean themselves off fuel taxes, industry observers say.
  
  
• Alternative energy gains momentum: Incentives likely to be extended
  Jan 18, 2010 - Energy Central
  
  Investments in alternative energy this year are likely to grow rapidly for this year given growing concern about climate change and the environment, says Krairit Nilkuha, director-general of the Department of Alternative Energy Development and Efficiency (DEDE).
  
  
• Renewably-Generated Electricity Continues to Rise as Coal and Nuclear Drop
  Jan 15, 2010 - U.S. Energy Information Administration
  
  Net generation in the United States dropped by 3.8 percent from October 2008 to October 2009. This was the 15th consecutive month that net generation was down compared to the same calendar month in the prior year. The Federal Reserve reported that industrial production was 7.1 percent lower than it had been in October 2008, the 16th consecutive month that same-month industrial production was lower than it had been in the previous year. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported that October 2009 was the third coolest October on record. Accordingly, total population-weighted heating degree days for the contiguous United States were 17.4 percent above the average for the month of October. October 2008 had gone into into the record books as the 44th coolest since recordkeeping began in 1895.
  
  
• Greenleaf Publishing's 'Top 50 Sustainability Books'
  Jan 14, 2010 - Earthscan news
  
  Greenleaf Publishing created a list of "The Top 50 Sustainability Books" in a new book released in December of last year.
  
  
• 'The Empathic Civilization': Rethinking Human Nature in the Biosphere Era
  Jan 11, 2010 - Jeremy Rifkin - The Huffington Post
  
  Two spectacular failures, separated by only 18 months, marked the end of the modern era. In July 2008, the price of oil on world markets peaked at $147/ barrel, inflation soared, the price of everything from food to gasoline skyrocketed, and the global economic engine shut off. Growing demand in the developed nations, as well as in China, India, and other emerging economies, for diminishing fossil fuels precipitated the crisis. Purchasing power plummeted and the global economy collapsed. That was the earthquake that tore asunder the industrial age built on and propelled by fossil fuels. The failure of the financial markets two months later was merely the aftershock. The fossil fuel energies that make up the industrial way of life are sunsetting and the industrial infrastructure is now on life support.
  
  
• When Will Renewable Energy Companies Overtake Traditional Energy Companies?
  Jan 8, 2010 - Jennifer Kho - Renewable Energy World.com
  
  Renewable energy has got buzz, growth and growing government support. But it's no secret that it still makes up a small portion of the overall energy mix. As interest in renewables increases, the question has begun coming up more and more often: When will renewable energy companies catch up to conventional energy companies? That is, when will we see an Exxon Mobil Corp., Chevron Corp. or ConocoPhilips of renewables?
  
  
• Pentagon's 25M Acres Could Ease Renewables Siting Debate
  Dec 3, 2009 - Scott Streater - NY Times
  
  While not central to its war-fighting mission abroad, the U.S. military is quietly becoming one of the nation's most aggressive energy innovators, retrofitting thousands of acres of military installations with renewables technologies that will help meet the bases' future power demand while also aiding host states in achieving renewable energy targets.
  
  
• Clean Energy Will Lag Behind Global Power Demand: Chart of Day
  Nov 19, 2009 - Jeremy van Loon - First Enercast Financial
  
  Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Wind turbines, solar panels and hydropower stations won’t be built fast enough to keep pace with global electricity demand through 2030, the International Energy Agency forecast.
  
  
• Six renewable energy sources judged to be best prospect for future, says report
  Nov18, 2009 - RenewableEnergyFocus.com
  
  The best prospects for large-scale renewable energy production and net-energy performance remain wind and certain forms of solar, according to a study released by two California-based think tanks.
  
  
• Clean Tech Job Trends 2009
  Nov 2, 2009 - Clean Edge
  
  The following is an excerpt from Clean Tech Job Trends 2009. To read the full report, please download the PDF file by clicking on the article.
  For nearly a decade, Clean Edge has issued its annual Clean Energy Trends report series in which we present the latest clean-energy trends; report on the current and projected size of the global market for solar, wind and biofuels; and provide insights and intelligence on the broader clean-energy market. This year, we are launching a new report series, focusing on employment in the clean-tech industry, in which we hope to do for clean-tech jobs what we did for clean energy in our earlier reports.
  
  
• DOE Awards $151 Million in Recovery Act Funding for ARPA-E Projects
  Oct 28, 2009 - U.S. Department of Energy
  
  DOE awarded $151 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds on October 26 for 37 energy research projects under the recently-formed Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy ("ARPA-E"). ARPA-E's mission is to develop inventive approaches to transform the global energy landscape while advancing U.S. technology leadership by creating jobs and cutting carbon pollution. This first round of grants will go to researchers and inventors in 17 states and will support the research and development of new renewable energy technologies for solar cells, wind turbines, geothermal drilling, biofuels, and biomass energy crops. The grants will also support a variety of energy efficiency technologies, including power electronics and engine-generators for advanced vehicles, devices for waste heat recovery, electrically controlled windows and control systems for smart buildings, light-emitting diodes (LEDs), reverse-osmosis membranes for water desalination, catalysts to split water into hydrogen and oxygen, improved fuel cell membranes, and more energy-dense magnetic materials for a variety of electronic components. Six grants will go to energy storage technologies, including an ultracapacitor, improved lithium-ion batteries, metal-air batteries that use ionic liquids, liquid sodium batteries, and liquid metal batteries.
  
  
• Energy leadership center sees no energy shortage
  Oct 28, 2009 - Elwin Green - Post-Gazette
  
  Contrary to the popular notion that the United States and the world are facing an energy shortage, Andy Hannah believes that the planet's resources offer enough potential energy -- if we can just figure out how to harness it.
  
  
• A Pan-Aisan Energy Infrastructure
  Oct 25, 2009 - Desertec Asia
  
  Coal-fired power plants are getting old. The electricity transmission system needs upgrading. New supplies of natural gas are coming on line that need a route to market. The regional economy is becoming increasingly integrated. Climate change looms large.
  
  
• Shifting to 100% Renewable Energy Would Save Money
  Oct 21, 2009 - Louis Bergeron - Stanford University
  
  Most of the technology needed to shift the world from fossil fuel to clean, renewable energy already exists. Implementing that technology requires overcoming obstacles in planning and politics, but doing so could result in a 30 percent decrease in global power demand, say Stanford civil and environmental engineering Professor Mark Z. Jacobson and University of California-Davis researcher Mark Delucchi.
  
  
• Universities show increased use of renewable energy
  Oct 16, 2009 - Renewable Energy Focus
  
  Twenty-six universities and colleges across the United States received a grading of A- for their use of renewable energy on campus.
  
  
• Israeli scientists generate electricity from road traffic
  Oct 5, 2009 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News
  
  Israeli scientists have achieved a breakthrough in alternative energy, by generating electricity from road traffic. The technology was developed by Ra'anana-based start up Innowwattech Ltd., and Israel National Roads Company Ltd. and the Technion Israel Institute of Technology participated in the trial.
  
  
• New energy, renewable energy take nine pct in China's energy structure
  Oct 02, 2009 - Xinhua
  
  New energy and renewable energy took nine percent in China's energy structure in 2008, while coal took 69 percent and oil and natural gas 22 percent, according to the National Bureau of Statistics of China.
  
  
• PG&E Signs Suite of Power Agreements for Clean, Reliable Energy
  Oct 1, 2009 - PRNewswire
  
  Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) today announced a suite of new power agreements, totaling more than 2,000 megawatts (MW), that are expected to provide many years of clean, reliable electricity for the 15 million people it serves in northern and central California.
  
  
• Green Bridge over polluted waters
  Sep 24, 2009 - Cleanenergyconnection.com
  
  The UN Summit in Copenhagen highlighted the effect our energy consumption has taken upon our environment. On September 22, President Obama made a clear statement in his speech at the UN General Assembly when he called on nations to embrace clean energy. As more and more of these clean energy technologies become available, something must be done to help make buyers aware of what has made it to market.
  
  
• Clean energy gaining momentum
  Sept 18, 2009 - Patrick Cassidy - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News
  
  The future of marine renewable energy in the United States could include a large testing zone south of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, shared port facilities among states, and an electrical transmission grid buried beneath the seabed connecting offshore wind farms.
  
  
• Study for New England Governors Shows Region Has Significant Potential to Develop Renewables
  Sept 15, 2009 - Business Wire
  
  At the request of New England's six governors, ISO New England Inc., the operator of the region's bulk power system and wholesale electricity markets, recently released the results of a months-long study evaluating renewable resource potential in the region and beyond, as well as the economic and environmental impacts of that development.
  
  
• Renewables Global Status Report 2009 Update
  Sep 9, 2009 - Eric Martinot and Janet Sawin - Renewable Energy World Magazine
  
  Future targets for renewable energy now exist in over 73 countries, up from 45 in 2005. Many such trends continue and are documented in this summary of the REN21 annual report.
  
  
• U.N. reports on developing nations' energy needs
  Sept 1, 2009 - Neil MacFarquhar - The New York Times
  
  It will cost between $500 billion and $600 billion every year for the next 10 years to allow developing nations to grow using renewable energy resources, instead of relying on dirty fuels that worsen global warming, according to a United Nations report released Tuesday.
  
  
• China sets minimum purchase quota for renewable energy-generated power
  Aug 25, 2009 - Xinhua
  
  China will set a minimum purchase quota for electric power generated by renewable energy to promote the development of clean energy and environmental protection, according to a draft amendment to the renewable energy law. The draft amendment to the renewable energy law was submitted to the country's top legislature, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), for its first reading on Monday.
  
  
• Utilities, Groups at Odds Over Sources for Renewable Energy
  Aug 24, 2009 - The Sacramento Bee
  
  California's electric utilities have accepted that they'll be required to get a third of their power from renewable sources by 2020.
  
  
• International renewable energy agency opens bank account with "green" bank
  Aug 24, 2009 - Al-Bawaba
  
  The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) today announced that Director-General Helene Pelosse has opened the agency's bank account with Standard Chartered Bank, an international "green bank" that works to drive sustainable economic growth worldwide, reinforcing the agency's commitment to promoting a rapid transition towards the widespread and sustainable use of renewable energy on a global scale.
  
  
• New Michigan Energy Report: Renewables and Energy Efficiency Are Enough to Power the State
  Aug 11, 2009 - Josh Mogerman - NRDC
  
  Michigan’s power needs can be delivered by a combination of wind power, biomass, and other sources of renewable energy coupled with aggressive energy efficiency programs, according to a new energy report from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). The report comes as the Michigan Public Service Commission is set to make recommendations to the Department of Environmental Quality on the need for power and availability of cleaner alternative to coal later this month.
  
  
• Obama Administration Announces $30 Billion in Loan Guarantees for Renewable Energy Projects and to Modernize the Grid
  Jul 31, 2009 -Wind Today
  
  Washington, DC--U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced July 29 that the Department of Energy will provide up to $30 billion in loan guarantees, depending on the applications and market conditions, for renewable energy projects.
  
  
• U.S. Military Leads Green Charge
  Jul 29, 2009 - Bill Opalka - Renewable Energy World.Com
  
  The U.S. military is not just setting standards in the areas of advanced weaponry. It's also leading the renewable energy charge. It's involved in solar, geothermal and wind projects and its stake in the field will continue to grow.
  
  
• Renewable Sources Soar To Over 11% Of U.S. Energy Production
  July 29, 2009 - Ken Bosson - Sun Day Campaign
  
  Washington DC -- According to the latest issue of the "Monthly Energy Review" by the U.S. Energy Information Administration, production of renewable energy for the first third of 2009 (i.e., January 1 – April 30) was six percent higher compared to the same time period in 2008. Moreover, renewable energy accounted for 11.1 percent of domestic energy production in April 2009 and exceeded the amount contributed by nuclear power.
  
  
• Al Gore: Australia can be path-breaking "early responder" to climate change
  Jul 13, 2009 - DESERTEC
  
  Australia can play an influential global role as a path-breaking, innovative 'early responder' to climate change, according to Nobel Prize-winning climate change guru Al Gore.
  
  
• Country Set to Tap Power From Renewable Energy
  Jul 6, 2009 - The Nation/All Africa Global Media
  
  Kenya is fast-tracking its plan to boost renewable energy as hydro power increasingly becomes unreliable due to erratic rains.
  
  
• Villaraigosa Seeks an End to Coal Power
  Jul 5, 2009 - Daily Breeze
  
  Even with the prospects of higher rates, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is pushing to speed the conversion of the Department of Water and Power from cheap coal power to expanded use of renewable energy.
  
  
• Sri Lanka to develop renewable energy
  Jun 28, 2009 - Xinhua
  
  The Sri Lankan government said Sunday that it has designed a national energy plan for the development of wind and bio mass energy resource, making the renewable energy to meet 10 percent of the island's energy needs by the year of 2016.
  
  
• RETScreen Wins REEEP Funding for new MTV Tool
  Jun 25, 2009 - Natural Resources Canada
  
  The Vienna-based Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) announced on May 8, 2009 the winners of its 7th project funding cycle. In a highly competitive process, 49 projects in 25 countries were selected for funding out of a total of 694 project concepts received from around the world.
  
  
• Baltic interconnection plan for renewables
  Jun 25, 2009 - Renewable Energy World.com
  
  Eight Baltic Sea states have launched an action plan to connect Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia to EU energy networks, a strategy that should boost opportunities for renewable energy development.
  
  
• First-of-its-kind map shows L.A. county a likely epicenter of California's green economy
  Jun 3, 2009 - Environmental Defense Fund
  
  Los Angeles County has more businesses than any other county in California that stand to benefit from the state's leadership on climate change, according to a first-of-its-kind map of green businesses in California released today. The map was released in conjunction with a report outlining how the Los Angeles area can leverage its environmental leadership to create economic opportunities.
  
  
• Hawaii says Aloha (Greetings) to clean, renewable energy
  Jun 1, 2009 - Robynne Boyd - Scientific American
  
  The 50th state's call for energy sovereignty could set the pace for the rest of the nation.
  
  
• Bioelectricity Promises More ‘Miles Per Acre’ Than Ethanol
  May 7, 2009 - Carnegie Institution for Science
  
  STANFORD, CA - Researchers writing in the online edition of the May 7 Science magazine say the best bet is to convert the biomass to electricity, rather than ethanol. They calculate that, compared to ethanol used for internal combustion engines, bioelectricity used for battery-powered vehicles would deliver an average of 80% more miles of transportation per acre of crops, while also providing double the greenhouse gas offsets to mitigate climate change.
  
  
• Potentials and prospects for renewable energies at global scale
  Science Digest
  
  Renewable energies (RE) represent a cornerstone to steer our energy system in the direction of sustainability and supply security. Generating electricity, heat or biofuels from renewable energy sources has become a high priority in the energy policy strategies at national level as well as at a global scale. Challenging goals for these “new” supply options to meet our energy demands have been set, e.g. at European level by the commitment of meeting 20% of the overall energy demand from renewable energy sources by 2020.
  
  
• The looming replacement cycle of coal-fired power
  April 1, 2009 - Stewart Taggart
  
  A massive retirement of coal-fired power plants looms around the world. The resulting 'upgrade cycle' presents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to make real progress against climate change. Best of all, the opportunity is being offered on a silver platter. The real question is, what energy source will be ready to replace coal-fired power?
  
  
• Renewables' Share of U.S. Electricity Supply Soars in 2008
  Mar 23, 2009 - Energy Central
  
  According to the latest figures published by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) in its "Electric Power Monthly" report released on March 24, 2009, non-hydro renewable sources of electricity enjoyed double-digit growth during the past year while coal, natural gas, and petroleum experienced notable declines and nuclear power remained stagnant.
  
  
• Seventy-Five Nations Join New International Renewable Energy Agency
  Jan 28, 2009 - EERE Network News
  
  The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) was founded on Monday in Bonn, Germany, and 75 nations have already signed a compact to join the new agency. IRENA is an intergovernmental organization for renewable energy, and it aims to become a driving force in the promotion of a rapid transition towards the widespread global use of renewable energy.
  
  
• Winter is No Friend to Green Power
  Dec 26, 2008 - Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
  
  Old Man Winter, it turns out, is no friend of renewable energy. This time of year, wind turbine blades ice up, biodiesel congeals in tanks and solar panels produce less power because there is not as much sun. And perhaps most irritating to the people who own them, the panels become covered with snow, rendering them useless even in bright winter sunshine.
  
  
• Wind, Water And Sun Beat Biofuels, Nuclear And Coal For Clean Energy
  Dec. 11, 2008 - ScienceDaily
  
  The best ways to improve energy security, mitigate global warming and reduce the number of deaths caused by air pollution are blowing in the wind and rippling in the water, not growing on prairies or glowing inside nuclear power plants, says Mark Z. Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford.
  
  
• U.N. urges quicker transfer of green technology to poorer countries
  Nov. 7, 2008 - The Associated Pres
  
  U.N. climate chief Yvo de Boer said Friday it is essential that industrialized countries speed up the transfer of clean energy technology to poorer ones to help tackle global warming.
  
  
• UNEP Launches Green Economy Initiative
  Oct 30, 2008 - UNEP - insnet.org
  
  Mobilizing and re-focusing the global economy towards investments in clean technologies and 'natural' infrastructure such as forests and soils is the best bet for real growth, combating climate change and triggering an employment boom in the 21st century.
  
  
• China Renewable Energy and Sustainable Development Report (pdf)
  October, 2008 - Vol. X - Louis B. Schwartz - China Strategies LLC
  
  China's extraordinary economic growth and heavy reliance on increasingly expensive foreign oil, the vast environmental toll that is one of the most apparent costs of China's economic success, persistent rural poverty in China and periodic power shortages all have impressed upon Beijing that renewable energy must be a large part of China's economy if China is to both complete its economic transformation and achieve "energy security".
  
  
• Today's Alternative Energy
  October, 2008 - Scientific American
  
  Promising technologies to wean the world from fossil fuels, including offshore wind, solar, geothermal and hydrogen cars, among others
  
  
• UN report predicts massive need for renewables
  Aug 29, 2007 - RenewableEnergyFocus.com
  
  BONN, Germany - Green power should receive a share of the US$148 billion that will be needed by 2030 to reduce GHG emissions, according to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
  
  
• UC San Diego Enacts Green Energy Initiatives
  Jul 21, 2008 - Jim Gogek - RenewableEnergyWorld.com
  
  University of California, San Diego, a university that considers itself to be one of the nation's greenest college campuses, has begun construction on a sustainable energy program that it says is among the largest in the nation by a university.
  
  
• Gore: Carbon-free electricity in 10 years doable
  Jul 17, 2008 - Dina Cappiello - The Associated Press
  
  Former Vice President Al Gore called Thursday for a "man on the moon" effort to switch all of the nation's electricity production to wind, solar and other carbon-free sources within 10 years, a goal that he said would solve global warming as well as economic and natural security crises caused by dependence on fossil fuels.
  
  
• India prime minister unveils plan to combat climate change
  Jun 30, 2008 - The Associated Press
  
  NEW DELHI (AP) — India's prime minister announced a plan Monday to combat global warming by focusing on renewable energy, even as he stood by a refusal to commit to greenhouse gas emission targets that could stall the country's economic growth.
  
  
• Researchers develop window capable of generating electricity
  Jun 25, 2008 - Asia Pulse Data Source
  
  South Korean researchers and Samsung SDI Co. said Tuesday that they have developed a window that can be used to generate electric power.
  
  
• Netherlands to invest huge in renewable energy
  Jun 20, 2008 - Xinhua
  
  The Dutch government said it will invest 7.5 billion euros in energy supply between now and 2011 with priority given to renewable energy, energy saving and CO2 reduction in order to reduce the country's dependency on oil and gas, Dutch newspapers reported on Thursday.
  
  
• New Zealand phases out old light bulbs to save energy, greenhouse gas output
  Jun 15, 2008 - The Associated Press
  
  New Zealand will ban traditional light bulb sales from October 2009 to cut greenhouse gas emissions and save up to half a billion U.S. dollars a year in energy costs, the government said Tuesday.
  
  
• Renewable energy projects meet opposition from environmentalists
  Jun 6, 2008 - Jennifer Bowles - McClatchy-Tribune-Regional-News
  
  A rush to build environmentally friendly renewable energy in the windy, sunny Inland region has stirred up some unlikely foes: environmentalists.
  
  
• Green Economy Can Grow Jobs
  Jun 5, 2008 - Miami Herald
  
  A study by the University of Massachusetts says the push to be environmentally conscious may provide opportunities for workers in a variety of industries. Construction people for building retrofitting, engineers and transportation people for mass transit, welders and many others for energy efficient cars, steel workers for wind power, a variety of assemblers for solar power — all could benefit from the move to green.
  
  
• President challenges experts to seek new energy
  Jun 3, 2008 - Antara News
  
  Jakarta - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono again challenged experts in energy to find new energy resources to replace fossil energy, a minister said.
  
  
• Green Revolution to Create 50,000 Jobs
  May 13, 2008 - The Scotsman
  
  Scotland is on the brink of a green jobs revolution with 50,000 posts expected to be created in the next decade, careers experts claim.
  
  
• Renewables Trades Converge on Capitol Hill to Address Climate Change Issues
  May 9, 2008 - Wind Energy Weekly
  
  Renewable energy trade association representatives gathered last Tuesday on Capitol Hill for a well-attended climate change briefing, where they presented a united message on renewable resources' potential to help combat global warming and the policies needed to deploy renewable energy at the levels necessary to achieve carbon reduction goals.
  
  
• Green-Collar Jobs Growing
  Apr 27, 2008 - The Augusta Chronicle
  
  When 1,800 workers lost their jobs after a Maytag appliance factory and headquarters closed last year in Newton, Iowa, a wind turbine blade company saw opportunity - an available, skilled workforce in the middle of one of America's hardiest wind energy production regions.
  
  
• 'Green' on the go: Vancouver engineer travels third world promoting renewable energy
  Apr 16, 2008 - Laura Mcvicker - The Columbian - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News
  
  Vancouver, Wash. - During his overseas trips, Michel Maupoux sleeps on classroom floors, makes a bed in strangers' homes or takes a tent into a remote village. For days, he lives without electricity.
  At the same time, he teaches villagers how to use solar energy to manufacture light or run water pumps -- to do the exact thing he promises to live without.
  
  
• Clean-Energy Trends 2008
  Mar, 2008 - CleanEdge
  
  Amid a challenging economic outlook—plummeting housing prices, rising foreclosure rates, record-high oil prices, sinking consumer confidence, looming recession—2007 was another banner year for clean energy, with no signs of a slowdown in 2008. Solar, wind, biofuels, geothermal, energy intelligence, hybrid- and all-electric vehicles, advanced batteries, green buildings, and other clean-energy-related technologies and markets provided bright spots in an otherwise sluggish economy.
  
  
• Renewable Energy Continues Rapid Global Growth in 2007
  Mar 12, 2008 - EERE Network News
  
  The global use of renewable energy sources continued its rapid growth in 2007, with 40 gigawatts of new renewable energy capacity added throughout the world, according to a new report. That capacity growth, which includes large hydropower, brings the world's renewable energy generating capacity to more than a thousand gigawatts. Excluding large hydropower, renewable generating capacity grew by 33 gigawatts to a total of 240 gigawatts, a 16% annual growth rate. At 95 gigawatts, wind power is the largest of the newer renewable energy sources, while grid-connected solar photovoltaic systems increased by 53%, reaching 7.8 gigawatts.
  
  
• Portugal's rush to renewables places it in front line of EU's energy makeover
  Mar 11, 2008 - Barry Hatton - The Associated Press
  
  Broad fields of giant solar panels as big as houses tilt toward the sun in this torrid patch of the Iberian peninsula.
  
  
• DOE to Support Hawaii Efforts of 70% Renewables by 2030
  Feb 5, 2008 - Wind energy Weekly
  
  The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and Hawaii Governor Linda Lingle (R) announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding for DOE to partner with the state and help it reach a goal of using renewable energy resources to supply 70% of its power needs by 2030.
  
  
• France Sets Ambitious Renewable Energy Targets
  Jan 2, 2008 - Jane Burgermeister - renewableenergyaccess.com
  
  Wind and solar power are at the heart of a big new push by the French government to increase the renewable share of the country's total energy consumption from 6.7 percent in 2004 to 20 percent by 2020.
  
  
• China promises more clean energy spending but warns coal use will climb
  Dec 26, 2007 - Joe McDonald - The Associated Press
  
  China promised Wednesday to develop renewable energy for its fast-growing economy but warned that coal consumption will grow dramatically and avoided embracing binding limits on its greenhouse gas emissions.
  
  
• German Investments in Clean Alternative Energy Pay Off
  Dec 26, 2007 - Voice of America News/ContentWorks
  
  With virtually no oil or natural gas resources of its own, Germany relies on Russia for 20 percent of its oil and one-third of its gas imports. But with Russia displaying a willingness to use oil as a political weapon, Germany is placing new emphasis on achieving energy independence - especially by developing alternative energy sources. As part of his series on the politics of oil, VOA's Brian Padden reports how German efforts to reduce pollution have led to new ways to produce energy.
  
  
• Renewable Energy Growth Boosted in New "Annual Energy Outlook"
  Dec 19, 2007 - EERE Network News
  
  DOE's Energy Information Administration (EIA) is now projecting renewable energy to experience 23% faster growth between now and 2030 than previously anticipated. The EIA's latest "Annual Energy Outlook" foresees renewable energy providing 12.2 quadrillion Btu (quads) of energy by 2030, up from only 9.9 quads in last year's outlook. For comparison, total U.S. energy use was 100 quads in 2006 and is projected to increase to 123.8 quads by 2030. The EIA projections include hydropower, which is expected to increase from 2.89 quads in 2006 to 3 quads in 2015, staying level after that. In contrast, biomass energy is projected to increase from 2.97 quads in 2006 to 5.52 quads in 2030, an 86% increase, while "other renewable energy" is projected to increase from 0.88 quads in 2006 to 2.49 quads in 2030, a nearly threefold increase. And this is just the EIA's reference case, often characterized as the "business as usual" case; a full EIA report examining alternative scenarios will be released early in 2008.
  
  
• Transmission, Renewables: Arranged Marriage, But at What Cost?
  Dec 4, 2007 - NGI's Power Market Today
  
  While technically and administratively California's grid can absorb renewable generation sources at the 20% level by 2010, according to a recently completed report by the California Independent System Operator (CAISO), how much the transformation will cost and who pays for it are still unknown, CAISO CEO Yakout Mansour said Monday during a news media briefing on the grid operator's new demand response lab.
  
  
• Companies squeezing power from sun, deserts in Southern California
  Dec 2, 2007 - San Francisco Chronicle
  
  A renewable-energy boom is under way in the Southern California desert. The region's open, empty spaces have room for big projects - such as vast solar energy farms - that can generate energy on a grand scale while producing few, if any, greenhouse gases. Dozens of new solar and geothermal generating stations have been proposed, from Lancaster to the Arizona and Mexico borders. They won't be cheap to build, possibly raising the costs Californians pay for power. But with the state's utilities scrambling to find more renewable energy, the projects are moving forward.
  
  
• Mather Aims for 50per Cent of Electricity From Renewable Sources By 2020
  Nov 28, 2007 - The Herald, Glasgow (UK)
  
  The Scottish Government yesterday announced higher targets for the amount of electricity that comes from green sources.Ministers want 31per cent of Scotland's electricity to come from renewable sources by 2011, and they have set a target of 50per cent of all electricity from renewables by 2020. That compares with the previous aim of having 40per cent of electricity generated from such sources by 2020.
  
  
• Renewables booming in China: Report
  Nov 17, 2007 - China Daily
  
  China would likely achieve and could even exceed its target of obtaining 15 percent of its energy from renewables by 2020, according to a new report released by the Worldwatch Institute.
  
  
• Worldwatch Report Looks at The Role of Renewables in China's Future
  Nov 16, 2007 - Jennifer Runyon - renewableenergyaccess.com
  
  Symbolic though it may be, it cannot go unnoticed that China's richest man, according to the Forbes Magazine's 2006 annual list of billionaires, is the CEO of solar cell producer, SunTech Power Holdings. Even though virtually all of the company's product is exported, (coal provides most of China's energy) it's clear that the role renewable energy plays in China's future will continue to increase.
  
  
• Government Report: In Energy Sector, Renewables Get Less Federal Support
  Nov 14, 2007 - Wind Energy Weekly
  
  A report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) comparing federal electricity subsidies by fuel type shows that renewables such as wind still get only a small share of the overall subsidies awarded to the energy sector.
  
  
• Rethinking U.S. Foreign Aid - Make RE, Not War
  November/December, 2007 - Frank Zaski - Solar today
  
  For international security, foreign aid should include renewable energy and efficiency.
  
  
• Lawmakers file bill that would help connect clean energy to the power grid
  Nov 1, 2007 - Media Release - www.house.gov
  
  Two members of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, U.S. Reps. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) and Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.), today introduced legislation in the House that would make renewable electricity produced in rural areas available to urban energy users.
  
  
• Green power purchases, state RES legislation to strain renewables supply--NREL
  Oct 31, 2007 - Wind Energy Weekly
  
  A recently released report from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) highlights a potential supply and demand mismatch in renewable energy in the coming years as a result of renewable energy certificate (RECs) purchases, utility green pricing program options, and state renewable electricity standards (RES).
  
  
• NERC Annual Report Highlights Renewables Trend
  Oct 19, 2007 - Wind Energy Weekly
  
  The nation's transmission operators and utilities will increasingly need to accommodate a much larger portion of generation from growing amounts of renewable energy resources such as wind power coming online, the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) said in its latest annual “Long Term Reliability Assessment.”
  
  
• Boost for Renewables As Minister Hints at Capping Grid Charges
  Oct 10, 2007 - The Scotsman
  
  The UK energy minister yesterday signalled he was prepared to intervene in a row that threatens to damage Scotland's potential to become a green-energy powerhouse.
  
  
• India, Iceland sign MoU on renewable energy co-operation
  Oct 10, 2007 - Thomson Financial
  
  The Indian Ministry of New and Renewable Energy said it has signed a memorandum of understanding on renewable energy cooperation with Iceland.
  
  
• UNEP poised to stir green energy revolution in E. Africa
  Oct 10, 2007 - The Associated Press
  
  A U.N.-backed initiative is set to harvest environment-friendly hydroelectric power from millions of tea and sugar cane growers across East Africa, U.N. officials said Thursday.
  
  
• Coal-Emission Cleanup a Challenge for Utilities
  Oct 8, 2007 - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services
  
  Coal-powered utilities, under intense pressure to cut carbon emissions, say the country needs the electricity that coal generates and they need time to enact controls on discharges. Groups like the Sierra Club, however, want an immediate end to coal's use -- in the United States and around the world -- to slow global warming.
  
  
• Shortage of renewable energy grows
  Oct 4, 2007 - Paul Davidson - USA Today
  
  Demand for renewable energy is outstripping supply, pushing up prices and raising the specter that some states may not meet clean-energy mandates.
  
  
• China shuts down 253 small coal-fired generating units
  Sep 28, 2007 - Asia In Focus
  
  In the past eight months, China has shut down 253 small coal-fired generating units that were heavy energy consumers and emitters, and replaced them with high-efficiency generators that has cut yearly coal consumption by 13.5 million tons and CO2 emissions by 27 million tons. Vice-Premier Zeng Peiyan said this while inaugurating the second forum on China-Japan Energy Saving and Environmental Protection yesterday.
  
  
• Nepal, UNDP sign 1.9 mln USD rural energy project
  Sep 25, 2007 - Xinhua
  
  The Nepali government and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) have signed a 1.9 million-U.S.-dollar rural energy project for a period of three years.
  
  
• Consortium to Spearhead Renewable Energy Transmission Initiative
  Sep 25, 2007 - News Release - California Energy Commission
  
  Sacramento - Imagine solar mirrors shimmering in the sun and wind turbines harnessing the wind by generating thousands of megawatts of clean, green power from remote California deserts and hillsides.
  
  
• Study nixes nuke, fossil energy planning
  Sep 24, 2007 - UPI
  
  A study suggests the wisest energy strategy for many nations is to move away from reliance on large-scale centralized coal and nuclear plants.
  
  
• AWEA Praises Bill Introduced by Senator Reid to Designate National Renewable Energy Zones
  Sep 21, 2007 - Wind Energy Weekly
  
  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) introduced September 20 a bill to establish “National Renewable Energy Zones” to improve the development and transmission of renewable energy. AWEA praised Sen. Reid for proposing this legislation and released the following statement:
  
  
• Experts warn of severe challenges to peaceful use of nuclear energy
  Sep 20, 2007 - Xinhua
  
  Experts warned here on Thursday that the development of the peaceful use of nuclear energy in the world would face severe challenges over the next 25 years.
  
  
• Iceland phasing out fossil fuels for clean energy
  Sep 20, 2007 - CNN.com
  
  Iceland may be best known for world-famous musical export Bjork but there's a new star quickly gaining this island nation worldwide acclaim -- clean energy.
  
  
• Council Finds Coal Cutbacks Vital to Lower CO2 Emissions in NW
  Sep 19, 2007 - Clearing Up - energycentral.com
  
  Retiring some existing coal-fired plants and replacing their output with cleaner resources is the key to maintaining or lowering carbon dioxide emissions from the regional electric sector, according to a new Northwest Power and Conservation Council paper.
  
  
• World Energy Council Cites Need for More Renewables, Nuclear
  Sep 19, 2007 - NGI's Power Market Today
  
  Fossil fuels will continue to play an important role in energy supply in the decades to come, but every effort has to be made to develop cleaner, more efficient energy technologies that include renewables and nuclear power, according to the World Energy Council (WEC).
  
  
• Europe and U.S. Warned Over Rising Energy Use
  Sep 18, 2007 - Internationnal Herald Tribune
  
  Despite the growing political commitment to tackling global warming, individual energy use and carbon emissions in the leading industrial countries have actually increased in recent years, the new head of a major energy advisory group said Monday. Nobuo Tanaka, the first non-European chosen to lead the International Energy Agency, said during an interview that Europe, Canada, Australia and particularly the United States had to do much more to increase energy efficiency if they wanted to have any credibility when calling on India and China to act.
  
  
• Taking Care of Business
  Sep 10, 2007 - GreenBuzz
  
  I've long maintained that human resource managers are the real drivers of sustainability inside mainstream companies. Every time I see how-to advice on greening a company that includes the suggestion to "get top-management buy-in," I think, "Sure, but what about everyone else?"
  
  
• China outlines plans to increase use of renewable energy
  Sep 4, 2007 - The Associated Press
  
  BEIJING - China on Tuesday announced details of its plans to increase the use of renewable energy in an attempt to cut pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.
  
  
• UN report predicts massive need for renewables
  Aug 29, 2007 - Renewable Energy Focus
  
  BONN, Germany, August 29, 2007. Green power should receive a share of the US$148 billion that will be needed by 2030 to reduce GHG emissions, according to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
  
  
• LED dynamics creates direct LED replacements for fluorescent tubes
  Aug 2007 - LEDs Magazine Replacing a fluorescent tube with an LED luminaire becomes very easy when you don't need to worry about drivers, ballasts and wiring, writes Tim Whitaker.
  
  
• More states harness power of renewable energy
  Aug 22, 2007 - Jordan Schrader - USA Today
  
  RALEIGH, N.C. — Some focus on the sun, others on the wind, and at least one includes a role for pig power. While the particulars vary, state laws requiring electric utilities to use renewable energy sources to help curb greenhouse-gas emissions and meet growing power demands are rapidly becoming the norm.
  
  
• Power to the poor
  Aug 13, 2007 - New Straits Times
  
  
  THERE is a noticeable link between the provision of power and the incidence of poverty. When electricity illuminates homes, schools and clinics, pumps water and powers machines, it lights up lives, brightens prospects and radiates hope for the future by kindling learning, opening up communications, unlocking income-generating activities and driving up living standards. This is why access to electricity has been recognised as a key tool against poverty and why investments in rural electrification has been a major feature of poverty eradication plans.
  
  
• BP and Powerspan Collaborate to Demonstrate and Commercialize CO2 Capture Technology for Power Plants (pdf)
  Aug 8, 2007 - Press Release - PowerSpan
  
  (Portsmouth, NH) BP Alternative Energy and Powerspan Corp. today announced their collaborative agreement to develop and commercialize Powerspan’s carbon dioxide (CO2) capture technology, called “ECO2™,” for power plants. The scope of the agreement includes financial and technical support for pilot demonstration and commercial scale-up activities, which may include joint development of large-scale demonstration projects that would capture CO2 from power station flue gas. The captured CO2 would be sent for secure, long-term storage deep underground. Use of ECO2 for large scale capture and storage of CO2 from power plants represents a major option for reducing greenhouse gases.
  
  
• Coal Plant Opposition Mounts in Nevada
  Aug 8, 2007 - Powernews
  
  Opposition in Nevada is rapidly building against plans for three new coal-fired plants in the state. Most telling for the opponents of the projects is the opposition of the state's most important political leader, U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader.
  
  
• China Grants Special Protection to Renewable Energy Firms
  Aug 6, 2007 - Asia Pulse
  
  China's renewable energy enterprises will be given "special protection" by the government from September 1
  
  
• At Helm of Governors Association, Pawlenty Steers Course for Clean Energy
  Jul 30, 2007 - Wind Energy Weekly
  
  It's official: a renewable energy advocate is leading the National Governors Association (NGA). In his first act as NGA chair, at the closing plenary session of the association’s annual meeting, Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty (R) announced the foremost initiative he will undertake while holding the chair seat: "Securing a Clean Energy Future."
  
  
• Business sees green in energy savings
  Jul 20, 2007 - MONICA HATCHER - MiamiHerald.com
  
  In the effort to clean the atmosphere of toxic carbon pollution, business leaders meeting Friday at the Summit on Global Climate Change seemed to agree that going green means more of the green stuff in the future. ''What's good for the environment is good for business,'' said Lorraine Bolsinger, a vice president with GE, who spoke along with business representatives on two panels at the summit that ends later Friday.
  
  
• New Renewable Energy Tracking System Launched for Western U.S.
  Jun 25, 2007 - Sacramento
  
  The California Energy Commission today announced the launch of the Western Renewable Energy Generation Information System (WREGIS), a renewable energy registry and tracking system for electricity generation.
  
  
• Developing Nations Embrace Renewable Energy
  Jun 22, 2007 - SciDev.Net/All Africa Global Media
  
  Developing countries have increased investment in renewable energy, accounting for one-fifth of the world's total last year, according to a report by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) released today (21 June).
  
  
• India needs long-term energy planning: study New Delhi
  Jun 20, 2007 - Asia Pulse Data Source
  
  India needs to pursue an integrated approach to energy planning as high economic growth equaling or exceeding eight per cent would create much larger demand for energy in the next few decades, a study has said.
  
  
• Western Governors Release Energy Report
  Jun 13, 2007 - RenewableEnergyAccess.com
  
  Casper, Wyoming [RenewableEnergyAccess.com] Western states are on track to surpass a 2004 goal of adding 30,000 megawatts of "clean and diversified" energy generation in the region by 2015, according to a report from the Western Governors' Association. The report released [June 17] said 80,000 megawatts is possible with better cooperation from the federal government. The report came out as the Western Governors' Association began its annual conference in Deadwood, S.D.
  
  
• Cheap, Reliable and Renewable Electricity a Step Closer for Pacific Islanders
  Jun 12, 2007 Worldbank.org
  
  WASHINGTON - The World Bank Board of Executive Directors today approved US$9.5 million provided by the Global Environment Facility to fund renewable energy electricity supplies for rural communities in Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji and the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
  
  
• Integration of Renewable Energy into Electricity Grids
  Jun 6, 2007 - IEA Report
  
  PARIS, France - The International Energy Agency will table a final report to the G8 meeting in Japan next year that will establish "a degree of consensus on the priority issues" to integrate green power into electricity grids.
  
  
• International university presidents declare energy research crucial
  May 7, 2007 - Christopher Leonard - The Associated Press
  
  Thirteen university presidents from around the world declared Monday that studying energy and the environment are the most important fields for researchers.
  
  
• FPL to Issue RFP on Renewable Energy Sources
  Apr 23, 2007 - Business Wire
  
  Florida Power & Light Company (NYSE:FPL) today announced it has issued a request for proposals (RFP) to identify and select new renewable generation resources that will help the company enhance its fuel diversity and maintain system reliability while providing cost-effective power to its customers.
  
  
• U.N. scientists to lay out ways to head off worst of climate change, at least cost
  Apr 23, 2007- Michael Casey - The Associated Press
  
  Environmental Writer Printer Friendly After two reports predicting a warmer Earth where life is fundamentally changed, a U.N.-sponsored scientific panel next month will issue a third study describing how a united world can avert the worst, by embracing technologies ranging from nuclear power to manure controls.
  
  
• India to depend on renewable sources to meet energy needs
  Apr 9, 2007 - Asia Pulse Data Source
  
  New Delhi, India will be dependent on renewable sources such as solar, hydro and biofuels to meet 50 per cent of its energy requirements by 2050. Through the use efficiency measures the country will also be able to reduce 50 per cent of its energy consumption.
  
  
• Portugal investing billions in renewable energy by 2012, government says
  Mar 22, 2007 - The Associated Press
  
  LISBON, Portugal: Portugal plans investments of euro8.1 billion (US$10.8 billion) in renewable energy projects over the next five years, a government official said Thursday.
  
  
• Greece to invest 2.5 billion euros in renewable energy sources by 2010
  Mar 19, 2007 - Xinhua
  
  Greek Development Minister Dimitris Sioufas on Monday signed a ministerial decision on licensing of electricity production from renewable energy sources and high-performance heating electricity co-production in the country.
  
  
• U.S. ASKS FIRMS TO PROVIDE CLEAN ENERGY TECHNOLOGY TO INDIA, CHINA
  Mar 13, 2007 - AsiaPulse
  
  The US Commerce Department has asked American companies to exploit opportunities in clean technologies for energy generation in India and China.
  
  
• Richardson signs renewable energy bills
  Mar 6, 2007 - The Associated Press
  
  Sunny, windy New Mexico is the "clean energy state," Gov. Bill Richardson said Monday as he signed into law two measures that encourage the production of electricity from renewable sources.
  
  
• House approves Renewable Energy Transmission Authority
  Feb 15, 2007 - The Associated Press
  
  Legislation intended to promote the generation and transmission of electricity from clean, renewable sources was whisked through the House on Wednesday.
  
  
• Wind Farm in India is 500th Kyoto Project in a Developing Country
  Feb 14, 2007 - EERE Network News
  
  The Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) announced Monday that an 8.75-megawatt wind facility in Gujurat, India, is the 500th project to be registered under the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). The Kyoto Protocol specifies greenhouse gas reduction requirements for its participating countries, but allows countries to earn credits toward those requirements through emissions-reducing investments in developing countries. Even though developing countries don't have specific reduction goals, the CDM helps reduce the growth of green.
  
  
• Energy needs more money in U.S., says federal agency
  Jan 24, 2007 - Refocus
  
  In 2005, the United States derived 6% of its energy from renewables, the same level as in 1973, according to an analysis by the Government Accountability Office.
  
  
• Iceland, Abu Dhabi will cooperate in renewable energy: Grimsson
  Jan 22, 2007 - Asia Pulse Data Source
  
  Iceland is a fundamental proof that it is possible within the lifetime of one generation to transform the energy system of our countries, said President of Iceland Olafur Ragnar Grimsson at the World Forum Energy Summit (WFES) which opened Monday at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre.
  
  
• Denmark unveils plan to reduce fossil fuels, double use of renewable energy
  Jan 19, 2007 - The Associated Press
  
  The government on Friday unveiled plans to cut the use of fossil fuels by up to 15 percent and double renewable energy sources within 18 years - in a drive for cleaner fuel and greater self-sufficiency.
  
  
• RENEWABLES IN GLOBAL ENERGY SUPPLY (pdf)
  Jan 2007
  
  Renewable energies are essential contributors to the energy supply portfolio as they contribute to world energy supply security, reducing dependency of fossil fuel resources, and provide greenhouse gases mitigating opportunities. Differences in defi nition and lack of adequate data complicated the discussion between participants on these key issues. The International Energy Agency
  believes that a fact sheet can be of use to all in order to facilitate the debate on the past, current and future place and role of renewables in total energy supply.
  
  http://www.iea.org/textbase/papers/2006/renewable_factsheet.pdf
  
  
• EPA Challenges Fortune 500 to Double Use of Green Power
  Dec 4, 2006 - GreenBiz.com
  
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is asking Fortune 500 companies double their current level of green power purchasing.
  
  
• Chinese Government to Start Buying Green
  Nov 30, 2006 - Worldwatch Institute
  
  China’s Ministry of Finance and the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) have announced that starting in 2007, the nation’s central and provincial governments will prioritize their purchasing of environmentally friendly products and services. The government’s new “green procurement” policy will be implemented at all levels of jurisdiction starting in 2008.
  
  
• Renewables increase carbon emissions despite declining output
  Nov 29, 2006 - Refocus Weekly
  
  Emissions of carbon dioxide from renewable energy facilities in the United States have doubled since 1990, according to government reports.
  
  
• U.S. think tank extols benefits of renewables
  Nov 22, 2006 - Refocus Weekly
  
  Switching the U.S. economy to run on renewable energies could save money and reduce pollution, with visible benefits within a decade, says a national think tank.
  
  
• Namibia: Country On Verge of Policy Breakthrough On Renewable Energy
  Nov 21, 2006 - Brigitte Weidlich Windhoek - The Namibian
  
  NAMIBIA will soon have its own regulatory framework and technical standards for the use of appliances powered by renewable energies such as solar or wind power.
  
  
• Venture Capitalists Pour Money into California Clean-Energy Companies
  Nov 21, 2006 - California Energy Markets
  
  Venture capitalists are coming in droves to throw millions of dollars at California companies that specialize in clean-energy technology, spurred on by the state's promotion of renewable energy and greenhouse-gas emissions reductions.
  
  
• Report: Renewables Could Create Tens of Thousands of Jobs
  Nov 14, 2006 - Wind Energy Weekly
  
  The manufacturing of renewables components such as wind turbines and solar panels could create 42,000 new jobs in Pennsylvania and 23,000 new jobs in Ohio if the right federal and state incentives are put in place, according to two studies released by the Apollo Alliance. In addition, the studies found, thousands of firms in each state could benefit from the expanded manufacturing activity.
  
  
• European renewable energy market growing
  Nov 14, 2006 - UPI
  
  European government promotion of renewable fuels will increase that market's value from $11.39 billion in 2005 to $18.63 billion in 2010, a study said.
  
  
• China, Italy to cooperate on exploiting marine current power
  Nov 8, 2006 - Xinhua
  
  Italy and China signed an agreement on Wednesday to exploit marine current to generate electricity, a move aimed at promoting renewable energy in China.
  
  
• Asia-Pacific Partnership Yields Renewable Energy and Efficiency Projects
  Nov 8, 2006 - EERE Network
  
  Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs Dr. Paula J. Dobriansky today announced that the United States and the other five Partner nations of the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate have endorsed detailed Action Plans and nearly 100 collaborative projects and activities to implement this initiative. The announcement was made in remarks to experts from all Partner nations gathered in Columbus, Ohio, to attend a week-long series of site visits organized and hosted by American Electric Power, one of the private sector partners.
  
  
• Clean energy is 'cost effective'
  Nov 7, 2006 - BBC News
  
  Using cleaner and more efficient energy not only helps the environment but also makes economic sense, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).
  
  
• U.S. coalition wants renewables to provide 50% of electricity
  Oct 25, 2006 - Refocus Weekly
  
  More than 150 organizations and businesses from 38 states have endorsed the 'Sustainable Energy Blueprint' for the United States. The policy document was developed by member groups of the Sustainable Energy Coalition to outline "a plausible strategy and timeframe for rapidly expanding the use of energy efficient and renewable energy technologies to enable a dramatic reduction in greenhouse gases, while simultaneously phasing out nuclear power and ending most energy imports," explains co-ordinator Ken Bossong.
  
  
• MNES is now Min of New and Renewable Energy
  Oct 22, 2006 - Asia Pulse Data Source
  
  The government has re-christened the Ministry of Non-conventional Energy Sources as Ministry of New and Renewable Energy. "The new name gives a more positive outlook to the ministry as compared to the earlier name," a Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry official said.
  
  
• New technology needed to cut pollution-World Bank
  Oct 11, 2006 - Gilbert Le Gras - Reuters
  
  The world's top polluting nations agreed new energy-generating technologies are needed to curb global warming and developing countries asked rich states for training and know-how, a World Bank official said on Wednesday.
  
  
• Business, Environmental Groups Release 'Sustainable Energy Blueprint'
  Oct 9, 2006 - Greenbiz.com
  
  Nearly 150 companies, environmental organizations, and others have released a "Sustainable Energy Blueprint," a policy paper outlining a "plausible strategy for achieving a no-nuclear, low-carbon, highly-efficient and sustainable energy future."
  
  
• Commission helps developing countries invest in 'clean energy'
  Oct 8, 2006 - Euractive.com
  
  With a contribution of 80 million euro over four years, the Commission wants to start a new global risk-capital fund which should mobilise private and public investments in both renewables and energy efficiency in developing countries.
  
  
• Strategic Partnership Between Turkey And Germany In Renewable Energy
  Oct 4, 2006 - TurkishPress.com
  
  ISTANBUL - Turkey and Germany reached an agreement in principle concerning renewable energy, Turkish Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Hilmi Guler said after a bilateral meeting with German Minister of Environment.
  
  
• China to increase investments in alternative energy projects
  Oct 4, 2006 - Asia Pulse Data Source
  
  China will step up investments in projects involving development of bio-energy and other alternative energies between 2006 and 2010 to ensure energy security and maintain its high economic growth.
  
  
• China expecting increase in renewable energy investment
  Sep 12, 2006 - Asia In Focus
  
  China is expecting a wave of investment in renewable new energy sources and domestic and foreign investors widely agree that the development of new energy in China will generate great business opportunities, according to speakers at the Tenth China International Fair for Investment and Trade (CIFIT) in Xiamen. It is estimated that China will need to invest about 800 billion yuan (US$100.5 billion) in new energy in the years to 2020.
  
  
• 'Green' energy project headed for Conestoga Landfill
  Aug 24, 2006 - Tim Mekeel - accessmylibrary.com
  
  Another source of "green" energy has been found right under our noses. Two energy companies will begin construction as early as October of a $10 million system at Conestoga Landfill that will capture its methane gas -- created by decomposing trash -- and ship it via pipelines to area industry.
  
  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/comsite5/bin/pdinventory.pl?pdlanding=1&referid=2930&purchase_type=ITM&item_id=0286-17398572
  
  
• Austria announces plan to expand sources of renewable energy
  Aug 21, 2006 - The America's Intelligence Wire
  
  Austria is launching a project to drastically reduce its dependence on oil and other fossil fuels by next year, government officials said Monday, unveiling a plan to expand sources of renewable energy. The project, called Masterplan Environmental Technology, will utilize a network of 40 companies, organizations, universities and research institutes working with the government, Environmental Minister Joseph Proell said at a news conference.
  
  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-17338601_ITM
  
  
• Ethanol could leave the world hungry
  Aug 16, 2006 - Fortune Magazine - CNNMoney.com
  
  One tank full of the latest craze in alternative energy could feed one person for a year, Lester Brown tells Fortune. The growing myth that corn is a cure-all for our energy woes is leading us toward a potentially dangerous global fight for food. While crop-based ethanol -the latest craze in alternative energy - promises a guilt-free way to keep our gas tanks full, the reality is that overuse of our agricultural resources could have consequences even more drastic than, say, being deprived of our SUVs. It could leave much of the world hungry.
  
  http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/08/21/8383659/index.htm
  
  
• Iceland: Energy To Spare, Ideas to Share
  Aug 4, 2006 - Paul Sisco - voanews.com
  
  Some Americans say fossil fuel dependency is a national addiction. But there is one nation that seems well on the way to kicking the habit.
  
  http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-08-04-voa42.cfm
  
  
• Q & A: Opportunities in India's Renewable Energy Market
  Jul 31, 2006 - Renewableenergyworld.com
  
  India's renewable energy market is estimated at half a billion dollars and is experiencing annual double-digit growth. Looking to keep up with demand, Indian businesses will be visiting the U.S. as part of an inbound trade mission to explore sourcing and partnership opportunities with American companies. The event, sponsored by the U.S. Commercial Service under the auspices of the Asia Pacific Partnership for Clean Development & Climate, will include stops in Chicago and Los Angeles, August 7 and 9. Renewable Energy Access.com recently discussed India's renewable energy market with Preetha Nair, Senior Commercial Service specialist at the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi.
  
  http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/reinsider/story;jsessionid=5EC18B92F1FCD213907AE21087BE7122?id=45575
  
  
• Greenpeace welcomes ASEAN Energy Ministers' commitment to renewable
  Jul 27, 2006 - Greenpeace SEAsia
  
  Greenpeace today welcomed ASEAN Energy Ministers' joint statement which commits to strengthening renewable energy development in Southeast Asia as the 24th ASEAN Energy Ministers Meeting in Laos winds down. The environmental group also expressed hope that this was not mere rhetoric but will translate to real policies and a massive renewable energy uptake in the region. According to Greenpeace, Southeast Asia is home to some of the largest renewable energy resources in the world.
  
  http://www.greenpeace.org/seasia/en/news/sean-energy-ministers-commit-t
  
  
• Renewable Energy Renewed
  Jul 19, 2006 - Forbes.com
  
  A year ago, Congress passed out billions in tax breaks to all manner of energy producers, from wind farms to oil drillers. But not all industries were treated equally. The heavyweights--oil and gas producers, and the coal and nuclear industries--got lots of time to build their operations and claim their credits. For example, the companies that won $1.3 billion in credits to build "clean" coal facilities have seven years from the allocation of the credits to be up and running.
  
  http://www.forbes.com/businessinthebeltway/2006/07/18/business-beltway-renewable-cz_ae_0719beltway.html
  
  
• Renewable Energy Poised To Broaden Its Reach, Specialist Says
  Jul 6, 2006 - America.gov
  
  The renewable energy sector is about to turn a corner. Commercially available and economically competitive in many locations, renewables will further U.S. national interests by helping end our addiction to oil and begin to address the issue of global warming. The industry is poised for Phase II, putting America’s 30-year, $15 billion investment in research, development, and demonstration of renewable energy technologies to use in the marketplace.
  
  http://usinfo.state.gov/xarchives/display.html?p=washfile-english&y=2006&m=July&x=20060706134632SAikceinawz0.498562
  


• Renewable could quadruple by 2050 with policy incentives says IEA
  Jun 28, 2006 - Refocus Weekly
  
  PARIS, France, June 28, 2006 (Refocus Weekly) The world must "act urgently and decisively" to promote renewable energies, says the International Energy Agency.
  
  http://www.sparksdata.co.uk/refocus/fp_showdoc.asp?docid=32529849&accnum=1&topics
  
  
• RENEWABLE ENERGY AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY EXPO SHOWCASES SOLUTIONS MISSING FROM PROPOSED "ENERGY WEEK" LEGISLATION (pdf)
  Jun 23, 2006 - Press Release - Environmental and Energy Study Institute
  
  WASHINGTON, DC—On June 20, the Sustainable Energy Coalition (SEC) and the House and Senate
  Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Caucuses hosted the Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency
  Expo and Policy Forum to demonstrate how sustainable energy technologies can meet America's energy
  needs now as well as in the near- and long-term future. Companies representing the biomass, combined heat
  and power (CHP), geothermal, hydropower, small distributed technology, solar, and wind industries
  revealed to visitors that their technologies are already available to free us from our dependence on foreign
  oil, slash greenhouse gas emissions and improve the reliability of our power grid.
  
  http://www.eesi.org/publications/Press%20Releases/2006/6.23.06RE_EEExpoEnergyWeek.pdf
  
  
• UK CAN MEET POWER DEMAND FROM RENEWABLES RATHER THAN NUCLEAR, SAYS WWF
  Jun 19, 2006 - Renewables News
  
  The UK can meet its energy needs and reduce the impact of climate change by increasing the use of renewable energy, says a study produced for the WWF conservation group.
  
  http://www.gozero.org.uk/files/Renewables%20News%2019%20June%2006.doc
  
  
• The Expanding Role Of State Renewable Energy Policy in the US
  Jun 17, 2006 - Horizon Solutions Site - solutions-site.org
  
  A growing portion of U.S. states’ electricity is being provided by renewable energy, according to a report released on June 14 by the Pew Center on Global Climate Change
  
  http://www.solutions-site.org/artman/publish/article_259.shtml
  
  
• China sets up special fund for renewable energy
  Jun 14, 2006 - People's Daily Online
  
  China's Ministry of Finance (MOF) and State Development and Reform Commission (SDRC) are in talks to establish a special fund for the development of renewable energy, the China Securities Journal reported on Tuesday.
  
  http://english.people.com.cn/200606/14/eng20060614_273831.html
  
  
• THE EXPANDING ROLE OF STATE RENEWABLE ENERGY POLICY
  Jun 14, 2006 - Press Release - pewclimate.org
  
  A growing portion of U.S. states’ electricity is being provided by renewable energy, according to a report released today by the Pew Center on Global Climate Change.
  
  http://www.pewclimate.org/press_room/sub_press_room/2006_releases/rps_release.cfm
  
  
• California ISO Planning for Boom in Renewable Power
  Jun 14, 2006 - California ISO (Independent System Operator) Corporation
  
  Thousands of megawatts in new wind, geothermal and solar generation due on line in California over the next five years to meet…
  
  http://www.caiso.com/1815/1815cd91609e0.pdf
  
  
• Kicking Our Oil Addiction:  Minnesota Becomes First State to Endorse an Electric-Alcohol Strategy
  Jun 8, 2006 - Institute for Local Self-Reliance - ilsr.org
  
  Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty has signed into law H.F. 3718, the nation’s first law promoting plug-in hybrid, flexible-fueled vehicles.
  
  http://www.ilsr.org/columns/2006/060806.html
  
  
• China is world's leading investor in renewable energy
  May 17, 2006 - People's Daily Online
  
  China has become the top investor in renewable energy in the world, experts said Tuesday at the ongoing forum for decentralized sustainable energy solutions in China.
  
  http://english.people.com.cn/200605/17/eng20060517_266330.html
  
  
• MIT hoping to short-circuit energy crunch
  May 3, 2006 - Local News - boston.com
  
  The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is planning an ambitious effort to solve the world's energy problems, including spending at least $25 million annually on new research, according to a report set to be released today.
  
  http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/05/03/mit_hoping_to_short_circuit_energy_crunch/
  
  
• Renewable Electricity: Poised to make a Difference
  May 2006 - National Renewable Energy Laboratory
  
  Our appetite for electricity is insatiable. By 2025, global demand is projected to reach more than 26 trillion kilowatt-hours (kWh) per year. That’s a lot of power, almost double the 13.6 trillion kWh the planet consumed in 2000.
  
  http://pepei.pennnet.com/Articles/Article_Display.cfm?Section=ARTCL&ARTICLE_ID=255997&VERSION_NUM=2&p=6
  
  
• Renewables provided 13.3% of global energy in 2003, says IEA
  Apr 5, 2006 - Refocus Weekly
  
  April 5, 2006 (Refocus Weekly) Renewables provided 13.3% of the world’s total primary energy supply in 2003, with non-hydro and non-combustible renewables providing 0.5% of both commercial and non-commercial energy.
  
  http://www.sparksdata.co.uk/refocus/redesign/showdoc.asp?docid=6542606&accnum=1
  
  
• New Mexico Bill Aims to Export Renewable Energy
  Jan 26, 2006 - renewableenergyworld.com
  
  A bill under consideration in New Mexico could create the essential groundwork for the state to become a large-scale net-exporter of renewable energy produced from the state's abundant natural resources.
  
  http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/story?id=42389
  
  
• The New Red, White and Blue
  Jan 10, 2006 - SustainableBusiness.com
  
  The biggest threat to America and its values today is not communism, authoritarianism or Islamism. It's petrolism. Petrolism is my term for the corrupting, antidemocratic governing practices - in oil states from Russia to Nigeria and Iran - that result from a long run of $60-a-barrel oil. Petrolism is the politics of using oil income to buy off one's citizens with subsidies and government jobs, using oil and gas exports to intimidate or buy off one's enemies, and using oil profits to build up one's internal security forces and army to keep oneself ensconced in power, without any transparency or checks and balances.
  
  http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/news/sbnews.cfm?id=8386
  
  
• The State of Green Business: Good News and Bad
  Dec 31, 2005 -Business Practices
  
  If you've been engaged in the green business world for any length of time, you know the short story: there's good news and bad. Herewith is a top-ten list of sorts: five reasons for optimism, and five reasons for concern, about the state of business and the environment.
  
  http://makower.typepad.com/joel_makower/2005/12/the_state_of_gr.html
  
  
• World Renewable Energy Assembly (WREA) 2005: The Human Right to Renewable Energy
  Nov 26-30, 2005 - WREA
  
  "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights." This first article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights articulates a basic human commitment. Only by respecting this commitment, a humane life in peace can be assured. Energy is the fundamental prerequisite of every life. The availability of energy is a fundamental and indivisible human right.
  
  http://www.wrea2005.org/final_communique.php
  
  
• Renewables to provide 2% of global energy by 2030, says IEA
  Nov 9, 2005 - Refocus Weekly
  
  Energy from emerging renewables will grow faster than any other source in the world until 2030, increasing at 6.2% per year, according to the latest forecast from the International Energy Agency.
  
  http://www.sparksdata.co.uk/refocus/redesign/showdoc.asp?docid=29798526&accnum=1
  
  
• Renewable Energy Brings Water to the World
  Aug 23, 2005 - renewableenergyworld.com
  
  In the future, few things will be more important than ample supplies of clean water to ensure economic success, good health and political stability across the globe. Every day solar and wind energy systems are saving billions of gallons of clean water around the world and the opportunity exists to save much more water. Fittingly, "Bringing Water to the World" was one of the major themes at the recent ASES / ISES solar energy conference in Florida. But now it's time the issue was given the attention that it deserves.
  
  http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/reinsider/story?id=35664
  
  
• Earth, Water, Fire & Air: Utility Strategies For Renewable Energy
  Jul 2005 - Peter R. Savage Rports - ResearchandMarkets.com
  
  Renewables quotas are being set for utilities. But how can you meet them? Let this guide on renewables for large-scale power generation show you.
  
  http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reportinfo.asp?report_id=307836&t=d&cat_id=
  
  
• West Wing’s Ethanol Problem
  Feb 2, 2005 - alternet.org
  
  In a recent episode of The West Wing, dark horse Democratic presidential candidate Matt Santos (played by Jimmy Smits) condemned ethanol on the grounds that, "Storage is a nightmare."
  
  http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/21147/
  
  
• How great divide could light up the lives of millions
  Jun 7, 2005 - Xan Rice - The Times
  
  "Under the Rift Valley we have a natural resource that can be of huge benefit to Africans," said Mr Obuya, gesturing towards the clouds of steam wafting across the muddy shoreline of Lake Bogoria.
  
  
• A technological Bonanza?
  Oct 28-Nov 3, 2004 - Al-Ahram Weekly Online - weekly.ahram.org
  
  A new Egyptian discovery in the field of renewable energy promises to provide cheap electricity and thousands of jobs. But, as Gihan Shahine finds out, nobody seems to care.
  
  http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/714/fe1.htm
  
  
• Lawsuit Offers Another Reason for Renewable Energy
  Jul 21, 2004 - Solar Access
  
  Lawsuits could be a means to convince major power companies they need to make a real effort toward lowering greenhouse gas emissions.
  
  http://www.energybulletin.net/1138.html
  
  
• California Takes Steps Toward Kyoto Standards
  2004 - Ann Diener - The Light Connection
  
  When the Kyoto Protocol came into effect on February 16, the decision of the United States not to participate carried a significant influence in the world's eyes.
  
  http://www.lightconnectiononline.com/Archive/apr05_article5.htm
  
  
• A worldwide goal of Clean Energy (pdf)
  Oct 24, 2001 - Paul R. Epstein and Ross Gelbspan - Globe Newspaper Company
  
  The U.S. been traumatized, since Sept. 11, by the realization of just how vulnerable our society is.
  
  http://chge.med.harvard.edu/media/documents/cleanenergy.pdf
  
  
• UNEP Calls For A Clean Energy Future
  Mar 2, 2001 - United Nations Environment Programme
  
  Over the next two decades, an estimated $9-15 trillion will be invested in new power sector projects.
  
  http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=193&ArticleID=2782&l=en
  
  
• We need a green revolution, says Gorbachev
  Feb 20, 2001 - World Watch Magazine
  
  The March/April issue of WORLD WATCH brings together three of the world's best-known fighters for an environmentally sustainable planet.
  
  http://www.worldwatch.org/node/1686
  
  
• People Power
  Jan 7, 2001 - Fred Pearce - The New Scientist Magazine
  
  Forget big generators... in ten years' time we could be making and even selling our own electricity. We might even save the planet.
  
  
• Australia centers on renewable energy
  Dec 17, 2000 - Jason Major
  
  Australian households and industries could produce their own clean, green electricity or draw it from a nearby source under a radical new distribution concept in Australia.
  
  
• 1st Rochdale and Touchstone Energy to Announce 'Green Apple' Renewable Energy Program to Alleviate New York's Overburdened Electric Grid
  Dec 7, 2000 - National Rural Electric Cooperative Assoc
  
  Journalists are invited to attend a joint announcement by Allen L. Thurgood, the chairman and chief executive officer of 1st Rochdale Cooperative Group, Ltd., and Jim Bausell, the chief operating officer of Touchstone Energy®, unveiling 1st Rochdale's "Green Apple" Renewable Energy Program to alleviate New York City's overburdened electric grid through energy management and renewable and sustainable sources such as solar power and gas turbine, microturbine, and fuel cell technologies.
  
  
• Beyond Fossil Fuel: The Alternatives Are Growing
  Dec 6, 2000 - Power Deregulation
  
  With the convergence of strict environmental controls, electricity deregulation, and high oil prices, renewable fuels are back in the limelight -- likely for good.
  
  
• Beijing to Explore New Energy Resource
  Dec 4, 2000 - People's Daily Online- Sci-Edu
  
  Beijing is expected to improve its energy consumption structure by exploring new energy resources such as geothermal power, solar energy, bio-energy and wind power to reduce the use of traditional energy resource like coal, gas and oil,
  
  http://english.people.com.cn/english/200012/03/eng20001203_56796.html
  
  
• Beijing Will Explore New Alternative Energy Resources
  Dec 1, 2000 - Xinhau News Agency
  
  Beijing is expected to improve its energy consumption structure by exploring new energy resources such as geothermal power, solar energy, bio-energy and wind power to reduce the use of traditional energy resource like coal, gas and oil.
  
  
• Turning Soviet legacy into green future
  Nov 24, 2000 - Douglas Herbert - CNN.com
  
  THE HAGUE, The Netherlands -- There are myriad ways to cut greenhouse gas emissions. You can plant forests to photo-synthetically "vacuum up" excess carbon dioxide belched into the skies.
  
  
• Alternative Energy Sources Heating Up
  Aug 14, 2000 - Jeff McDonald - Union-Tribune
  
  Here's one byproduct of the summerlong run-up in energy costs that might pay big dividends down the road: More and more businesses and homeowners are looking at alternative ways to light their offices, power their PCs and tune in their televisions.
  
  
• 20th Century Power System Incompatible with Digital Economy
  Jul 15, 2000 - Seth Dunn - worldwatch.org
  
  Today’s giant coal and nuclear power plants are failing to provide the high-quality, reliable electricity needed to power the new digital economy, according to a new report from the Worldwatch Institute, a Washington, DC-based research organization.
  
  
• The Global Warming debate
  Jan 1999 - James Hansen - Goddard Institute fro Space Studies
  
  In my view, we are not doing as well as we could in the global warming debate. For one thing, we have failed to use the opportunity to help teach the public about how science research works. On the contrary, we often appear to the public to be advocates of fixed adversarial positions. Of course, we can try to blame this on the media and politicians, with their proclivities to focus on antagonistic extremes. But that doesn't really help.
  
  
• The KLD Global Climate 100^SM Index
  
  T he KLD Global Climate 100^SM Index (GC 100) is a specialty index designed to promote investment in public companies whose activities demonstrate the greatest potential for mitigating immediate and long-term causes of climate change. 
  
  http://www.kld.com/indexes/gc100/index.html
  
  
• Winning the Oil Endgame Innovation for Profits, Jobs, and Security
  
  . . . a strategy for ending US oil dependence, and is applicable worldwide.
  There are many analyses of the oil problem. This synthesis is the first roadmap of the oil solution—one led by business for profit.
  
  http://www.oilendgame.com
  
  
• Sen. Salazar Hosts Successful Renewable Energy Summit
  
  "We cannot postpone the development of renewable energy resources any longer," said Senator Salazar. "By bringing together business, non-profit and government stakeholders, I am hopeful the conversations that took place today have built bridges of cooperation towards our common goal: America’s energy independence."
  
  
• Survey respondents favor alternative fuels
  
  Most American voters think the country is facing an energy crisis and that government and private industry should invest billions of dollars to increase the role renewable fuels play in the nation's economy. Those are the sentiments of a new survey of 1,000 registered voters commissioned by Energy Future Coalition, a nonpartisan public policy initiative in Washington, D.C. The study found:
  
  
• Bangladesh lights up!
  
  When Bangladesh gained independence in 1971 it turned to an international co-operative association to help supply electricity to its rural areas. Three decades on the programme begun by the National Rural Electric Co-operative Association (NRECA) is recognised as one of the most successful rural electrification projects in the developing world. It has also proved one of the most effective development initiatives in the whole of Bangladesh.
  
  
• Viet Nam pursues renewable energy to avoid power shortage
  
  Viet Nam is accelerating the drawing up of a strategy to develop renewable energy, considering this to be a solution to escape from the "hunger" for energy in the near future, a senior industrial official said.
  
  
• Austria announces plan to expand sources of renewable energy
  
  VIENNA, Austria - Austria is launching a project to drastically reduce its dependence on oil and other fossil fuels by next year, government officials said Monday, unveiling a plan to expand sources of renewable energy.
  
  
• Planning system must support renewables, says Minister
  
  Housing and Planning Minister Yvette Cooper urged all local authorities to include on-site renewable energy measures in their local development plans to help tackle climate change.
  
  
• How to Beat the Big Energy Chill
  
  This winter's soaring heating bills will be a painful reminder that we're living in an age of expensive energy. But there's an upside: the business case for renewable sources of energy is warming up quickly.
  
  
• Tucson Electric Power, UNS Electric Issues RFP for Renewables
  
  Tucson Electric Power Inc. ("TEP") and UNS Electric Inc., ("UNSE") hereby issues this Request for Proposal ("RFP") for Renewable Energy Resources.
  
  
• Carbon Constraints are coming
  
  A carbon constrained world is coming. At least 160 nations have already signed on to the global warming treaty called the Kyoto Protocol while others are taking different approaches to minimizing greenhouse gases thought to cause the phenomenon.
  
  
• The New Red, Blue and White
  
  What's so disturbing about President Bush and Dick Cheney is that they talk tough about the necessity of invading Iraq, torturing terror suspects and engaging in domestic spying - all to defend our way of life and promote democracy around the globe.
  


• "Little Green Data Book 2006" launched at United Nations, with a focus on energy and climate change
  
  Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions continue to rise with a mix of old and new polluters, according to the Little Green Data Book 2006, launched on the occasion of the Fourteenth Session of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD-14).
  
  
• 165 Nations Approve Kyoto Rules
  
  International delegates agreed on Saturday to the first-ever rules aimed at stopping global warming -- a pact the United States, the world's biggest polluter, has rejected.
  
  
• Sweden Plans To be World’s first oil-free economy
  
  Sweden is to take the biggest energy step of any advanced western economy by trying to wean itself off oil completely within 15 years - without building a new generation of nuclear power stations.
  
  
• US Renewables Group Closes Initial $80 Million to fund Renewable Energy Projects
  
  Renewables Group ("USRG"), a company organized to acquire, develop and operate renewable energy and clean fuel assets, today announced an initial close of $80 million as part of its plan to raise a total of $250 million in financing.
  
  
• China's Growing Pollution Reaches U.S.
  
  On a mountaintop overlooking the Pacific Ocean, Steven Cliff collects evidence of an industrial revolution taking place thousands of miles away. The tiny, airborne particles Cliff gathers at an air monitoring station just north of San Francisco drifted over the ocean from coal-fired power plants, smelters, dust storms and diesel trucks in China and other Asian countries.
  
  
• Alternative fuel station offers a look at the future of energy
  
  If the United States is going to end its addiction to oil, the fuel station of the future might look like Pearson Ford Fuel Depot.
  
  

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