Two years after Fukushima nuclear disaster, hope is fading
More than two years after the nuclear meltdown in Fukushima Prefecture, thousands of refugees, desperate to return home, are losing confidence in the Japanese government’s cleanup efforts. Read The...
View ArticleThis why utilities and solar companies are in fight over rates
Sunlight is free, but if you use it to make electricity your power company wants you to pay them. Utilities say customers with rooftop solar systems aren’t paying their fair share for their use of the...
View ArticleThese solar robots are designed to make photovoltaics as cheap as fossil fuels
Alion Energy, a California company, thinks its robots which can install and keep clean thousands of solar panels may make solar energy competitive with fossil fuels. Read the New York Times here:...
View ArticleGlobal Frackdown is this Saturday, with events in dozens of US cities and in...
This weekend natural gas fracking opponents will meet in dozens of locations around the world to discuss, rally and get informed about the natural gas industry’s fracking practices. Groups organizing...
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Australia: A potential solar revolution that could liberate whole suburbs...
Solar: The ‘No-Brainer’ That Could Take Suburbs Off Grid (via Clean Technica) Originally published on RenewEconomy. The installation of rooftop-solar has become such a “no brainer” for Australian...
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Men living closest to Canadian tar sands are more likely to get leukemia,...
Green Right Now Reports A study published this week shows that men living in the industrial tar sands region of Alberta Canada appear to be at higher risk of leukemia and Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma....
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Wind energy subsidies blew away with 2013; will anyone bring them back in 2014?
Green Right Now Reports Congress’ on-and-off romance with wind energy is back off. Tax credits for wind expired – again – with the close of 2013. This isn’t the first time the industry has broken up...
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Fracking threatens water supplies in several states; Texas is ‘ground zero,’...
Green Right Now Reports This map cut out shows the intensively drilled Permian Basin in Texas (wells in black) which overlays the Ogallala Aquifer (in red). The Ogallala, a major source of drinking and...
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Austin’s Hala Ballouz named new president of TREIA board of directors
Texas Renewable Energy Industries Association, the state’s only all renewables trade association, announced that Hala Ballouz will be the group’s new president. The announcement followed the...
View ArticleA look inside the world’s largest solar plant
The world’s largest solar thermal power plant is now online in California and can provide enough power for 140,000 homes. The $2.3 billion Ivanpah plant is a joint venture of BrightSource Energy, NRG...
View ArticleKeystone XL — Americans are divided
GRN Reports: Dozens of national and regional groups — Sierra Club, 350.org, the Natural Resources Defense Fund, Greenpeace, Bold Nebraska, Tar Sands Blockade — have been fighting the Keystone XL...
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Texas sets new wind power peak, getting 40 percent of its power from wind on...
GRN Reports Wind power in Texas hit its highest point ever, contributing 10,296 megawatts to the grid at about 9 p.m. this past Wednesday night, which meant wind was providing nearly 40 percent of the...
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