News Source: The New York Times
| 6 months ago
Global investors spent about $250 billion building new power capacity in 2008, and for the first time the lion’s share of that money went to renewable sources, according to the United Nations Environment Program . Renewable sources accounted for 56...
News Source: The Guardian
| 6 months ago
N Developing economies led energy spending last year, while 2009 saw a 53% slump in global investment in first quarter Wind and solar power rather than traditional energy won the lion's share of global investment in power generating capacity last...
News Source: Uinta County News
| 6 months ago
Beyond these numbers, uncritically reported by the mainstream media, is the reality of a make-believe industry touted by environmental zealots, corporate freeloaders parading as entrepreneurs, and a president capable of staggering disingenuousness.
News Source: Financial Times
| 6 months ago
Workers at the Q-Cells solar panel plant at Thalheim, in Germany’s “Solar Valley”, are slowly adjusting to their new shorter working week. Until recently, the plant struggled to meet the vast demand for panels stirred up by Germany’s generous...
News Source: Androscoggin News
| 6 months ago
China’s industrial boom has made it a famously polluted place. As Adam Aston reported for BusinessWeek two weeks ago: China’s unprecedented growth in recent years has come at a terrible price. Two-thirds of its rivers and lakes are too polluted...
News Source: Euractiv
| 6 months ago
The study, on the impact of the EU's renewable energy policy, stresses that reaching a 20% share of renewables in the bloc's energy mix would add 0.24% to total gross domestic product (GDP) in the EU economy as a whole (see EurActiv LinksDossier...
News Source: China News
| 6 months ago
China's wind power installed capacity is expected to exceed 30,000 megawatts (mW) by the end of 2010, up from 12,000 mW last year, an official with the National Energy Administration (NEA) said yesterday. In order to achieve this target, the country...