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California plugs into $3 billion solar plan

Regulators approve Schwarzenegger goal of third largest user in world

Calif energy regulators approve $3 billion in solar incentives

Hoping to make California a world leader in solar power, state energy regulators on Thursday approved $2.9 billion in rebates over the next decade to encourage people to install solar panels on their roofs.

Securities Exchange launch the benchmark ISE-CCM Alternative Energy Index

Cronus Capital Markets (CCM) and the International Securities Exchange have jointly developed the benchmark equity index to represent the alternative energy industry. Options on the ISE-CCM Alternative Energy Index started trading Tuesday January 10th under the symbol POW on the ISE with Timber

Sea energy to power Britain

Waves and tides could generate 20 per cent of electricity and replace nuclear fuel, report says

U.S. WIND ENERGY INSTALLATIONS REACH NEW MILESTONE

Record growth generates economic, environmental, energy security benefits as wind capacity reaches 10,000 megawatts

Schwarzenegger Signs Legislation to Complete Million Solar Roofs Plan

Gov. Schwarzenegger today signed SB 1 by Senator Kevin Murray (D-Los Angeles), putting the finishing touches on the Governor’s Million Solar Roofs Plan.

Author says solar power to replace fuel

Solar energy has emerged as the wave of the present for replacing dwindling fossil fuels as the primary source of the world's energy needs, writes fund manager and former corporate buyout expert Travis Bradford.

Sunny Side Up

. . .G.M. and a small but growing number of other companies and municipalities are getting solar energy from systems installed by others. Even though the installations are right on their own roofs, they buy the electricity much as they would from a utility’s grid. And because the companies that paid for the systems will get a steady income, they can provide power from the sun at competitive electricity rates.

energy (r)evolution

This publication provides stimulating analysis on future scenarios of energy use, which focus on a range of technologies that are expected to emerge in the coming years and decades.There is now universal recognition of the fact that new technologies and much greater use of some that already exist provide the most hopeful prospects for mitigation of emissions of GHGs. It is for this reason that the International Energy Agency, which in the past pursued an approach based on a single time path of energy demand and supply, has now developed alternative scenarios that incorporate future technological changes. In the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as well, technology is included as a crosscutting theme in recognition of the fact that an assessment of technological options would be important both for mitigation as well as adaptation measures for tackling climate change. The scientific evidence on the need for urgent action on the problem of climate change has now become stronger and convincing. Future solutions would lie in the use of existing renewable energy technologies, greater efforts at energy efficiency and the dissemination of decentralized energy technologies and options.This particular publication provides much analysis and well-researched material to stimulate thinking on options that could be adopted in these areas. It is expected that readers who are knowledgeable in the field as well as those who are seeking an understanding of the subjects covered in the ensuing pages would greatly benefit from reading this publication.

Report Finds Energy Efficiency and Renewables Can Slash U.S. Carbon Emissions

The United States can significantly cut its emissions of climate-changing greenhouse gases by aggressively pursuing energy efficiencies and renewable energy technologies. That's the conclusion of a new report released Wednesday [1/31/07] by the American Solar Energy Society in Washington, during a week when the nation's capital was abuzz with Congressional hearings and news briefings focused on the challenge of global climate change.

What's Good for California Is Solar Hot Water

With appropriate incentives, California can jumpstart a mainstream market for solar hot water, much like we have done for solar electric technologies, to reduce the state's dependence on natural gas.

Utility Will Use Batteries to Store Wind Power

American Electric Power, a coal-burning utility company that is looking for ways to connect more wind power to its grid, plans to announce on Tuesday that it will install huge banks of high-technology batteries. The batteries are costly and their use at such a big scale has not been demonstrated, but they may be an essential complement to renewable power, experts say.

CPUC California Solar Intiative Progress Report

A California Public Utilities Commission Staff Progress Report on the California Solar Initiative dated January 2008, is now available on the Go Solar California website.

NEW: The Combined Power Plan

The University of Kassel in Germany has teamed up with some major players in solar, wind and biomass to demonstrate that the issue of intermittentcy in supply isn't a terminal flaw in renewable energy development. No problem with 100% renewable providing 24/7 power to the grid.