Politics and Policy News
03 April 2013
The city of Fort Collins has earned Gold Level certification as a Solar Friendly Community for adopting leading best practices designed to make it faster, easier and more affordable for its residents to go solar.
28 March 2013
According to the most recent issue of the "Monthly Energy Review" by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), with data through the end of 2012 renewable energy sources and natural gas expanded rapidly during the Obama Administration's first term while coal, nuclear power, oil imports and use, energy consumption, and CO2 emissions all declined significantly.
28 March 2013
Bulgaria's caretaker Minister of Economy, Energy and Tourism, proposed that renewable energy installations without certificates should be temporarily disconnected from the country's power grid.
21 March 2013
A nationwide misinformation campaign is underway in the US to dismantle state-level policies critical to the growth of wind and solar. Panelists at the American Solar Energy Society (ASES) National Solar Conference taking place in Baltimore 16 to 20 April, will unveil the misinformation at the heart of these efforts, and address ways to counter the opposition.
20 March 2013
The US Department of Energy's (DOE)'s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) recently convened the Solar Access to Public Capital (SAPC) working group with a mission to enable securitization of solar PV assets and associated cash flows in the marketplace.
20 March 2013
Australian energy storage company Ecoult has been awarded Australian Government funding through the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) to conduct small/mid-sized storage project development using Deka UltraBattery technology to deliver cost effective storage solutions for homes and businesses in Australia and around the world.
19 March 2013
The Industry, Transport, Research and Energy (ITRE) Committee of the European Parliament has adopted the Reul report today, which calls on the European Commission to assess a mandatory 2030 renewable energy target.
05 March 2013
Wholesalers and project planners are increasingly demanding European modules to avoid paying backdated anti-dumping duties for modules made in China. This development has already started to create a significant rise in demand for European-made modules from German-Scandinavian manufacturer Innotech Solar (ITS). On 6th June, the European Commission will decide whether provisional anti-dumping and countervailing duties should be imposed on solar modules imported from China.
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