Wind energy expected to deflate in US, continue growing elsewhere
From Green Right Now Reports Wind energy will grow fastest in Asia and other parts of the developing world over the next few years, but appears headed for a drop in activity in North America starting...
View ArticleMichigan residents will get to vote on raising green energy goals
Green Right Now Reports Clean energy advocates in Michigan today won the right to put a more ambitious renewable energy standard before the voters in November, a plan they hope will bring jobs as well...
View ArticlePoll: Voters strongly support solar power
From Green Right Now Reports A survey of likely 2012 American voters has found that they overwhelmingly support solar power, with nine out of 10 saying the U.S. should develop more solar power. The...
View ArticleThe ‘sad green story’ is a fantasy; green energy is growing
Andrew Winston (Note: This blog is co-authored with my colleague Jigar Shah, a partner at Inerjys and a board member of the Carbon War Room, where he served as its first CEO. Jigar also founded...
View ArticleTexas grid sets a new wind power record on Nov. 10
From Green Right Now Reports The Texas electric grid, known a ERCOT, set a new record for wind energy use in the state at 10:21 a.m. on Nov. 10, when wind power output provided nearly 26 percent of the...
View ArticleDrilling Deeper: The wealth of business connections for Obama’s energy pick
by Justin Elliott ProPublica, March 20, 2013, 9:53 a.m. MIT Energy Initiative Director Ernest Moniz (Photo: MIT) When President Obama nominated Ernest Moniz to be energy secretary earlier this month,...
View ArticleExxon pushes back on Mayflower spill, says it was not diluted bitumen
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now As ugly pictures of the grimy, tarry aftermath of the oil spill in Arkansas continue to emerge, ExxonMobil is calling “time out” on some of the media coverage. The...
View ArticleGasland II: America’s fracking nightmare and somnambulent energy policy
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now One of the talking points that has convinced Americans to look politely away from the muck and dirty water while the oil and gas industry fracks tens of thousands of...
View ArticleUK’s mega offshore wind farm makes waves
From Green Right Now Reports A 630 megawatt wind farm has opened off the coast of Essex and Kent in the United Kingdom, kicking off the UK’s big wind ambitions. The 175 turbine project known as the...
View ArticleWhite House getting those promised solar panels
From Green Right Now Reports President Obama’s making good on a promise this week to restore solar panels to the White House roof. The installation of an unknown number of “American made” solar panels...
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...
View ArticleOhio red lights green energy
By Barbara Kessler GRN Reports Republican Ohio Gov. John Kasich has done the bidding of utility and fossil fuel companies, today signing a freeze of Ohio’s renewable energy standards. The state now...
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