Richard Blackwell, Globe and Mail, February 24, 2012
In late 2007 and early 2008, the global renewable energy sector seemed on the cusp of a golden age, as investors pushed the price of big, multinational players in the green-tech space to record highs.
Four years later most of those large companies – mainly solar cell [...]
Ianthe Jeanne Dugan and Justin Scheck, Wall Street Journal, February 24, 2012
Alfredo Garcia was among the residents of Webb County, Texas, banking on a windfall from federal stimulus money.
Mr. Garcia expanded his Mexican restaurant from 80 to 120 seats, anticipating a rush of new patrons springing from the nearby Cedro Hill wind farm, a project [...]
In view of a record 7.5 gigawatts of new solar installations in 2011, the government has decided to cut subsidies for solar power earlier than expected. Environmentalists say this will end a German “success story.”
After months of wrangling, Germany’s liberal economics minister Philipp Rösler and conservative environment minister Norbert Röttgen thrashed out a compromise [...]
Ontario is quickly becoming a global leader in the clean energy economy, while building a clean, modern and reliable electricity system for our children and grandchildren.
Speaking to more than 5,000 delegates from across Canada and around the world at the annual Canadian Solar Industries Association (CanSIA) conference today, Energy Minister Chris Bentley reinforced our [...]
Oct 26, 2011 (link to original Germany Info Article)
Germany’s federally-owned KfW banking group is facilitating renewable energy and energy efficiency investments in Germany with 100 billion euros (over $130 billion) over the next five years.
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By Duane Stanford, Bloomberg April 4, 2011
At PepsiCo’s (PEP) Walkers potato chip plant in Leicester, England, steam from the fryers rises through exhaust stacks into the open sky. From his office window, Martyn Seal, the company’s European director of sustainability, watches the wispy clouds and sees nothing but lost resources and wasted cash. To [...]
