Alternate Energy

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Arizona Legislature Exempts the Sale of Renewable Energy Credits from State Sales Tax
Affirming its commitment to the development of renewable energy resources, the Arizona legislature recently passed legislation exempting the sale and/or use of Renewable Energy Credits (generally ref…..

The Challenges of Building-Integrated Photovoltaics
BIPV comprises a group of solar PV technologies that are built into (instead of installed onto) the host structure and may actually replace some building materials (such as windows or roof shingles)……

What Does it Take to be Australia’s Largest PV Retailer?
In April 2012, SolarBusinessServices met with TrueValue Solar CEO Suren Chandrajit to discuss the phoenix-like rise of his company. The following is a summary of the key topics discussed. TVS has…..

NLP Solar Sales Training Live Webinar May 16th & 17th
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Massachusetts Sets Strict Regulations for Biomass: Will This Influence Further Restrictions?
The Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources released a new set of strict standards for biomass in early May that have the potential to cut subsidies for developing plants. According to these new…..

Gamesa Scraps Wind Project Off Virginia Coast
Rather than becoming the first American offshore wind turbine to achieve “wet steel,” a landmark single prototype project planned off the coast of Virginia has instead dried up in another setback for…..

Ontario Feed-in Tariff Prices Drop, Germans Pay Much Less
Ontario just completed a revision of their landmark feed-in tariff program and rates for renewable electricity generation and prices fell sharply: 30 percent for solar and 15 percent for wi…..

Asia Report: European Ruling Could Cut Into Palm Oil Exports
A looming decision that threatens to derail Europe’s biofuels industry could reverberate all the way to Asia. …..

Clean Energy Stocks Gone With the Wind
After a great January, the last three months have not been kind to clean energy stocks. While my model portfolios are still in positive territory (+5.4 percent and +0.9 percent for the unhedged and …..

Large Installers and Financiers Dominate the Residential Market in Massachusetts
The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center has made data on the number of projects funded through the Commonwealth solar grant available to the public. You can find the information on MA CEC’s website or …..

Exploring the Reasons behind Dam Removal
For many dams currently being removed in the U.S., the primary reason behind this work is the need to protect fish and restore their habitat. This article provides case studies of the removals under …..

Vt. to argue NRC license renewal improper
A top Vermont utility regulator is heading to Washington to argue in a court hearing that the license renewal given last year by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant w…..

Kudankulam protest: 23,000 surrender voter ID cards
Chennai: Around 23,000 people belonging to nine villages in Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu have surrendered their voter identity cards to draw attention to the continued neglect of the peaceful pr…..

Mass. pols object as nuke plant relicensing nears
The state’s only nuclear power plant wants permission to operate another 20 years, but as a decision nears, some high ranking officials say a record-long federal review of the request spanning more th…..

Obama makes NRC nomination over Reid opposition
President Barack Obama nominated Kristine L. Svinicki for a new term on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Tuesday despite objections from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. …..

University of Michigan gets $1.3M from feds for nuclear energy research
The University of Michigan is getting $1.3 million in federal money to help train and educate the next generation of leaders in the nation’s nuclear industry. …..

Environment Agency boss backs fracking and nuclear power
THE HEAD of the Environment Agency, Lord Smith, has given qualified backing to the controversial mining technique known as fracking, which has been blamed for polluting water supplies and causing mino…..

Feds launch special inspection at Shearon Harris nuclear plant
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has launched a special inspection to figure out why a pair of safety valves failed to close last month at the Shearon Harris nuclear plant when the Wake County facili…..

Official: Nuclear plant will be offline
The chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Monday there is no timetable for restarting the sidelined San Onofre nuclear plant on the Southern California coast, where investigators are tryi…..

Uranium One profit falls while production rises
The Toronto-based miner said Monday it broke even on a per-share basis for the quarter ended March 31 compared with a profit of $14-million, or a penny per share a year earlier. …..

Moderate NC weighs constitutional gay marriage ban
The lawyer for an heiress whose money is at the heart of criminal charges against John Edwards is to retake the witness stand at the former presidential candidate’s corruption trial. …..

NRC to inspect Browns Ferry nuclear plant
Fayetteville police found a dead body at Taylor Way Apartments in Tennessee.Officials responded around 9 a.m. Monday. …..

NRC chair: No timetable for Cal nuke plant restart
The chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission says it’s too soon to talk about a potential restart at the idled San Onofre nuclear plant on the California coast. …..

Anarchists suspected in shooting of Italian nuclear boss
A view of Enel’s power plant, built on the site of a projected nuclear plant which has not been completed, in Montalto di Castro in central Italy March 18, 2011. …..

Federal regulators to hold Fort Calhoun open house
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will host an open house later this month to discuss oversight of the Fort Calhoun nuclear plant. …..

What if Yucca Mountain becomes a repository for data?
Single Sign-On: You can use Facebook account to log in to LasVegasSun.com. When Congress gets back to town this week, two items will be up for discussion that, as we reported last week, will heavily i…..

Japan Shuts Down Last Nuclear Reactor
Nearly 14 months after a powerful earthquake and tsunami triggered the most severe nuclear accident since Chernobyl, Japan is shutting down the last of its nuclear reactors. …..

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First Solar Posts Disappointing Q1 Results
First Solar, which recently announced it was shuttering its Germany facility, idling lines in Malaysia and laying off 30 percent of its global workforce, detailed some of the struggles facing the com…..

Japanese Proposed Tariffs Submitted
In what may be the most significant renewable energy policy development worldwide in years, Japanese authorities are circulating proposed feed-in tariffs that-if confirmed by the Minister of Trade la…..

And the Solar Fred Award Goes to….
From a solar marketing and advocacy perspective, I’m a big fan of public peer awards. They’re important for any industry, especially for a difficult and growing industry like solar. I …..

Rutgers Builds Solar-Powered Computing Center, Studies Power Management
Contractors recently installed 16 polycrystalline solar panels on top of a novel computing facility on the roof of Rutgers’s School of Engineering Building. Researchers will use Parasol, as it’s call…..

Managing the Wind
With nearly 47,000 MW of wind power capacity in the U.S. and more than 8,000 MW expected to go online in 2012, wind power’s rapid growth poses a tremendous challenge for utilities and grid managers c…..

China Dims ‘Golden Sun’ Solar Subsidy
China, the target of criticism and legal action from those who contend it unfairly subsidizes its export market, is now cutting support for some of its own solar generation. …..

A Big Audacious Goal: Turning on the Lights for 1.4 Billion People
At the recent Fortune Brainstorm Green conference which I attended in Laguna Niguel, California, there was a host of U.S.-focused presentations and conversations. The ongoing themes and dialogue prov…..

What Do Solar Investors Want?
Investors can appear downright hostile to the idea of putting money in solar manufacturing these days, but their attitude toward the business of financing and installing solar panels is another story…..

Scouring the Tropics for Thermal Energy
The world’s largest untapped source of solar energy doesn’t lie on the vast sands of the Sahara or even atop the high chaparral of the desert Southwest. Instead, it stretches across at least 23 mill…..

Criticism Rains Down Over Cloud Data Centers
Knowledge has always been power, but how that information is stored has emerged as one of the most challenging issues facing the evolution of technology. …..

Post-Quake Role Awaits Now-Idle Nuclear Plant
What would happen if the “big one” hit and San Onofre Power Plant was offline? NBC4′s Patrick Healy went to Caltech to find out. …..

Hundreds march as Japan goes without nuclear power
In this photo taken April 7, 2012, three reactors, from left, No. 1, No. 2 and No. …..

TVA revenue down on warm winter, higher expenses
The Tennessee Valley Authority announced Friday that it lost $94 million in the last quarter as electricity sales slumped during an unusually warm winter and it faces an over-budget project to finish …..

Commission To Discuss Indian Point 2011 Assessment
A meeting to discuss the annual assessment of Indian Point’s safety performance for 2011 will take place May 17 at the DoubleTree Hotel in Tarrytown. …..

South Korea starts building two n-reactors
South Korea started construction work on two nuclear reactors Friday in what President Lee Myung-bak described as a “big milestone” in the country’s atomic industry, Yonhap news agency reported. …..

Rohrabacher says San Onofre nuclear plant won’t go online until it’s safe
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher , R-Palos Verdes Peninsula, said he came away from a tour of the San Onofre Nuclear Generation Station Thursday convinced officials will not let it go back online unless it is co…..

San Onofre nuclear plant may resume partial service in June
The problems at the San Onofre nuclear power plant are serious enough that the facility will not be able to operate at full capacity when it reopens, perhaps as early as June. …..

As Japan shuts down nuclear power, emissions rise
Investigators say they’ve found a half dozen grenades among the military munitions in a suburban Phoenix home where a former Marine with ties to neo-Nazi groups shot four people and then took his own …..

MomentumNUCLEAR FOLLIES
DUMMERSTON, Vt. — When President Barack Obama said, during his State of the Union speech, “But to create more of these clean energy jobs… that means building a new generation of safe, clean nuclear…..

Sandia sends last of its transuranic legacy waste to WIPP
Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque became the 22nd site nationwide on Wednesday to remove all radioactive transuranic waste from the lab. …..

Taking Advantage Of Exelon’s Dividend With A Protected Covered Call
With Exelon’s upcoming dividend payment of $0.38 per share for record holders as of May 15, 2012, entering a protected covered call position for Exelon is considered. …..

Pioneering energy research for growth
Science and engineering research is the key to achieving an affordable low-carbon energy future while preserving our natural resources, the environment and our quality of life. …..

Power politics in Japan: A silent majority speaks
FOR decades few countries were more evangelical about the charms of nuclear power than Japan, and until the earthquake and tsunami in March last year nuclear plants generated almost 30% of its electri…..

Munich Aims for 100 Percent Clean Energy Consumption by 2020
Since the pledge to stop all nuclear energy plants in Germany by 2022 was signed, many new projects in alternative energy are coming to fruition. …..

Crisis-hit Japan mulls shift to renewable energy
Another long, stupefyingly hot summer is looming for Japan just as it shuts down its last operating nuclear power reactor, worsening a squeeze on electricity and adding urgency to calls for a green en…..

Repair bill for San Onofre nuclear plant could hit $65 million
Edison International officials estimate that the company’s cost for inspections and repairs at the closed San Onofre nuclear plant will be between $55 million and $65 million, but said that the costs …..

Famed Buddhist nun in antinuclear hunger strike
Starving ‘em out: Nuclear foes writer Satoshi Kamata, novelist and Buddhist nun Jakucho Setouchi and writer Hisae Sawachi join a hunger strike Wednesday in front of the industry ministry in Tokyo. …..

Progress Energy Seeks Rate Hike
The utility is seeking a hike in their charges aimed at paying for nuclear power. …..

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Wind Industry Looks to Karl Rove for Answers
Oh, to be a fly on the wall when Republican strategist Karl Rove sits downs with Obama’s former press secretary Robert Gibbs for a conversation about politics and, and, …. wind energy? …..

Three Charts Illustrate Why Solar Has Hit a True Tipping Point
A new report from the prominent global consulting firm McKinsey shows why solar photovoltaics have hit a tipping point. …..

Report: Electric Cars Cost Less, But Watch the Assumptions
Pike Research just released a report on the Total Cost of Ownership of Alternative Fuel Vehicles for Fleet Operators. The report compares the purchase price plus lifetime fuel cost of mid-sized car…..

Bipartisan Congressional Leaders to Ways and Means: Act Now on PTC
Leaders of a bipartisan effort on Capitol Hill last week joined the U.S. wind power industry to sound an urgent call for the House Ways and Means Committee to find a vehicle as soon as possible for e…..

Renewable Energy Generation is Big Business in Kenya
Take an exponentially rising need for clean, reliable energy; add a new renewable energy feed-in tariff (REFITT); and then consider erratic weather conditions that have affected over-relied upon hydr…..

California Launches Solar Hot Water Public Awareness Campaign
When California funded the CSI Solar Thermal program in 2010, part of the funding included a carve-out for marketing the program and educating the public about solar hot water’s benefits t…..

Global Woes Continue with LDK Solar’s Quarterly Earnings
China’s LDK Solar became the latest company to detail symptoms of the drag caused by oversupply and falling subsidies as it reported mounting losses for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2011. …..

BOS Series: Unlocking Solar Secrets of Current and Voltage Fluctuations
In the previous article in this series, we discussed the many factors that impact energy output from solar arrays and why it’s important to improve the insight into array performance if lifetime ener…..

Solar Policy Can Advance (or Delay) Grid Parity by a Decade
In their interactive graphic, Bloomberg Energy Finance calls solar grid parity (when electricity from solar costs less than grid power) the “golden goal.”  It’s an excellent illustration of…..

Asia Report: U.S., India Strike $125 Million Investment Deal
Days after the United States Department of Energy announced a partnership with the U.K. on offshore wind, the DOE moved toward a $125 million partnership with India that could boost international bio…..

The Making of a ‘Living Lab’ for Solar and Efficiency
Along the waterfront of the Charles River Basin, where rooftop access is scarce, solar panels rarely see the light of day. …..

PG&E Seeks Approval to Invest in Solar Manufacturing
A Silicon Valley company’s plan to start a solar equipment prototyping service is running up against a June deadline to secure a critical funding from the Pacific Gas & Electric Co., which is seeking…..

Jordan’s nuclear reactor bill could total $10 bn
Rising construction costs are likely to push the price tag of the Kingdom’s first nuclear reactor to some $10 billion, according to an international nuclear organisation. …..

Lok Sabha adjourned till noon
New Delhi, May 2 : The Lok Sabha was adjourned till noon Wednesday following slogan shouting by some members to demand the carving out of a separate state of Telangana from Andhra Pradesh. …..

Wash. reissues draft Hanford permit for comment
The Washington state Department of Ecology released for public comment a draft permit for regulating hazardous and radioactive waste left from decades of plutonium production at the Hanford nuclear re…..

Lindsey Graham Helps Win Permits For $10B Nuclear Plant, Gets Rewarded With Cash
For years, the SCANA Corporation and Sen. Lindsey Graham have enjoyed a mutually beneficial alliance. …..

Progress Energy Files For More Nuke Money
ST. PETERSBURG — Progress Energy, the electric utility in Pinellas County and much of North and Central Florida, has filed its nuclear cost recovery charges with the state Public Service Commission. …..

Jordan mulls over nuclear power
The Jordanian Atomic Energy Commission said it was considering two offers to build a nuclear reactor in the kingdom. …..

Japanese firms in $2bn gas deal
Japan’s Mitsubishi Corporation and Mitsui & Co have agreed to buy a 14.7% stake in Woodside Petroleum’s Browse Liquefied Natural Gas project in Australia for $2bn . Japanese firms have been looking to…..

Russia to build museum-on-a-train powered by nuclear energy
Russia has come up with a fabulous plan to build a travelling museum of sorts to display scientific exhibits. …..

Nuclear waste to be shipped to Sydney
A plan to store radioactive waste in Sydney’s suburbs has the backing of the Australian Conservation Foundation because it won’t be dumped in the outback. …..

Nuclear Safety Advocates Charge Industry And Regulators With Foot-Dragging On Basic Safety Measure
From her home, Mary Lampert, 70, has a clear view of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station , which sits just across the Duxbury and Plymouth Bays in coastal Massachusetts. …..

Anti-nuke groups urge Mass. gov. to stall NRC
A coalition of groups opposed to the relicensing of the Pilgrim nuclear plant in Plymouth has asked Gov. …..

‘It’s an over-reaction to ask Kudankulam to shut down’
Ten years ago, recalls nuclear scientist Dr G R Srinivasan, the people of Kudankalam had accepted the nuclear plant and those associated with it. …..

Protesters call for shutdown of San Onofre nuclear plant
“Shut down San Onofre!” was the rallying cry of about 200 protesters at San Onofre State Park on Sunday. …..

Lessons learned from the nuclear accident at Chernobyl
Regardless of your thoughts on nuclear power, the disaster at Chernobyl reminds us ofA potential nuclear issues that could cause hardship and chaos in our world.A In our previous article we examined t…..

Nuclear Fusion – The Latest
While cold fusion remains a pipe dream, fusion as an energy source for the future continues to be funded and improved. …..