Is Solar Cheaper than Nuclear?
by Jigar Shah, Founder SunEdison and CEO of the Carbon War Room This is an interesting article from Greentech Media. It basically is saying that if we are aiming to decarbonize our electricity grid we...
View ArticleMomentum Building for REDD+ Global Market for Forest Carbon
By David Niebauer Whatever else happened or didn’t happen as a result of the recent Conference of the Parties in Copenhagen, the Global community did take action on slowing the destruction of the...
View ArticleBig Oil Fights Big Ag
By John Addison (2/9/10) Americans are Spending 20 percent of their income on transportation. In the average two-car household it is often higher. Big Oil and Big Ag are fighting for their share of...
View ArticleGators Go for World Championship With Record Prices for Solar Power
by Tom Rooney Something’s gotten into those Gators. First, they won back to back championships in college basketball. Then they added a national football title to the mix, along with a Heisman trophy....
View ArticleVermont Yankee to be Shut Down
“Vermonters sent a message to President Obama and the nuclear industry today,” said Greenpeace’s Nuclear Policy Analyst Jim Riccio. “The nuclear renaissance is dead on arrival. We can retire old,...
View ArticleCap and Trade vs Carbon Tax – 6 Myths Busted
In the midst of the debate over exactly what commitments will come out of the Copenhagen Accord follow-up discussions, and how a cap and trade system to incorporate those might work, we asked long time...
View ArticleState of the California Feed-in Tariff
David Niebauer A new, innovative feed-in tariff for small-scale solar development is coming to California. Rather than setting a fixed price in an environment in which technology costs appear to be...
View ArticleFord Transit Connect Electric Test Drive
By John Addison (3/8/10) Before I got behind the wheel of the Transit Connect Electric, I asked myself, “Who is going to buy a battery-electric van of this size?” Fleet managers of electric utilities,...
View ArticleFrom Japan: Makower, Wallpaper, and Strawberries
Makower One of our favorite cleantech insider Joel Makower has come back from Japan with very interesting observations. It seems that the US is not the only country where the government does not have a...
View ArticleMissouri Solar taking off
Since 2000, electricity rates have gone up by about 4.5% annually. Even in this downturn, electric utility have little shame in raising rates to invest in infrastructure that depends on 20th century...
View ArticleThe Right Way to do Solar Manufacturing in the US
I was reading with sadness about the decision by BP Solar to shut down the Frederick, MD manufacturing facility. As many of you may know, I worked for BP Solar and this facility was the first real...
View ArticleStart-Ups, Not Bailouts
This op-ed says it all. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/opinion/04friedman.html I am not usually a huge Tom Friedman fan (although I like him), mainly because I find that while he is an amazing...
View ArticleKansas Power Plant Overbudget
Just saw this article: http://www.kansascity.com/2010/04/08/1866150/kcpl-boosts-cost-for-new-electricity.html Comparing the cost of the upfront capital in this plant to technologies have have free fuel...
View ArticleMe and the Cleantech House: Part 1
So, with recent changes in my professional life, my family and I made the decision to relocate to the Bay Area. There were a lot of reasons, but the main one is my general perception that my world...
View ArticleRobert Bryce’s 5 Myths shows Ignorance
First Sarah Palin, now Robert Bryce taking pot shots around things they barely understand: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/23/AR2010042302220.html 1) Solar and Wind take up...
View ArticleClimate Leadership Cuts Across Generations
A couple weeks ago, I took the liberty on this blog to write a open letter in support of my good friend, Christiana Figueres to be the next Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC. While that selection...
View ArticleLooking to the Future
I am watching the Chris Matthews show. There was a comment about American’s being nostalgic for their childhood when families stayed together and there were no global problems. The problem with that...
View ArticleBP and the Obama Administration – I Blame You for Ruining My Gulf
To start off with, I have to say like many people I’m deeply concerned with the oil spill at Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico. It is a generational environmental hit that cannot be overstated. Perhaps BP...
View ArticleCleantech Connect
I just agreed to judge this contest. I wanted to see what you guys thought of contests like this. It seems like an amazing way for entrepreneurs to get recognition and differentiation. Cleantech...
View ArticleWhy China has already overtaken the U.S. in cleantech
It’s been fashionable to debate whether China will some day surpass the U.S. in clean technology. Yet, after reviewing some of the metrics that really matter, one could conclude that it already has. At...
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