Professor Arthouros Zervos – a leading figure in the renewables sector whose advice is regularly sought by national governments and regional bodies – is confident that renewables are now within the ‘mainstream’, yet sees continued support through subs…
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Big Data Goes Green
Cloud computing, where software is delivered as a service to end users over the internet, is currently receiving a lot of attention. The term describes data-processing operations that are outsourced to server farms, instead of being powered on-site. T…
Beware of the ‘Greenwash’
Sustainability is increasingly in the news and on the minds of corporate decision makers – and it applies not only to a company’s products, but to its entire manufacturing, supply and distribution chain. And customers and shareholders want reassuran…
UN Envoys Plan Sustainability Goals Without Impact in Draft
United Nations envoys endorsed the broadest steps yet to harmonize economic development with efforts to protect the environment, measures that pressure groups say lack the teeth needed to force change.
Are IT Data Centers Emerging as a ‘Killer App’ for Green Power? Part 2
IT companies are increasingly exploring a wide range of green power solutions in response to growing energy use at their data centers and increased scrutiny from industry watchdogs. In part one of this article, we described utility-provided and …
Foreign Dominance of U.S. Clean Energy Market Spells Trouble for America
If you are a small player in the U.S. clean energy market, you are having a harder and harder time finding capital to continue to fund your business, despite that fact that your domestic market is seen as the one with the largest potential for growth….
Are IT Data Centers Emerging as a ‘Killer App’ for Green Power? Part 1
Last month, Greenpeace launched a series of coordinated protests at Amazon, Apple and Microsoft locations to draw attention to the companies’ use of GHG intensive fuels in powering their data centers. The protests were a follow up to their…
Rethinking the Role of Government in Cleantech
Another year, another wringing of the hands over tax credits and incentives for clean technology.
Lobbyists and vendors in the U.S. are once again singing the blues, calling for continued and expanding government investments in clean technology….
Rural Africa Looks Beyond the Grid
In picking South Africa for last year’s meet-up, the COP-17 climate change talks prompted some inevitable grumbles. Why was the global climate change industry holding its jamboree in a country that, despite its commitment to renewables, pumps out so m…
Sponsor PennWell’s Wall of Honor To Recognize Military Service Personnel
Exhibitors and attendees at PennWell’s 2012 events in the U.S. can become sponsors of the Wall of Honor.
Chile’s Uncertain Renewable Energy Future
In May 2011 Carlos Slim, the Mexican business magnate, predicted that Chile will be the first Latin American nation to attain the status of a developed country. Chile’s GDP per capita of US$15,400 in 2010 puts it far ahead of most of its neighbours an…
Why the 1603 Treasury Grant Program Matters to Solar and RE
Last Tuesday, March 13, Congress failed to act to renew the 1603 Treasury Grant program, and that’s not only a loss for the entire solar industry, but other renewables too.
Some may see 1603 as a program that only benefits large scale solar, bu…
China’s Solar Markets Also Catch Chill
With the solar bubble apparently bursting around the industry’s ears in late 2011, as 2012 opens its doors for business much attention has been focused on the sector. The markets are certainly wise to be cautious given the impact of the downturn, regu…
Better Renewables Risk Management Solutions Emerge
Global economic woes have taken their toll, but investment in renewable projects is still strong and since 2010 has surpassed investment in new fossil fuel plants.
Renewable Energy Industry Leaps into Mainstream Power Generation
It’s a leap year and I am writing this on February 29th. This year we have one extra day to make our work count. It’s exciting and invigorating to me.
There’s another exciting and invigorating development taking pl…
The Big Question: What Can We Hope for in the Next 12 Months?
For its first Big Question feature of 2012, REW asked its readers to share their hopes and fears, opinions and predictions for the year ahead given the outcomes (or lack thereof) of the climate negotiations in Durban, ongoing shakeouts in major renewa…
Apple Tips Plans For Solar, Biogas Systems at NC Data Farm
Last year Apple commissioned its new 500,000 acre data center in Maiden, North Carolina. The facility, costing an estimated $1 billion facility to build, is the company’s biggest data center several times over, aimed to support everything from iTunes …
Excellence in Renewable Energy Award Announced! Check out Video Coverage of the Winners Here
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/video?categoryId=62
Clean Tech’s Challenge of "The Disconnect"
Who’s harder to educate, investors or politicians?
Evaluating Institutional On-site Clean Energy
Earlier this month, I attended EUCI’s Utilizing Clean Power Development Conference in Philadelphia. The conference attracted a variety of large institutions (hospitals, municipalities, universities, etc.), developers, and financers to disc…