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Interesting Data Points for Renewables, Natural Gas in EIA Monthly Energy Review

September 30, 2009

Posted by Cai Steger in Moving Beyond Oil

Tags:
cleanenergy, deployment, markettransformation, renewableenergy, solar, wind

Last week, the Energy Information Administration or EIA (the non-partisan energy data and analysis unit of the federal government) released its Monthly Energy Review, which covers a wide range of energy statistics, including pricing, generation, consumption and CO2 emissions. In...continued

More DOE Renewable Energy Grants

September 22, 2009

Posted by Cai Steger in Moving Beyond Oil

Tags:
cashgrants, cleanenergy, deployment, investment, markettransformation, policy, renewableenergy, solar, stimulus, subsidies, taxcredits, wind

The second round of 30% cash grants for renewable projects was awarded today by DOE and Treasury.  I gave some context for these grants, as well as discussing potential concerns in a post a few weeks back covering the first...continued

Optimism (and Challenges) With New DOE Grant Program

September 1, 2009

Posted by Cai Steger in Moving Beyond Oil

Tags:
cashgrants, cleanenergy, deployment, investment, markettransformation, policy, renewableenergy, stimulus, taxcredits, wind

Today, the Department of Energy and Treasury Department announced the first set of cash grant recipients to take advantage of a new Stimulus program for renewable projects.  (The cash grant program allows renewable developers or associated parties to receive an...continued

PV Stats from California

June 17, 2009

Posted by Cai Steger in Moving Beyond Oil

Tags:
california, deployment, markettransformation, renewable, renewableenergy, solar

Came across some PV data on the CEC (California Energy Commission) website that I thought worth sharing.   Forecasting based solely on historical growth rates typically leads to overaggressive and mostly inaccurate results absent learning rates, annual and cum capacity limits...continued

Climate Change and Clean Energy in the President's New Budget

February 26, 2009

Posted by Cai Steger in Moving Beyond Oil

Tags:
deployment, federalbudget, innovation, investment, markettransformation, obamaadministration, oil, policy, renewableenergy, stimulus

Today, President Obama’s new budget was officially released.  Those interested only in the energy provisions can skip here, although a look at the actual draft budget is extremely informative.  As usual, more industrious and well-connected sorts have beaten me to...continued

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Cai Steger
Energy Policy Analyst
New York, Center for Market Innovation
I’m an Energy Policy Analyst at NRDC’s new Center for Market Innovation, focusing on federal...
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