Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Today, NRDC is launching a new feature on our website (http://www.nrdc.org/renewables/) and I’d like to know what folks think of it. This new tool is designed to help regular people from farmers to politicians, financiers to reporters understand that renewables...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
Big news today in NY with the passage of legislation that significantly expands the opportunities for distributed renewable energy. Specifically, the package of bills, which Governor Patterson has already pledged to sign, expand net metering up to 2 MW for...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Cai Steger, our former summer business fellow extraordinaire, sent me an email recently positing a set of year and cleantech pairings. As he put it: It certainly seems as though the last few years, one specific technology has captured the...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Partly inspired by the chance to use "ping-pong" and "pop" in a title, and partly because I've already speculated cleantech investing as a whole could suffer if ethanol's fortunes fall too far too fast, I've been thinking about investment bubbles today. A...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Solving Global Warming
So this article from the Financial Times (subscription required) argues that the supply of polysilicon is finally increasing thanks to production facilities in China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. As noted in the article: "In recent years, solar power growth has...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Solving Global Warming
Interesting but unfortunately pessimistic article in the Times this morning by Andrew Revkin and Matt Wald buying into the conventional wisdom that solar photovoltaics can't be an important source of power without some major technological breakthrough. Revkin and Wald are...continued→
