clean energy goal Articles
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Incentives and Implementation: How Policy Informs the Clean Energy Transition
Three major areas are key to meeting our country’s clean energy goals: technology, finance, and policy. The three are interdependent and inform one another, but the linchpin for all of them is policy. Strong, consistent clean energy policy creates the supportive environment that is necessary to spur technology and finance innovation. While the pace of clean energy deployment is ...
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The bottom line on renewable energy certificates
Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) provide businesses a means to support renewable energy generation and meet clean energy goals. This fact sheet answers some basic questions about RECs and REC purchasing. What are RECs? Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs), also known as “green tags,” “green certificates,” and “renewable energy credits,” are tradable instruments which can be used to meet ...
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What’s stopping microgrids?
The perfect solution exists. Why don’t we have it? The massive blackouts that blanketed California in October cut power to more than 100,000 businesses. Hospital chains Sutter Health and Adventist Health were forced to cancel procedures and close facilities. Some Trader Joe’s and other supermarkets shuttered for days. Factories scrambled to find backup generators and fuel to run ...
By Bloom Energy
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Africa’s green energy challenge: Mega projects, off-grid or somewhere in between?
South of the Sahara, getting electricity to 620 million people may require an all-of-the-above strategy. A 310-megawatt wind farm sprouting up in a remote, barren landscape near Lake Turkana in northern Kenya has the clean energy world buzzing — and for good reason. Africa’s largest wind farm, with 365 towering turbines, is creating more than 500 stable jobs in an impoverished area ...
By Ensia
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Aloha Solar Case Study
Altus Power America acquired a Tier 3 Feed-In Tariff (FIT) project and needed to have it rapidly built to meet the deadline for the power purchase agreement’s guaranteed completion date. The project included upgrading a substation. REC Solar built the entire 5 MW (AC) system plus substation in 5 months. The energy from the project is being purchased by Hawaiian Electric Company (HECO) on a ...
By REC Solar
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Efficiency beyond pizza money: The military’s gigantic bite
Is efficiency worth the bother if you save only $5-$10 per month on your energy bill? Many homeowners think not. One dad told us his family would rather save money by just skipping a pizza order once a month. That sentiment is not unusual. But it is hard to negate the economic value of efficiency if you spend $20 billion per year on energy, as does the US military, our ...
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The right mix: the Philippines achieving its renewable energy goals
The global energy system is undergoing a transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy. There are clear signs that the pace of change is accelerating. 2009 was the second year in a row that more money was invested worldwide in renewable electricity generation projects than in fossil fuel-powered plants, according to data published by the United Nations. Developing countries, especially in ...
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Utility Dive - Wind and solar power aren’t enough to combat climate change. We need to incentivize firm renewables, too.
The following is a contributed article by George Sakellaris, president and CEO of Ameresco. In a world that continues to grapple with the unfolding effects of climate change and a global energy crisis that shows no signs of slowing, it’s never been more clear that the time to innovate our national approach to energy development is now. For too long, federal U.S. policy has taken a ...
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