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IRENA Taking Applications for Initial $50 MM Renewable Energy Project funding...
The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) is accepting online applications with project summaries for renewable energy projects in developing countries in an initial, $50 million round of...
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EU Wind Power Capacity Up 12.3 Percent, Surpasses 100-GW in 2012
2012 proved to be a good year for wind power in the 27-nation European Union (EU), as installed wind power generation capacity rose 12.3 percent to surpass the 100-gigawatt (GW) mark. Rated EU wind...
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UN, World Bank, IEA Gear Up to Achieve Sustainable Energy for All
Last year UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon created and set in motion “Sustainable Energy for All,” a global initiative that aims to realize what to many may seem irreconcilable goals: mitigating...
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President Turns Up the Heat On US Carbon Pollution, Revealing Details of...
President Obama once again raised the bitterly, politically divise issues of US fossil fuel use, greenhouse gas emissions and climate change to the forefront of the national political agenda today,...
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Solar Gets Smarter: AlsoEnergy Focuses on Efficiency Through Solar Energy...
Measuring solar Over the past through years, I’ve had the opportunity to gauge growth in the solar industry in part through my annual attendance at the Intersolar North America conference in San...
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Solar is Shining Bright in 2013 and Beyond
Globally, we have surpassed the 100 GW threshold of installed solar power. As reported in Triple Pundit, India and Spain have both achieved grid parity and Italy is also competitive. Grid parity is...
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Renewables can Power the World
We already see strong evidence to support the contention that renewable energy can supply the world’s power needs. As explained in Worldwatch Institute, State of the World 2013, we need to move beyond...
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U.S. Solar Industry Breaking Records in 2013
The U.S. solar industry has logged one of the strongest quarters ever and it has already eclipsed last year’s record breaking growth. The U.S. is riding the crest of a solar tsunami that is sweeping...
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My Vision for the New Earth: Life in a Low Carbon Economy
By Roberta Ward Smiley Editor’s note: Roberta Ward Smiley is a colleague and the founder of La Reserva Forest Foundation in Costa Rica. You can read about the work of the Foundation on Roberta’s...
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Renewables Account for 37 Percent of All New Electrical Generating Capacity...
New electrical generating capacity in 2013 According to the just-released Energy Infrastructure Update report from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Office of Energy Projects, 37 percent of all...
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Keystone XL vs. Renewable Energy
A head-to-head comparison demonstrates the overwhelming superiority of renewable energy over the Keystone XL. If approved, the northern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline will carry 830,000 barrels of...
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EarthTalk: How the Rocky Mountain Institute Believes We Can Wean Ourselves...
EarthTalk® is a weekly environmental column made available to our readers from the editors of E/The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: How does the Rocky Mountain Institute think we can get off of...
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Renewable Energy Provides 56 Percent of New Electrical Generation Capacity in...
Renewable energy on the march Keeping with the steady growth and adoption of renewable energy, the latest Energy Infrastructure Update report just released from the Federal Energy Regulatory...
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Divestment from Fossil Fuels is Our Only Hope
Fossil fuel divestment is one of the fastest growing movements on Earth and it continues to gain momentum. Since the divestment movement was launched three years ago, more than 650 individuals and 180...
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Renewable Energy Provides More Than 40 Percent of New Generating Capacity
According to data from the latest Energy Infrastructure Update report just released from the Federal Regulatory Commission (FERC) Office of Energy Projects, renewable energy sources including solar,...
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EarthTalk: Sweden’s Environmental Leadership
EarthTalk® is a weekly environmental column made available to our readers from the editors of E/The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: I recently heard that Sweden is the greenest country in the...
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Infographic: Could the World Be 100 Percent Solar?
What is the global potential of solar energy? - Perhaps the only thing more unrealistic than the idea of a modern world powered 100 percent on solar energy is the idea that extracting every last bit of...
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Renewable Energy Beats Natural Gas for New Capacity in 2014
It was a close race throughout the year, but in the end new generating capacity from renewable sources beat out new natural gas capacity by 1.16 percent in 2014. Of the 49.81 percent of new capacity...
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The Growing Power of the Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement
Fossil fuel companies will never voluntarily walk away from dirty energy, so it is up to us to walk away from them. It is futile to try to encourage fossil fuel companies to stop sucking at the teat of...
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Renewable Energy Outpaces All Other Sources for Electrical Generation Growth...
Non-Hydro Renewables Grew 11 Percent in 2014 - The latest Electric Power Monthly report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), with data through the end of 2014, shows renewable energy...
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