Mayor Proposes Green Jobs Investment Program for Austin
March 26, Austin American-Statesman Mayor Lee Leffingwell unveiled plans Monday to take part in a federal program that lets foreign investors earn green cards in exchange for creating jobs. Leffingwell said he will encourage the city to apply for designation as an EB-5 ...
Labor Dept. Releases its First Report on Green Jobs
March 23, Philadelphia Inquirer On Thursday, the U.S. Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that there were 3.1 million green jobs nationwide in 2010 -- making up 2.4 percent of total employment. Manufacturers producing hybrid cars, solar panels, and ...
Reactions to the China Solar Tariff Verdict From Suntech, CASE, CASM, SEIA, Yingli
March 20, GreenTechMedia.com The Department of Commerce's preliminary determination on unfair subsidies for Chinese solar panels dictates a duty of 4.73 percent on U.S. imports from Trina Solar, 2.9 percent from Suntech and 3.59 percent from all other Chinese manufacturers. These tariffs ...
Better Wind forecasts? That’s No Just A Lot of Hot Air
March 16, Discovery News for MSNBC The unpredictable nature of wind and sunshine makes it tough for utilities to plan when these forms of green power will be available to customers on the grid. However, better sensors to monitor solar radiation ...
The Great Renewable Energy Race
March 19, Bloomberg Global investment in renewable energy climbed to a record $260 billion in 2011 with new solar and wind technologies approaching price parity with coal- and gas-burning power plants. A new, interactive graphic from Bloomberg New Energy Finance shows where ...
Senators for Subsidies
March 14, The Wall Street Journal Tuesday's proposed amendment to increase tax subsidies to green energy sources - including a provision to extend the production tax credit- failed, but 49 Democrats supported the giveaways. A bipartisan amendment to fund a version of a ...
Green Energy: The Army, Renewables, and Texas
March 14, State Impact Texas Dr. Joseph Westphal, the Under Secretary of the U.S. Army, recently visited University of Texas at Austin. The goal; to tour the research facilities and discuss military-academic research partnerships. According to Westphal, the army is interested in ways to better manage ...
What if the Wind PTC Expires?
March 12, RenewableEnergyWorld.com If the Production Tax Credit expires or is voted down, repercussions to the wind energy industry will be fast and furious. Some analysts predict that jobs in the wind industry will be cut in half, equaling a loss of ...
Germany, China, US Could Install Record Amount of PV in 2012
March 12, GreenTechMedia.com Germany is expected to install 8 gigawatts of PV in 2012, according to Germany's trade chamber, the DIHK. That's up a half percent from the 7.5 gigawatts installed in 2011. China installed approximately 2 gigawatts of PV in ...
Thanks in Part to Technology, ERCOT Wind Power Generation Record Shattered Twice
March 12, RenewableEnergyWorld.com Improved grid operating procedures are being hailed as part of the success behind record-setting wind power generation in Texas last week. A new transmission analysis tool developed by ERCOT enables system planners to move more wind energy from the west zone to ...
