A late-night vote Thursday by the Ohio House demonstrates Ohio’s bipartisan commitment to bringing clean energy, job creation and greater investment in local communities vying for renewable energy projects. “By eliminating this tax disadvantage, Ohio lawmakers have strengthened the renewable market and secured millions in new tax revenue for local communities,” Lystra said. “Additionally, Ohio’s [...]
Kogan Creek Power Station is set to be home to one of the largest solar projects in the world after the Commonwealth Government pledged $32 million from the Renewable Energy Demonstration Fund towards the Kogan Creek Solar Boost Project. International solar energy provider AREVA will install a solar thermal addition at CS Energy’s Kogan Creek [...]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An alliance of industry, academic and government organizations, formed to commercialize technologies that will utilize concentrated solar energy to convert waste carbon dioxide into diesel fuel, was announced today. The Concentrated Solar Thermal reforming platform will be colocated next to industrial facilities that have waste CO2 streams such as coal power plants, natural [...]

At a time when many U.S. power companies are trying to design carbon capture systems for their existing coal fired generating plants Florida’s largest utility company is spending money to revitalize a natural gas generator by combining it with Concentrated Solar Thermal technology. In a move that validates the companies stated commitment to reduce their [...]

A new report from the EIA gives a sobering forecast of the world wide increase in energy consumption that will likely occur in the next 25 years. In light of our troubles trying to fulfill our recession economies need for oil and the ends that that oil and coal demand has driven us this forecast becomes [...]
Abengoa Solar has announced that they intend to build the first Solar Thermal installation integrated with a Coal Plant owned by Xcel Energy. The demonstration project is intended to increase power plant efficiency while lowering CO2 emissions. This is the first time that solar energy will be used to increase the efficiency and lower the [...]