OneRoof Energy, the first U.S. residential solar leasing company to work directly with roofers to sell and install its systems, has secured $3 million in additional financing from clean-tech investment firm Black Coral Capital. The company will utilize the funds to expand current markets and launch new markets this year. Black Coral Capital backs innovative [...]
Matinee Energy Starts Construction of the Solar Power Plants in Benson, Arizona BENSON, Arizona. Ground breaking by Matinee Energy, Inc. at Benson, AZ site took place today for the construction of solar power plants. This site is designed to convert abundant sun-intensity into 120MW of electricity. Powerful global construction conglomerates support Matinee Energy efforts to [...]
Durban – The South African government is using this year’s climate conference underway in Durban to demonstrate its green economy initiative that forms part of the country’s new growth strategy. Officials have launched what has been referred to as the Green Economy Accord, with Economic Development Minister Ebrahim Patel telling reporters on Tuesday that the [...]
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House Republicans, led by Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), opened hearings today to spotlight the state of clean energy jobs in America. But claims by Chairman Issa that such jobs are “propaganda†are based on politics, not facts, and threaten a critical and honest debate on clean energy policies that [...]
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by Marian Wang Propublica It’s become a mantra on Capitol Hill and a rallying cry for industry groups: Get rid of the job-killing regulations. In recent days, with nearly every one of the GOP presidential [1] candidates [2] repeating [3] that [4] refrain [5], the political echo chamber has grown even louder. Earlier this month, President [...]
Sep 22 2011 | Posted in
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This week Secretary Steven Chu joined with Saft America to announce the grand opening of the company’s Jacksonville, Florida, factory, which will produce advanced lithium-ion batteries to power electric vehicles and other applications. Saft America estimates it will create nearly 280 permanent jobs at the factory, and the city of Jacksonville expects an additional 800 [...]
Discount Home Improvement Retail Store Outpaces Sales Goals by More Than 44 Percent With national retail sales on the upswing, Denver consumers are shopping for a good deal. The recently opened Go Green Warehouse, a discount home improvement materials store, is answering local shoppers’ demand for value. National Denver-based nonprofit Veterans Green Jobs launched the [...]
Ireland The Government’s grant scheme for home energy efficiency has received the prestigious Stars of Energy Efficiency award from the US-based energy coalition Alliance to Save Energy for its success in improving the energy efficiency of Irish homes. The programme, administered by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI), has supported the upgrade of over [...]
Design Uses Less Energy While Improving Air Quality and Comfort Synapse Product Development is working with the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to engineer prototypes for a desiccant* enhanced evaporative air conditioning (DEvap A/C) system. Each year, air conditioning uses approximately 4 out of 41 quadrillion Btu (quads) of the source [...]
Gilbert-based ColnaTec LLC, a designer, developer and manufacturer of state-of-the-art sensors and electronic instrumentation used in the production of thin film solar cells, is being featured on the official White House website as part of the White House series, “Champions of Change” (http://www.whitehouse.gov/champions). The Champions of Change series highlights ordinary Americans with extraordinary contributions within [...]
McGuinty Government Builds Clean Energy Economy As Ontario Continues To Turn The Corner Through Ontario’s clean energy Feed-in Tariff program, 25 new large-scale renewable energy projects – solar and wind – will provide enough electricity to power more than 280,000 homes or a community the size of Windsor each year. These projects will also help [...]
States across the country have been reaching or exceeding their energy savings goals established through Energy Efficiency Resource Standards (EERS), thereby lowering utility bills for consumers and reducing the need to build costly new power plants. The forecast is also bright for the future as states expect to achieve even higher energy savings for utility [...]
GreenWays Initiative will work in seven major cities to create career pathways Jobs for the Future (JFF), a leading nonprofit education and workforce development organization, will leverage its expertise in green sector training to expand job training for workers in Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. The project—The GreenWays Initiative—will focus on [...]
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