The national government of India has added new measures to funding support for solar energy. The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy will administer an enlarged national green energy fund, designed to support the National Solar Mission (NSM)—a series of feed-in tariffs designed to ensure 20 GW of solar capacity is installed on the...
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For more than half of a century, America’s regional power grids provided a platform for the nation’s economy to achieve vast productivity gains. The advent of advanced electronics has galvanized a fundamental change in the way America uses power, which the nation’s grid has struggled –mostly unsuccessfully – to provide. The cleavage between...
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America’s New Energy R&D Strategy
Statement by Dr. Robert Marlay
U.S. Department of Energy
With the recent administration change and economic downturn, the US priorities in energy, environment, science, and the economy have been altered or strengthened. The current baseline goal is to reduce GHG emissions by 80 percent by 2050. Within ten years, the US plans...
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy announced the launch of the State Energy Efficiency Action Network last week, which aims to accelerate deployment of energy efficiency policies and programs at the state level.
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US Congress: Climate bill for spring 2010; Clean Energy Act introduced (Van Ness Feldman, 23 November 2009)
In the US Congress, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, after consultation with five of the six committee chairs with jurisdiction over elements of a cap-and-trade bill, has confirmed that climate legislation will be considered in spring 2010. He...
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Britain urges European neighbours to adopt UK-style climate law (BusinessGreen, 16 November 2009)
The UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office is partnering with NGO Friends of the Earth to hold a series of workshops in Embassies across Europe introducing the UK’s legally-binding climate legislation, aiming to promote the adoption of similar legislation in other countries. According...
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U.S.-China Joint Statement
November 17, 2009
Beijing, China
At the invitation of President Hu Jintao of the People’s Republic of China, President Barack Obama of the United States of America is paying a state visit to China from November 15–18, 2009. The Presidents held in-depth, productive and candid discussions on U.S.-China relations and other issues of mutual...
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The process of commercializing promising ideas in clean energy ideas is replete with gaps, frictions and other problems. It is largely uncoordinated, making efficient and smarter investment difficult. The current process significantly increases investor risk. Enter: Distributed Innovation.
Distributed innovation refers to the process of linking together numerous people with disparate expertise working in different institutions and countries, but...
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