Friday, June 27th, 2008
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Map of World's Solar Energy Resources
The U.S. Department of the Interior wants to kill solar power exactly where solar power is most promising - southwestern United States. The BLM manages more land – 258 million surface acres – than any other Federal agency. Most of this public land is ...
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
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Wind speeds over 6.9 meters-per-second (Class 3-7) are considered to be commercially viable at the utility scale. Research suggest that wind power could provide 40 times more electricity than is needed worldwide. This U.S. map shows average wind speeds at a height of 80 meters (260 feet).
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
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In 2000, installed wind power capacity totaled 2,550 MW and generated only about 5.5 billion kWh of electricity -- less than 1% of U.S. electricity generation. The total amount of electricity that could potentially be generated from wind in the United States has been estimated at 10,777 billion kWh annually, ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Clean Tech Group, a leading investment analyst in the clean tech sector, said it believed investment in ethanol and European wind power and solar thin film technology has hit a peak.
The company released new cleantech investment data yesteday, which appeared to show that a wave in U.S. ethanol and European ...
Posted in Advanced Biofuels, Environmental Finance, Hedge Funds, Industry News, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Solar Energy, Venture Capital, Wind Energy | No Comments »
