Renewable power sources — including hydrokinetic, biomass, geothermal, wind, and solar — make up 10 percent of total electricity production in the United States. While the media have highlighted failures by renewable energy companies, North America leads the world in terms of additions of new renewable energy capacity.
Hancock, Mich.-based Clean Energy Pathways Inc., an alternative and renewable energy solutions company, has formed a new corporation in the state of New York.
Clean Energy Pathways Inc., an alternative and renewable energy solutions company, has formed a new corporation in the state of New York. Clean Energy Power Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary, was formed to specifically focus on the fast growing market of all aspects of “green energy” savings, the firm said.
The question arises from time to time in building industry blogs about whether or not geothermal heat pumps (GHPs) are a source of renewable energy. So where do they fit?
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, through its Engineering and Support Center, has issued a Multiple-Award Task Order Contractors (MATOC) Request for Proposal (RFP) for $7 billion in total contract capacity to procure reliable, locally generated, renewable, and alternative energy through power purchase agreements.
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has selected HP and Intel to provide a new energy-efficient high performance computer (HPC) system. NREL’s new HPC data center is designed to be the world’s most energy efficient.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced a new partnership between its Challenge Home program and Passive House Institute US (PHIUS) on a voluntary certification process for net zero-energy ready homes.
Distributed renewable energy installations today represent far less than one percent of total worldwide electricity generating capacity, but according to a new report from Pike Research, a part of Navigant’s Energy Practice, they will expand rapidly over the next half-decade.
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick proposed a resolution at the New England Governor’s Conference that passed unanimously and will advance the process toward a coordinated regional procurement of renewable energy.
The nation is ready for renewable energy products. It just might not know it yet. Not all contractors are experiencing this majority interest. In fact, some have found that for different reasons, some of their customers are not interested at all. How can they overcome customer objections?
