WASHINGTON — The Obama administration yesterday unveiled a spending plan that would increase funding for the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration to $11.2 billion in the next fiscal year (see GSN, Jan. 29).
The agency, a semiautonomous branch of the Energy Department, would receive a 13.4-percent budget increase in fiscal 2011 to maintain the country’s nuclear [...]
More than 80 projects awarded tax credits as Department of Energy announces fresh $100m in green skills funding.
The Obama Administration announced a fresh wave of measures designed to accelerate the development and deployment of clean technologies last week, including the award of $2.3bn (£1.4bn) in tax credits for low carbon energy projects.
Speaking late last week, [...]
Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Jim Webb (D-Va.) today introduced the The Clean Energy Act of 2009, a bipartisan bill to promote further investment and development of the nation’s clean energy technologies, including nuclear power and other resources. The Alexander-Webb bill is designed to invigorate the economy, create jobs, and move the United States toward [...]
Jennifer A. Dlouhy, Hearst Washington Bureau
The House passed legislation on Wednesday that would initiate a $1 billion program to make wind turbines more efficient and reliable.
The measure, sponsored by Rep. Paul Tonko, D-N.Y., aims to ensure that huge wind-generating turbines - some with blades spanning 100 yards - can be more cost effective in harnessing [...]
LANDAU IN DER PFALZ, Germany — Government officials here are reviewing the safety of a geothermal energy project that scientists say set off an earthquake in mid-August, shaking buildings and frightening many residents of this small city.
The geothermal plant, built by Geox, a German energy company, extracts heat by drilling deep into the earth. Advocates [...]
ScienceDaily (July 20, 2009) — A new method for capturing significantly more heat from low-temperature geothermal resources holds promise for generating virtually pollution-free electrical energy. Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will determine if their innovative approach can safely and economically extract and convert heat from vast untapped geothermal resources.
The goal [...]
ScienceDaily (June 15, 2009) — In the future, will wind power tapped by high-flying kites light up New York? A new study by scientists at the Carnegie Institution and California State University identifies New York as a prime location for exploiting high-altitude winds, which globally contain enough energy to meet world demand 100 times over. [...]
By Jane M. Von Bergen
Inquirer Staff Writer
Gov. Rendell stood on the deck of a Roxborough home last month talking about how the $100 million in the Pennsylvania Sunshine rebate program would make it possible for homeowners to afford an energy-saving solar system.
In Malvern, the $800,000 solar system that Siemens Medical Solutions installed in 2006 is [...]
By Joseph N. DiStefano
‘Electricians, plumbers, roofers - we can put these people back to work,” said Rhone A. Resch, president of the Solar Energy Industries Association.
Resch’s group, based in Washington, is teaming up with IEEE, the electrical-engineering society, to cosponsor this year’s PV America (PV = photovoltaic = solar electric) conference and trade show at [...]
By LES BLUMENTHAL - McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has proposed a 25 percent cut in the research and development budget for one of the most promising renewable energy sources in the Northwest - wave and tidal power.
At the same time the White House sought an 82 percent increase in solar [...]
