...100 million for renewable energy projects. This actually puts Alaska among the leaders nationwide in renewable energy investment, but the investment is not nearly enough. Sitka's Blue Lake hydro expansion alone is expected to cost $145 million...
...resources right in their backyard. The right tax and regulatory reforms will lower the costs of capital for business and energy investment, reversing the state's decline in oil production and setting it on an impressive economic and job growth phase...
...I'm horrified but not surprised at a massive loss of public money in a badly managed firm. But if you think green energy investments are a good idea in general, you should be furious over Solyndra.Not only did the company hand out $37,000...
...University of California at Berkeley researchers addressed this topic in 2010 and concluded that green and low-carbon energy investment produces significantly more jobs than are lost in fossil fuel industries. In fact, solar photovoltaic energy creates...
...for Conservation of Nature contracted with the research groups using money from Exxon Neftegas Ltd. and Sakhalin Energy Investment Company Ltd.___(equals)Online:Trek of tagged western Pacific gray whales: http://bit.ly/nvC1JO
...risks.Despite the recent firing of the well-respected Russian Finance Minister, Putin increasingly needs foreign energy investment and closer economic ties with Europe. Last November he touted the vision of a free trade area from Lisbon to Vladivostok...
...efficiencies in the process used in the program, the Energy Authority has commissioned an independent evaluation by Vermont Energy Investment Company. Selected via a competitive process, Vermont is assisted by the Alaska Center for Energy and Power to provide...
...pellet stoves, or how we should set up a rebate program for those who wish to make a return on their sustainable energy investments by net metering. But for some reason, we are still stuck on this basic issue that should have been dealt with a...
...investment in 2009 - with a total U.S. clean energy investment of just under $17 billion, compared to over...designing national policies to encourage alternative energy investments and use. For instance, China is projected to spend...
...clean energy job creation. A report by the Center for American Progress calculated that $150 billion in clean energy investments would create more than 1.7 million domestic and community-based jobs that can't be shipped overseas. Palin...
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