The weekend is upon us and it’s great to have something cheerful to take with us to our leisure time. In my view, nothing more uplifting than a great green idea. So meet Plastic Plan. The project, still in paper, aims at ridding landfills of plastic bottles while using them to generate clean energy offshore. [...]

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Wells Fargo and SunPower today announced a new collaborative effort to fund up to $100 million in SunPower commercial-scale solar systems.

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Quite often articles about renewable energy tend to focus on a single issue, such as a company’s technological breakthrough, a regional market or economic issues. Therefore, putting the global picture together is something of a challenge. Here I would point to this excellent article in Renewable Energy World which provides readers with a panoramic view [...]

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A report in the New York Times yesterday said renewable, alternative energy is about to recover from the 2008 market meltdown, especially solar power and next-generation biofuels, while wind will continue to rely on government support. “Biofuel executives … speak of an inevitable turn from corn-based ethanol into more efficient cellulosic feedstocks like sugarcane, switchgrass, [...]

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Alternative Energy News has a great article about a company called Peñascal, a 202 MW wind farm in Texas, who wants “to become a model for responsible development by installing new radar technology to protect migratory birds and wildlife”. You see, wind farms kill about 7,000 birds a year and I’m inclined to agree with [...]

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