President Obama to Announce Over $8B in Loan Guarantees for Nuclear

Nuclear energy dominated Bill Gate’s TED talk last week, and this morning it’ll lead the clean power headlines. According to the Associated Press, President Obama today will announce $8.3 billion in federal loan guarantees to build the first nuclear plants in the U.S. in almost three decades. Southern Company will reportedly use the loan guarantees [...]

Stimulus “Buy American” Clause Not Working for Efficiency, Now What?

The Department of Energy faces a dilemma. It aims to fund projects that will help reduce power consumption, boost energy efficiency, put Americans back to work and build up what the Obama administration likes to call the clean energy economy. And it wants to do so with a preference for equipment from U.S. suppliers — [...]

Obama’s 2011 Budget: What Did, & Didn’t, Make the Cut for Greentech

The Obama administration released its proposed budget for the 2011 fiscal year this morning, and within the more than $3.8 trillion plan are several programs that could help shift the playing field for greentech startups and energy companies. To start, there’s direct support for the renewable energy, carbon capture and smart grid industries, through loan [...]

Obama: Fed’s GHG Emissions Must Drop 28% by 2020

A national cap-and-trade program for greenhouse gasses might be in limbo, but that hasn’t stopped President Obama from announcing on Friday an emissions reduction target for federal operations. The president, fulfilling an executive order signed in October, said the federal government will reduce its emissions by 28 percent by 2020 over a 2008 baseline year. [...]

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Duke Energy Jumps for Juwi’s 14MW Solar Project: “Power company Duke Energy said its commercial business unit, Duke Energy Generation Services (DEGS), agreed to buy a 14 megawatt Blue Wing Solar Project from Juwi Solar.” — Reuters

UN’s Rajendra Pachauri Staying Put: “The chairman of the UN’s climate science body said he would not resign in [...]

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