On August 2nd, North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue signed into law HB 1829, an expanded Combined Heat and Power (CHP) and renewable energy tax credit. For the first time, investments in CHP systems are now eligible for North Carolina’s 35% renewable energy tax credit. This new incentive sponsored by Representative Paul Luebke and supported by [...]
As oil continues to spill into the Gulf of Mexico, U.S. Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar announced that the United States would begin tapping an abundant source of clean offshore energy in the United States oceans with the long awaited approval of the Cape Wind project in the Nantucket Sound off the coast of Cape [...]
Renewable energy expansion can drive Florida jobs growth–we just need to post our “Open for Business” sign. Orange County, Florida (home of Orlando), is inviting cleantech investments, in engineering, manufacturing and development of innovators by entrepreneurs and at our centers of higher education. This is the Sunshine State: Power generation from local biomass, collection of sun energy [...]
Each year, St. Patrick’s Day brings out the Irish in all of us - that unexplainable urge to wear green, to enjoy soda bread with a Guinness and to listen to fiddle music. These days, Ireland offers an entirely new way to ‘go green’ as the Emerald Isle boldly charges into the 21st century powered, [...]
Quietly, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has been signing contracts with several wind developers that will put the federal utility in a position to significantly grow its wind energy portfolio in 2012, if all goes to plan.
Over the past 5 months, TVA has announced multiple contracts with Invenergy Wind, CPV Renewable Energy Co., Iberdrola [...]
I was on CNN yesterday responding to the nuclear loan guarantee announcement by President Obama. We are seriously disappointed in this action and SACE released a statement warning against the risk loan guarantees will put on taxpayers.
As outlined in a blog entry from last week, we feel the administration is making a serious mistake by [...]
For most of the past decade (8.5 years to be exact), America has been talking about developing her first offshore wind farm. With all eyes turned towards New England, we have witnessed a high-profile, public, all out Not-In-My-Backyard brawl.
The brawl that spanned the entire Bush administration recently took another black eye on January 4, 2010 [...]
The answer is quite simply, no. According to a three-year study released by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory that analyzed data from thousands of homes located near wind farms in the U.S., wind energy projects have no impact on home values after wind project construction.
This may come as no shock. Many folks do not believe that wind [...]
This post was co-authored by Dr. Stephen Smith and Toni Reale, SACE’s coastal program coordinator.
On Monday, November 23rd the U.S. Department of Energy awarded $45 million under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to a consortium led by Clemson University’s Restoration Institute to build the World’s first large offshore wind turbine drive-train testing facility.
This $98 [...]
The dust has settled after a last minute ban on mountain wind energy in North Carolina was inserted into an otherwise responsibly written state-wide wind permitting bill by the North Carolina Senate. We believe now is the time to have a constructive and thoughtful dialogue about these issues to ensure that we protect local [...]
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