Majority Leader Reid & Boone talk “Green Jobs”
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev) and T. Boone Pickens will be two of the headliners at the Clean Energy Summit 2.0 to be held in Las Vegas on Monday, August 10. Former President Bill Clinton and former VP Al Gore will themem in a star-studded line-up to discuss the importance of alternative energy in Continue Reading
Fact of the Day – August 7, 2009
“In 2008, natural gas vehicles displaced 250 million gallons of petroleum in the United States. With adequate support, by 2020, that number could grow to 10 billion gallons. Because natural gas is a domestic fuel, funding natural gas vehicles will help lessen our dependence on foreign oil.” David Parker, president and CEO of American Gas Continue Reading
Pickens Plan Media Coverage 8.7.09
Wind Promises Blackouts as Obama Strains Grid With Renewables – Bloomberg – 8/7/09 PERC Launches National Consumer Propane Campaign – Domestic Fuel – 8/6/09 Summit to Address Workforce’s Role in Clean Energy Shift – Las Vegas Sun – 8/7/09 Schwarzenegger Joins Vegas Energy Summit – KVVU – 8/6/09 National Clean Energy Summit 2.0 to be Continue Reading
Fact of the Day – August 6, 2009
“There’s no longer a question about whether the jobs and the industries of the 21st century will be centered around clean, renewable energy… The only question is: Which country will create these jobs and these industries? And I want that answer to be the United States of America.” – President Barack Obama American Wind Energy Continue Reading
Pickens Plan Media Coverage 8.6.09
Clean Skies to Stream Live from National Clean Energy Summit 2.0: Jobs and the New Economy – PR Newswire – 8/6/09 Filing Confirms Kleiner EV-Car Deal – The Deal’s Dealscape – 8/5/09 Google Ventures Emerges as Investor in San Diego’s V-Vehicle Co. – Xconomy San Diego – 8/5/09 V Vehicles: New Investors Include Google Ventures Continue Reading
Pickens Plan Media Coverage 8.5.09
Pickens Plan Still Kickin’ – Newsweek – 8/5/09 Pickens Plan Stirs the Debate – Power Engineering – August 2009 Health Care Overseas, T. Boone Pickens Energy Plan – KNPR – 8/5/09 Is Shale Gas the Climate Bill’s New Bargaining Chip? – New York Times – 8/5/09 Over a Barrel – Part 1 – Energy Outlook Continue Reading
Fact of the Day – August 5, 2009
For the fourth consecutive year, the U.S. was home to the fastest-growing wind power market in the world in 2008, according to a report released by the U.S. Department of Energy and prepared by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. American Wind Energy Association Continue Reading
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Green Bank Gets Initial Thumbs Up from EIA
The Energy Information Agency (EIA), has issued a draft analysis which makes the case for chartering a Green Bank/Clean Energy Deployment Administration. A Green Bank would, according to John Podesta of the Center for American Progress, “enable clean-energy technologies—in such areas as wind, solar, geothermal, advanced biomass, and energy efficiency—to be deployed on a large Continue Reading
Fact of the Day – August 4, 2009
German-owned Nordex USA, Inc., one of the world’s leading manufacturers of wind turbines, has just announced that it will build a manufacturing plant in Jonesboro, Arkansas. The plant is expected to begin producing turbines in 2010 and create approximately 600 jobs. With a typical wind turbine requiring about 8,000 components, that could mean a ripple Continue Reading