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EPA Asks Fortune 500 to Double Green Energy Use

The EPA has asked Fortune 500 companies to double their current level of green power purchasing. The goal of the green power challenge is to exceed 5 billion kilowatt hours of green power purchases. Five billion kilowatt hours could power more than 400,000 average American homes or avoid the equivalent CO2 emissions ... Read more »

DOE, IRS Give $1 Billion in Tax Credits for Clean Coal

The U.S. Department of Energy and the IRS awarded $1 billion in federal tax incentives to nine companies to bring about rapid deployment of advanced coal-based power generation and gasification technologies. Among the winners, $90 million in tax credits was given to British Petroleum to offset the costs of its planned ... Read more »

SunEdison CEO: ‘Pent Up Demand’ for Solar Services

SunEdison CEO Jigar Shah said the company succeeds because it delivers a full-range of services including financing, installation, and maintenance. “I’ve never been in a space where there was such pent up demand for a service as I’ve seen in this industry,” Shah told Marketing Green in a recent interview. “At the end ... Read more »

California Selects APX for WREGIS

The California Energy Commission has signed a multi-year agreement with APX Environmental Registry & Banking for its Western Renewable Energy Generation Information System project. The APX system will track and register WREGIS Certificates that will be the basis for renewable energy certificate trading across the Western Electricity Coordinating Council region. With a footprint ... Read more »

CEL Overview: Carbon Offset Growth Continues

There are about 40 operations worldwide that offer carbon offsets, but it’s difficult for a company to understand exactly where the money is going, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports. Here’s how they work: Companies and consumers look at how much carbon they put into the environment and pay to subsidize renewable ... Read more »

Green-e Readies Greenhouse Gas Reductions Standard

The new Green-e Retail Greenhouse Gas Product Certification Standard will be released for comment in the next few weeks. The Center for Resource Solutions  is developing the new standard with the Green-e GHG Advisory Group, comprised of  environmental organizations, government agencies, businesses, and advocacy organizations who work on climate change issues. The goal ... Read more »

Prism Solar Technologies to Market Hitachi Solar Tech

Hitachi America has signed an agreement with Prism Solar Technologies that allows PST to market Hitachi’s bifacial photovoltaic cells and manufacture modules for sale under the Hitachi brand name in the US to key clients and customer groups.  This agreement is an expansion into new markets for Hitachi’s solar products. Both companies have ... Read more »

Ohio Markets State as Alt-Energy Leader

Ohio is pushing hard to be recognized as an ideal location for the alternative energy industry. As part of the state’s marketing efforts, the Ohio Business Development Coalition has targeted alternative energy and is working to promote the state’s initiatives in alternative fuels and the benefits of the recent business ... Read more »

Green Mountain Launches Site, Viral Campaign to Sell Offsets

Green Mountain Energy has launched a new site, BeGreenNow, a My Space viral campaign, and a social networking program to sell carbon offset credits. BeGreenNow has a carbon calculator that lets individuals figure out their carbon footprint. It then sells carbon offset purchases that go to Green Mountain Energy projects.  There’s information for ... Read more »

NJ Doubles Solar Capacity in 9 Months

New Jersey has more than doubled its solar capacity in the first nine months of 2006 and now has more than 1840 solar electric systems across the State with over 26 MW of installed solar capacity, according to the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities. BPU says a combination of state ... Read more »

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