Archive for June, 2009
Friday, June 19th, 2009
The Green Wombat today alerted the Twitter world to a San Jose Mercury News post that California's largest utility, Pacific Gas and Electric, opposes two pieces of legislation pending in the California legislature. Together, the two bills would play a significant role in achieving California's climate goals, the Million Solar ...
Posted in Commercial Solar, Commercial Solar Analysis, Commercial Solar Ventures, Energy Policy, Utility-scale Solar Power | 1 Comment »
Thursday, June 11th, 2009
Much has been written about upstream development in US renewable energy. Tech advances are impressive, and there is a reason why renewable technology continues to attract venture funding.
However, the US is failing on the downstream - the installation side of the renewable equation. SEIA reports that all US grid-connected solar ...
Posted in 2008 Commercial Solar Report, Commercial Solar, Commercial Solar Analysis, Commercial Solar Ventures, Energy Policy, Urban Planning and Solar, Utility-scale Solar Power | 1 Comment »
Monday, June 8th, 2009
The Waxman-Markey 2009 Clean Energy & Security Act misses the mark. Why should we expect carbon pollution penalties to succeed when there is no corresponding incentive to convert carbon based energy production to renewable (and storable) technologies?
And why give generous pollution allowances to the polluters? Wouldn't we get more clean ...
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Monday, June 1st, 2009
Portland, OR is wild about Pink Martini, the internationally acclaimed 12-piece band led from the piano by song-writer/arranger Thomas Lauderdale and vocalist/song-writer China Forbes. Strings, horns, piano, guitar, bass, lots of drums and percussion. Add conductor Carlos Kalmar and the Portland Symphony. Plus five languages (was that Turkish?), a couple ...
Posted in Oregon, Portland | 2 Comments »
