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New Massachusetts Report Identifies Renewable Thermal Opportunities
For many types of renewable technologies and fuels, producing thermal energy is much more efficient than producing electricity. Yet the vast majority of state Renewable Portfolio Standards address renewable thermal technologies minimally, if at all.
Read more...Clean-Energy Finance to Beat Beltway Blues
As the country looks for new sources of clean energy finance while Congress remains paralyzed, we might have missed the most obvious funders that have been right under our noses for years.
Read more...MassINC Report Shines Light on Massachusetts’s Strong Climate Change Mitigation Efforts
New report written in partnership with CESA recommends key actions to ensure future emissions reduction targets are met.
Read more...Long Island Solar Farm – How Public/Private/Federal Partnerships Can Make Big Things Happen
In early 2012, the Long Island Solar Farm, located in Upton, NY on Long Island, was given the Renewable Energy World’s “Excellence in Renewable Energy – Reader’s Choice Award.”
Read more...New CESA Report – “Designing the Right RPS”
The renewable portfolio standard (RPS) has become the most important policy mechanism for advancing renewable energy in the United States.
Read more...Manhattan Institute Flunks Energy Policy 101
Last week, the Manhattan Institute issued a report that pretends to be a serious analysis of the impact of renewable energy on electricity prices.
Read more...The Growing Pains of Small Wind: Part II
2011 was a tough year for small wind incentive programs. Over the past 12 months, California, Oregon, New Jersey, Wisconsin, and Minnesota all experienced some kind of suspension or significant reduction of their incentives for wind turbines.
Read more...Funding Growth: State Clean Energy Funds Can Help Invent the Future
These are tough times for the dream of clean energy and green jobs.
Read more...The Growing Pains of Distributed Wind
The small and mid-scale wind industry is in a unique place in its development: it’s past the stage of an emerging market, but not-yet-fully fledged. And as many states have been discovering, this phase of the industry is full of growing pains.
Read more...States Take the Lead in Supporting Marine Energy Technology
On Monday, August 15th, representatives from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, UMass Dartmouth, Massachusetts senate and the New England Marine Renewable Energy Center, marked the completion of the state’s first in-ocean tidal turbine test.
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