The governor said Buffalo is «coming back,» citing the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus and the recent announcement that two
California clean energy companies are relocating here.
Not exact matches
Based in San Francisco with more than 20,000 employees, the
company delivers some of the nation's
cleanest energy to nearly 16 million people in Northern and Central
California.
The
energy company operates electric and natural gas utilities in San Diego and Southern
California,
clean energy plants across the U.S., and
energy distribution systems across the Americas.
Two
California - based
companies at the forefront of the
clean energy revolution, Soraa and Silevo, will collectively invest $ 1.5 billion into the project and relocate major parts of their operations to the Buffalo High - Tech Manufacturing Innovation Hub at RiverBend from
California, creating 850 permanent jobs and at least 500 construction jobs and attracting additional manufacturing
companies to the site.
The
California - based
company received $ 15 million from Google's philanthropic arm (the tech giant's largest
clean -
energy investment) and just secured a $ 3 million grant from the U.S. Department of E
energy investment) and just secured a $ 3 million grant from the U.S. Department of
EnergyEnergy.
«We have an obligation to the world to deliver
clean, reliable, low - cost
energy that is hopefully low carbon, too,» adds chemical engineer David Rogers, general manager for climate change at Chevron, a
California - based oil
company that did not join efforts to suspend
California's climate change initiative.
Victor Sotelo Armengol, commercial director of the
company located in Baja
California, Mexican west coast, explained that this air cooling system based on
clean energy that is supplied with water and has photovoltaic modules that can operate for 12 continuous hours.
Building on NativeEnergy's history of developing renewable
energy, farm - based, and
clean water projects for corporate clients, the acquisition will significantly expand the
company's portfolio and pipeline for the voluntary and
California compliance markets.
It's something
clean tech observers and many in the utility industry have long expected, articulated in the form of a report from researchers at engineering and consulting
company Black & Vetch:
California utilities won't be able to meet their 2010 renewable
energy standard (RPS), which decrees that they must obtain 20 percent of their electricity from renewable
energy sources like solar, wind or geothermal.
Equally impressive, virtually all the evidence shows that
California has profited mightily from its green
energy economy so far, attracting an estimated $ 27 billion of venture capital into
California clean tech
companies since 2006.
Pacific Gas and Electric
Company (PG&E), a
California Utility said in an announcement they hit a significant milestone for 2015 with 29.5 % of retail electricity coming from renewable
clean energy.
The best climate and
clean energy news to come out of yesterday's election is that
California voters roundly rejected Proposition 23, a ballot initiative sponsored by out - of - state oil
companies that would have overturned the state's 2006 climate law.
There's been a lot of talk lately around about Proposition 23 in
California — oil
companies are dumping money into campaigns to support it,
clean energy advocates are adamantly against it, and it's become a
The report claims that Walmart's renewable
energy projects are «far too small relative to the huge scale of Walmart's operations» and that the
company's
clean energy deployment is only in «relatively few» states, with about three - fourths of its solar installations in just two states (and more than half are just in
California), and none at all in «large swaths of the country, including including many of the most coal - intensive states — the states that would benefit most from
clean power.»
Founded in 1990, the group describes itself on its website as «a partnership of major environmental groups and private - sector
clean energy companies» that «fight for policies that promote global warming solutions and increased reliance on
clean, renewable
energy sources for
California and the West.»
In the wake of the high - profile bankruptcy of
California solar
company Solyndra, government critics are attacking federal investment in
clean energy innovation, arguing that such decisions should be left to the «free market.»
Discovia, a leading global provider of eDiscovery services to corporations, law firms and government entities, announced it has leveraged Brainspace to implement a technology - based managed services solution for
clean energy leader SolarCity (NASDAQ: SCTY) to help optimize the way the San Mateo,
California - based
company approaches internal and government investigations, labor and employment matters, and antitrust -LSB-...] READ MORE»
«Repealing the
Clean Power Plan will subject consumers like Apple and our large manufacturing partners to increased investment uncertainty,» the
California - based
company said in a filing to the agency.Apple, which says it runs its U.S. operations fully on renewable
energy such as wind and solar power, added that repeal of the plan would also threaten development and investments that have already been made in renewable power.