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First published in early 2008, Renewable + Law blog is dedicated to tracking all major policy and legal developments impacting the U.S. renewable energy industry.

«We're more confident than ever that this is just the start of a new U.S. renewable energy industry that will put thousands of Americans to work and power communities up and down the East Coast for decades to come.

Reports show 14 green - tech firms that Gore invested in benefited from over $ 2.5 billion in loans, grants and tax breaks as part of the administration's push to fund U.S. renewable energy industry with taxpayer funds.

It is dedicated to tracking all major policy and legal developments impacting the U.S. renewable energy industry.

TEF itself also weighed in, funding a study which predictably concluded that U.S. renewable energy industries would «eventually» create 74,000 new jobs «from the ashes» of coal - related companies.

Not exact matches

President Trump may have pulled the U.S. out of the Paris Agreement earlier this month, but renewables already have a foothold in America's energy landscape — and the industry's outlook is sunny.

U.S. Senator Dean Heller from Nevada, New York Representative Tom Reed and North Carolina U.S. Senator Richard Burr — all vocal proponents of renewables — together accounted for more than 40 % of the Solar Energy Industries Association PAC's total federal campaign donations.

While the renewable industry has gained momentum in recent years, «the battle certainly got tougher» with the election of Trump, said Dan Kammen, an energy expert at the University of California, Berkeley and science envoy for the U.S. State Department.

If the renewable energy target is cut, «it's the type of jolt to industry that basically would create such an upheaval that you would have a mass exodus», said Alex Hewitt, managing director of Bulgarian - Polish - U.S. - backed windfarm operator CWP Renewables, which has A$ 1.5 billion of projects on ice.

Former Vice President Al Gore stood before a crowd of renewables investors, analysts and clean energy industry executives and declared the electric power grid in the U.S. as much of a technological dinosaur as landline telephones.

In March the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory demonstrated a thin - film solar photovoltaic cell that is 19.9 percent efficient, two - thirds better than the industry average of 12 percent.

In 2005 and 2007, energy legislation was passed that increased the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) and also created a number of Department of Energy and U.S. Department of Agriculture funding vehicles (grants and loan guarantees) to help the biofuels industry meet mandated production energy legislation was passed that increased the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) and also created a number of Department of Energy and U.S. Department of Agriculture funding vehicles (grants and loan guarantees) to help the biofuels industry meet mandated production Energy and U.S. Department of Agriculture funding vehicles (grants and loan guarantees) to help the biofuels industry meet mandated production goals.

Several consortiums of industry leaders across sectors - including Partnership for Renewable Energy (which includes Bank of America, Google, General Electric), U.S. Climate Action Partnership, or USCAP (Ford, Duke Energy, Pepsi, Shell, among others) and Climate Energy Network (a collection of small and mid-sized companies in every region of the United States)- are «terrifically energetic and committed to their work with U.S. policymakers,» he said.

The 184 page publication, A Handbook for the States: Incorporating Renewable Energy into State Compliance Plans for EPA's Clean Power Plan, «was prepared by the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) and the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and is intended as a starting point for states that are considering renewable energy as a compliance tool for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) proposed regulation of carbon emissions from existing power plants (Clean Power PlanRenewable Energy into State Compliance Plans for EPA's Clean Power Plan, «was prepared by the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) and the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and is intended as a starting point for states that are considering renewable energy as a compliance tool for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) proposed regulation of carbon emissions from existing power plants (Clean Power Plan).&Energy into State Compliance Plans for EPA's Clean Power Plan, «was prepared by the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) and the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and is intended as a starting point for states that are considering renewable energy as a compliance tool for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) proposed regulation of carbon emissions from existing power plants (Clean Power Plan).&Energy Association (AWEA) and the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and is intended as a starting point for states that are considering renewable energy as a compliance tool for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) proposed regulation of carbon emissions from existing power plants (Clean Power Plan).&Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and is intended as a starting point for states that are considering renewable energy as a compliance tool for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) proposed regulation of carbon emissions from existing power plants (Clean Power Planrenewable energy as a compliance tool for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) proposed regulation of carbon emissions from existing power plants (Clean Power Plan).&energy as a compliance tool for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) proposed regulation of carbon emissions from existing power plants (Clean Power Plan).»

Fossil fuel interests are using their clout at the White House and in Congress to sabotage every renewable energy program that comes along, while make sure massive government subsidies, on the order of $ 100 billion a year when you count it all up, continue to flow to the fossil fuel industry (U.S. military expenditures are $ 500 billion a year, and good chunk of that is devoted to protecting overseas oilfields, for example).

It really points to very serious widespread problems in the U.S. academic and journalistic professions — you can't do research on renewable energy in the U.S. academic system, because of fossil fuel influence, and you can't get honest coverage of renewable energy initiatives in the U.S. press, also because of undue influence by vested interests — and more often than not these days, those vested interests are in finance, not in industry.

At an industry roundtable hosted by the U.S. - India Business Council (USIBC) in New York, Piyush Goyal, Minister of State with Independent Charge for Power, Coal, New & Renewable Energy discussed India's ambitious target of achieving 175 GW of renewable generation capacity and innovative ways of mainstreaming energy efRenewable Energy discussed India's ambitious target of achieving 175 GW of renewable generation capacity and innovative ways of mainstreaming energy efficEnergy discussed India's ambitious target of achieving 175 GW of renewable generation capacity and innovative ways of mainstreaming energy efrenewable generation capacity and innovative ways of mainstreaming energy efficenergy efficiency.

Between 2004 and 2009, wind energy capacity in the United States grew by 423 %, while solar energy capacity expanded by 150 %.30 Yet over the same time frame, nuclear energy managed to increase by only 1 percent.31 By 2020, wind energy will grow by another 82 %, while nuclear power is only on track to expand by 10 %.32 A clean energy standard would help lift the dormant U.S. nuclear industry off the mat while also ensuring that the market for traditional renewables, like wind and solar, continues to grow through aggressive state mandates.

Also, it will move BlueFire closer to a debt financing agreement with the Department of Energy and U.S. Department of Agriculture,» stated Arnold Klann, CEO of BlueFire Renewables, Inc. «This is one of the first cellulosic ethanol contracts of its kind in the United States establishing BlueFire as a clear leader in the industry.»

Database of State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency (DSIRE) European Photovoltaic Industry Association Greentech Media Solar News IEA Electricity Access Database Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century Solar Energy Industries Association U.S. Department of Energy Photovoltaics Information Page

«Texas Decision Could Double Wind Power Capacity in the U.S.,» Renewable Energy Access, 4 October 2007; coal - fired power plant equivalents calculated by assuming that an average plant has a 500 - megawatt capacity and operates 72 percent of the time, generating 3.15 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity per year; an average wind turbine operates 36 percent of the time; Iceland geothermal usage from Iceland National Energy Authority and Ministries of Industry and Commerce, Geothermal Development and Research in Iceland (Reykjavik, Iceland: April 2006), p. 16; European per person consumption from European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), «Wind Power on Course to Become Major European Energy Source by the End of the Decade,» press release (Brussels: 22 November 2004); China's solar water heaters calculated from Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21), Renewables Global Status Report, 2006 Update (Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute, 2006), p. 21, and from Bingham Kennedy, Jr., Dissecting China's 2000 Census (Washington, DC: Population Reference Bureau, June 2001); Philippines from Geothermal Energy Association (GEA), «World Geothermal Power Up 50 %, New US Boom Possible,» press release (Washington, DC: 11 April 2002).

A recent report by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) recommended that consumers compare as many solar options as possible to avoid paying inflated prices offered by the large installers in the solar industry.

They want to cap or severely limit economic growth in the U.S. and the West by imposing on our populations carbon taxes, mandates and wealth transfers from those who lack political clout to the politically connected cronies in the renewable energy industry who produce inefficient and uneconomic fuel.

North Carolina based minority - owned developer of renewable energy products and technologies, 510Nano, successfully raised capital investments to build the largest solar farm developed, owned and operated by a minority owned - firm in the U.S. 510Nano's achievements and ability to solidify strategic partnerships have propelled it to not only manage challenges and overcome barriers in the energy industry, but has fueled a pipeline of solar projects and innovative systems that will aid in energy system transformation.

With «President Obama, Bipartisan Champions in Congress Save Jobs for Thousands in U.S. Solar Industry», the SEIA (Solar Energy Industries Association) celebrated the «Successful Treasury Section 1603 Program Extended for One Year» thanking «our champions in Congress» without nary mentioning renewable industry partners such as the American Wind Energy Association which reciprocated the seIndustry», the SEIA (Solar Energy Industries Association) celebrated the «Successful Treasury Section 1603 Program Extended for One Year» thanking «our champions in Congress» without nary mentioning renewable industry partners such as the American Wind Energy Association which reciprocated the seindustry partners such as the American Wind Energy Association which reciprocated the sentiment.

A U.S. - flagged installation and maintenance vessel helps to establish a sustainable offshore industry in our country,» said Jason Folsom, head of sales, Offshore Americas, Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy.

This is the conclusion of a Department of Energy report demonstrating the vital importance of fossil fuels to the United States» security and energy economy; vindicating President Trump's avowed mission to revitalize the U.S. coal industry and calling into further question the need for more «clean» or renewable eEnergy report demonstrating the vital importance of fossil fuels to the United States» security and energy economy; vindicating President Trump's avowed mission to revitalize the U.S. coal industry and calling into further question the need for more «clean» or renewable eenergy economy; vindicating President Trump's avowed mission to revitalize the U.S. coal industry and calling into further question the need for more «clean» or renewable energyenergy.

The renewable energy economy is already larger than the coal economy: The U.S. solar installation sector employs 77 percent more people than the domestic coal mining industry, according to the Solar Foundation's National Solar Jobs Census 2015.

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