November 28, 2011
By Shaina Kilcone, Kate McKeown and Louisa Yanes in the Anchorage Daily News: The winter holidays bring great cheer, great food and greater utility bills. Holiday cooking, festive lights and inefficient appliances all contribute to rising electric bills. Alaskans already pay some of the highest energy costs in the United States [...] Read More
November 28, 2011
Jonathan Grass of Alaska Journal of Commerce: A ballerina hovers on stage at the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts. The PAC has invested thousands of dollars in recent years to become more energy efficient, including the lighting in the theaters and in the lobbies. The nonprofit that runs the PAC [...] Read More
November 16, 2011
By Morgan Smith of the New York Times: BLACKWELL, Tex. — When people complain about the weather here, Abe Gott, the school superintendent, just smiles. A visit to the campus of the school district of about 160 students shows why. Behind the 1930s-era facade of the Blackwell school 30 miles south of Sweetwater looms a [...] Read More
November 14, 2011
Richard Cockle of The Oregonian: GRASS VALLEY — Every household in windswept Sherman County will soon get a Christmas gift in the mail: a $590 check. The lonesome 831-square-mile county may lay to rest the adage about an “ill wind blowing nobody any good.” This is the third consecutive year that checks will [...] Read More
November 8, 2011
The U.S. Roadmap and Executive Summary are available online: http://www.oceanrenewable.com/roadmap Today, the Ocean Renewable Energy Coalition (OREC) unveiled the first U.S. Marine and Hydrokinetic (MHK) Technology Roadmap. The roadmap describes the issues, challenges and opportunities facing the MHK industry and outlines a clear and logical path to its commercialization. Technologies that capture energy from free-flowing waves, [...] Read More
November 7, 2011
Matthew Ryan Williams of The New York Times: For decades, electric companies have swung into emergency mode when demand soars on blistering hot days, appealing to households to use less power. But with the rise of wind energy, utilities in the Pacific Northwest are sometimes dealing with the opposite: moments when there is too [...] Read More
November 7, 2011
David R. Baker of San Francisco Chronicle In the debate over our energy future, solar, wind and electric car companies don’t speak in a single, unified voice. Tom Steyer and Hemant Taneja want to change that. They have formed an organization, called Advanced Energy Economy, that the two hope will grow into a nationwide chamber of [...] Read More
November 2, 2011
Stephen Lacey of Climate Progress: Former Massachusetts governor and presidential front-runner Mitt Romney — once a candidate who stood up to coal and supported clean energy — is now calling green jobs fake. In an op-ed in the Orange County Register published Monday, Romney regurgitates GOP talking points on loan guarantees to Solyndra and [...] Read More
October 31, 2011
Anchorage Daily News: Southcentral Alaska residents reduced their energy consumption by 1 percent to 2 percent last Wednesday during an energy conservation drill, according to Anchorage Mayor Dan Sullivan’s office. Last year during a similar test, residents in the region cut energy use by 2 percent to 4 percent. Residents in Anchorage, [...] Read More
October 25, 2011
By Staff Reports of Fairbanks Daily News Miner FAIRBANKS — The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill Monday that would clear the way for a land exchange between the National Park Service and Doyon, Limited so the Fairbanks-based regional Native corporation can build a small hydroelectric plant to help power a backcountry lodge it owns [...] Read More
