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U.S. To Establish Clean Energy Investment Agency

By Tracey de Morsella on May 11, 2009 Comments Off on U.S. To Establish Clean Energy Investment Agency 21st Century Energy Technology Deployment Act, affordable energy, CEDA, Clean Energy Deployment Administration, Clean Energy Investment Fund, Clean Energy Technologies, clean energy-backed bonds, climate security, credit enhancements, Department of Energy, deployment, DOE, Energy Secretary ch, energy security, energy technologies, equity financing, Investments, Jeff Bingaman, Lisa Murkowski, loan guarantee program, loan guarantees, loans, secondary market support, sustainable energy, technology deployment

Last week, Chairman Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) and Ranking Member Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) introduced the “21st Century Energy Technology Deployment Act.” This bipartisan bill, S. 949, is co-sponsored by Sens. Dorgan (D-ND), Voinovich (R-OH), Stabenow (D-MI), Lugar (R-IN), Shaheen (D-NH) and Burr (R-NC). The legislation seeks to improve the loan guarantee program at the Department of Energy (DOE) and to provide additional options for deploying energy technologies. The basis of the bill is to shore up the existing program at DOE, then transition to a new financially-focused agency to perform and expand upon the duties of the program.

WIND ENERGY UPDATE: Offshore Wind Gets Major Boost, American Wind Energy Association Annual Wind Industry Report, Construction Begins on New South Texas Wind Farm, Seattle Company Proposes Floating Wind Farms

By Chris de Morsella on April 22, 2009 Comments Off on WIND ENERGY UPDATE: Offshore Wind Gets Major Boost, American Wind Energy Association Annual Wind Industry Report, Construction Begins on New South Texas Wind Farm, Seattle Company Proposes Floating Wind Farms American Wind Energy Association, AWEA, California, clean energy, CPS Energy, deep-water offshore wind energy, demonstration platform, Department of the Interior, E.ON, E.ON Climate & Renewables, Earth Day, easements, EC&R, Energy Policy Act of 2005, energy security, environmentally responsible, environmentally responsible renewable energy development, Federal Register, floating windmills, framework, German, grant leases, Iowa, ken salazar, Minerals Management Service, MMS, OCS, off-shore wind farms, offshore deep water wind, offshore energy sector, offshore wind energy, Paplote Creek wind farm, Portugal, President Barack Obama, president obama, Principle Power, renewable energy, renewable energy development, renewable energy production, rights-of-way, San Antonio, San Patricio County, Seattle, Secretary of the Interior, Secretary Salazar, Texas, U.S. Outer Continental Shelf, WA, wind, wind energy, wind power, wind turbine, wind turbine tower, wind turbine tower manufacturing plant

Offshore Wind Gets Major Boost with announcement by President Obama that the Department of the Interior has finalized a long-awaited framework for renewable energy production on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). Wind energy continues rapid growth according to new report from the American Wind Energy Association. The US has surpassed 25 gigawatts (GW) of installed wind energy capacity in 2008. Construction of a new wind farm has begun in Texas. Seatle firm proposes floating offshore wind farms.

The US Needs a Green Energy Marshall Plan Now!

By Chris de Morsella on April 13, 2009 Comments Off on The US Needs a Green Energy Marshall Plan Now! aquaculture algae, bio-fuel, Cantarell, cellulosic bio-fuel, Clean tech, coal, coal fired power plants, ency, energy, energy bridge, energy economy, energy effici, energy efficiency, energy price shocks, energy prices, energy security, fossil carbon, Ghawar, global warming, green energy, green jobs, grid parity, industrial society, Mexico, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, national security, negawatts, oil, oil deposit, Oil Price Shock, passive solar heating, peak oil, petroleum, petroleum supplies, renewable energy, Saudi Arabia, smart grid, solar photovoltaic, solar power, solar PV, solar therma, U.S. Department of Energy National Wind Technology Center, venture capital, wind energy, wind power

The clean tech green energy sector is hurting badly – along with the rest of our economy. A lot of promising new firms are on life support finding it very difficult to raise desperately needed venture capital. We need to be laying the foundations for future growth now and there is no time to waste, I would argue that this is a paramount issue of national security, that it is not just about jobs or being “green”, but that it is an urgently vital necessity for our country’s future security. This is not an optional choice; it is not a luxury, a nice to have kind of thing; this is the very life blood of our country, of our industrial society. An industrial society needs energy and lots of it. America needs to urgently begin a national crash program of investing in domestically controlled renewable energy supplies, such as wind and solar right now while we still have a little breathing room to begin laying the foundations for a new American energy economy. It is a matter of national security.