Clean Technology Blogs

Canada falling behind U.S. on clean energy: Report

OTTAWA — Canada is falling behind the United States when it comes to creating jobs by failing to invest in renewable energy, according to a new report from the green watchdog Environmental Defence. The report, Falling Behind: Canada’s Lost Clean Energy Jobs, says that Canada invested 18 times less per person on renewable energy compared to the U.S. in the last budget. “Canada risks falling behind, not only the U.S. but Europe and Asia when it comes to clean energy,” said Gillian McEachern,...

Lawmakers Propose Boost To Clean Energy Exports

A group of Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday proposed legislation to promote U.S. exports of clean energy technology, which they said are badly lagging behind those of China and Europe. "The U.S. must be the leader in manufacturing and exporting clean technologies, not one that becomes dependent on foreign energy products," U.S. Representative Doris Matsui, a California Democrat, said in a statement. Clean energy comes from renewable natural resources, such as sunlight, wind and geothermal h...

Climate change action plan on mining moots use of clean technology

The draft action plan on climate change in the mining sector plans to carry out a study to determine appropriate policy instruments to promote energy efficiency in the mining clusters and mineral transport sector. As a measure in that direction, the directorate of mines (DoM) will be vested with the task of identifying areas in mining processes where energy savings and emission reduction can be achieved. While emphasis will be given on exploring cleaner technologies and best practices in c...

SBI lights up clean technology initiative with wind farm launch

Chennai: At a time when global entities like International Finance Corporation (IFC) are keen on funding clean energy projects in India, State Bank of India (SBI) has taken the lead role to cut carbon footprint. The bank has already kickstarted its initiative with O P Bhatt, the bank’s chairman, inaugurating the bank’s first windfarm project in Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu) on Friday. The 15-mw project, supplied by Suzlon Energy, consists of 10 units of Suzlon’s S-82 and 1.5-mw wind turbine generat...

B.C. Liberals’ energy vision sees consumers cut back

Clean Energy Act calls for smart meters, power exports The B.C. Liberals have introduced a new Clean Energy Act that puts unprecedented pressure on BC Hydro customers to cut their consumption of electricity. Legislation introduced Wednesday in the B.C. legislature calls on Hydro to meet 66 per cent — two-thirds — of new power demand through energy efficiency and conservation by 2020, rather than expanded development of new electricity supply. That's up from a 50-per-cent conservation ta...

Making clean tech cheap, as well as green

Winning over consumers is key to success It’s called clean technology’s “competitive conundrum’’: how to get people to pay for cleaner energy when electricity produced from traditional sources like nuclear power, coal, or natural gas costs less. Today, several industry specialists plan to address that question at GoingGreen East, a clean technology conference designed to bring together executives from green technology companies with investors and other players. Organizers at the online ...

Ten clean technology predictions for 2010

Ten clean technology predictions for 2010 Continuing an annual tradition, Cleantech Group Executive Chairman Nicholas Parker offers ten trends to watch for in 2010. For several years now, as each year comes to a close, we’ve been issuing predictions for the coming one. While we certainly acknowledge we’ve not necessarily gotten each one right in years past, a great number of our predictions have proved prescient (see Eight cleantech developments to watch for in 2008 and Nine clean tec...

Clean technology – What is it and what does it mean?

Clean technology includes the renewable energy (wind power, solar power, biomass, hydropower, biofuels), information technology, green transportation, electric motors, green chemistry, lighting, and many other appliances that are now more energy efficient. It is a means to create electricity and fuels with a smaller environmental footprint. And it is the need to make green buildings both more energy efficient and environmentally benign. Environmental finance is a method by which new clean techno...