Europe Integrates Renewable Energy Through North Sea Grid

While we are all concerned with what calendar will be gracing our walls for the next year, Europe is concerned with much bigger things. Earlier this month Europe announced plans to construct an enormous North Sea electricity grid in 2010. The blueprints for the grid will be released soon following the agreement signed by nine [...]

Citizens for Affordable Energy

Former Shell gas man John Hofmeister has a new gig, and it’s not trying to sell you gasoline at $5 a gallon. Besides touring the country on a speaking tour, Hofmeister has created a non-profit organization called Citizens for Affordable Energy. (http://www.citizensforaffordableenergy.org) While it may seem ironic, that a man who has worked for General [...]

Being Green Pays

The energy crisis in California between the years of 2000-2001 left many state citizens angered at their utility providers, and rightfully so. Thanks to the corporate greed of companies such as Enron, the entire economy of the state was affected in an adverse way. However, there were good things that came from these trying years, [...]

Khosla Ventures raises $1 billion for renewables, cleantech

Vinod Khosla According to Reuters, “Khosla Ventures said on Tuesday it had raised more than $1 billion for renewable energy and clean technology funds, a sign that skittish investors are hot for climate-change-related projects. The news marked the largest clean technology-dedicated raise by a single venture capital firm since 2007 and was also the first [...]