Green Risks

 Last week the Potomac Watershed Roundtable met virtually. The speaker was Aaron Berryhill who is the Solar Programs Manager at Virginia Ene...

In 2009 when then President Barack Obama promised that U.S. emissions in 2050 will be 0ver 80% below 2005 levels it seemed like such a far r...

The Ivanpah Solar Thermal Plant rises 450 feet above the Mohave Dessert and "power towers" shine with sunlight reflected by 350...

from NREL Another step has been taken towards making solar power a viable source of electricity in our future. North Carolina State Un...

Last week when the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA released the second year of reported greenhouse gas emissions data from large sour...

Solar Renewable Energy Certificates, SRECs, are not real, they are environmental “commodities” created by regulation that was born in New ...

I nternational Energy Agency (IEA) was established in November 1974 in response to the global oil crisis created by the Organization of t...

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Renewable Energy Loan Guarantee program ended on Friday, September 30th 2011 with the DOE closing four dea...

The government has determined that solar, wind and geothermal sources of renewable energy are to be encouraged. Tax incentives, cash incenti...

One of my choices when I purchased my solar panels was to choose the Enphase micro inverter system. Though this system was more expensive ...

Last spring Dr. Chu, US Energy Secretary, advocated for "white roofs everywhere". He said lightening roofs and roads in urban envi...

The renewable energy rebate in Virginia was limited by the $15 million in stimulus funds that the Commonwealth of Virginia allocated to the ...

I have been systematically making small changes to my home to reduce my energy consumption. I started with the easiest steps; lowering the t...

Solar Photo Voltaic panels are one of the least cost-effective ways of reducing your use of non-renewable resources. The only way these syst...