SolarReserve CEO Kevin Smith on federal loan guarantees and building the largest CSP plant in the US
Wednesday, 05 October 2011 Dan McCue They don’t have good cell phone coverage on the outskirts of Tonopah, Nevada, but soon, the former silver-mining town located about halfway between Las Vegas and Reno will be home to one of the Unit...
A conversation with professor Subodh Mhaisalkar
How Singapore became a leader in sustainability and where it’s headed next
Monday, 03 October 2011 Dan McCue Highly urbanized and with little in the way of natural resources, the city-state of Singapore might have once seemed like an unlikely place to prosper in the 21st Century, let alone become a world lea...
Are ebikes finally close to having their day in the US?
Tuesday, 20 September 2011 Dan McCue A team of riders from Optibike, the US-based electric bike manufacturer, successfully defended its title in the “Assault on the Peak Hill Climb” up Pikes Peak, one of the more storied of the Rocky...
Renewables will face stiff competition from shale gas, analyst says
Wednesday, 24 August 2011 Dan McCue Jack W. Plunkett doesn’t pull punches when asked his opinion on the state of the industries he covers, and that’s made him a go-to expert source in the US when it comes to a wide range of ...
Native Americans find capturing the wind a daunting struggle
Monday, 15 August 2011 Dan McCue It was an uncommonly chilly late summer night and the singer Neil Young had paused between songs to tune his guitar to a different key. The break onstage at the open-air concert gave Young a chance t...
Peter Calthorpe
Embrace of New Urbanism would ease transition to renewables-based society
Monday, 11 July 2011 Dan McCue Peter Calthorpe, author of “Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change,” principal of Calthorpe Associates in Berkeley, California in the US, has long taken the position that redefining the mod...
Peter Schwartz
World’s foremost scenario planner applies his expertise to the renewable energy sector
Tuesday, 05 July 2011 Dan McCue There are many in the US and around the world who believe you don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows, you only need Peter Schwartz to determine whether the skies ahead will pro...
Inventor/entrepreneur seeking to take wind power to new heights
Friday, 01 July 2011 Dan McCue People tend to refer to Saul Griffith as a wonderkind. A 2007 recipient of a MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant, the tireless Australian-born engineer and inventor seems to have no &ldqu...
Hurricanes, Tornadoes and Earthquakes, Oh My:
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson tackles renewable energy’s future
Monday, 27 June 2011 Dan McCue It would probably not surprise anyone that when Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson considers the question of renewable energy and its place in our future, he speaks most passionately about the potential of solar...
Juan Llovet, Gestamp Renewables Marketing and Communication Director
“Brazil is an emerging market with tons of opportunities for the development and growth of the renewable energy businesses”
Tuesday, 10 May 2011 Toby Price Starting out in iron and steel production, Gestamp made a logical move into renewables at the start of the century after identifying that the renewable energy industry would require huge amounts of st...
Qatar Solar Technologies wins Top Middle East Leaders Award
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