Dan McCue
Journalist
A contributor to Renewable Energy Magazine since 2010, US-based journalist Dan McCue has been writing on renewable energy, science, law, environmental policy and business for several years. A multi- award winner for his work in daily and weekly newspapers in the US, Dan also has considerable experience in radio and television, having appeared as both a guest and program host in both. He and his with Beth reside in Charleston, S.C.
EXCLUSIVE: Mindshift needed - Energy efficiency, not the ability to waste it, should be point of pride
Tuesday, 17 April 2012 As should already obvious from the first installment of REM's exclusive interview with Michael Liebreich, CEO of Bloomberg New Energy Finance, he is an energetic man -- and no less energetic talker --...
EXCLUSIVE: Advocates for renewables need to change their messaging, BNEF founder says
Monday, 16 April 2012 Before Michael Liebreich established New Energy Finance in 2004, those who were deeply interested in renewable energy were essentially typecast into two distinct folds -- either they were engineers an...
The long and short of it is good projects do get funded, but it's not easy
Tuesday, 03 April 2012Like the expression "all the good ones are taken," the proposition that all good renewable energy projects are bankable is both vague and frustrating.
Research and innovation in US wind will not die with expiration of PTC
Tuesday, 03 April 2012 While one might be tempted by headlines to assume that wind energy-related activity in the US will come to a screeching halt at the end of the year, with the seemingly almost certain expiration of the...
Potential investors in renewables are everywhere, but debt finance is hard nut to crack
Thursday, 29 March 2012 Why should energy-intensive corporations invest in green power plays like wind and solar farms? According to Fintan Whelan, corporate finance director and co-founder of Mainstream Renewable Power, be...
Want to finance big wind? Look at how they do nuclear
Wednesday, 28 March 2012 Writers take an idea and commit it to the page. Painters gaze upon an scene and apply brush to canvas. But it's a decidedly rarer sort who can look at an open field or expanse of water, envisage a wi...
Policy needs to be 'loud, long and legal' to support renewable investment
Tuesday, 27 March 2012 In August 2011, a group of experienced finance practitioners gathered at Chatham House in London to discuss the then-pending creation of a $100 billion Green Climate Fund and what they wanted to contr...
Despite Europe's economic woes, hunger for renewables project investment remains
Monday, 26 March 2012 In the nearly four years that have elapsed since the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the onset of the global financial crisis, the economic news coming across the Atlantic from Europe to American has ...
Why aren't UFOs drawn to renewable energy sites? Or are they?
Thursday, 15 March 2012 Witnesses says they've seen them near nuclear facilities, oil rigs and even hovering above active volcanoes. But UFOs -- whatever they are and whomever may be controlling them -- seem to have turned a...
Italian designer spreads climate change message through clothing
Wednesday, 07 March 2012 Pasquale Bilancio is a clothing stylist with a cause. A native of Naples, Italy, he's recently undertaken a series of designs based on social themes, "creating clothes that try to launch messages to t...
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