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The High Cost of Saying NO to Offshore Wind

Green Energy Consumers

If you’re a New Englander concerned about climate change, you’re likely anxiously awaiting the results of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island’s joint offshore wind solicitation.

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Poll Finds Majority Support for Offshore Wind in Southern New England

Green Energy Consumers

If you read our blog on the High Cost of Saying NO to Offshore Wind , you know that offshore wind technology brings numerous benefits. Recent poll results from the Barr Foundation highlight consensus among Southern New England residents in favor of offshore wind initiatives.

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Happy New Year for Climate & Cleantech, New England?

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According to the science, over the next 7 years we must focus on reducing emissions of heat-trapping gases significantly to halve emissions by 2030 and avoid the worst impacts of climate change. Getting there requires an all-of-society approach; getting there requires leadership at all levels of government.

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Rhode Island's Renewable Energy Goal a Beacon for Other States

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Anything more ambitious, and I would start being a little skeptical that it would be attainable,” says Seaver Wang , a climate and energy researcher at the Breakthrough Institute. But Rhode Island plans to fill the gap with as much as 600 megawatts of new wind power. It is true that Rhode Island is small.

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Exascale Computing Project (ECP) announces $39.8M in first-round application development awards

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Projects will be funded in the following strategic areas: energy security, economic security, scientific discovery, climate and environmental science, and healthcare. Exascale Predictive Wind Plant Flow Physics Modeling, Steve Hammond (NREL) with SNL, ORNL, University of Texas Austin.

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Renewable Energy Generation: Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy, a lesson exported from Detroit

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Fifty years later, the USA is faced with a similar challenge, energy independency and climatic change. Even ruling Hawaii out as an outlier, the cost of electricity in Connecticut was 17.79 in Connecticut. ” A very clear, time-bound, one nation goal. cents/kWh, with a range from 29.20 cents/ kWh in Hawaii to 5.61

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Honda launches new “Green Path” initiatives for manufacturing and operations; new $210M paint line at Marysville with new 4C2B process

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Other elements in the Green Path program include: Connecticut Parts Distribution Center Adds 1-Megawatt Solar Array. Honda has installed a 1-megawatt rooftop solar array at its 400,000 square foot parts distribution center in Windsor Locks, Connecticut. (HDM) plant, which produces the Fit. Earlier post.).

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