Policy

Thin film solar panel maker Konarko’s bankruptcy was due to its inability to compete on cost, efficiency, and lifetime.

A new paper by Brookings analyzes U.S. clean tech subsidies and proposes a tax or a cap-and-trade regime that would put an appropriate price on carbon and other greenhouse gases.

Opportunities for solar power abound in India, along with possibilities for collaboration between India and the U.S.

Advanced biofuels manufacturers are entering a critical phase as a new generation of production facilities are about to come on line.

The U.S. Commerce Department has imposed antidumping tariffs of over 31% on Chinese solar panels.

A new study of public opinion by researchers at Harvard and Yale finds that people are willing to pay 13 percent more for electricity to move to cleaner energy.

According to a Civil Society Institute survey, 76 percent of Americans believe the U.S. needs to find a way to rely more on renewable energy sources and over 80 percent feel that water shortages and the availability of clean drinking water are key concerns.

Absent Congressional action, clean tech policy support will drop from a peak of $44.3 billion in 2009 to $11 billion in 2014, a 75 percent decline, according to a Brookings report. In the report, the authors propose new energy policies that will secure subsidy independence for clean tech markets as rapidly as possible.

In order to combat increasing consumer power bills, Italy is capping renewable energy subsidies by $3 billion per year.

The White House announced that the U.S. military will deploy 3 GW of renewable energy, including solar, wind, biomass and geothermal, by 2025.