Policy

Japan is now counting on greater imports of coal and gas to help supply the equivalent of 21 nuclear reactors.

Two U.S. Senators, one Republican and one Democrat, propose a bill to increase funding for the U.S. DOE by 23 percent.

Two separate bills introduced this week would require utilities to draw 25% of their power from renewables by 2025.

According to the Climate Policy Initiative, global spending on climate change remains far below the level needed to limit warming to two degrees Celsius.

Awards ceremony cheers the women who have helped develop the cleantech space, including leaders from Tesla Motors, Walmart, Grid Alternatives among others.

The change to the SBIR funding rules was spurred in part by the drying up of private-sector investment available to the cleantech space.

As clean energy grows globally, so, too, does the need to find ways to store it. Governments and corporations are backing a number of new storage breakthroughs.

Cleantech relevant stories in the news this week.

The first U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report in six years steps up the strength of its call to take action on climate change.

In a set of Wall Street Journal editorials, two experts tackle the question.