By Carol Gulyas •
April 20, 2008
Some have noted that the renewable energy industry needs branding to confront the misconceptions surrounding it. Certainly marketing helped consumption of beef, milk, and pork increase dramatically. Imagine “Got Milk?” or “Milk: it does a body good” or “Pork: the other white meat” translated to renewable energy. Help may be on the way from the Renewable Energy Marketers Association (REMA), which will officially launch on Wednesday, April 23, at the [...]
By Carol Gulyas •
March 9, 2008
On Friday I spoke with CEO Glenn Farris about his company, Biomass Gas & Electric.
CleanTechnica: What does your company do?
GF: We use biomass (primarily woody biomass), but also forest residues, agricultural waste, and woody crops, to produce renewable energy in an environmentally beneficial gasification process that doesn’t involve combustion, and so is carbon neutral. BG&E currently has three contracts (Georgia Power Company, The City of Tallahassee and Progress Energy of Florida) to provide biomass-generated electricity, pipeline gas, and hydrogen. We have many, many other projects in development both in the U.S. and abroad. In states that have a Renewable Portfolio Standard, we provide tradeable renewable energy certificates. In other states, we sell renewable energy credits to large companies like IBM and Alcoa, who want to reduce their carbon footprint. We believe the future of the company is in the production of methane.
By Timothy B. Hurst •
February 27, 2008
Last month, the Federal Trade Commission conducted hearings and convened a workshop for scientists, economists, environmental activists and representatives of the leading American retailers of ‘carbon offsets’ and ‘renewable energy credits’ (RECs) to learn more about the rather opaque business models and practices of some companies.
Though the hearings were only exploratory in nature, the FTC was able to address some of the concerns and misgivings the public has about unregulated voluntary [...]
By Maria Surma Manka •
August 21, 2007
The cost of doing green business in Silicon Valley could soon be increasing. The demand for renewable energy credits (RECs) is outpacing the amount of land needed to provide clean energy, and so prices for RECs may be on the rise.
The purchase of a renewable energy credit generally represents one megawatt hour of renewable energy. Although the clean electricity can’t be routed from the wind turbine directly to the [...]
A couple of my friends have recently asked about the new renewable energy credit program that our local electricity utility, DTE Energy, is now offering. One friend asked me about it directly, and another raised the question on the state mailing list for the o2 Network. There was an interesting discussion about the topic on the 02 list, and I’ve included some of the information that other people shared on
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