2012 Coal Cost Of Financing 
Green Car Congress
JULY 22, 2009
Green Car Congress attended the Renewable Energy Finance Forum - Wall Street (REFF-Wall Street) conference (23-24 June) sponsored by Euromoney Energy Events and the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE). Renewable energy projects are frequently financed with project rather than corporate finance. by Bill Cooke.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 15, 2013
However, the financial cost of the shift is causing concern. For private households, electricity rates were nearly 40% higher than the European Union average in 2012; for industrial facilities, 20%. These costs are primarily borne by consumers. Levies for renewable energies will reach a new high of roughly €16 billion (US$21.4
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 22, 2011
The conclusions of that study are detailed in a new book— Unlocking Energy Innovation (MIT Press, 2012)—by Richard Lester, the Japan Steel Industry Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT, and David Hart, a professor of public policy at George Mason University. Innovation should become that focus.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 29, 2009
At issue is the 2012 expiration of the Kyoto Protocol, a binding but effectively unenforceable 1997 treaty that had set greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets for 40 industrialized countries, referred to as Annex 1 countries, yielding an average GHG reduction of 5.2%
Creative Greenius
MAY 14, 2009
He wasn’t a finance guy, thinking “I’m going to make money.” And by that do you mean they were fronting the costs of the rebates and then not recouping them from the utilities? I’ve been amazed that most companies seem to front the cost, even start ups. It’s expensive and my clients don’t finance. He was a geek.
Revenge of the Electric Car
DECEMBER 3, 2008
Once the capital costs of setting up the facility are recouped, about ten years in this case, all they have are maintenance and operational costs since the energy source is essentially free forever. Clean base load energy is particularly important since that is usually generated by nukes, burning coal or, in the case of Hawaii, oil.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 10, 2010
Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. The cap-and-trade program will begin regulating emissions in January 2012.
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