Globe's Jon Chesto reports: "Massachusetts lost more than 20% of its solar jobs last year" Possible factors in Massachusetts include: uncertainty about changes in solar incentives; caps in some parts of the state on new net metering … [Read more...]
Offshore Wind Critical to Protecting Cape Cod’s Future
When Cape Wind begins construction, it will be the leading edge of an offshore wind industry that's already created 35,000 jobs in Europe. As Cape Wind's Hannah Wood writes in the Cape Cod Times, those jobs are critical to a region in … [Read more...]
Overreliance on Gas, Offshore Wind Delay Burning New England
Natural gas has been pitched as a "bridge fuel" by those who don't want to transition New England's electricity supply from dirty fossil fuels like coal and oil to clean energy sources like solar and wind right away. But the toll on the … [Read more...]
Wind will power our future
The DOE further states that increasing the use of wind power to supply 20 percent of the nation's electricity would reduce carbon dioxide emissions (that contribute to climate change) from the electricity generation sector by 25 percent … [Read more...]
Cape Wind Kibosh: It’s Ted Kennedy’s doing
So, we learned this week that the so-called "Young Amendment", named after Rep. Don Young (R-AK), that would allow a MA governor to kill Cape Wind, should actually be called the Kennedy-Stevens amendment: The efforts to move the … [Read more...]