GLG News by Renewable Energy Experts in GLG Member Programs

More people are familiar with the thousands of utility scale wind wind turbines that dot the American landscape as well as over 1-1/2 million solar electric and heating installations on buildings.  But another green power sight, small-scale wind, is starting to show up in the suburban and urban...

The basis for awarding carbon credits will determine if we take steps to clean existing emissions or move to new technologies in response to global climate issues. If credits are based on production, change will be incremental as will the associated cost impacts. Awarding credits based on system load...

How can one disagree with idea that recycling plastic is better than putting it in a landfill?! On the surface it seems to be Socioeconomic and Environmentally friendly, but at what cost? Plastics just don't have the reuse potential of glass and metal, recycle once or twice, then you throw it in...

Recent hikes in coal prices in international market have caused significant worries among people. They believe that coal will follow oil and become another very expensive commodity. Such worry is unnecessary.

Energy effeciency is laudable. But for the most part, manufacturers' financial objectives are so high for return and so short in time as to rarely justify the expenditures need for capital improvements.  Additionally, their time spans of market life is many times shorter than what they imagine...

Maybe it's the 2008 Presidential campaign and its "silly season" that makes one looks askance at a report that somehow makes cleaner air a "bad thing" due to "unintended consequences".   Assuming that this is not a call to return to unbreathable air, the issue might be to look at environmental...

As wind power and other renewable energy sources become more prominent, their visibility can make them vulnerable to criticism when something in the grid goes wrong and they are anywhere near it.  Wind power developers and manufacturers have to be as cognizant of communication to the public as...

Winston Churchill said it best about the Yanks; "Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing, after they've exhausted all the other possibilities".  So may it be with the latest Clean Energy bill (S 2821) introduced in the US Senate on April 3 that has so far garnered 36 cosponsors,...

Installation of photovoltaics in new residential construction is still less than one per cent of nationwide starts, despite the obvious advantages of construction and financing over a long term.  Technical issues are not a factor, except for unfamiliarity.   It is more a matter of marketing...

Nearly two hundred years of cheap and plentiful energy supplies, delivery and use are threatening to come to a volatile end.  Environmental issues aside, rising demand, scarcer supply and a paradigm shift to renewable energy models are upsetting the apple cart.  This has shaken many traditional...