National Grid, a leading New England power utility, and Cape Wind, the controversial company behind a much-debated Nantucket Sound wind farm, filed an historic contract with the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities. Under the terms of the agreement, National Grid will purchase power from what will be the nation’s first major offshore wind farm, a facility expected to come online at the end of 2012. The move fulfills the requirements of the Green Communities Act, which mandates that all the investor-owned utilities in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts enter into…

According to a report published yesterday by Blue Green Canada, Canadians have lost out on roughly 66,000 new jobs because the nation’s federal government has failed to pursue renewable energy investing. The survey, entitled, Falling Behind: Canada’s Lost Clean Energy Jobs, is the first analysis concerning the employment impact of Canada’s failure to invest in renewable energy projects and was released yesterday at the Good Jobs, Green Jobs Conference in Washington, DC. “Canada’s federal government keeps saying…

The internet giant – Google – recently made its first direct large-scale renewable energy investment, contributing roughly $38.8 million in two North Dakota wind farms with a combined capacity of 169.5 megawatts (MW). The wind farms are being developed by NextEra Energy Resources – a division of the FPL Group and the largest wind power provider in the US. The wind farms will use present transmission capacity, and will generate enough energy to…

Buy Clean Energy 2010, launched by the nonprofit Center for Resource Solutions and Green-e, strongly urges individuals and businesses to support the development of clean energy in the United States by purchasing clean energy and renewable energy certificates. The program provides straightforward

Chevron, the company which refuses to clean its toxic waste in Ecuador due to a “release” from the Ecuadorian government in 1998, has announced a new solar investment that will power pipelines and pumps at its Kern River oil field. According to Reuters, the conglomerate will install 7,700 solar panels which are anticipated to generate roughly 740 kilowatts of renewable electricity. Chevron…