Research Recap submits: CreditSights has issued a pair of reports summarizing the 6th Annual Renewable Energy Finance Forum in New York. The conference brought together skeptics, optimists, and pessimists, but all attendees were hopeful of an encouraging end result of the industry stimulus brought on by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act ((ARRA)), according the reports. Topics discussed included financing at the debt and tax equity levels, the impact of renewable energy on the power markets and the prerequisites to bring more renewable energy to market. A few general themes CreditSigh...
Representative Doggett (D-TX): Doing nothing actually results in more renewable energy than approving ACES... Largest corporate welfare program in US history... I cannot support it. Rep. Doggett is citing analysis by the EPA, which found that ACES...
For the first time, the U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation regulating greenhouse gases. Due to intense lobbying by industries that would incur added cost, such as coal powered utilities, HR 2454 barely was approved by a vote of 219 to 2...
If you missed it yesterday, the Senate Energy & Natural Resources committee passed a new energy bill which, apart from having pitifully low renewable energy targets (15% by 2021), would open up large areas of the Gulf of Mexico to oil and gas drillin...
