Industry Developments

Just hours after being sworn in as the newest U.S. Secretary of Energy, Dr. Ernest Moniz affirmed that energy efficiency will be a major focus of his policy agenda.

Currently, when a facility is coming online, shutting down, or experiencing a malfunction, large industrial sources are allowed to emit large amounts of air pollution for which they are not held accountable. The EPA's SSM safeguards will close this loophole that has allowed large amounts of toxic pollution for decades. 

The development of U.S. natural gas resources is having a transformative impact on the U.S. energy landscape, helping to improve energy security while spurring economic development and job creation. This increase in domestic natural gas production is expected to continue, with the Energy Information Administration forecasting a record production rate of 69.3 Bcf/d in 2013.

Reach out to your industry peers, colleagues and organizations. They may be across the country, the world or right across the street -- it doesn't matter.

Industry stakeholders note that a doubling of Colorado cooperatives' renewable energy standard in less than seven years is a "wildly unrealistic timeframe."

The U.S.-based Association of CleanTech Incubators of New England (ACTION) and The Green Way, Dublin's Cleantech Cluster, have formed a partnership to accelerate the commercialization and globalization of clean technologies and innovations.