Southwest Windpower Co-founder Speaks on Residential and Community Wind Power
Monday, August 31st, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments OffSouthwest Windpower's co-founder Andrew Kruse will be speaking on September 10, 2009 at the Southwest Renewable Energy Conference in Flagstaff. Mr. Kruse will present "Wind 101: Residential and Community," a look at small-scale wind power and distributed energy generation.
Fronius offers increased Service Reimbursements
Monday, August 31st, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments OffFronius USA, LLC Solar Electronics Division is pleased to announce an increase in service reimbursements to $250.00 per qualifying RMA effective September 1, 2009.
MidAmerican Energy and NextEra Square Off Over Wind
Monday, August 31st, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments OffIowa regulators this month took up a proposal by MidAmerican Energy that would allow the utility to build 1,001 MW of wind generating capacity in the state through 2012, put the investment in rate base and recover the costs ...
Storing Solar Energy with CSP
Monday, August 31st, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments OffI'm aware that storage of energy is a key component for renewable energy and I know that it is possible to store solar energy in the form of heat with concentrating solar power. What are the storage characteristics ...
WoodPellets.com Nets US $11M in Funding
Monday, August 31st, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments OffWoodPellets.com an independent distributor and direct-to-consumer retailer of wood pellet heating fuels, has completed an US $11 million financing led by Monitor Clipper Partners. .406 Ventures, the lead investor in the company`s previous financing, also participated.
Nexterra Receives US $7.7M For of Biomass Gasification Technology
Monday, August 31st, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments OffNexterra Systems Corp. a supplier of advanced biomass gasification systems has received CAN $7.7 million in funding from the BC Bioenergy Network (BCBN), Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC), the National Research Council Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP) and Ethanol ...
Acro Energy Acquires Los Angeles Area Installer
Monday, August 31st, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments OffAcro Energy Technologies Corp., a residential solar installation company, has signed a Letter of Intent to acquire Energy Efficiency Solar Inc. (EE Solar).
LDK Partners with Suqian City on PV Projects
Monday, August 31st, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments OffLDK Solar has entered into an agreement with Suqian City of Jiangsu Province, China for the development of solar photovoltaic (PV) projects. According to the agreement, LDK Solar will develop PV power projects in buildings, plants and integration systems, totaling ...
Duke To Build 200-MW Top of the World Wind Farm, Ninth in the US
Monday, August 31st, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments OffDuke Energy said this week that it plans to build and operate a 200-megawatt (MW) wind energy project near Casper, Wyoming. Known as the Top of the World Windpower Project, it will be the company's ninth U.S. wind farm and ...
Evergreen & Jiawei Solar Break Ground on 100-MW Manufacturing Plant
Monday, August 31st, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments OffEvergreen Solar and its contract manufacturing partner, Jiawei Solarchina Co., celebrated the groundbreaking this week for their new 100-megawatt (MW) manufacturing plant.
Headlines from Worldchanging Canada (August 2009)
Monday, August 31st, 2009 Posted in Features, Green News | Comments OffTop stories from our Canadian blog: It's All in the Name - A New Tool Will Provide Assurance for Green Claims There's a buzz about the .eco domain. More interesting than the competition between the two groups competing ...
Japan’s Yukio Hatoyama and Climate Change
Monday, August 31st, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffGood news, potentially, for those of us who've been looking to Japan for more leadership in the lead-up to Copenhagen: today's landslide for the Democratic Party of Japan means that Yukio Hatoyama will be the next ...
Japan’s Yukio Hatoyama and Climate Change
Monday, August 31st, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffGood news, potentially, for those of us who've been looking to Japan for more leadership in the lead-up to Copenhagen: today's landslide for the Democratic Party of Japan means that Yukio Hatoyama will be the next ...
The Lessons of Katrina: Global Warming Adaptation is a Cruel Euphemism and Prevention is Far, Far Cheaper
Monday, August 31st, 2009 Posted in Green News, Imagining the Future | Comments OffI’m updating this post from August 29, 2007, along with pieces of the adaptation trap — Part 1 and Part 2 from March 2008. The L.A. Times has brought to prominence (and fallen for) what I call ...
Why Bicycles Are a Must-Have for Modern Civil Disobedience
Monday, August 31st, 2009 Posted in Green News, Movement Building and Activism | Comments Offby Peter Walker What is it that makes the bicycle and the demonstration such good companions? When the location of this year's Climate Camp protest was finally revealed on Wednesday, the first activists to arrive were a select ...
Now That’s What I Call a Neckdown!
Monday, August 31st, 2009 Posted in Green News, Transportation | Comments Offby Ben Fried Since the spring, DOT construction crews have been building out traffic calming improvements all over the neighborhoods near downtown Brooklyn. When the years-in-the-making ...
Science on the Risks of Climate Engineering: Optimism About a Geoengineered Easy Way Out Should Be Tempered by Examination of Currently Observed Climate Changes
Monday, August 31st, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffAs the risks of climate change and the difficulty of effectively reducing greenhouse gas emissions become increasingly obvious, potential geoengineering solutions are widely discussed. For example, in a recent report, Blackstock et al. explore the feasibility, ...
Solar Power from Space: Moving Beyond Science Fiction
Monday, August 31st, 2009 Posted in Emerging Technologies, Green News | Comments Offby Michael D. Lemonick For more than 40 years, scientists have dreamed of collecting the sun’s energy in space and beaming it back to Earth. Now, a host of technological advances, coupled with interest from the U.S. ...
Feed-in Tariffs Have Earned a Role in US Energy Policy
Sunday, August 30th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments OffWhile significant progress has been made in government funding and support of solar power in the United States, the most effective renewable energy policy and solar incentive available -- the feed-in tariff -- has yet to receive major attention ...
PPM Installs 1-MW PV System at Gonzales Winery
Sunday, August 30th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments OffPacific Power Management LLC (PPM) has installed the largest solar system in Monterey County, California. The 1-megawatt (MW) system is now generating solar power for the Gonzales Winery which is owned by Constellation Wines U.S. (CWUS), the world's largest maker ...