Sand and Sludge: A Day of Green Energy Innovation
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 Posted in Green News | Comments OffThe top energy news today is undoubtedly the public unveiling of Bloom Energy's new hydrogen fuel cell. Eight years in the making (yet unveiled about a week after Bill Gates spoke on the need for ...
Bloom Box challenges: Reliability, cost
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Live blog: Bloom Box press conference
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SPG Solar Appoints Ted Walsh as Vice President of Business Development
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 Posted in Green News | Comments OffSPG Solar, Inc. announced today the appointment of Ted Walsh as the company's Vice President of Business Development. In his new role, Mr. Walsh is responsible for overseeing SPG Solar's sales activities, partner opportunities, and strategic growth. Mr. ...
SMA Solarchecker iPhone Application Provides Versatile Measurement Tool for Solar Installers, Consumers
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 Posted in Green News | Comments OffSolar installers and consumers looking for a simple-to-use, yet powerful, portable solar site analysis tool can now download the SMA Solarchecker iPhone application from the Apple App Store. The free iPhone application provides users with a quick way of ...
Viability, LLC to Present at United Nations Carbon Forum in Kenya, Share Environmental Insight
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 Posted in Green News | Comments OffSecond Wind Inc. Names Larry Letteney CEO
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 Posted in Green News | Comments OffSecond Wind Inc., a leading provider of wind measurement and information technology, today announced that Larry Letteney has been named Chief Executive Officer. Letteney succeeds Second Wind's founder, Walter Sass, who is widely credited with several key advancements in ...
Alteris Renewables Launches New Website
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 Posted in Green News | Comments OffAlteris Renewables, the fastest growing renewable energy design and installation company in the Northeast, has launched a new wesbite to better serve its customers and highlight the company's long history in residential and commercial solar and community-scale wind. The ...
Greening Deserts for Carbon Credits
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 Posted in Green News | Comments OffPoor farming practices have degraded the world's soils causing them to release carbon that should have stayed in the soil. In the past 150 years soils have released twice as much carbon as fuel burning. Improved farming methods ...
PetersenDean Roofing and Solar Systems and Fronius Expand Partnership
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 Posted in Green News | Comments OffPetersenDean Roofing and Solar Systems, the nation's largest, privately-owned roofing and solar energy company, has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with Fronius USA, LLC to support, distribute and market Fronius as their preferred residential and small commercial grid ...
Excellence in Renewable Energy Award Winners Announced
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 Posted in Green News | Comments OffThe Renewable Energy World network of publications, the World's #1 Renewable Energy Network, has announced the winners of the 2009 Excellence in Renewable Energy Awards. The awards, which were presented yesterday at the Renewable Energy World Conference and Expo in ...
Briefing on pyranometers and pyrheliometers
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 Posted in Green News | Comments OffGood quality solar radiation data is becoming increasingly important in the field of renewable energy with regard to both photovoltaic (PV) and thermal systems. This applies in activities such as research and development, production quality control, determination of optimum ...
US Geothermal Starts US $10M Raft River Program
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 Posted in Green News | Comments OffU.S. Geothermal Inc. announced that work has begun at its Raft River Project in Idaho on a US $10 million Enhanced Geothermal System grant program funded by the U.S. Department of Energy.
Chevron To Build 1-MW CPV System at Questa Mine
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 Posted in Green News | Comments OffChevron Mining Inc. (CMI), a subsidiary of Chevron Corp announced that sister company Chevron Technology Ventures (CTV), will build a 1-megawatt (MW) concentrating photovoltaic solar facility on the tailing site of CMI's molybdenum mine in Questa, New Mexico.
Satcon Receives 30-MW PV Inverter Order
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 Posted in Green News | Comments OffSatcon Technology will deliver 30.5 megawatts (MW) of its PowerGate Plus solar photovoltaic (PV) inverters under a global master supply agreement with Energy 21 Group, one of Europe's largest private power utilities.
BlueFire Ethanol Applies for DOE Loan Guarantee for Fulton Biorefinery
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 Posted in Green News | Comments OffBlueFire Ethanol Fuels Inc. has submitted an application for a US $250 million dollar loan guarantee for the company's planned cellulosic ethanol biorefinery in Fulton, Mississippi. The application, filed under the Department of Energy (DOE) Program DE-FOA-0000140, which provides federal ...
Imagining a Carbon Neutral Seattle: A Collection of Ideas
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 Posted in Green News | Comments OffMonday afternoon, the Seattle City Council announced that Seattle will aim to become carbon neutral, and explore whether it can realistically commit to hitting that target by 2030, which would make it the first carbon ...
Decarbonizing Chicago’s Central Area
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 Posted in Green News | Comments OffHow do you create a carbon neutral city? To find out, the City of Chicago is taking a hard look at its central area with with acclaimed architecture firm Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill (AS+GG). AS+GG ...
Preparing for 2014-15 “Oil Crunch” Forecast by UK Industry Group
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 Posted in Green News | Comments Offby Warren Karlenzig A new report by a United Kingdom industry taskforce predicts steep oil price rises and gasoline supply shortages by 2014-2015, which ...
Information is Beautiful: When Sea Levels Attack
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 Posted in Green News | Comments OffWhat does a metre sea level rise actually mean? This is how we visualised some of the data confusion from The Guardian (Info is beautiful: sea levels. Click image for bigger picture)) Another day, another set of bewildering ...