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Archive for February, 2010

Sand and Sludge: A Day of Green Energy Innovation

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 Posted in Green News | Comments Off

The 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

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 Posted in Green News | Comments Off

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Live blog: Bloom Box press conference

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 Posted in Green News | Comments Off

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SPG Solar Appoints Ted Walsh as Vice President of Business Development

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 Posted in Green News | Comments Off

SPG 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 Off

Solar 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 Off

Second Wind Inc. Names Larry Letteney CEO

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 Posted in Green News | Comments Off

Second 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 Off

Alteris 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 Off

Poor 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 Off

PetersenDean 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 Off

The 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 Off

Good 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 Off

U.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 Off

Chevron 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 Off

Satcon 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 Off

BlueFire 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 Off

Monday 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 Off

How 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 Off

by 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 Off

What 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 ...