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Associated Press Halliburton confirms well contamination in Okla. Associated Press, 07.08.11, 11:20 AM EDT DUNCAN, Okla. -- Halliburton Co. has found contamination in 18 water wells in Duncan, Okla. and said it's taking steps to correct the problem. In testing the wells, Halliburton ( HAL - news - people ) detected perchlorate, which it described as a colorless salt that could - in high

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International Automated Systems You Tube Notes It is progressing steadily. The first plant is in production in Needles, California. California has a lot of red tape that slows down the process. From what I understand though, the company is advancing on many fronts and hopefully we will see competetively priced solar power sooner than later. JCSSeadog 6 months ago Yes. The system uses zinc

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As a noxious greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide seems an unlikely candidate for generating renewable energy. But a new, U.S. Department of Energy-backed project on the New Mexico-Arizona border soon could put CO2 to use to extract heat from subterranean rock formations to power geothermal electric plants. GreenFire Energy of Utah won a $2 million DOE grant last fall to launch the project, which

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On Monday, September 27th, President Obama signed into law the bill known as HR 5297, or the Small Business Jobs and Credit Ac

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"Algae Will Be Local": OriginOil CEO to Speak at Algae World Summit in San Diego - Riggs Eckelberry will speak on decentralization of energy production through algae - Los Angeles, CA March 9, 2010 – OriginOil, Inc. (OOIL), the developer of a breakthrough technology to transform algae, the most promising source of renewable oil, into a true competitor to petroleum, has announced that the

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TXU and Solar City's press release mark an exciting change for Texas. TXU residential users can now lease solar (photo Voltaic or PV) pannels for home reneweable energy generation. TXU's website is either not up yet or inundated at the moment,but here is the press release.... -Editor Affordable Solar Power Arrives in Texas TXU Energy Partners with SolarCity to Introduce North Texas' Most

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Texas Renewable Energy Portolfio is a Texas law that requires that Power generators produce increasing amouts of renewable energy. In effect, electricity providers (competitive retailers, municipal electric utilities, and electric cooperatives) must collectively generate 2,000 megawatts (MW) of additional renewable energy by 2009. The 2005 Texas Legislature increased the state's total

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Light-emitting wallpaper may begin to replace light bulbs from 2012, according to a government body that supports low-carbon technology. A chemical coating on the walls will illuminate all parts of the room with an even glow, which mimics sunlight and avoids the shadows and glare of conventional bulbs. Although an electrical current will be used to stimulate the chemicals to produce light,

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CHP Industry and Interested Stakeholders: At the upcoming Clean Energy Roadmap Workshop, the GC RAC seeks input from the CHP, waste heat recovery, and district energy industries and key stakeholders regarding market development strategies and RAC service offerings in Texas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma. A vital part of the workshop preparation is a survey of the CHP industry and interested

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Can an open source data management system do for the smart grid what Google’s open mobile operating system Android is doing for cell phones — spawn innovation and low cost development? Execs at the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), the largest public power provider in the U.S., seem to think so. TVA analyst Josh Patterson says Google’s Android is a good analogy for openPDC, an open source

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Companies marketing green products and, in particular, promoting their green energy initiatives are using words like “energy conservation” and “green energy,” but what effect has this had on consumers? Do they care? Do they even understand what these terms mean? EcoAlign, a strategic marketing agency focused on energy and the environment, decided to find out. In September, it conducted 1,000

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In mid-October, President Obama moved to raise the amount of credit extended to small businesses. If Congress approves his plan, the measures would enable community banks to borrow at low rates from the Treasury Department's Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). It would also raise loan caps on some Small Business Administration (SBA) programs. To qualify, the banks would have to show how they

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Green-energy provider Lichtblick and German automaker Volkswagen are joining forces and promising to stir up the energy market with an unusual plan. Instead of relying on massive energy facilities, the average consumer may soon have a miniature power station in their basement. Chief executives of Germany's major energy suppliers usually don't have much time for their junior counterpart,

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20-year fixed interest rate on SBA 504 loan projects has hit a new record low, and this is the fourth time it's happened in the last six months. I feel a bit like a broken record. Every time I turn around I'm blogging about this, emailing someone about it, or talking to another financial news outlet about it . This really is a HUGE deal. This is the first time the 20-year fixed interest rate on

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Clean Edge Did a Cleantech Job Status Report.  Here is a summary -Editor 1 San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, CA 2 Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange County, CA 3 New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA 4 Boston-Worcester-Lawrence-Lowell-Brockton, MA-NH 5 Washington-Baltimore, D.C.-MD-VA-WV 6 Denver-Boulder-Greeley, CO 7 Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton, WA 8 Portland-Salem, OR 9

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From the Interatinal Statesman WHAT was the greatest engineering achievement of the 20th century? The motor car, perhaps, or the computer? In 2000 America’s National Academy of Engineering gave a different answer: “the vast networks of electrification”. These, the academy concluded, made most of the century’s other advances possible. But whereas cars, computers and so forth have become ever

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Thanks to Texzon Energy for puting  me onto this new program... Funding for the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) Program under the Recovery Act totals $3.2 billion. Of this amount, approximately $2.7 billion will be awarded through formula grants. This Program was only approved three weeks ago on 9/14/09  SECO will receive approximately $45 million under the EECBG to

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Our economy sure could use the Next Big Thing. Something on the scale of railroads, automobiles or the Internet - the kind of breakthrough that emerges every so often and builds industries, generates jobs and mints fortunes. Silicon Valley investors are pointing to something called cleantech - alternative energy, more efficient power distribution and new ways to store

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San Diego-based Achates Power has raised $12.1M in a $20M funding round. The startup's include Sequoia Capital, Madrone Capital Partners, Rockport Capital Partners, and InterWest Partners. Achates had raised $35M. It is developing a diesel engine technology that promises a 50% improvement in fuel economy at a cost hike of 30% of current diesel models. For you gear heads out there, know that fuel

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Miasole was founded by veterans of the hard disk industry with founder Dave Pearce who leveraged their expertise in hard disk manufacturing to introduce new manufacturing processes into the thin-film solar industry. In December 2006, the company's CEO announced that 50MW of manufacturing capacity as well as an IPO is imminent but the company failed to deliver on the milestone. In September

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The RPM is a power conditioning and energy storage device. The RPM conditions 60Hz AC power by protecting against transients, surges, and load sags, and by isolating dirty loads or sources. The RPM protects against power outages lasting seconds to minutes depending on the RPM design and application. The RPM stores AC energy in the form of a ring of traveling electromagnetic waves that can be

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Waste to Energy is a process that turns Solid Waste into Energy. The Originial technology used incineration in a process illustrated by this animation, but there are new technologies that are greener and more efficienct WTE other than incincineration [edit] IncinerationMain article: Incineration Incineration, the combustion of organic material such as waste, with energy recovery is the most

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I found this quote from Dave on the Yale 360 Website: A recent study (2008) conducted by NREL concluded that wind costs approximately $1800/kW to install, and coal about $1830/kW, with existing air pollution control technologies. As emission controls become tighter, as they will and should, that gap in price will only widen. There are numerous other studies that reach a similar conclusion. In

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Oxford Instruments Manufactures  Sophisiticated R& D and production equipment that innovators are using for cutting edge cleantech and renewable energy product developemnt,among other things. Here is the announccement for a recent contract they one. -Editor Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology (OIPT) has just received a 3 system order from the prestigious new Melbourne Centre for

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Who says a solar company has to choose between conventional silicon and thin-film solar cells? RoseStreet Labs Energy, a Phoenix-based private company, is combining the two in a double-layered cell that it claims can achieve “practical efficiencies” – meaning efficiencies of cells actually available on the market, not just in the lab – of 25 to 30 percent. On Monday, the company announced the

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Silver Springs acquires Greenbox Technology This brings Silverspring up to Par with emeter in terms of product offering - they both will now offer all three components to the Smart Grid: IP meters Managmenet Software Network services -Editor Redwood City, Calif., September 22, 2009 — Silver Spring Networks, a smart grid solutions provider, entered into an agreement to acquire Greenbox

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RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif. — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday is expected to sign an executive order giving California the nation's most aggressive alternative energy standards, requiring utilities to get a third of their power from renewable sources by 2020. The order comes three days after state lawmakers passed legislation mandating the same goal but in a way the governor's office says is

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Sep 11, 2009 Mitsubishi Electric announced the launch of ten new models of photovoltaic (PV) modules - five for the European market and five for North America and Asia. The new lineup comprises modules with outputs of 210, 220, 225, 230 and 235 watts. Shipments will begin on January 15, 2010. Mitsubishi said the new modules use lead-free solder and incorporate PV cells with four bus bars.

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There has been a resurgence of investment interest in the U.S. biofuel industry focused on technologies that use algae to make fuel. The appeal of algae is that it can potentially produce fuel without diverting food crops or large swathes of land. Ethanol derived from corn has been blamed by some for driving up food prices, while large-scale production of cellulosic ethanol would require

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The Obama administration on Friday used the California site of a planned solar-panel factory to complete the first-ever loan guarantee for a renewable-energy project, a $535 million deal that will allow Solyndra Inc. to create hundreds of jobs. The announcement, outlined by Vice President Joe Biden and Energy Secretary Steven Chu in a region battered by an auto-factory shutdown, comes as Obama

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Trinia gets new loan as Solar prices drop., taking adavance of their stock trippling in the last year. tweetmeme_style = 'compact';

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Posted by Roger Valdez 09/03/2009 03:00 PM During Washington’s last legislative session, I wrote glowingly about a bill introduced by Representative Hans Dunshee that would have sold $3 billion in bonds for energy efficiency retrofits in public schools across the state. It didn’t pass. But what appealed to me was that this idea is a 3 for 1 deal. A win, win, win. It could reduce climate

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Note the Roles here: Energy User (Starwood Hotels) Carbon Broker (Sterling Planet) Energy Producer (Constellation NewEnergy) For power for the Republican National Convention. BALTIMORE, Aug. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Constellation Energy (NYSE: CEG) today announced that its subsidiary, Constellation NewEnergy, is supplying green power to nine Starwood hotel properties in New York City during

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Grid Access Act of 2009 - A bill to amend the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to promote energy independence, increase competition, democratize energy generation, and provide for the connection of certain small electric energy generation systems, and for other purposes. Source @ GovTrack It was introduced May 6, 2009, Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and

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The Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (or PURPA) was a law passed in 1978 by the United States Congress as part of the National Energy Act. It was meant to promote greater use of renewable energy. This law created a market for non-utility electric power producers forcing electric utilities to buy power from these producers at the "avoided cost" rate, which was the cost the electric utility

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This interesting piece was posted in the Linkedin Cleantech group pormoting research white paper.com. Promoting commerce is a great thing if its good stuff.  Its an exec summay of  global meta analysis whitepaper on what kind of cleantech each country will be meeting in the future. Thanks, Karen Zang -Editor CleanTech &  Environmental: Emerging Markets Part 1 Our research has highlighted a

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The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has approved two solar energy contracts for Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG & E). Both plants are being developed by BrightSource Energy Inc. The first project, Ivanpah 1, features a 25-year contract length and is expected to be in service in July 2012. Planned for Ivanpah, Calif., the solar thermal plant will have a 110 MW generating capacity

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The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) filed an objection with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to a proposal by the Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator that would dramatically increase the cost of wind farms grid connections, according to a report by James Murray in Business Green Under the new proposal, energy generators (including wind farms) in 13 midwest

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AltaRock Energy, which received $6.25 million from the U.S. Department of Energy for the first demonstration project of enhanced geothermal energy, is facing major delays according to an article by James Glanz of the New York Times. Unidentified scientists told the New York Times that after two months of drilling the company has only reached a depth of 4000 feet. AltaRock started drilling at

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Augsut 5th The Energy Information Agency (EIA), has issued a draft analysis which makes the case for chartering a Green Bank/Clean Energy Deployment Administration. A Green Bank would, according to John Podesta of the Center for American Progress, “enable clean-energy technologies—in such areas as wind, solar, geothermal, advanced biomass, and energy efficiency—to be deployed on a large scale

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"Silicon Valley Six" companies are ripe for M&A or IPO * Top four are Solyndra, LinkedIn, Silver Spring, Zynga * Companies have $100 million revenue, proven record By David Lawsky SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Investors, encouraged by a growing number of acquisitions and public floats in the past few months, are keeping a close eye on a coterie of promising startups in Silicon Valley. An

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VRB Power Systems suggests they have an Energy Storage Solution CANADA - JD Holdings Inc acquired all the outstanding common stock of VRB Power Systems (VP), a manufacturer of electrical energy storage system, US7227275 - Method for retrofitting wind turbine farms - 06/05/2007 A power generation system with a predetermined rating limit includes one or more wind turbine generators and a

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Yingli Enery Holding Company, China's largest PV Producer, producing 450-500 Megawatts this year, has declared a loss on unchaged production. Add this to Spains. PV market drop and we are see ing the affect of PV Overall Prices coming down. -Editor NEW YORK (AP) — Solar cell maker Yingli Green Energy Holding Co. on Wednesday posted a second-quarter loss driven by one-time charges, sending

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August 18, 2009, 5:56 am The U.S. green technology sector, which suffered a drop in funding early this year, is seeing renewed interest with venture dollars flowing in once again to promising startups and some companies looking to resurrect public offerings that had been set aside, Reuters reported. Investment is seen shifting from capital-intensive energy generating technologies, such as solar

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17 August 2009 (San Francisco Chrinicle) On a high ridge in the Mayacamas Mountains, a drill slowly bores into the earth to test a new way to generate electricity. The test, by a Bay Area company called AltaRock Energy, could give the world another source of renewable energy, a valuable weapon in the fight against global warming. It could also trigger earthquakes in a corner of California that

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In August of last year I wrote an article titled “Grid-based Energy Storage: Birth of a Giant.” Over the last 12 months I’ve written a series of follow-on articles that discuss the principal classes of manufactured energy storage devices and the companies that are making or planning to make products for smart grid energy storage applications. My entire archive of articles on the energy storage

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Index will drive higher quality, lower costs and measure sustainability of products for first time BENTONVILLE, Ark., July 16, 2009 – Walmart today announced plans to develop a worldwide sustainable product index during a meeting with 1,500 of its suppliers, associates and sustainability leaders at its home office. The index will establish a single source of data for evaluating the

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(Sam Hopkins) I had never really wondered what Mars would look like if it had heavy industry. When I set foot in western China's Gansu Province in 2005, I knew. The terrain outside Lanzhou, Gansu's capital and one of the most polluted cities in China, seems other-worldly. Bizarre stone shapes line the road as far as the eye can see. And, as it turns out, you can't cast your gaze very far through

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American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA) to establish a combined efficiency and renewable electricity standard that requires utilities to supply an increasing percentage of their demand from a combination of energy efficiency savings and renewable energy (6% in 2012, 9.5% in 2014, 13% in 2016, 16.5% in 2018, and 20% in 2021

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June 26, 2009, will go down as an historic moment in world’s efforts to tackle climate change. For the first time, a Congressional body passed legislation that would place mandatory limits on the emissions of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming. By the barest margin of 219 to 212, the House of Representatives voted for a bill spearheaded by Representatives Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and

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The concept of additionality addresses the question of whether the project would have happened anyway, even in the absence of revenue from carbon credits.Only carbon credits from projects that are "additional to" the business-as-usual scenario represent a net environmental benefit. Carbon projects that yield strong financial returns:even in the absence of revenue from carbon credits; or that are

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Bryce Dille @ JMP Securities, send me an Email

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Joint implementation (JI) is one of three flexibility mechanisms set forth in the Kyoto Protocol to help countries with binding greenhouse gas emissions targets (so-called Annex I countries) meet their obligations. JI is set forth in Article 6 of the Kyoto Protocol.[1]Under Article 6, any Annex I country can invest in emission reduction projects (referred to as "Joint Implementation Projects") in

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A carbon project refers to a business initiative that receives funding because of the cut the emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs) that will result.To prove that the project will result in real, permanent, verifiable reductions in Greenhouse Gases, proof must be provided in the form of aproject design document and activity reports validated by an approved third party in the case of Clean

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The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is an arrangement under the Kyoto Protocol allowing industrialised countries with a greenhouse gas reduction commitment (called Annex B countries) invest in projects that reduce emissions in developing countries as an alternative to more expensive emission reductions in their own countries.A crucial feature of an approved CDM carbon project is that it has

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A carbon offset is a financial instrument aimed at a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. Carbon offsets are measured in metric tons of carbon dioxide-equivalent (CO2e) and may represent six primary categories of greenhouse gases.One carbon offset represents the reduction of one metric ton of carbon dioxide or its equivalent in other greenhouse gases.There are two markets for carbon offsets.In

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Enphase Energy Inc. Announces Executive Appointment05/18/2009Enphase Energy Inc. announced it has secured $22.5 million in new financing, led by Madrone Capital Partners. This round of funding also includes new investor Bay Partners as well as existing investors Third Point Ventures, RockPort Capital Partners and Applied Ventures, LLC. Jamie McJunkin, General Partner of Madrone Capital Partners

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August 2009U.S. Department of the Treasury and Department of Energy to make Direct Cash Payments for Businesses Developing Renewable Energy Facilities-The U.S. government announced Friday that it is now accepting applications for renewable energy funding lead by President Barack Obama’s initiative to expand nationwide sustainability and green energy job prospects. The U.S. Department of Energy,

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SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Renewable Ventures, a Fotowatio company, today announced the completion of Solar Fund V to finance more than $200 million of new solar energy projects across the United States.The fund's first project is a two-megawatt solar photovoltaic project located in Ft. Collins, Colorado that will sell energy to Colorado State University and renewable energy credits to

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And the host of companies looking to make such in-home energy display systems is expanding rapidly, with dozens of startups such asIntegrators: People who have busines models that selecte and group pieces of technology and services to activly monitor Energy Use in a facility. Tendril Networks, EnergyHubEnergateControl4,Greenbox Technology, OnzoAlertMeeMeter OpenPeak Utility Companies will have

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By Jeff St. JohnComverge (COMV) has landed another deal that calls for it to turn down homes' energy use during peak demand times with pagers at first, and with smart meters later on.The deal is with Dominion Virginia Power (D), and calls for Comverge to manage about 117 megawatts of commercial and industrial power loads.Comverge will also provide its Apollo software platform to manage demand

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I got an interesting comment on one of my posts about distributed power generation and storage.Charles Toca representing Prudent Energy VRB Energy Storage System (VRB-ESS) says they have an energy storage system base on the the vanadium-based redox regenerative fuel cell that converts chemical energy into electrical energy.This is from their website:-EditorHow It WorksThe VRB Energy Storage

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US venture capital investment in cleantech companies in Q2 2009 reached $572m, an increase of 73 per cent in terms of capital,with 48 financing rounds, a 100 per cent increase in number of transactions compared to Q1 2009, according to an Ernst & Young analysis based on data from Dow Jones VentureSource.Compared to Q2 08, the second-highest quarter for cleantech investment on record, the Q2 09

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SOLARSize of industry:Worldwide: $29.6 billion U.S.: $3 billion, accounting for 0.4% of the nation's electricityMajor players: First Solar, SunPower, China Sunergy (China), Suntech Power (China)Potential: Could provide 10% of the nation's electricity by 2025. Worldwide sales could grow to $81 billion by 2018.Problems: Solar energy wonÕt be cost-competitive with other forms of energy until

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From Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine, June 2009Business isn't so sunny these days for SolarCity, the country's largest installer of residential solar-power systems. But Lyndon Rive, chief executive of the Foster City, Cal., firm, says it's an absence of financing, rather than a lack of demand, that has caused the slowdown. "Once you address that bottleneck," he says, "solar power will boom.

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Until the big chill, the solar energy was red-hot, tearing along with a decade-long growth rate that averaged 50 percent a year.Then the global recession hit – and the fizzling of subsidies in Spain and a credit crunch – which squeezed financing for many solar projects. Production slowed at plants making panels that turned sun into electricity. Prices fell sharply.So now, despite climate-change

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Summer 09 The State of Renewable Energy FinanaceVideo from the European Venture Capital Forum specficially focused on CleanTech

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New report suggests the United States could save $1.2 trillion by investing $50 billion a year through 2020.Management consulting firm McKinsey & Co. released a report today suggesting the U.S. could reduce its non-transportation related energy consumption by as much as 23 percent by 2020 ifit invests enough political and financial capital.The report indicates that reducing energy consumption by

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The US wind energy industry installed 1,210MW of new power generating capacity in the second quarter of this year, bringing the total added this year to just over 4,000MW, an increase from the 2,900MW added in the first six months of 2008, the American Wind Energy Association said in its second quarter market report.While the number of completed wind farm installations was solid, AWEA said it is

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Here is a video of their process in Action from their websiteOriginoil is only obne of several companies researching algea as biofuel.

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After a two-quarter period of falling venture capital investments in the cleantech space, the industry is finally picking back up again. But the prospects for early-stage companies and entrepreneurs looking for funding is mixed."It's a challenge for the venture community to have the conviction to truly invest in the kind of venture-backed profile deals that we need and not invest in another '

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Michael Yannell's ComEd bill is almost surely less than yours.Yannell, 44, lives in a new Chicago home that is designed to be net zero energy, which means it will produce as much energy as it consumes -- or more. The $1.6 million, 2,675-square-foot house is the first of its kind in Chicago, which already has achieved green sheen with its energy-saving public buildings and scores of planted

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OGE ( An Oklahoma Power Utility) has a very useful Energy use calculator for commercial buildings. A clean tech Engineer I know uses it for a very quick load demand estimation at the begining of an energy audit.-Editor.

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The number of smart electricity meters with two-way communications is poised to mushroom in the next two years, according to a study.Research company Park Associates this week released figures for smart-meter installations in the U.S., saying that there are 8 million units installed, or about 6 percent of all meters.(Credit: Martin LaMonica/CNET)As utilities upgrade equipment as part of

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Ill Wind Blows Over Storage MarketWhen it comes to discussing the "need" for storage to supplement intermittent wind energy, industry professionals are of two very different minds.The majority of wind energy development companies we've spoken with say there's no need for storage; any limitations in the ability to distribute wind power are due to a lack of transmission infrastructure. By contrast,

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Algae PowerBridport, Vermont - July 13, 2009The cows at the Blue Spruce Farm in Bridport make more than milk. Their manure also produces power through the digester at the south side of the barns. But for the last nine months some of that liquid manure has also been sent over to a mini greenhouse where it's being investigated as another source of alternative energy."Algae's been around from day

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Energy Star Could Get TougherSource: BUILDER OnlinePublication date: July 9, 2009By Teresa BurneyQualifying for the Energy Star label on homes is likely to become much more difficult in 2011. The Department of Energy is seeking comments now on proposed significant increases in Energy Star specifications."They are much stricter, intentionally," said Sam Rashkin, national director of Energy Star

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Source: BIG BUILDER NewsPublication date: July 15, 2009A university study of Centex Corp.'s (NYSE:CTX) Energy Advantage homes released Wednesday determined that radiant barrier insulation installed on roof systems reduces heat build up and signficantly improves the efficiency of HVAC systems.The study, performed last summer by the Energy Center of Appalachian State University, compared a pair of

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Negawatt power is the idea of creating incentives to reduce demand for electricity to ease the load at peak times or alleviate the need to build more generation plants. In theory, these negawatts can be aggregated and an arbitrage market could be created to trade these.The term was coined by Amory Lovins, who saw a typo — "negawatt" instead of "megawatt" — in a Colorado Public Utilities

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By Sybille de La HamaidePARIS (Reuters) - Production of biodiesel in the European Union rose by more than 35 percent in 2008 and capacity will grow again this year although half the plants are idle due to poor demand, the EU producers group said on Wednesday.The Brussels-based European Biodiesel Board (EBB) said the European production of biodiesel, by far the main biofuel made in the bloc, had

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This is a Capstone Press Release but the application is is interesting: using coal seam gas to run a microturbine that powers reverse osmosis water purification to clean industrial water in Australia.-EditorCHATSWORTH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Capstone Turbine Corporation (www.microturbine.com) (NASDAQ:CPST), the world's leading clean technology manufacturer of microturbine energy systems, today

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In the late 1970s, John Gofman, co-inventor of plutonium, had second thoughts about his work with nuclear power over the years. He authored a book entitled Irrevy, in which he argued that the use of nuclear power for electrical production amounted to a bad tradeoff of inefficient and expensive power generation for an insoluble toxic waste problem and generations upon generations of unknown

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Governor Bobby Jindal recently announced that he signed Louisiana House Bill 110, legislation that increases personal and corporate income tax credits for use of alternative fuel for motor vehicles, including the use of compressed natural gas (CNG.)The legislation, authored by Louisiana State Representative Jane Smith (R-Bossier City) and led by Louisiana Senator Nick Gautreaux (D-Abbeville) in

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March 9, 2009Bio-mass : will that be filtering, pyrolysis or gasification?“Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne and Zero Emission Energy Plants, Inc. Sign Gasification Licensing Agreement”, “Vegawatt plugs in grease-fired restaurant generator”, and “Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne and AERI Collaborate to Develop Gasification Technology”;are but three headlines that have appeared over the last several months

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FYK is a Norwegian sports car designed to run on a blend of hydrogen and natural gas. It was developed by a Norwegian company named Aetek and received backing from Statoil, the largest petroleum company in the Nordic countries and Norway's largest company in all categories. FYK was launched in 2006 as a technology demonstrator and there are currently no plans on putting it into series production.

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The Loopwing Wind TurbineThis loopy looking item is a striking wind turbine design with some interesting features. A Japanese company is offering this small-scale wind turbine that touts an amazingly low 1.6m/sec (3.5 mph) minimum generation speed (compared with 8-11 mph for many turbines.)The company claims a number of benefits for the Loopwing turbine attributed to the unusual configuration of

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The hydrogen economy goes down the toilet: Energy experts have mixed opinions on whether hydrogen might make sense as a portable fuel of the future. It can be made using electricity from renewable sources, which is good, but the process is inefficient and requires fresh water, which is already in short supply in many areas of the globe. All of which makes a recent paper on an alternate method of

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Feds announce terms of cash program for renewable projectsPosted on July 10, 2009 by rohdec12Feds at last announce how to obtain stimulus package cash (in lieu of tax credits) for renewable projects.Treasury, Energy Announce More than $3 Billion in Recovery Act Funds for Renewable Energy ProjectsCash Assistance Will Increase Economic Development, Promote Renewable Energy UseProgram Guidance Now

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July 9, 2009The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), which was enacted in February, permits an applicant to receive a grant from Treasury in lieu of claiming investment tax credits (ITCs) or production tax credits (PTCs).Today the U.S. Treasury Department issued much-anticipated guidance concerning applications to receive cash grants in lieu of claiming income tax credits for

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JERUSALEM, July 9 (Reuters) - It may take a little bit of colour to create cheaper solar energy.Israeli start-up 3GSolar says it has developed the world's first commercial-size solar energy system that uses coloured dyes to turn sunlight into electricity.The technology emerged from a relatively new field in solar energy that uses simple organic dyes instead of rare or costly materials, like

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DOE issued solicitations in late June for $3.9 billion in grants to support the development and demonstration of smart grid technologies. Smart grid technologies involve adding communication capabilities and control systems to the electrical grid. Just as the Internet drastically changed how people use their home computers, adding communications to the power grid is expected to change how people

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Among the utilities that have come forward lately to announce deals with energy management software makers — from San Diego Gas & Electric and TXU Energy (working with Google), to Xcel Energy and Sacramento Municipal Utility District (working with Microsoft) — one progressive utility has been notably missing from these early movers: PG&E.So we asked PG&E’s senior director of the Smart Energy Web,

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An Interesting Post by a Northerner, surprised that the South is stilll not living in 1865;CTE EditorThe region's big cleantech deals include billion-dollar polysilicon plants and stealthy new university spinouts, says Shawn Lesser of Sustainable World Capital.When people usually think about the U.S. South, images of NASCAR are more likely to come to mind than successful cleantech startups. But

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Plans for the world's largest wind farm in the Texas Panhandle have been scrapped, energy baron T. Boone Pickens said Tuesday, and he's looking for a home for 687 giant wind turbines.Pickens has already ordered the turbines, which can stand 400 feet tall — taller than most 30-story buildings."When I start receiving those turbines, I've got to ... like I said, my garage won't hold them," the

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BRISTOL TOWNSHIP – Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Secretary John Hanger today toured The Bridge Business Center in Bristol Township, Bucks County, where $1 million in federal recovery funds are being used to install a modern energy system in a former Rohm & Haas laboratory.Secretary Hanger witnessed a milestone in the project’s development, as seven micro-turbines were lifted

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I pulled this from a Alfagy's website: They are developing wood mass gassification in a high heat low oxegen invironment, the burining the clean gas. Very interesting...-CTE EditorThe range of fully automated Wood Gasified Heat and Power Plants are as follows: The ENERCARB wood gas technology offers customers a turn-key automated solution for heat and power generation from wood. We can provide a

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