Sep 2, 2010 – The National Hurricane Center reports that Hurricane Earl is closing in on the coast of North Carolina this evening. Luckily, Earl did not head into the Gulf of Mexico where the bulk of the oil drilling rigs are located.
Aug 30, 2010 – What technology provides the quickest return on investment in green energy? Solar power, wind turbines, nuclear, geothermal? None of these. As we’ve discussed here before, the quickest is energy conservation. Jonathan S. Paul writes “Plugging Electrical Leaks” in The New York Times on August 26, 2010. The article provides information on appliances that draw electricity even when they’re off [yes, your 60” plasma TV!]. More important, finally get a programmable thermostat. If you can program your iPhone, you will be able to program the thermostat. Sure, on average you’ll only save about $180 per year [that means paying off your investment in 3 months], but how many residential houses are there in the US by which to multiply that $180? Read the full article and get your thermostat.
Aug 30, 2010 - Participants:
Fady Khallouf, CEO THEOLIA
Owen Michaelson, Chairman Peel Energy
Graham Mason, Business Development Director, Fluor
Richard Cooke, Sales Director Wind, Solar & Biomass Power Generation, International Sales Organisation, AREVA T&D
Dennis Henderson, Group Business Development Director,Peel Ports Ltd
Jaume Morron, Managing Director, EolicCat
Christoph Beseler, Partner, Energy
Roland Berger
Gauthier Van Thuyne, Partner & Head Of Belgium & EU Environmental & Renewables Practice
Thomas Karst, Director & Partner, MAKE Consulting Managing Director, juwi Wind GmbH
and many more.
Topics to be discussed:
• Wind farm development case studies
• Policy developments impacting wind farm development
• Wind energy market analysis
• Investment and associated risk
• Wind power technology advancements
• Legal and regulatory issues
• Operations and maintenance considerations
For the full brochure, discount & registration please contact\tel: +44 (0) 20 7981 2503; +44 (0) 20 7981 2503
email: jkorfanty@acieu.net
Kind Regards, Justyna, ACI Europe
Health,Wellness and Lifestyle Coaches http://abster0810.discoveringwellness.info, Entrepreneurs http://abster0810.residualprofits.biz, Teachers, Doctors, Business Professionals http://abster0810.seekinganincome.com, Stay-At-Some Moms http://abster0810.marketingmoms.biz, Retirees http://abster0810.retiringsecure.info, in transition, looking for a new job http://abster0810.anewcareer.biz and anyone else who wants to succeed in life http://abster0810.winningeveryday.com are wanted! Would you like to save time and money by ordering every day Eco-Friendy Eco-Sense products online while helping the environment and your family at the same time http://abster0810.changeyourstore.com? Would you and your family like to live a healthy (non-toxic) and safe lifestyle with a 100% money back guarantee http://abster0810.nontoxichomes.info ? Would you also like extra unlimited discounts from Nordstroms, Sears, Target, JC Penney and over 650 other retailers including rental cars, hotels, airlines, and cell phones along with discounts on dental, health, and identity insurance? Would you like to share this “Green” concept with others for money back http://abster0810.residualearnings.net? If you answered “Yes” to any or all of these questions, then you can benefit from reviewing the above websites and contacting us for further information to be on your way to accomplishing your goals while enhancing your life and the lives of your loved ones http://abster0810.myopportunity.net. Check out more information at my new blog at http://healthysafelifestyle.blogspot.com.
Hospitals worldwide are investing in energy efficient lighting . LED lighting is the ideal solution for hospitals due to its excellent quaility of light and efficient use of energy. Quality light without much heat increases the comfort of patients and employees, reduces the use of mercury at the hospital, lowers air conditioning costs and results in an Energy Efficient Commercial Buildings Tax Deduction (CBTD).
MRI facilities require nonferrous lights because of the magenetic fields from the equipment. Although the tungsten filament of incandescent bulbs contains no iron, minute impurities are affected by the high intensity magnetic field of the MRI. As a result, the life of a standard incandescent bulbs is drasticly reduced. Fluorescent light are not suitable either because of the noise artifacts generated in scans. LED lights are virtually unaffected by magnetic fields, produce excellent quality light and pay for themselves over their useful life.
Besides the characteristics mentioned above, LED lights are dimmable making them ideal for CT scan, ultrasound rooms and other places where adjustable lighting is needed. Unlike fluorescent lights, LED bulbs and tubes reach their full brightness instantly. They can be dimmed with a dimmer or by turning off some of the lights.
LED bulbs and tubes are ideal for operating rooms. They deliver high quality light without high temperatures. The lights therefore make the surgeons work easier and are safer for the patient. Body tissue can be seen in its natural colors. Instead of a single point light source, LED light is produced by multiple points resulting in fewer shadows. The almost fail safe characteristics of LED lights eliminates most of the risk of losing a light during an operation.
Aug 11, 2010 – Thousands of acres of farmland here in the San Joaquin Valley have been removed from agricultural production, largely because the once fertile land is contaminated by salt buildup from years of irrigation.
But large swaths of those dry fields could have a valuable new use in their future — making electricity.
Farmers and officials at Westlands Water District, a public agency that supplies water to farms in the valley, have agreed to provide land for what would be one of the world’s largest solar energy complexes, to be built on 30,000 acres.
At peak output, the proposed Westlands Solar Park would generate as much electricity as several big nuclear power plants.
Unlike some renewable energy projects blocked by objections that they would despoil the landscape, this one has the support of environmentalists.
The San Joaquin initiative is in the vanguard of a new approach to locating renewable energy projects: putting them on polluted or previously used land. The Westlands project has won the backing of groups that have opposed building big solar projects in the Mojave Desert and have fought Westlands for decades over the district’s water use. Landowners and regulators are on board, too.
“It’s about as perfect a place as you’re going to find in the state of California for a solar project like this,” said Carl Zichella, who until late July was the Sierra Club’s Western renewable programs director. “There’s virtually zero wildlife impact here because the land has been farmed continuously for such a long time and you have proximity to transmission, infrastructure and markets.”
Recycling contaminated or otherwise disturbed land into green energy projects could help avoid disputes when developers seek to build sprawling arrays of solar collectors and wind turbines in pristine areas, where they can affect wildlife and water supplies.
See the full story in The New York Times.
Please leave your comments here.
Bright Light Designs is a lighting design company serving Palm Beach County, Broward County and the Miami area. Lighting Designer, Marcia Exelrud, has many years of experience with most of the projects incorporating energy-efficient lighting. The key is to have a pleasant appearance with non-traditional lighting sources like Compact Fluorescent bulbs and lights that have been improving in the past years. Energy efficient lighting can be applied to a creative process analyzing the architecture, environment, landscape composition and technology.
Bright Light Designs specializes in architectural lighting, landscape lighting, historical buildings, commercial lighting, residential lighting, water features and energy efficient lighting.
Bright Light designs in a member of the International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) and the United States Green Building Council (USGBC).
For more information including a portfolio of projects, please visit BrightLightDesigns.net.
Aug 10, 2010 – Siemens will invest in a new state-of-the-art blade production facility in Ontario. Siemens Energy and Samsung C&T Corporation have signed an agreement for the supply of wind turbines with a total capacity of up to 600 megawatts (MW). The wind turbines to be delivered under this supply agreement will be deployed at selected wind projects in southern Ontario and will provide clean power to approximately 240,000 Canadian homes. Furthermore, Siemens will establish a blade manufacturing site in Canada that is set to create up to 300 jobs in the province.
“With this supply agreement we are strengthening our position in the rapidly growing wind power market in Canada,“ said Jens-Peter Saul, CEO of the Siemens Wind Power Business Unit. “Furthermore, by investing in a new blade production facility in Canada, Siemens is pushing further ahead with the regionalization of its wind manufacturing network in important markets.” Siemens also recently invested in a U.S. nacelle production facility in Hutchinson Kansas which will start producing nacelles in December 2010.
Siemens has been working with Samsung C&T and its development partner Pattern Energy on this first phase of development under Ontario’s Feed-in Tariff (FIT) program where Samsung has committed to develop 2,000 MW of wind power over the next six years. The new wind turbine supply agreement is a significant step on the road to realizing this commitment.
The installed capacity of wind power in Canada is expected to increase from 3,400 MW today to more than 15,000 MW in 2020. Siemens already has a strong presence in Canada, so far the company has installed a total of 130 2.3-MW rated wind turbines at Kruger Energy’s 101.2-MW Port Alma wind farm and TransAlta’s 197.8-MW Wolfe Island wind farm in Ontario, and is supplying an additional 152 units of its 2.3-MW wind turbines to four recently announced projects, which will bring Siemens installed capacity to a total of 550 MW by the end of 2011.
Wind energy is part of Siemens’ Environmental Portfolio. In fiscal 2009, revenue from the Portfolio totaled about EUR23 billion, making Siemens the world’s largest supplier of ecofriendly technologies. In the same period, the company’s products and solutions enabled customers to reduce their CO2 emissions by 210 million tons. This amount equals the combined annual CO2 emissions of New York, Tokyo, London and Berlin.
Jim Cramer of CNBC speaks about why smart grid companies are important for energy savings. Also, companies that make LED lights will do well. We are talking about LED light bulbs. Between 2012 and 2014, new federal energy efficient rules for lighting will effectively eliminate incandescent bulbs in the United States. 14% of energy is consumed by electric lighting.
Smart grid companies mentioned: Cirrus Logic (CRUS), Skyworks (SKWS), ENDC.
LED lighting companies: CREE, POWI, Rubicon (RBCN)
August 3, 2010 – Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSE&G) today marked the start of construction of the Trenton Solar Farm on Brunswick Avenue. The Trenton facility will be one of four ground-mounted solar farms the company is developing as part of the Solar 4 All™ Program. Through the program, PSE&G expects to develop more than 20 solar projects this year, which represents an investment of more than $140 million that will create almost 300 jobs and provide New Jersey with 30 megawatts of solar generated power.
“The Trenton Solar Farm exemplifies PSE&G’s environmental commitment and its leadership position in renewable energy,” said Al Matos, PSE&G’s Vice President of Renewables and Energy Solutions. “We are giving new life to a once contaminated site. By reclaiming it we are helping to improve the neighborhood and provide New Jersey’s capital city with a productive and beneficial asset.
“This is one of many projects PSE&G is developing as we invest more than $750 million to increase access to solar energy in New Jersey. Clean energy investments are key to a sustainable future. In addition to being good for the environment, these investments are creating jobs and help New Jersey to build a new, green sector that will strengthen the skills of the workforce and our state’s ability to compete globally.”
The Trenton Solar Farm will be comprised of 5,496 solar panels covering 5.5 acres of PSE&G property and connected directly to the grid. The farm will produce enough electricity to keep the lights on and the air conditioning running in about 207 homes.
PSE&G is developing the solar farms on PSE&G owned properties in Hamilton (4.4 megawatts), Linden (3.2 megawatts) and Edison ( 2 megawatts). Each will be among the largest solar farms developed in New Jersey, with the Hamilton project being the largest in the state and the Linden project the second largest. All four sites will utilize crystalline solar panel technology and have monitoring and communications functionality.
The 20 projects under development will produce enough energy to power about 4,900 homes and eliminate 23,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions — the equivalent of removing nearly 2,800 cars from the road for one year.
PSE&G is using leading solar energy companies to help deploy solar farms across the state to help drive NJ’s economic growth in this sector. SunEdison, a global leader in solar energy services, is responsible for the deployment of the Trenton project.
Aug 10, 2010 – PLEASE NOTE: Energy Conversion Devices has notified us that their original press release has some errors in it & will be replaced by a corrected version shortly. Check back here frequently to read the revised announcement. Aug. 4, 2010 -United Solar, a leading global manufacturer of building rooftop photovoltaics under its UNI-SOLAR® brand – and a wholly owned subsidiary of Energy Conversion Devices (Nasdaq:ENER) – announced that a deal has been signed to install its newly-released and innovative PowerTilt™ solar roof system at the Daimler Truck and Bus North America – Bus Factory in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
This 435 KW project represents UNI-SOLAR’s first PowerTilt™ installation in North America. The installation should be in operation before the close of 2010, and will be one of the largest solar installations in the greater Toronto area under the Canadian government’s Feed in Tariff (FIT) program through the Ontario Power Authority (OPA).
As the lightest rack-mounted solar system currently available in the marketplace, PowerTilt™ offers unique product attributes, including a lightweight, durable structure, ease of installation with no roof penetrations and lower levelized cost of electricity (LCOE).
“PowerTilt is an attractive product for companies that want to do their part to use alternative energy while experiencing cost savings, but at the same time need a solar solution that remains lightweight and won’t penetrate their current roof,” said Mark Morelli, President and CEO of United Solar’s parent company, Energy Conversion Devices. “Advanced technology solutions like PowerTilt™ will help drive our growth in this exciting market segment.”
UNI-SOLAR’s PowerTilt™ – designed with a 15 percent tilt to optimize an already high-performing technology by 10 to 20% – is ideal for low-load bearing roofs, can be installed without costly structural roof reinforcements, is glass-free and encapsulated in UV-stabilized, weather-resistant polymers. It holds up against high winds, hail, and impacts. UNI-SOLAR brand laminates are also the solar industry’s top performing product at absorbing energy in low-light situations.
Aug 04, 2010 – SunPower Corporation (Nasdaq: SPWRA, SPWRB), a manufacturer of high-efficiency solar cells, solar panels, and solar systems, today announced it has completed a 505-kilowatt solar power installation for Horizon Power, a government-owned utility providing power to remote and regional communities and resource operations in Western Australia.
The ground-mounted SunPower T20 Tracker installation is located on two sites, Marble Bar and Nullagine in the east Pilbara region of Western Australia, and was commissioned earlier this year. It is the largest solar tracking system in Australia, and powers the world’s first high penetration, hybrid solar-diesel power stations. The power stations will generate approximately 1,048 megawatt hours of solar energy per year and will produce 60 percent to 90 percent of daily electricity needs. This project is supported by the Australian Government through the Renewable Remote Power Generation Program and implemented by the Office of Energy in Western Australia.
“SunPower is proud to deliver Australia’s first and largest T20 tracker installation, generating clean, renewable solar power for Horizon Power,” said Bob Blakiston, managing director of SunPower Australia. “We also congratulate Horizon Power for being honored by the Western Australia Sustainable Energy Association with the Outstanding Achievement in Excellence and Innovation Award for its insight in bringing solar power to regional and remote areas of the country.”
The system utilizes SunPower solar panels, the most efficient solar panels on the market today, with the SunPower T20 Tracker(R) system. The T20 Tracker follows the sun’s movement during the day, increasing sunlight capture by up to 30 percent over conventional fixed-tilt systems, while significantly reducing land use requirements. Worldwide, SunPower has more than 550 megawatts of solar power systems installed or under contract, including more than 200 megawatts of operational power plants in Europe.
SunPower will be exhibiting at the ATRAA Conference being held at the Alice Springs Convention Centre from August 4 through 7. Blakiston will deliver a presentation on August 5 at 11:50 a.m. on the topic, “Developing Large Scale Solar.”
Bright Light Designs is a lighting design company in Palm Beach County, Florida also serving all of South Florida including West Palm Beach, Boynton Beach, Delray Beach, Boca Raton , Fort Lauderdale , Aventura and Miami . Lighting Designer, Marcia Exelrud, has many years of experience with most of the projects incorporating energy-efficient lighting landscape lighting. The key is to have a pleasant appearance with non-traditional lighting sources like Compact Fluorescent bulbs and LED lights. We use lighting that has been improving in the past years. Energy efficient lighting can be applied to a creative process analyzing the architecture, environment, landscape composition and technology.
Bright Light Designs specializes in residential landscape lighting, commercial landscape lighting, architectural lighting, historical buildings landscape lighting, water features and energy efficient landscape lighting.
Bright Light designs in a member of the International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) and the United States Green Building Council (USGBC).
For more information including a portfolio of projects involving landscape lighting, please visit BrightLightDesigns.net.
Aug 1, 2010 – Dana-Farber matches innovation with environmental concerns. Shortly, Dana-Farber’s Yawkey Center for Cancer Care will sport a rooftop with grass and sedum that will help control the building’s internal temperature, cutting heating costs. Nearby air quality will improve and rainwater runoff will decrease. This energy conservation really is green energy!
See http://www.Dana-Farber.org/yccc for more information.
get your job site
at simplyhired.com
