Archive for September, 2009
Sep 24, 2009 – Eric A. Taub reports in The New York Times, “Is This The Light Bulb of the Future?” The light bulb being discussed is an LED, not a CFL. What are the unintended consequences of the CFLs we have been installing in our houses? [You have been installing them, haven’t you?] Taub [...]
September 30th, 2009 | Posted in ENERGY CONSERVATION, GREEN COMPANIES, INVESTMENTS | No Comments
Sept 30, 2009 – Diane C. Lade writes, “Hybrids Often So Quiet They Can Be Dangerous” in the Florida Sun-Sentinel. They are “significantly” more likely to be involved I accidents with cyclists and pedestrians who don’t hear their quiet engines. Earlier this year I spend a day in a friend’s Prius. The only noises are [...]
September 30th, 2009 | Posted in AUTOMOBILES / CARS, GOVERNMENT, GREEN COMPANIES, INVESTMENTS, batteries | 1 Comment
Read, President and CEO of ECOtality, Inc. (OTCBB: ETLY), a leader in clean electric transportation and storage technologies, recently appeared on CNNMoney.com in an interview about the $100 million grant ECOtality’s subsidiary, Electric Transportation Engineering Corp. (eTec), received from the U.S. Department of Energy to undertake the largest deployment of electric vehicles (EVs) and charging [...]
September 29th, 2009 | Posted in AUTOMOBILES / CARS, GOVERNMENT, GREEN COMPANIES, INVESTMENTS, batteries | 3 Comments
Sep 29, 2009 – Mustang Vacuum Systems LLC announced today that it will relocate and expand its manufacturing operation in Manatee County where the company plans to add 125 jobs in the next 2 years at an annual average wage of more than $44,000. “The Economic Development Council, Manatee Chamber of Commerce (EDC) was [...]
September 29th, 2009 | Posted in GOVERNMENT, GREEN COMPANIES, INVESTMENTS, SOLAR POWER, employment | 10 Comments
Sept 29, 2009 -Dais Analytic Corporation (OTC: BB DLYT), along with the Pasco Economic Development Council (PEDC) and the U.S. Trade and Development Office, released details of a $200 million international trade agreement with a Chinese state-owned company that could bring more than 1,000 new “green” jobs to Pasco County, FL. Dais signed a 5-year [...]
September 29th, 2009 | Posted in ENERGY CONSERVATION, GOVERNMENT, GREEN COMPANIES, INVESTMENTS, UTILITY COMPANIES | 1 Comment
Sept 23, 2009 – Are you at The National Energy Summit & International Dialogue featuring 2 days of high-level, outcome-based dialogues focused on addressing specific steps to drive competitiveness and prosperity through secure and sustainable energy? Maria Bartiromo of CNBC is. You should be also. The Summit is presented by the Council on Competitiveness and [...]
September 24th, 2009 | Posted in BIOFUELS, BROADCAST MEDIA, ENERGY CONSERVATION, EVENTS, FUEL CELLS, GOVERNMENT, GREEN COMPANIES, HYDROELECTRICITY, INVESTMENTS, NATURAL GAS, NUCLEAR, OIL COMPANIES, SOLAR POWER, UTILITY COMPANIES, WASTE CONVERSION, WAVE POWER, WIND POWER | No Comments
Sept 23, 2009 – PSEG Solar Source completed the acquisition from juwi solar Inc., of 2 utility-scale solar projects to be located in Florida and Ohio and announced that it has developed a third solar project located in New Jersey, all of which have a total capacity of close to 30 mw. The projects will [...]
September 23rd, 2009 | Posted in GREEN COMPANIES, INVESTMENTS, SOLAR POWER, UTILITY COMPANIES, WIND POWER | 11 Comments
Sep 22, 2009 – Matthew L. Wald reports in “Refitted to Bury Emissions, Plant Draws Attention” in The New York Times today that American Electric Power will be injecting CO2 into the ground from its huge Mountaineer power plant in New Haven, West Virginia. It will thus become the world’s first coal-fired power [...]
September 22nd, 2009 | Posted in COAL, GREEN COMPANIES, INVESTMENTS, UTILITY COMPANIES | 2 Comments
September 20th, 2009 | Posted in GREEN ENERGY EMPLOYMENT | No Comments
American Wind Energy Association
November 3 -5, 2009
Cobo Center
1 Washington Blvd
Detroit, MI 48226
For information please visit http://www.smallandcommunitywindexpo.org
September 18th, 2009 | Posted in ENERGY CONSERVATION, EVENTS, WIND POWER | 1 Comment
Sept 17, 2009 – A mobile test installation for electrostatic precipitators is helping to reduce the emissions of coal-fired power plants. Plant operators can use it to monitor and optimize the performance of flue gas filters. This is possible because electrostatic precipitators, filters which remove tons of dust from flue gas daily, work up to [...]
September 17th, 2009 | Posted in COAL, INVESTMENTS, UTILITY COMPANIES | No Comments
Quick Facts
North America’s largest business to business solar industry event
October 27 – 29, 2009 in Anaheim, California
900+ exhibitors and an exhibit hall that includes all solar technologies: PV, CSP, solar hot water, solar heating and cooling and solar pool heating
25,000 + Attendees: sellers, buyers and stakeholders including manufacturers, integrators, installers, utilities, investors, builders, architects, large [...]
September 16th, 2009 | Posted in AUTOMOBILES / CARS, EVENTS, GREEN COMPANIES, GREEN ENERGY EMPLOYMENT, GREEN ENERGY INSTALLERS, INVESTMENTS, SOLAR POWER, batteries | 15 Comments