Archive for September, 2009

Unintended Consequences; Is This the Light Bulb of the Future?

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 [...]

Unintended Consequences: Dangerous Hybrids

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 [...]

Jonathan Read of Ecotality Discusses $100 Million Grant for Transportation Electrification Project

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 [...]

Solar Cell Equipment Manufacturer Plans 125 Jobs in Manatee County, Florida

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 [...]

Pasco-Based Dais Analytic Signs $200 Million Trade Agreement With China

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 [...]

The National Energy Summit & International Dialogue

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 [...]

GE Energy’s Renewable Energy Business

John Engler on Manufacturing and Green Jobs

PSEG Solar Source and juwi solar Announce 3 Large-Scale Solar Projects totaling 29.2 MW

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 [...]

Coal Plant to Plant Carbon Dioxide in Ground

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 [...]

Green Jobs Growth

AWEA Small & Community Wind Conference & Exhibition

American Wind Energy Association
November 3 -5, 2009
Cobo Center
1 Washington Blvd
Detroit, MI 48226
For information please visit http://www.smallandcommunitywindexpo.org

Siemens Electrostatic Precipitator Reduces Emissions

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 [...]

Solar Power International 09 Convention in Anaheim, CA

 
 
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 [...]

Video Discussing Siemens and Offshore Wind Turbines