Jun 30, 2011 – Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York state is expected to lift a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing, a controversial technology used to extract natural gas from shale. New York State officials are discussing maintaining a ban on the process inside New York City’s upstate watershed and a watershed used by the [...]
Jun 22, 2011 – Siemens is also turning to tidal power as it strives to exploit alternative forms of energy. The company has recently secured a stake in SeaGen, the world’s first commercial power plant to generate electricity from tidal energy. Commissioned in 2008, the 1.2 MW plant is located in the Irish Sea and [...]
Jun 22, 2011 – Together with partners, Siemens has built the world’s first aircraft with a serial hybrid electric drive system. The two-seater motor glider DA36 E-Star is presented by Siemens, Diamond Aircraft and EADS at the Paris Air Show Le Bourget 2011 (until June 26th) in daily flight shows. The aircraft was built to [...]
Jun 21, 2011 – Here is our government spending our tax dollars to tell us how much we are saving as consumers by using ethanol as a fuel. These signs are posted all over Washington, DC. However, it doesn’t say how much we are spending in tax dollars to support incentives to ethanol producers. Also, [...]
Siemens receives first order for offshore wind power plant in China Milestone for market entry in the biggest wind power market worldwide Siemens Energy has received an order to supply 21 wind turbines with an output of 2,3 megawatt (MW) and a rotor diameter of 101 meters each for an offshore project in Rudong County, [...]
Jun 21, 2011 – Siemens Energy has received an order to supply 21 wind turbines with an output of 2,3 megawatt (MW) and a rotor diameter of 101 meters each for an offshore project in Rudong County, Jiangsu province in China. The customer is Jiangsu Longyuan Offshore Wind Power Co., Ltd. a subsidiary company of [...]
Jun 20, 2011 – Nacel Energy (Ticker: NCEN) (Nacel or the Company) today confirmed its CEO/CFO, Mr. Mark Schaftlein, purchased 169,600 shares of the Company’s common stock in the open market last week. Mr. Schaftlein now personally holds a total 549,600 shares of Nacel and is the beneficial owner of a further 1,000,000 shares of [...]
Jun 17, 2011 – Siemens has acquired a minority stake of about 16% in the U.S. pioneering solar company Semprius. Headquartered in Durham, North Carolina, Semprius has developed high concentrating photovoltaic (HCPV) modules. HCPV systems are a prime alternative to conventional photovoltaics and are especially suitable for regions with high direct irradiation like the Earth´s [...]
Loews Vanderbilt Hotel installs Blink Pedestal charging stations SAN FRANCISCO and NASHVILLE, Tenn. – June 13, 2011 – ECOtality, Inc. (NASDAQ:ECTY), a leader in clean electric transportation and storage technologies, today announced the commercial deployment of the company’s Blink® Electric Vehicle (EV) Pedestal charging stations in Tennessee. Politicians, local stakeholders, EV drivers and company representatives [...]
Jun 9, 2011 – Christopher Steiner writes “Sun King” for Forbes Magazine last month. David Levine launched Geostellar 2 years ago. It seeks to catalog the solar power potential of every roof in the world. He then works with contractors to install systems on individual buildings that can use the power and sell the excess [...]
Jun 9, 2011 – Siemens Energy has installed the first prototype of its next generation offshore wind turbine in Høvsøre, Denmark, and has today initiated the first trial operation. The new SWT-6.0-120 wind turbine with a power rating of 6 megawatts (MW) and a rotor diameter of 120 metres uses the innovative Siemens direct drive [...]
Jun 9, 2011 – The New York Times reports today that the US lags Europe in green energy initiatives. Government incentives cover most of the cost of insulating older homes in England. Nearly 80% of the homes have already been brought up to current standards. But not in the US. “Many European countries — along [...]
Jun 8, 2011 – Siemens researchers in Bangalore, India, are working on a refrigeration system that uses photovoltaics to generate its own electricity, making it entirely independent of a separate power supply. Air conditioning systems contribute a lot to CO2 emissions in these hot regions. About 60% of the electricity consumed in Indian office buildings [...]
Jun 6, 2011 – 16,000 solar panels installed on the roof of a high-speed rail tunnel in Antwerp, Belgium have been officially entered into service. The solar installation is the result of a collaboration between Belgian rail operator Infrabel, renewable energy developer Enfinity, the municipalities of Brasschaat and Schoten, intermunicipal financing companies FINEA and IKA, [...]
SAN FRANCISCO – June 6, 2011 – ECOtality, Inc. (NASDAQ:ECTY), a leader in clean electric transportation and storage technologies, today announced that Sears Holdings (NASDAQ: SHLD ) will launch a pilot program with ECOtality to install Blink® electric vehicle (EV) charging stations at select Sears retail locations as part of The EV Project. Sears has [...]
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