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Aug 31, 2011 – Where do you check the price of crude oil?  It affects the price you pay for gasoline for your car.   Look no further than GreenEnergyForEarth.com.  It is on the right top side of the home page.

Aug 31, 2011 – Imtra. The Sardinia and Cyprus 120-volt flush-mount LED downlights are designed to replace 120-volt, 35-watt halogen lights, providing equal light output and color temperature but with no radiated heat [see those fins on the picture? They dissipate heat.]  and less than one-third of the power consumption, says the company. The lights [...]

Aug 31, 2011 – Leviton. The 120 Level 1 portable electric vehicle charger and 160 Level 2 home charging station are additions to the company’s line of Evr-Green charging systems and are compatible with all major automobile manufacturers, says the company. The home charging station offers up to 16 amps at 240 volts and will [...]

Paul Garrett, Windpower Monthly, 26 August 2011, 12:26pm EUROPE: Offshore wind in the Nordic and Baltic regions is seen as being the next big market according to the latest renewable-energy country attractiveness report from Ernst & Young. The report sees offshore wind around Denmark as the key growth area for renewable energy in the region. [...]

Staff, Windpower Monthly, 27 August 2011, 9:14pm JAPAN: Japan is set to have a feed-in-tarriff following the passing of its renewable energy bill in the upper house of parliament. The law aims to reduce Japan’s reliance on nuclear power following the disaster at the Fukushima power plant. It also aims to reduce the country’s greenhouse [...]

Staff, Windpower Monthly, 25 August 2011, 3:01pm SOUTH AMERICA: Wind-energy prices in South America are following the trend set by Brazil last week and continuing to fall. Both Uruguay and Peru have recently completed wind-energy auctions with prices hitting $63/MWh and $69/MWh respectively. However, none of these matched the record low prices set in Brazil, [...]

Aug 24, 2011 – In 2013, Volkswagen will introduce its first mass production electric vehicles [EVs]on the market under the slogan blue-e-motion. Among them will be an electric version of the one of the best-selling cars in the world, the VW Golf. There is also a concept car that has only 1 seat [see picture]. [...]

GEA http://greenenergyaustralia.com.au Green Energy Australia (GEA) is Australia’s Green Energy Advisory Service. GEA maintains an Accreditation & Rating System for Clean Energy Council (CEC) Approved Installers.  GEA recommends consumers use only CEC Accredited Installers & Service Providers.  For consumers, GEA recommends a variety of renewable energy services that are available to households & businesses from accredited providers, to [...]

How British Gas prepares you for your EV journey Our electric vehicle charger* is a convenient and safe way to charge your Nissan LEAF or any other electric vehicle at home. It enables you to recharge a third faster than using a normal mains supply socket and could also save you money by using the [...]

Aug 23, 2011—GE (NYSE: GE) and China Huadian Corporation announced a joint venture to develop distributed energy combined heat and power (DECHP) projects that will provide electricity for consumers in China located close to the plants. GE is a leader in DECHP and other innovative energy solutions. Today’s announcement will help ensure continued U.S. energy [...]

Sara Knight, Windpower Monthly, 22 August 2011, 3:02pm GERMANY: BMW has contracted a German wind-farm developer to carry out the permitting procedures and implement a 10MW wind farm at the site of its existing car plant in Leipzig. The company wants the whole production process for its new electric cars to be based on the [...]

Aug 23, 2011 – Solar stocks around the world have cratered over the last couple of months.  Although readers of GreenEnergyForEarth.com are proponents of solar energy, it shows that you have to be careful with you invest your money.  Click on the Green Energy Stocks link in the right column of this blog to see [...]

Aug 23, 2011 – Expanding the company’s lineup of biogas engines for a wider range of power outputs, GE (NYSE: GE) introduced its Waukesha APG1000 gas engine that can utilize a broader variety of biogases, including from landfills, wastewater treatment plants and agricultural waste.  GE unveiled the 1-MW APG1000 gas engine at the Solid Waste [...]

August 21, 2011 by Paul Dvorak Filed under Electrical Systems, Transmission, Wind Power News The industrial electrolyzer from Hydrogenics is capable of 60 m-cu./hr at STP. A developer and manufacturer of hydrogen generation and fuel-cell products says it has completed a trial with Ontario’s Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) demonstrating the viability of its electrolyzer [...]

August 18, 2011 by Paul Dvorak The GE solution uses Cisco’s networking infrastructure to provide up-tower and down-tower wireless connectivity across all 39 GE turbines and throughout the 42 sq. mi of the park. GE and Cisco have teamed up to provide park-wide connectivity to the first phase of First Wind’s Milford, Utah, wind farm. [...]