Nov 12, 2011 – The new gold used to be oil. Now, it seems the new gold is US government subsidies for clean energy. Line up to get your money from the Obama administration. Here is an interesting report from The New York Times. Follow the link to read the whole story. Halfway between Los [...]
Nov 11, 2011 – Forecasting software from Siemens is being used to predict how much electricity wind farms will generate. These predictions are important for the effort to compensate for fluctuations in available wind energy in the power supply system because of changes in the weather. Based on weather forecasts for the next 72 hours, [...]
Nov 9, 2011 – Julie Satow reports in The New York Times that retrofitting old buildings has immediate energy and dollar saving results. Duh! Readers of this blog know that we have consistently said that energy conservation provides the quickest return on investment and the quickest reduction in energy use. Personally, I replaced my AC [...]
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Nov 6, 2011 - Siemens secured an order for a 100 Megawatt (MW) wind power project in Puerto Rico. Between July and September 2011, the company also received 5 orders for the supply of wind turbines with a combined capacity of over 570 megawatts (MW) from North America. The combined order volume for all 6 [...]
Nov 1, 2011 – Beacon Power follows Solyndra in filing bankruptcy. Beacon Power, another recipient of US government loans, has filed for bankruptcy. Beacon Power was developing energy storage systems to smooth out the energy produced from solar and wind power. Which company is next? This is not the scenario that President Barack Obama promised [...]
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Oct 25, 2011 – As our regular readers know Evergreen Solar [ironic name] is bankrupt despite the USA government grant that it received. [See also posts on Solyndra.] Now the government wants to at least get ownership of a few of the patents that Evergreen has in its portfolio.
Oct 25, 2011 – JinkoSolar Holding has restarted a solar plant in China that had had a fluoride waste leak in September. Please leave comments here if you know of other pollution problems related to solar panel production.
Oct 25, 2011 – Venture capital funding of green energy continues to grow year over year. As with the government, most of the money is going into new technologies rather than the more mundane but quicker return of energy conservation. Please leave your comments here.
Oct 21, 2011 – A flexible rapid recharging system will make it possible in the future to use the same charging socket to charge up electric cars on either direct current (DC) or alternating current (AC). This user-friendly solution was developed by Siemens and BMW for the Modellregion Elektromobilität München – Drive eCharged project. The [...]
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Oct 18, 2011 – The New York Times published a special section on “Cars” last Friday and you should look at a copy in print or online. Some of the “green energy” articles included “What Compromise” that discusses how new technology will allow automakers to make more energy efficient autos without sacrificing current amenities. Another [...]
Oct 19, 2011 – Broan-NuTone is advertising that they have the broadest line of Energy Star qualified fans for residences. Check it out and let us know about your experience.
Oct 17, 2011 – In mid-October 2011, Siemens Energy put the Les Mées solar farm in the department of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence in the south of France on line. For this project Siemens installed a total of 6 turnkey photovoltaic (PV) power plants. Customer is the project developer Eco Delta Développement (EDD), whose subsidiary Delta Solar developed [...]
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