The following is a video about President Obama’s speech at Opower in Arlington, Virginia. From its founding in 2007 to today, Positive Energy – now OPOWER™ – has established itself as the leading utility partner for energy-efficiency and smart-grid software services. www.opower.com
Mar 5, 2010 — Jad Mouawad reports in The New York Times that FPL Group “is running an experiment in the future of renewable power. Across 500 acres north of West Palm Beach, the … utility is assembling a life-size Erector Set of 190,000 shimmering mirrors and thousands of steel pylons that stretch as far [...]
Feb 25, 2010 – Todd Woody reports in The New York Times, “A Silicon Valley company is claiming a breakthrough in a decades-old quest to develop fuel cells that can supply affordable and relatively clean electricity. Google, Bank of America, Wal-Mart and other large corporations have been testing the devices, which will be formally introduced [...]
Feb 11, 2010 – Siemens Technologies took first place in 2 categories of the first Innovation Prize for Climate and Environment awarded by Germany’s Federal Environment Ministry and the Federation of German Industries (BDI). German Environment Minister Norbert Röttgen and BDI Director General Werner Schnappauf presented the awards – totaling €125,000 – to winners in [...]
Feb 19, 2010 – Earlier this month the NRDC, “The Earth’s Best Defense” [Who are they?] of NYC had full page ads donated by Peter Morton [Who is he?]. The NRDC is Natural Resources Defense Council & its Trustee’s include well-know actors, actresses, celebrities, wealthy businessman, etc. The ad was directed to US Senators & [...]
Feb 15, 2010 – Todd Woody and Clifford Krauss report in The New York Times, that “If electric cars have any future in the United States, San Francisco may be the city where they arrive first.
The first wave of electric car buying is expected to begin around December when Nissan introduces the five-passenger Leaf. The [...]
Feb 10, 2010 – Longview Power, LLC, owner of the state-of-the-art power generation facility currently under construction in Maidsville, WV, has selected Siemens Energy to conduct an innovative study analyzing the applicability of post-combustion carbon dioxide (CO2) capture technology. The Longview Power project includes a new 695-MW rated (net) advanced supercritical pulverized coal power [...]
Feb 2, 2010 – Mireya Navarro reports in The New York Times that a panel of experts convened by the mayor and City Council issued more than 100 recommendations Monday on how to make New York City’s building codes more environmentally sound by imposing energy-saving requirements on construction and renovation work.
The measures, presented to Mayor [...]
Jan 12, 2010 – Beginning in 2010, intelligent electric meters from Siemens will make buying electricity more transparent for Austrian customers and help to reduce consumption. The company is installing 100,000 AMIS meters in Upper Austria for the utility Energie AG. AMIS (Automated Metering and Information System) sends time-resolved usage data to the utility and [...]
Here are some Green New Year’s Resolutions. If you think of others please add them to the comments.
Use Compact Fluorescent or LED lights.
When purchasing a new car, be aware of fuel efficiency and alternative energy.
Consider solar energy for part of you electrical needs. In areas with high utility bills, government incentives and abundant sunshine, the [...]
Dec 16, 2009 -
Cleantech Forum San Francisco, on February 24-26th , 2010 at The Palace Hotel will help define the maturing cleantech market. The Forum is themed “Taking Cleantech to Scale” to focus on corporate integration of cleantech into growth strategies, new financing for innovation and infrastructure and global government engagement [...]
Dec 10, 2009 – Who’s taking the lead in protecting the earth from climate change? Mikhail Gorbachev. You read it right, Mikhail Gorbachev. Read his Op-Ed piece in today’s The New York Times, titled, “We Have a Real Emergency.” He links climate change to “security issues and to increasingly dangerous ethnic and international conflicts; [...]
Dec 8, 2009 – Matthew L. Wald reports in The New York Times, “An Effort to Spread Green Power to Coasts” that a
company, Tres Amigas, proposes a huge power hub near Clovis, N.M., covering more than 20 square miles. It would be remote from populated areas but near the fulcrum of the continent’s wind and [...]
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