Archive for the 'UTILITY COMPANIES' Category
Nov 21, 2011 – PSE&G offers suggestions for steps customers can take to reduce their costs even further. • Check for sufficient water levels in the sight glass for hot water and steam heating systems to ensure maximum efficiency. Clean or replace the furnace filter on hot air heating systems. • Lower your thermostat by just one [...]
November 21st, 2011 | Posted in ENERGY CONSERVATION, INVESTMENTS, UTILITY COMPANIES | No Comments
Nov 21, 2011 – Black Friday, November 25, 2011 is even closer. There will be major sales around the United States, some beginning as early as midnight Thursday night. Make sure that your shopping list includes items that will help you conserve energy or use alternative energy sources. Many hybrid cars will be on sale [...]
November 21st, 2011 | Posted in AUTOMOBILES / CARS, BATTERIES, BIOFUELS, ENERGY CONSERVATION, GREEN COMPANIES, GREEN ENERGY EMPLOYMENT, GREEN ENERGY INSTALLERS, INVESTMENTS, OIL COMPANIES, SOLAR POWER, UTILITY COMPANIES, WASTE CONVERSION, WAVE POWER, WIND POWER | No Comments
Nov 19, 2011 – Black Friday, November 25, 2011 is almost upon us. There will be major sales around the United States, some beginning as early as midnight. Make sure that your shopping list includes items that will help you conserve energy or use alternative energy sources. Many hybrid cars will be on sale during [...]
November 19th, 2011 | Posted in AUTOMOBILES / CARS, BATTERIES, BIOFUELS, ENERGY CONSERVATION, GENERAL, GREEN COMPANIES, GREEN ENERGY EMPLOYMENT, GREEN ENERGY INSTALLERS, INVESTMENTS, NATURAL GAS, OIL COMPANIES, UTILITY COMPANIES, WASTE CONVERSION, WAVE POWER, WIND POWER | 2 Comments
Nov 11, 2011 – Welcome to Lumo Energy Lumo Energy wants to make things simple for you. There’s no point in worrying about the little things like electricity and gas, and as one of Australia’s leading electricity suppliers, whether you’re moving home or if you’re just looking for an energy package that will reward you, [...]
November 15th, 2011 | Posted in GREEN COMPANIES, INVESTMENTS, UTILITY COMPANIES | 1 Comment
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 [...]
November 12th, 2011 | Posted in GOVERNMENT, GREEN COMPANIES, GREEN ENERGY EMPLOYMENT, GREEN ENERGY INSTALLERS, INVESTMENTS, SOLAR POWER, UTILITY COMPANIES, WASTE CONVERSION, WIND POWER | 1 Comment
David Etzler is the Founder of Small Biz Green. With its unique focus on businesses with less than 500 employees, Small Biz Green is a one-of a-kind program designed to focus on education and networking that will advance you and your business in today’s new green economy. Speakers, intensive sessions, panel discussions, case studies, and [...]
November 8th, 2011 | Posted in ENERGY CONSERVATION, EVENTS, GREEN COMPANIES, GREEN ENERGY INSTALLERS, PRODUCTS FOR SALE, SOLAR POWER, UTILITY COMPANIES, WAVE POWER, WIND POWER | 1 Comment
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.
October 25th, 2011 | Posted in AUTOMOBILES / CARS, BATTERIES, BIOFUELS, ENERGY CONSERVATION, GREEN COMPANIES, HYDROELECTRICITY, HYDROGEN, INVESTMENTS, SOLAR POWER, UTILITY COMPANIES, WAVE POWER, WIND POWER | 1 Comment
Oct 25, 2011 – The USA EPA is proposing to ease air pollution rules from the regulations it issued in July 2011. The regulations mainly affects coal-fired power plants. Please leave your comments here.
October 25th, 2011 | Posted in COAL, GOVERNMENT, UTILITY COMPANIES | No Comments
Oct 25, 2011 – As the government fiscal year wound down at the end of September the Department of Energy followed the famous government maxim: Use it or lose it. In the last week of September it awarded almost $6 billion in loan guarantees for clean energy manufacturers. Hopefully, no more Solyndras. The total is [...]
October 25th, 2011 | Posted in AUTOMOBILES / CARS, BATTERIES, BIOFUELS, ENERGY CONSERVATION, GEOTHERMAL, GOVERNMENT, HYDROELECTRICITY, INVESTMENTS, NATURAL GAS, NUCLEAR, SOLAR POWER, UTILITY COMPANIES, WASTE CONVERSION, WIND POWER | No Comments
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 [...]
October 17th, 2011 | Posted in GOVERNMENT, GREEN COMPANIES, INVESTMENTS, SOLAR POWER, UTILITY COMPANIES | 1 Comment
Oct 16, 2011 – Elisabeth Rosenthal writes an analysis about global warming in The New York Times. In 2008, both Obama and John McCain agreed about global warming. But Obama has not followed through strongly and the 2012 Republican candidates are solidly against it. However, most countries around the world believe it and are taking [...]
October 16th, 2011 | Posted in ENERGY CONSERVATION, GOVERNMENT, INVESTMENTS, NUCLEAR, OIL COMPANIES, SOLAR POWER, UTILITY COMPANIES, WASTE CONVERSION, WAVE POWER, WIND POWER | No Comments
Oct 10, 2011 – Siemens is to connect the Amrumbank West offshore wind farm to the German power grid. The wind farm will be built 55 kilometers off the German North Sea coast at a location 35 kilometers north of Helgoland and 37 kilometers west of Amrum. Siemens’ HelWin2 converter station will transform the electricity [...]
October 10th, 2011 | Posted in GREEN COMPANIES, INVESTMENTS, UTILITY COMPANIES, WIND POWER | 1 Comment
Oct 9, 2011 – The green energy industry needs an innovator entrepreneur like Steve Jobs instead of solar energy companies all producing similar products. The same goes for wind turbines, EVs, hybrid autos, lithium-ion batteries, the nuclear industry, waste conversion, wave power, etc.
October 9th, 2011 | Posted in AUTOMOBILES / CARS, BATTERIES, GREEN COMPANIES, INVESTMENTS, NUCLEAR, SOLAR POWER, UTILITY COMPANIES, WAVE POWER, WIND POWER | 2 Comments
Sep 24, 2011 – Ormat Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: ORA) announced that its wholly-owned indirect subsidiary, OFC 2 LLC, and its project subsidiaries (“Ormat”), have finalized and signed the loan documentation for a 20-year loan for up to $350 million under a financing with John Hancock Life Insurance Company (USA). The transaction will be guaranteed by [...]
September 26th, 2011 | Posted in GEOTHERMAL, GOVERNMENT, GREEN COMPANIES, INVESTMENTS, UTILITY COMPANIES | No Comments
Sep 21, 2011 – Siemens has delivered high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) technology that allowed Red Eléctrica de España (REE) to link Mallorca with the Spanish mainland via an electricity highway laid in the Mediterranian. In the future a significant proportion of the vacation island’s power demand will thus be met using wind, solar and hydroelectric power [...]
September 21st, 2011 | Posted in GOVERNMENT, INVESTMENTS, SOLAR POWER, UTILITY COMPANIES | No Comments