Archive for the 'WIND POWER' Category

Do You Need Qualified Green Energy Employees?

Dec 1, 2011 – Do you need qualified green energy employees.  They are reading this blog and similar  blogs and websites around the world.  Post your available jobs by clicking through on the posting to the right.  It is only $10 for 30 days of posting.  Please note that your posting will be seen on [...]

Green Energy Jobs Available

Dec 1, 2011 – Check out the green energy jobs posted to the right of this post.  Once you click through you will be able to search for many more.  Get a job that you really believe in and that you will enjoy.

Black Friday Getting Closer: Buy Energy Conserving Devices to Make it a Green 2012

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 [...]

Shop Black Friday Sales: Green Energy

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 [...]

What Is the New Gold?

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 [...]

Accurate Forecasts Lead to Predictable Wind Power

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, [...]

Tech-Service Firm Devises Magnetic Design Software for OEM

November 9, 2011 by Paul Dvorak Fast and accurate electromagnetic simulations can help wind turbine suppliers speed developments in wind-turbine design. The Siemens design team, for example, uses the Opera electromagnetic simulator from the Vector Fields Software product line of Cobham Technical Services to help it develop new generator concepts, and often runs thousands of [...]

Green Technology Conference at Office Depot Headquaters – Boca Raton

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 [...]

Siemens Gets 6 Orders for Wind Turbines in Americas

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 [...]

US Solar Power: Soaring or Icarus?

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 [...]

Venture Capital Investments Increase for Green Energy

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.

DOE Awards Now Over $16 Billion

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 [...]

Rising Rare-Earth Prices and What To Do About It

October 18, 2011 by Paul Dvorak Filed under Materials, Wind Power Generators, Wind Power News Panu Kurronen, Product Manager, The Switch By Panu Kurronen, Product Manager, The Switch The growing global demand of rare earth metals combined with China’s ever-tightening grip on the material keep pushing up magnet prices. While we at The Switch don’t [...]

Windstream Looks Ahead With Lake Ontario Plans

James Quilter, Windpower Monthly, 17 October 2011, 11:07am   www.WindpowerMonthly.com CANADA: Windstream Energy, which holds a feed-in tariff contract for a wind farm on the Great Lakes, is pressing ahead with the project despite Ontario’s decision to halt offshore development. The Great Lakes: a number of projects have been delayed or cancelled The 300MW Wolfe Island [...]

Global Warming! Global Warming?

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 [...]