Archive for May, 2008
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Submitted by New Energy News Blog
A new study by emissions markets experts Point Carbon makes a pair of interesting and probably valid assumptions: (1) The U.S. will have joined an international cap-and-trade scheme by 2020, and, (2) the EU will have established a 25% emissions cut goal which includes the aviation industries.
Based on these assumptions, [...]
OKLAHOMA WIND - THE FUTURE”S OK
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Oklahoma is the state where in the words of the Rodgers and Hammerstein song, “…the wind comes sweepin’ down the plain.”It requires an industry to turn that wind into electricity. Part of that industry is making turbines. Part of making turbines is what DMI Industries does. Kevin Ishmael, DMI: “We [...]
MILESTONE FOR TIDE ENERGY
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Britain has, at least since Queen Elizabeth I’s time, thought of itself as a proud island nation reliant on its dominance of the seas for its strength and security. Now its conquest of its oceans has taken on a new meaning. It is going out to meet the New Energy [...]
A CLIMATE CHANGE BILL WORTH DEBATING
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Congressman Edward Markey (D-Mass), Chairman, House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming: “The chorus for change is deafening…The call of this generation is to stop global warming. And today I put forth [this bill] as a signal of light for those who wish to stand together in the [...]
FRANCE TO GROW SOLAR BIG AND FAST
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According to France’s Grenelle environmental objectives, the nation must have 7,000 megawatts of peak solar capacity installed by 2020. France is now at 46.6 megawatts (peak). Watch for lots of new activity.
Vive le soleil! Vive l’energie solaire!
le Grenelle Environnement (English)
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Aerowatt strengthens its presence in solar energy with Heliowatt
May [...]
WINDPOWER 2008: THRIVING AT THE EPICENTER OF ENERGY
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
The annual wind energy industry conclave opens Sunday (June 1) in Houston, TX, the headquarters of the oil & gas business.Coming right after the big announcement from the wind industry that it intends to provide 20% of U.S. electricity by 2030 and the U.S. Department of Energy’s affirmation that the [...]
How Execs at 30 Top Cleantech Firms Expect to Make Lots of $$ (Part 4 of 7) ‘Guillotine Hanging Over’ Utilities that Use Coal
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
Rumors of coal’s imminent death are greatly exaggerated. The reality is, coal will be a vital fuel for electricity generation for decades to come, and beaucoup money will be made by companies that know how to use coal more cleanly in power plants and other applications. Referring to electric utilities, William McMahon, head [...]
You Got to Know When to Hold Them & When to Fold Them - Which Oil Company Stocks Should You Hold?
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
There’s a simple way to analyze which oil companies investors may want to own and which they may want to sell. The more oil an oil company owns, the less it needs to go into the market and buy somebody else’s crude at today’s high prices, thereby hurting its profit margins. Every oil [...]
ETS Investor Alert 5-30-08
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
European power producers are accusing the European Union of raising the risk of blackouts. They charge that EU plans for cutting pollution will force the premature closure of numerous power plants. independent.co.uk
Blah, blah, blah. In the end, expect the new rules to pass and the power generators to stay whole by passing through [...]
IEA ON OIL: YIKES!
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Peak oil fanatics are now officially peak oil theorists. The world is about to go through the looking glass.
Fatih Birol, Chief Economist, IEA: “We are entering a new world energy order…The oil investments required may be much, much higher than what people assume…”
Analyses of world oil have always focused on [...]
MOORE’S LAW AND SOLAR GROWTH
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
An essay from Canada highlights the role of daring investors in the growth of the solar energy industry.Venture Capitalist (VC) John Walton took a risk on First Solar, a start-up company in 1999 with a plan to make something cutting edge called solar thin film. Walton dropped a quarter of [...]
WIND GOES TO WORK FOR SOUTH AFRICA
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
South Africa has been struggling with energy shortages and periodic outages for months (see S. AFRICA, FACING SHORTS, TO TRY NEW ENERGY) and the country has been studying the development of many kinds of New Energy. That it’s first wind installation went online May 23 demonstrates one of wind energy’s [...]
How Execs at 30 Top Cleantech Firms Expect to Make Lots of $$ (Part 3 of 7) With New Solar Tech, You Won’t Need the Sun!
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
Solar power is all about the sun, right? Wrong. With next-generation solar technology, you won’t need the sun, only indoor lighting, to generate electricity, according to Rick Hess, CEO of privately-held Konarka Technologies in Lowell, MA, a company that builds polymer photovoltaic products, a material that converts light to energy.
Think of it as [...]
Could Britain’s Pursuit Dynamics Give the Corn Ethanol Industry the Boost It Badly Needs?
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
It was toward the end of a day-long investor conference two weeks ago that John Heathcote, CEO of Britain’s Pursuit Dynamics PLC, said something that made at least one audience member ask himself, “Did I really hear what I just heard?”
When Heathcote and other CEOs on a biofuels panel were finished, the audience [...]
ETS Investor Alert 5-29-08
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
Another important step in the U.S.’s creation of a carbon trading market has been taken not by the federal or any state government but by a local air quality improvement district in California.
As this story notes www.enn.com the Bay Area Air Quality Management District has approved the first fees on businesses that emit [...]
EV CHINA: THE NEW WAY
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
In a widely praised article based on firsthand observations during a recent (pre-quake) China visit, EV and electric bike authority Forbes Bagatelle-Black lays out a new vision for the transition from oil-addicted transportation to a pedal-fueled, battery-assisted tomorrow.
Bagatelle-Black: “I recently spent two weeks traveling all over China on business. The [...]
HOW WIND ENERGY BUILDS ECONOMIES
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Listen! That’s not thunder - it’s the sound of opportunity pounding on the U.S. door.
The wind energy industry recently announced it will supply 20% of U.S. electricity by 2030. It supplied about 1% at the end of 2007. That means the wind industry will grow much more than 20-fold in [...]
SOLAR FOR CANADA’S ECONOMY
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That’s the sun lighting up Canada’s manufacturing sector. And not a moment too soon.Tibor Urbanek, founder/president, Woodbine Tool & Die: “It [was] a very dark situation…”
Woodbine Tool & Die lost a third of its workforce in the last 2 years.
Urbanek: “We have no choice but to look for alternative work [...]
ETS Investor Alert for 5-28-08
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
You just can’t keep a good man down. Or a fuel cell, apparently. No matter how many times fuel cells’ obituary is written, it keeps showing renewed promise as maybe the ultimate energy solution.
As this story notes www.sciencedaily.com engineers at MIT have improved the power output of one type of fuel cell by [...]
How Execs at 30 Top Cleantech Firms Expect to Make Lots of $$ (Part 2 of 7) With LEDs, Never Change Another Light Bulb
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
For every business sick of changing light bulbs and paying high electric bills, there’s a “new user experience” coming. Depending on the application, light bulbs either are already here or will be shortly that don’t have to be changed and that use only a fraction of the electricity that incandescent bulbs use.
They will [...]
CEO of Lithium-ion Battery Developer Valence Sees Revenue Growing 500% In Current Fiscal Year
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
Valence Technology Inc., a Texas-based lithium-ion battery developer for transportation and industrial applications, expects revenue in the fiscal year ending next March 31 to be roughly 500% higher than the “just over” $20 million the company expects to report in the fiscal year just ended, Robert Kanode, president and CEO, told EnergyTechStocks.com.
“You’re going [...]
QUEEN BUYS GIGANTIC WIND
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
The Clipper MBE, a 7.5-megawatt wind turbine to be erected off the UK coast, will be a true engineering feat. The MBE stands for Million Barrel Equivalent. It is said to be capable of powering 5,500 homes and offsetting 32 million tonnes of CO2. One turbine!
The biggest turbines to date [...]
DUKE BUYS MORE SUN
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Solar energy installations are getting bigger and more efficient. A new Duke Energy/SunEdison project will reach for 16 megawatts of capacity to surpass the current biggest U.S. photovoltaic (PV) facility, a 14-megawatt installation at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada.
Critics contend a change to New Energy will drive electricity bills [...]
CITY LAUNCHES SMART GRID
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
The next generation of energy efficiency in commercial/industrial/residential buildings will come through a Smart Grid capable of Demand Response. The effectiveness of such programs depend a great deal on the power customers. (For more on this, see SMARTGRID and DEMAND RESPONSE AND THE ELECTRON CONSUMER)
In pursuit of better serving its [...]
ETS Investor Alert 5-27-08
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
A new record for solar cell efficiency has been set. www.sciencedaily.com/
The new record is 23.2%, up from, the previous record of 21.9%. The percentage refers to the amount of sunlight that the cells converted into electricity.
Reportedly, the new record was set with so-called thin film materials that are relatively inexpensive.
Until tomorrow.
Rating 3.00 out [...]
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