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Rising steel and copper prices and wind turbine supply chain congestion are apparently not as much of a concern to Scottish & Southern Energy (SSE), the huge UK utility, as they are to Royal Dutch Shell.
Royal Dutch Shell last weeked backed out of its partnership with E.ON, the German utility, […]

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The exclusive and ambitious group of folks gathered for ConnectivityWeek are designing new R2-D2s and C-3POs to allow consumers to resolve the energy crisis and mitigate global climate change for themselves.Right now, electrical power is coming from The Borg (or maybe the Cylons).To most, electric power is a force coming […]

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Increasing efficiency of a solar cell from 21.9% to 23.2% may not seem significant but it is not a 1.3% improvement, it is converting almost 6% more of the sunlight hitting the thin film into electricity.
The materials added to the thin film to achieve this improvement are not expensive. The […]

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Merrill Lynch just launched a full-service carbon offset business. www.climatebiz.com
“Our view is that the carbon market, now worth $70 billion, has demonstrated that it provides the most cost-effective approach for companies to reduce and offset their emission of greenhouse gasses,” Merrill said.
Those who want to tax carbon emissions might disagree, but what’s clear […]

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Expected growth in electrified transportation and renewable energy will drive global demand for batteries and other energy storage devices, making this a $100 billion or higher annual market compared with about $20 billion a year currently, according to a new forecast from Merriman Curhan Ford, the investment banking firm that closely analyzes “cleantech” […]

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Coskata Inc., the privately-held biofuel developer partnering with General Motors Corp. on cellulosic ethanol that can be made from almost any carbon source, expects to have tens of millions of gallons of its “green gasoline” ready for market by late 2010. “That’s the fastest it can be there,” Wes Bolsen, the company’s vice […]

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