Submitted by New Energy News Blog
The Governors of Texas and Kansas say so. The Mayor of Houston says so. Higher ups in the Departments of Energy and Agriculture say so. The heads of some of the world’s biggest energy companies say so.
Today is tomorrow.
Tomorrow is here.
Huh?
In the opening session of WindPower 2008, the U.S. wind […]

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As the Senate takes up debate on perhaps the most complicated controversy it could face, global climate change, British leaders – already operating under a cap-and-trade system like that the Senate is working on – put forth an even more controversial and aggressive solution.During World War II, food, fuel and […]

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An alumni association in the U.S. state of Georgia is making a donation to its alma mater. Not interesting? How about if it’s the Prince Of Wales Alumni Association (POWAA)? Still not interesting?
How about if it’s the Prince of Wales Secondary School in Freetown, Sierra Leone, they’re making the donation […]

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Americans may pay a lot more for electricity this summer, federal energy officials and the spot power market indicate. Worst hit could be the Northeast, especially the area from Boston to New York City, where forward prices from the InterContinental Exchange for July-August 2008 have been running up to 75% and higher over […]

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Utility-scale solar power plants are benefiting from a perfect storm pounding the electric utility industry. The price of grid-supplied electricity is rising. The profit margins for wind power are falling. And utility-scale solar power technology is developing so rapidly that within three to seven years the industry won’t need government subsidies, although picking […]

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The list of companies racing to develop lithium-ion batteries for plug-in and all-electric vehicles just keeps growing. Latest to enter the fray: the tag team duo of Sanyo and Volkswagen. news.yahoo.com
Sanyo’s already the largest lithium-ion manufacturer for portable electronics, so what’s really going on here is VW waking up to the electric vehicle […]

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Wal-Mart reportedly now has the largest solar energy roof in Canada. www.environmentalleader.com
Why is that worth reporting? Because big flat-roof retailers like Wal-Mart are expected to start generating significant amounts of solar power for their own use and to sell into the grid at a premium.
In short, Wal-Mart is developing a new way to […]

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Cassatt Corp. CEO Bill Coleman says data centers are wasting as much as 90% of the electricity they consume because nobody is sure what application is running on which server at any given time. Consequently, every server is kept on all of the time, resulting in an extraordinary waste of electricity.
According to Coleman, […]

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Unlike the solar, lighting, cleaner coal, electric vehicle and energy storage firms so far discussed in this series, biofuel firms were cautious in predicting a rosy future for their cleantech sector. Problems cited ranged from the need to develop better technology, to the need to better protect their intellectual property rights in foreign […]

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