Archive for June, 2008
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Should a Category 3 or higher hurricane hit the Gulf of Mexico this summer, history indicates that oil refiners will subsequently try to maximize the available supply of gasoline, at the expense of jet fuel. The result will be either sickeningly high jet fuel prices or actual physical shortages. “Airlines could be grounded, [...]
As Only Quick Fix, Expect Energy Efficiency Providers To Surge - Watch Johnson Con., Owens & Philips (Part 2 of 3)
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A desperate search is on in America and around the world for quick fixes to an energy crisis decades in the making, but as experts emphasize, the only immediate remedy is to use less. Thus companies that provide energy efficiency services are about to reap the benefits of unprecedented attention from Washington, Wall [...]
EURO COMPANIES SIGN $9.7 BIL WIND DEAL
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
4500 megawatts. $9.7 billion. The biggest wind deal ever made anywhere in this world. And they will get bigger.
Iberdrola Renovables is incredibly busy scheduling wind development. Before this gigantic deal, it had a 2700-megawatt deal with Gamesa from 2006. This year it has signed deals with GE Energy (300 megawatts), [...]
JAPAN TESTS HOME FUEL CELLS
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
The practicality of the hydrogen fuel cell in transportation is sidestepped by a new Japanese plan to install them in homes.
Big Japanese energy companies are installing small fuel cells in Japanese homes and feeding them natural gas. The natural gas splits into hydrogen and carbon monoxide. The hydrogen generates electricity [...]
CANADA TO USE SWITCHGRASS AS HEATING FUEL?
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Advocated as a source of second generation ethanol, research has yet to crack the mystery of refining Switchgrass into liquid fuel at economic costs.
Roger Samson, executive director, Resource Efficient Agriculture Production Canada (REAP): “It takes up as much energy as it produces…”
Academics who have successfully produced liquid fuel from Swichgrass [...]
A simple way to cut oil use
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
A new campaign to change the way drivers waste oil by changing it excessively. From the California EPA and partners via GreenEnergyTV.
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A better way to cut oil use - Plug-In Partners
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
This is worth knowing about. Learn more at Plug-In Partners. From Austin Energy/Plug-In Partners via YouTube.
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The BroadStar AeroCam – No oil at all
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
In the burgeoning “small wind” market, there is a host of candidates, a plethora of outside-the-box ideas and no clear winner emerging. From BroadStar via YouTube.
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ETS Investor Alert 6-16-08
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
Air New Zealand plans to fly a 747 jet on biofuel, specifically, oil from the fast-growing jatropha weed. www.latimes.com
If the test works, the airline industry just may be on its way to a new era where its fuel costs less than the equivalent of $50 a barrel of oil.
At the rate oil prices [...]
If a Hurricane Strikes (Part 1 of 2) Experts Say Oil Could Spike to $200, Natural Gas to $16 Mcf, and Stay Elevated for Year or More
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Should a Category 3 or higher hurricane roar through the energy-producing region of the Gulf of Mexico this summer, oil prices could spike to around $200 a barrel from about $135 currently and natural gas prices could hit $16 per thousand cubic feet (Mcf), compared with less than $13 currently. If damage was [...]
As Only Quick Fix, Expect Energy Efficiency Providers to Surge - Watch Michelin, ZAP & Vectrix (Part 1 of 3)
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
A desperate search is on in America and around the world for quick fixes to an energy crisis decades in the making, but as experts emphasize, the only immediate remedy is to use less. Thus companies that provide energy efficiency services are about to reap the benefits of unprecedented attention from Washington, Wall [...]
RIDE FOR RENEWAL: 14-YEAR-OLD LIZA RIDES FOR THE ELECTRIC CAR
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Seeing the movie Who Killed The Electric Car? changed 14-year-old Liza Stoner’s life. Already passionate about the environment, Liza made up her mind electric vehicles (EVs) should be available to U.S. car buyers and decided to do something about it.
On June 16, she is setting off from her hometown of [...]
THIN FILM MORE BUILDING-INTEGRATABLE
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Billed as a “breakthrough” product, Global Solar’s PowerFlex Solar Strings do nothing to make Copper Indium Gallium diSelenide (CIGS) thin film more efficient. It holds its own, in the 10% range.The “breakthrough” is in producing a solar cell on a metal sheet, a “flexible substrate” that is sturdy enough to [...]
THE BETTER BATTERY AND THE PLUG-IN CAR
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President of GM-North America Troy Clarke, speaking at the Brookings Institution/Google Plug-In Electric Vehicles 2008: What Role for Washington? event June 12, promised the Chevy Volt will be available in 2010. He also promised it will have a 40-mile battery-powered range and a gas motor-assisted 400-mile range beyond that.
The only [...]
WIND TO SELL, WIND TO BUY
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Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius, often mentioned as a potential Obama running mate, has been driving development of wind energy in her state. At WindPower 2008, the recent wind industry convention, she called for federal policy that supports wind’s growth: “Congress must renew the production tax credits and make it clear [...]
GE BUYS SOLAR COMPANY
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Barely had NewEnergyNews uttered the phrase “consolidation and corporatization” about the solar energy industry (see yesterday’s UTILITY IN NEW SOLAR POWER PLANT DEAL) before GE Energy announced it was not satisfied with just a piece of PrimeStar Solar Inc. and had bought controlling interest in the thin film solar materials [...]
NEW ENGLAND REGION EMISSIONS TRADING MOVES AHEAD
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
It looks like the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) emissions cap-and-trade system may the first market-based climate change effort in the U.S.
It will begin with auctions of credits to utilities in the participating 10 states based on principles established by Auction Design for Selling CO2 Emission Allowances. The auction will [...]
ETS Investor Alert 6-13-08
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
Investors should not forget that carbon dioxide emissions eventually may not be something the world must dispose of through expensive sequestration or other technologies.
As this article notes www.enn.com scientists are working on turning CO2 emissions from vehicle tailpipes into electricity that could be used by a hybrid or electric vehicle as fuel.
Previously EnegyTechStocks.com [...]
Now That EIA Says Pump Prices Will ‘Peak’ At $4.15, Get Ready To Pay $5 A Gallon In August (Let Us Explain)
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Back in April, when the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecast that gasoline prices in the U.S. could hit $4 a gallon this summer, EnergyTechStocks.com warned that, given EIA’s uncanny ability to underestimate pump prices, Americans shouldn’t be surprised if they are paying $4.50 in June. (See U.S. EIA Consistently Underestimates Gas Prices, [...]
Investor Alert: Start Positioning Your Portfolio For The Electric Vehicle Revolution
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When the man behind perhaps the foremost “clean” energy stock index in the world – Robert Wilder, manager of the Wilderhill Clean Energy Index – recommends putting only a “tiny bit” of one’s portfolio into clean energy companies, investors need to pay attention. (For more see Robert Wilder of Wilderhill Clean Energy Index: [...]
POLITICAL CONVENTIONS WILL RUN ON WIND AND SUN
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
The political gestures in the Senate June 10 toward putting a tax on oil company windfall profits and toward shifting oil company tax breaks to funding for New Energy (see Two Energy Bills, Including Windfal Tax, Stall in Senate) were nothing more than election-year political one-upsmanship. The outcome was predetermined [...]
UTILITY IN NEW SOLAR POWER PLANT DEAL
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
It is easy to understand why solar power deals like the just signed between eSolar and Southern California Edison are getting BIG BIG funding. Here’s how eSolar describesd its power plant: “…a low-impact, pre-fabricated form factor with advanced optics and computer software engineering [to meet] the demands of utilities of [...]
AMERICAN SUPERCONDUCTOR: BECAUSE OF WIND, BUY
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Writing last week from WindPower 2008, the enormously successful wind energy industry annual convention and exhibition, NewEnergyNews compared what the current, growing wind industry boom is about to do for the U.S. economy to what the auto industry did for the country between 1920 and 1930:
“…the U.S. auto industry became [...]
ETS Investor Alert 6-12-08
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
Influential British MPs reportedly want all British adults to carry `carbon ration cards’ and to live their lives under a carbon cap. www.dailymail.co.uk
This isn’t the first time such an idea has been floated in the UK, but reportedly its backing by Parliament’s Environmental Audit Committee could make it a reality.
It’s hard to see [...]
America’s Energy Nightmare About to Get Worse - Many U.S. Utilities will be `Under Profit Pressure’ (Part 4 of 4)
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Investors take heed: rapidly rising power prices are going to put many big U.S. electric utilities “under profit pressure,” according to Michael Wolfe, executive director of the National Energy Assistance Directors’ Association (NAEDA), which represents the state directors of the federal government’s Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP).
Wolfe, who is not a [...]
