Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Once the world’s oil supplier, U.S. dominance is now compromised. Here’s how Andy Grove, former Chairman/CEO, Intel Corporation/author, Only the Paranoid Survive, and Robert Burgelman, professor, Stanford Graduate School of Business, put it: “Our standing in the world of oil has fallen a long way in a short time.”
Digital world […]

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The FPL Group claims its 38,105 megawatts of capacity has one of the lowest energy-to-CO2 ratios in the U.S. It is among the biggest solar energy-producing utilities in the world and it is the biggest utility producer of wind energy-generated power in the U.S.
Responding to Florida Governor Charlie Crist’s energy […]

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Submitted by New Energy News Blog
That a minority of recalcitrant U.S. Senators mired in 1950s thinking is blocking extension of vital New Energy incentives, including production tax credits that would buoy the domestic wind energy industry’s American Explosion, is not news. How it impacts a local economy like South Dakota’s is fascinating, especially since the […]

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Here’s a new forecast of when the era of super efficient light emitting diode (LED) lighting in the home will commence. According to a researcher at the University of Glasgow, it could start in less than three years. www.enn.com
If he’s right, then a lot of the money being poured into compact fluorescent (CFLs) […]

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As manager of the Cleantech Index, probably the broadest global stock index of companies engaged in environmentally-friendly activities, Rafael Coven’s analytical world ranges far and wide, from companies that make solar panels and wind turbines to companies that better control the flow of traffic in major cities. Then there are the eco-friendly agricultural […]

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Veteran Wall Street electric utility analyst Dan Scotto says a repeat of the massive 2003 U.S. power blackout is “very likely” and that the Northeast region is at greatest risk.
In the first of a four-part series inaugurating EnergyTechStocks’ new “Video News Service,” Scotto tells EnergyTechStocks’ managing editor Bill Paul that an enormous blackout […]

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The European Union wants to cut back its target for biofuel production because of its impact on the environment and food sufficiency. www.iht.com
There’s just one problem. Biofuel, as bad as it may be in its present form, has become an indispensable part of the global “oil” supply which, when you look carefully at […]

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At first glance they seem to have nothing in common.
Spain’s Telvent GIT S.A., which trades on NASDAQ, is an information technology firm that has a system for controlling the flow of traffic. Massachusetts-based Kadant Inc., which trades on the New York Stock Exchange, makes and sells paper recycling equipment. Nevada-based Ormat Technologies Inc., […]

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Project Better Place CEO Shai Agassi told a U.S. Congressional committee last month that the carmakers, component manufacturers and electrical grid operators who “gain first-mover advantage” in his plan to have the world’s cars run on electricity instead of gasoline may share in “as big a prize as has ever been seen in […]

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