Archive for October, 2008
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There will soon be cities all over the upper midwest vying with Chicago for the nickname “windy.”
The enormous potential of the Great Lakes region’s wind assets, possibly enough capacity to generate a third of U.S. electricity, will not go untapped much longer. (See Michigan’s Offshore Wind Potential and A STRONGER [...]
DISCLOSURE – “CLEAN” COAL IS DIRTY
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A British journalist has a point to make.
Fred Pearce, Greenwash Column, UK Guardian: “Who came up with the term “clean coal”? It is the most toxic phrase in the greenwash lexicon… It is, of course, oxymoronic. Coal is about acid rain and peasouper smogs, asthma and mercury contamination, radioactive waste [...]
GOOD STORIES THERE WASN’T TIME TO GET TO THIS WEEK
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A NewEnergyNews Friday feature.
FIRST SOLAR GOES RETAIL, SOLARCITY GETS BIG BUCKS
SolarCity gets $30 million in funding from First Solar, other investors; The financing would help the installer of photovoltaic systems expand in the U.S. Under a five-year deal, First Solar will also supply solar panels.
Marla Dickerson, October 30, 2008 (LA [...]
EnerLume’s Game Plan Illustrates the Threat to DR Firms Such as EnerNOC and Comverge (Part 2 of 2)
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Posted: October 31, 2008
The business model for “demand response” firms such as EnerNOC Inc. and Comverge Inc. is fairly simple. Pay big commercial and industrial power users for the right to turn [...]
5 Investment Themes for 2009 (& Firms That Should Benefit) #5: Flurry of New Green Funds
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Posted: October 31, 2008
Since EnergyTechStocks.com began publishing in the summer of 2007, its list of mostly clean and green energy mutual and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) has doubled and now numbers about [...]
ETS Investor Alert 10-31-08
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Just a fun story for you weekend readers – and you know who you are – about how New York’s Grand Central Station is considered by some to be a model of energy efficiency. cleantechnica.com
Highlighted are efforts to use compact fluorescent lights and to recycle.
Until Monday.
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NO MORE FOSSIL FUELS – IT CAN HAPPEN
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According to Energy (R)evolution 2008, a new report from Greenpeace International and the European Renewable Energy Council (EREC), the citizens of the world can shift 100% to New Energy by 2090, have all the energy we want and profit from the change – IF we are willing to pay the [...]
CALIF REGULATORS BLOCK SOLAR POWER PLANT BUILDERS
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Can’t blame this one on the Bush administration. Can’t even blame it on the state. So who takes the heat from standing between Californians and energy from their sunshine?
BrightSource Energy has applications pending for large solar power plant installations in California’s Mojave desert. The technology is ready. The financing is [...]
5 Investment Themes for 2009 (& Firms That Should Benefit) #4: Geothermal Gushes
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Posted: October 30, 2008
When the U.S. Energy Department announced last week that it was using geothermal energy to help recover oil from old wells, it was one more indication that geothermal [...]
EnerLume Bets Big on Compact Fluorescents Staying Dominant in Commercial Sector (Pt 1 of 2)
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Although all the buzz is about super-efficient light emitting diode (LED) technology, EnerLume Energy Management Corp. CEO David Murphy is betting big on energy-efficient compact fluorescent lights (CFLs) remaining dominant in the commercial sector for at least several more years. That way EnerLume’s main product, an “intelligent” management system for CFLs that the [...]
ETS Investor Alert 10-30-08
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University of Michigan researchers reportedly have developed a new tool that uses natural “fingerprints” in coal to track down mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants. www.sciencedaily.com
Said to aid in accuracy, this new method could have the potential to prevent utilities from disclaiming responsibility for mercury pollution.
Until tomorrow.
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THE ENERGY POLICY THAT WILL SWING THE VOTE IN THE HEARTLANDS
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“The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.” (Will Rogers)
Research shows the most effective political lies are those promising people what they want. It presumably follows that if a politician can’t tell people what they want to hear, he would avoid saying anything.
Which explains this [...]
SMALL WIND TO BE BIG BUSINESS IN MICHIGAN
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The Swift Wind Turbine is what the wind industry calls “small” wind. It is designed for individual residential and commercial structures, not for large utility-scale wind farm installations.
Small wind has become big business as people all over the U.S. and all over the world look for ways to make their [...]
HOW’S THE CARBON OFFSET BUSINESS? GOLDMAN SACHS BUYS IN
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Surely this is one of the most unqualified endorsements of the future of the emissions offsetting business so far made in the U.S.
With a run on its holdings that drained a third of its deposits just a week ago, Goldman Sachs has no cash to expend frivolously yet it bought [...]
5 Investment Themes for 2009 (& Firms That Should Benefit) #3: CFL Sales Should Soar Higher
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Posted: October 29, 2008
If, as expected, the global recession bites deep next year, more and more businesses and homeowners can be expected to save money by saving energy. Probably the easiest, [...]
ETS Investor Alert 10-29-08
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The University of North Dakota’s Energy & Environmental Research Center says it has created the first 100% renewable jet fuel. www.enn.com
The center said it made the fuel from multiple renewable feedstocks.
The latter makes this a development especially worth following.
Until tomorrow.
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EFFICIENCY – THE CHEAPEST ENERGY
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A forthcoming issue of Forbes Magazine will feature Energy + Genius, a series of short essays from innovative thinkers with solutions for the emerging energy challenge.
From Forbes’ intro to Energy + Genius: “Energy consumption is expected to rise by 50% through 2030. Getting there sustainably will require a handful of [...]
REMAKE - THE NEW CALIFORNIA SOLAR POWER PLANT
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A 5-megawatt solar power plant went online in California October 23. It’s a small addition to the California electricity supply but a giant step for solar energy.
The California Energy Commission (CEC) is studying proposals for 5 large solar power plants with a combined 1,512 megawatts capacity.
The U.S. Bureau of Land [...]
ARIZONA WIND BUILDING
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Given the immensity of the need for New Energy, it is surprising to hear a federal official admit the federal agency in charge of moving the process along is, instead, impeding it.
Stephen Allred, assistant secretary, U.S. Department of the Interior (Interior): “We have to do better with the federal government [...]
OLD ENERGY VS. NEW ENERGY IN W. VA.
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rom Kayford Mountain in West Virginia, there is a view of a Patriot Coal Corp. mountaintop removal mining site “…a flat and barren pile of rubble, a gray, alien landscape where only machines now move.” (Vicki Smith, AP)
Another view looks onto Coal River Mountain: “…a web of jagged ridges rather [...]
DAY4 ENERGY SAYS THINGS ARE SUNNY
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Storytime: How a solar energy industry phenomenon is made.
Take a retired chairman/CEO of a satellite imaging/surveillance company (John MacDonald of MacDonald Dettwiler) who has been awarded the Officer of the Order of Canada and dabbles as a physicist, engineer, educator and entrepreneur. Add a Russian physicist (Leonid Rubin).
John MacDonald, co-founder/chairman, [...]
FEDS TO OPEN WEST FOR GEOTHERMAL (DRILL, BABY, DRILL)
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The U.S. is the world leader in electricity generated from geothermal sources with a 2,500+-megawatt capacity. Geothermal is ¼ of U.S. New Energy capacity. A recent U.S. Geological Survey assessment found the nation’s western states have a known potential, using existing technology, of at least another 1000 megawatts and possibly [...]
HINDU RECOMMENDS INDIAN WIND
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Like the savvy, wind industry veteran player it is, Suzlon Energy has over the last 1-to-2 years been positioning itself to be ready for the coming wind power market expansion.
Suzlon has essentially confronted every potential barrier to its growth and eliminated it.
It has developed a 10.5% global market share and [...]
SOLAR DEVELOPMENT IN JORDAN
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Jordan is serious about developing its solar potential in its Ma’an Development Area (MDA) of southern Jordan.
MDA will be (1) a regional hub for industrial activity, (2) a center of excellence for vocational training, (3) a religious landmark offering pilgrims on their way to the Holy cities an ideal environment [...]
FRENCH SYMBOLISM – EIFFEL TOWER FLASHES ENERGY CRISIS
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Quick – what’s the smartest New Energy choice?
Not sure? OK, what’s the cheapest New Energy choice?
Same answer for both questions: Energy saved.
The famously cutting edge (and, OK, yes, frugal) French are moving again in the smartest, cheapest direction. Leaders are cutting a very conspicuous form of energy consumption in a [...]
