Superior Energy Performance Program to Save Businesses Money, Reduce Energy Use and Improve Economic Competitiveness WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Energy today announced the first industrial plants in the country to be certified under the Superior Energy Performance program — a new, market-based industrial energy efficiency program. The energy management certification program is accredited [...]
Cal Poly Pomona University is celebrating becoming carbon neutral at its 16-acre John T. Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies with an event called “Plug into the Sun: Green Light to Carbon Neutral.†The milestone was made possible by the installation of concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) solar energy systems from California-based Amonix, Inc., the recognized leader in [...]
AUSTRALIA NEEDS TO LIFT GAME ON CLIMATE ACTION Australia needs to increase its national emission target from five to 15 per cent to meet its fair share of global action on climate change, according to new research from The Australian National University. The study, conducted by Dr Frank Jotzo, Director of the ANU Centre for [...]
David Cameron has made a U-turn on a pre-election promise to reward those who had solar panels installed before a designated date set-out in the launch of the Feed-in Tariff (FIT), allowing them to receive the same subsidies for electricity generation as those who installed solar panels after the date. Solar Power Grants, the comprehensive [...]
BRANCHBURG, N.J., Vanguard Energy Partners, a leader in the design and installation of large-scale solar electric systems, announced today that it has been awarded a contract by the Somerset County Improvement Authority (SCIA) to establish 7.6 megawatts (MW) of energy-producing solar power systems at 31 local and County government locations throughout Somerset County, N.J. It [...]
Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell this week announced $20.5 million in state and federal investments that will create 1,400 jobs in the rapidly expanding clean energy industry.The funding will benefit 40 diverse energy projects that will generate or save the equivalent of more than 10 billion kilowatt hours of electricity over their lifetimes. That’s enough [...]
A team of technologists from GE’s Industrial Solutions, Appliances, Lighting and Research divisions is partnering with major utilities, builders and local communities in the western U.S. to evaluate and develop new strategies that reduce energy usage in new and existing homes by up to 70%** or more. With the average U.S. household paying $1,240 per [...]
An alliance of California business, labor, environmental and community leaders has formed the California Apollo Program, a comprehensive strategy that details how to continue creating clean energy jobs in the state. The California Apollo Program is a blueprint for moving California toward broadly shared economic prosperity, energy security and climate stability, while reinforcing the state’s [...]
The Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) has approved Tucson Electric Power’s (TEP’s) plan to provide customers with an affordable way to meet their electric needs with locally generated solar power. By the end of this year, participants in TEP’s Bright Tucson Community Solar Program will be able to purchase shares of solar energy for as little [...]
GE Technology Helps the Country Increase its Important Coal-to-Olefins (Plastics) Production BEIJING, CHINA—August 12, 2010—The gasification unit at one of the world’s largest coal-to-olefins projects successfully started up at the China Shenhua Coal to Liquid and Chemical Co. Ltd.’s project in Baotou, Inner Mongolia (Shenhua Baotou Coal to Olefins project). The gasification unit uses advanced [...]
Hybrid Energy reports today the continuing appreciation in the market value and income potential of its Photovoltaic (PV) and Solar Thermal technology recently acquired as part of the $18M Technology Transfer Agreement and Joint Development Agreement with KS IP Holdings, LLC. In its recent report ‘United States PV Market 2010,’ published July 26th, Solarbuzz forecasts [...]
S.L. designed the STEP carbon capture process, and together with B.W. conducted and analyzed the electrolysis and solar experiments. S.G., H.A., and J.G. participated in the initial phases (with molten eutectic, rather pure Li2CO3, experiments), and D.J. and H.A., under the direction of S.L., are continuing experiments. The first experimental evidence of a new solar [...]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Justice Department, and the state of Indiana announced that Hoosier Energy Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc. has agreed to pay a civil penalty of $950,000 and install and upgrade pollution control technology at its two coal-fired power plants in Indiana to resolve violations of the Clean Air Act. The [...]
RSS
FeedBurner Newslette
Twitter
Facebook
LinkedIn
