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Archive for June, 2010
Jigar Shah (Founder, Sun Edison): “The Solar Industry Controls Its Own Destiny”
Jun 30th
ERIC WESOFF: JUNE 30, 2010
Jigar Shah, solar visionary, speaks on a variety of controversial topics including energy storage, DC-to-DC chips, and trackers.
Jigar Shah, CEO of the Carbon War Room and Founder of Sun Edison, spoke at Camstar’sSummit on Solar Quality event today in Santa Clara, California. I managed to chat with him before he delivered his keynote.
He was adamant. “The solar industry controls its own destiny.” The industry thinks its “controlled by subsidies or the price of silicon,” but in his view, it’s held back more by timidity than by those external factors. Shah went on to claim, “We are going to be at 100,000 More >
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Loading ...Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative Goes Live With New Meter Data Management System (Siemens eMeter)
Jun 24th
Siemens Energy, Inc. has completed the installation of the first full-scale roll-out of eMeter’s Energy Engage customer web portal on-site at Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative in Bastrop, Texas. The portal was deployed on top of the eMeter EnergyIP Meter Data Management platform to provide Bluebonnet’s consumers easily accessible and understandable daily usage and cost information. With the information collected, the customer will be able to assess the implications of variable-rate pricing as regulators consider moving to time-of-use (TOU) and event-based rates in the future.
“Energy Engage is an instrumental piece of our Sustainable Grid program. We feel it empowers our members to More >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Texas Municipal Utility to Deploy Landis+Gyr Smart Grid System
Jun 24th
Landis+Gyr has been selected by CPS Energy to deploy its Gridstream smart grid solution for its more than one million electric and natural gas customers inSan Antonio, Texas.
CPS Energy plans to begin the deployment of the Landis+Gyr Gridstream RF technology, including advanced meters and supporting network infrastructure, later this year with a goal to complete the work by 2015. Gridstream RF is a two-way mesh network that delivers advanced metering, distribution automation and personal energy management communications.
Based in San Antonio, Texas, CPS Energy provides electric service to 707,000 customers and natural gas service to 322,000 customers in and surrounding More >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Sen. Daschle & Wind Industry Call for Action on Energy Bill
Jun 24th
Published: June 24, 2010
Washington, D.C., United States — At a press conference hosted by former Senator Tom Daschle, a coalition of clean energy industries today called on the White House and Senate leadership to take urgent action upon Congress’ return from the July 4 recess on legislation that includes strong measures to promote clean energy.
“Passage of a federal RES will help open the doors to a wave of manufacturing investment in the USA.”– Steve Dayney, CEO, REPower
“The time for Congress to take action is now,” said Denise Bode, CEO of the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), a member of More >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...7th Renewable Energy Finance Forum – Wall Street (29-30 June)
Jun 24th
Date:
June 29, 2010 to June 30, 2010
Cost:
$1595+
Website:
http://www.reffwallstreet.com
Location:
New York, NY US
Why Attend
Held at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel on June 18-19, 2008, the conference once again took the lead as the annual event for the US renewable energy and finance industries. Over 700 senior decision makers from 450 companies and 20 countriesattended this flagship US event.
- An astounding 70% of the attendees are C-level (CEO, CFO, CTO, etc) , partners or managing directors; REFF-Wall Street is the deal makers event;
- The reputation of REFF-Wall Street and REFF-West is built on attracting the most senior individuals in financing and investment for the renewable energy sphere. People who control budgets, devise strategy and More >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...GE: Ecomagination Revenues Reach $18 Billion in 2009
Jun 24th
June 24, 2010
General Electric announced that revenues from its Ecomagination products reached $18 billion last year from the sale of more than 90 products, up 6 percent from $17 billion in revenue from more than 80 products in 2008. GE also announced a target to grow revenues for the product line at double the rate of overall corporate revenues over the next five years, increasing its proportion of company sales. The conglomerate also announced it had made $1.5 billion in clean tech R&D investment, a year ahead of its goal for 2010.
In the first five years since the creation of the Ecomagination More >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...GE Looks to Smart Grids for Airports, Railroads in Ecomagination 2.0
Jun 24th
MICHAEL KANELLOS: JUNE 24, 2010
Big equipment is going to be networked, says GE’s Steve Fludder.
General Electric will double down on the environment.
The sprawling conglomerate will spend $10 billion on research and development for products for the ecomagination group over the next five years, doubling the $5 billion spent in the inaugural five years of the program.
GE has also identified areas that will potentially allow it to cut $150 million per year out of its operating costs while reducing its environmental footprint.
“We will double everything that we did,” said Steve Fludder, the vice president of ecomagination at GE. “With the $5 billion investment More >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Webinar (24 June): Top 10 Clean Energy Business Opportunities (#IEEE)
Jun 23rd
Tech Insider: Top 10 Clean Energy Business Opportunities – Design, Prototype, and Deploy
This presentation will begin on June 24, 2010 at 02:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time.
Audience members may arrive 15 minutes in advance of this time. Tech Insider: Top 10 Clean Energy Business Opportunities – Design, Prototype, and Deploy Thursday, June 24, 2010 2:00 PM ET / 11:00 AM PT / 18:00 GMT (Duration: 1 hour)
IEEE Spectrum presents Build a Better Prototype webinars series by National Instruments.
Clean energy is one of the largest and fastest growing markets in the world, creating abundant opportunities for entrepreneurial engineers to develop new products More >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Landis + Gyr to Install a Million More Meters in Texas (CPS Energy)
Jun 21st
MICHAEL KANELLOS: JUNE 21, 2010
That brings the total to 5 million in the Lone Star State. But will lawsuits follow?
Landis + Gyr will install over 1 million gas and electricity smart meters for CPS Energy in San Antonio, Texas bringing the total number of meters for which Landis is under contract for that state to over five million.
CPS serves approximately 707,000 electricity customers and 322,000 natural gas customers in the region. The utility wants to gets its smart meter network fully operational by 2015. Like smart meter deployments elsewhere, CPS’ network will grow in size and complexity as time goes on. More >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Technology Review: Nanotubes Give Li-i Batteries a Jolt (MIT Research)
Jun 21st
Lithium-ion batteries with nanotube electrodes could go longer between charges.
MONDAY, JUNE 21, 2010
A lithium-ion battery with a positive electrode made of carbon nanotubes delivers 10 times more power than a conventional battery and can store five times more energy than a conventional ultracapacitor. The nanotube battery technology, developed by researchers at MIT and licensed to an undisclosed battery company, could mean batteries that extend the range of electric vehicles and provide longer periods without recharging for electronic gadgets, including smartphones.
Nano power: The pores between the nanotubes in this transmission- electron microscopy image can store lithium ions in a high-power battery. More > (No Ratings Yet) Loading ...
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