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Meanwhile, Abengoa Solar forms a joint venture with Germany’s E.ON to build solar thermal power plants in Spain.
Energy/Transportation
Maine
California regulators have released a draft plan for a program to steadily reduce greenhouse gas emissions and force businesses to limit their emissions and pay for permits if they emit above limits.
The draft plan, issued by the California Air Resources Board, aims to help the state to achieve ...
Energy/Transportation
California
Alternative Transportation
The Texas-based company has revived a battery technology it says can last 20 years, discharge like a capacitor, and keep working after being shot up with a machine gun.
Energy/Transportation
Wind Power
Make no mistake, climate policy is good business.
The ongoing buffeting that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has received from a slew of leading corporate giants is a clear signal that opposing climate legislation, as the Chamber has repeatedly done, is now perceived as bad business.
The reasons ...
Energy/Transportation
Will Burbank be the new Bakersfield with time of use pricing next year? Either way, Trilliant gets to install the meters to make it happen.
Energy/Transportation
California
Will Burbank be the new Bakersfield with time of use pricing next year? Either way, Trilliant gets to install some of the meters to make it happen.
Energy/Transportation
California
When it comes to high tech, Israel can be thought of as a branch office of Silicon Valley.
Nearly every major tech company – Intel, Microsoft, Oracle, etc. – has built facilities in the country and actively recruits engineers at universities like the Technion. Several Israeli ...
Energy/Transportation
Israel
The DOE gave out 11 grants to battery projects in the latest round of funding and three to compressed air. It’s a nice variety.
Energy/Transportation
The government is giving money to 32 projects for demonstrating a host of equipment and software to manage energy supply and demand for both utilities and consumers.
Energy/Transportation
Ohio
LEDs are coming, and iWatt says it can make them a little cheaper.
The company has devised a driver for LEDs that effectively lets a manufacturer eliminate another component called an opto-coupler. Reducing components reduces prices. Bridgelux, a larger and better known LED company, is already ...
Energy/Transportation
Energy Efficiency
LEDs are coming, and iWatt says it can make them a little cheaper.
The company has devised a driver for LEDs that effectively lets a manufacturer eliminate another component called an opto-coupler. Reducing components reduces prices. Bridgelux, a larger and better known LED company, is already ...
Energy/Transportation
Energy Efficiency
Boston has joined Cree's LED City Program and put LED streetlights in Boston Common.
LEDs use less than half of the power of conventional streetlights, but more importantly they rarely need to be replaced. In a more extensive trial, Anchorage, Alaska replaced 16,000 light fixtures, about ...
Energy/Transportation
Alaska
A consortium of U.S. net-metering advocates grades each state for its net metering and grid interconnection policies to see who’s naughty or nice.
Energy/Transportation
California
Fresh water rushes toward salt water. Pressure builds. Power is produced. Norway’s first plant opens but others are looking at it as well.
Energy/Transportation
Wind Power
Forget waiting for Bloom Energy. ClearEdge Power is already bringing large fuel cells to Californian homes and businesses. With additional tax breaks, it could be a better deal than solar.
Energy/Transportation
California
George Will
Energy Efficiency
Globe Specialty Metals (NSDQ: GSM) said it has re-opened its factory in Niagara Falls to produce a type of silicon that hasn't found a wide adoption in the solar industry.
The New York City company said it has re-started two furnaces that could produce about 30,000 tons of metallurgical grade ...
Energy/Transportation
New York
Niagara Falls
The alternative energy ATM is almost depleted.
The Department of Energy has already allocated $32.7 billion of the $36.7 billion in funds given to it under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, according to this fun applet on the DOE site. That leaves $4 billion, or a little more than ten ...
Energy/Transportation
Steven Chu
Ohio
The big drop in solar panel prices this year has contributed to a significant decline in the cost of building and operating solar power plants this year, says New Energy Finance.
Energy/Transportation
Colbert Report
Germany
The National Institute of Standards and Technologies is busy on one of the most ambitious standards programs in the history of technology: It wants to set 77 standards for the smart grids, including standards for 14 priority areas.
And it wants a number of the important standards, such as demand ...
Energy/Transportation
NRG has bought the 22-megawatt, nearly finished solar plant in California that will serve Southern California Edison customers.
