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By Christopher DeMorro
You know electric cars are serious when even Rolls Royce is considering ditching fossil fuel for electrons. The maker of luxury cars renowned the world over for their opulence is seriously considering having an electric version of its luxo-bargo Phantom on the road as ...
Energy/Transportation
Toyota
Hybrid Energy
Alternative Transportation
By Timothy B. Hurst
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has joined what appears to be a growing chorus of voices suggesting that the best hope for an agreement at the U.N. climate talks next month in Copenhagen. That voice? Let's understand that we have several complex problems to work out ...
Energy/Transportation
Australia
By the end of 2009, there will have been a 50% drop in the levelized cost--i.e. the lifetime cost per kWh before subsidies--of solar power, and a 10% reduction in the levelized cost of other sources of renewable energy sectors compared to the end of 2008, according to new analysis by New Energy ...
Energy/Transportation
Wind Power
Alternative Energy
Wind Turbines
By Janet Palma
A new Acclimatise report backed by IBM, entitled Global Oil & Gas - The Adaptation Challenge has identified top five impacts of climate change to the oil and gas industry. While three quarters of the world's oil and gas companies surveyed believe climate change could impact their ...
Green Living
Energy Efficiency
Clean Calgary Association
Alternative
By Chris Milton
Mad scientists don't usually hang around in Switzerland, tinkering around with their crazy ideas and running after them down the asphalt.
Thankfully Bertrand Piccard, who flew the Breitling Orbiter hot air balloon around the world in 1999, isn't mad. In fact, this idea may ...
Energy/Transportation
Alternative Transportation
Toyota
Hybrid Energy
By Timothy Hurst
With the Senate caught up in an intense health care debate, it is becoming increasingly likely that the upper chamber will not take up a climate bill for full consideration before the upcoming UN climate talks in Copenhagen, let alone before the end of the year. But the ...
Green Living
Energy Efficiency
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal officials are investigating a radiation leak at Three Mile Island, scene of the worst U.S. nuclear power accident, but said on Sunday there was no threat to public health or safety.
Investigators were trying to determine the cause of radiological contamination ...
Environment
Climate Change
Global Warming
Food Shortage
CO2
Water Conservation
BC Hydro announced a total of 47 British Columbia renewable energy projects, including 36 hydro projects, remain under consideration for power purchases under its 2008 Clean Power Call.
The province-owned utility said Nov. 17, 2009, that it will begin discussions with the developers of 13 ...
Energy/Transportation
Wind Power
Alternative Energy
Wind Turbines
By Susan Kraemer
Through its Texas subsidiary Horizon Wind Energy, the giant Portuguese company EDP Renewables; the second largest wind company in the world, intends to almost triple its US projects to $4 billion worth of new wind energy projects in the United States through 2012.
This year ...
Energy/Transportation
Wind Power
Alternative Energy
Wind Turbines
United States
By Dave Dempsey
Even as political leaders in the auto-making Great Lakes region tout hydrogen-powered vehicles as a potential catalyst for an economic turnaround, questions are accumulating about the impact of the technology on water use. While potentially clean and renewable, are hydrogen ...
Energy/Transportation
Wind Power
Alternative Energy
George Will
Wind Turbines
By Susan Kraemer
Storage is needed to harvest the full yield available from intermittent sources of energy like wind and solar. One of the options is compressed-air storage; till now only possible in underground caverns. But SustainX Energy Solutions; a Dartmouth College start-up that got $4 ...
Energy/Transportation
Wind Power
Alternative Energy
Wind Turbines
A California company that designed a personalized residential energy management solution for heating, ventilation and air conditioning won the business plan competition this year in the Cleantech Open.
Selected from the 12 finalists, EcoFactor (www.ecofactor.com) will receive $100,000 in seed ...
Energy/Transportation
Wind Power
Alternative Energy
Wind Turbines
By Jon Hurdle
PERKASIE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Carin Froehlich pegs her laundry to three clotheslines strung between trees outside her 18th-century farmhouse, knowing that her actions annoy local officials who have asked her to stop.
Froehlich is among the growing number of people across ...
Environment
Climate Change
Global Warming
Food Shortage
Water Conservation
Pennsylvania
By Timothy B. Hurst
In a 5-0 vote, The California Energy Commission today approved the country's first efficiency regulations for TVs of up to 58 inches. The new Appliance Efficiency Regulations will require new televisions sold in California to consume 33 percent less electricity by 2011 ...
Energy/Transportation
California
Wind Power
Alternative Energy
Energy Efficiency
Wind Turbines
"What gets measured gets managed." You may have heard that one at work... numerous times. It applies at home, also, and numerous products exist to help you measure your electricity use, and manage it in a more efficient manner. You may have used a Kill-a-Watt, or read about Google Power Meter ...
Environment
Green Grid
Energy Efficiency
Eco Goats
By Nick Chambers
Editor's Note: This is part one of an exclusive sit down I had with Hideaki Watanabe, Nissan's Division Manager of their Global Zero Emission Business Unit, at last week's U.S. debut of the LEAF in Los Angeles. Part two will be devoted battery leasing, part three to the ...
Energy/Transportation
Nissan
Toyota
Hybrid Energy
Alternative Transportation
Renault
Just as your mileage varies by where and how you drive, so might the performance of the Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid's batteries.
The batteries in the GM vehicle due out in a year (November 2010) will have at least 10 years of life, according to company representatives who briefed the media ...
Energy/Transportation
Volt
Toyota
Hybrid Energy
Alternative Transportation
General Motors
Chinese wind-turbine maker A-Power Energy Generation Systems, Ltd. (Nasdaq: APWR) and the U.S. Renewable Energy Group (US-REG) have signed a cooperation agreement for the development and construction of a new production and assembly plant in the United States.
The facility is expected to be ...
Environment
Green Grid
Wind Power
China
United States
New legislation introduced in the U.S. House would support and expand Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) Bond programs (H.R.3836). A PACE bond is a small municipal bond where the proceeds are loaned to commercial and residential property owners to finance energy retrofits and who then repay ...
Energy/Transportation
Wind Power
Alternative Energy
Wind Turbines
Israel
By Kimberly R. Reome and Krista M. Haley
As the U.S. electric industry is contemplating building new nuclear power plants for the first time in decades, the industry continues to be faced with uncertainty regarding the ultimate long-term disposal solution for the nation's spent nuclear fuel ...
