Monday, August 22, 2011

Mondays Headlines

Pennsylvania Clean Energy Industry Endangered

EarthTechling

Programs created by previous administrations have been eliminated while key agencies such Department of Environmental Protection's Office of Energy and Technology Deployment and the Office of Energy Management have had their directors reassigned and ...
 
Trains That Run Like, and on, the Wind

New York Times

By ERIK KIRSCHBAUM
REUTERS BERLIN — It will not be easy to run a national railroad on renewable energy like wind, hydro and solar power, but that is what Deutsche Bahn of Germany aims to do, for one simple reason: It is what consumers want. ...
 
DOE advisory board releases shale gas recommendations

American City & County

A subcommittee of an advisory board for the US Department of Energy (DOE) is recommending several new regulations for the natural gas industry, including requiring full disclosure of chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing. ...
 
VW to unveil single-seat electric car

Financial Times

VW wants to capture a lead in electric cars and other new technologies as it aims to become the industry's largest carmaker by 2018. On Friday the company said it delivered 4.75m vehicles in January to July, bringing it closer to its goal of overtaking ...
 
Greenacres couple pay almost nothing for electricity

Palm Beach Post

By Julie Patel That's Willever's payoff for spending more than $60000 — after tax credits and expected rebates — to install a solar water heater, 51 solar panels and foam attic insulation in his three-bedroom Greenacres home. Until they made the ...
 
SoloPower Gets Its DOE Loan Guarantee

EarthTechling

by Pete Danko, August 19th, 2011 With time running out on a key federal loan guarantee program intended to boost renewable energy production and technologies, the US Department of Energy (DOE) today finalized another loan deal, backing $197 million for ...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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