GE Energy Enters Contracts To Supply 750 Wind Turbines
North American Windpower
by NAW Staff on Tuesday 20 September 2011 GE Energy says it has signed new contracts for 750 1.6 MW turbines for wind farms in North America and South America over the next two years. According to GE, the 1.6 MW wind turbine was launched in May and ...
New Jersey overtakes Calif. in commercial solar power
USA Today (blog)
The commercial solar market in New Jersey (aka "The Garden State") jumped 170% from the first quarter of this year to the second quarter, said Rhone Resch, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association, a trade group. ...
GM to Build Electric Cars in China, Protect Chevy Volt Technology
Fox News
AP SHANGHAI – General Motors Co. agreed Tuesday to deepen cooperation with its flagship Chinese partner on development of electric vehicle knowhow amid pressure from Beijing to hand over proprietary technology. Investments and other details of the plan ...
‘The Solar And Wind Expo Massachusetts’ Coming To Marlborough In Nov
Marlborough Patch
The Solar and Wind Expo Massachusetts’ will take place at the Royal Plaza Trade Center in Marlborough, November 4-6, 2011. Held across the country, the Expo will expose Bay State consumers to the exciting possibility of getting energy from nature.
New York authorities offer $150m for renewable energy projects
BrighterEnergy.org
Authorities in New York are making $150 million available for renewable energy projects, funded by the state's Renewable Portfolio Standard program. The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) and the state's Public Service ...
Constellation/Exelon deal: Reliability should be the main concern
Baltimore Sun
Now Constellation is trying to sell itself to Exelon of Chicago, and Mr. O'Malley's administration is again opposing the deal — but for different reasons than before. A consultant for the Maryland Energy Administration did mention that the $100 rate ...
Green jobs are real and growing, Says DOE
REVE
The US Department of Energy (DOE) appears to be trying to raise its voice over a chorus declaring green jobs as a bust and clean energy as a scam. According to the department, Deputy Secretary of Energy Daniel Poneman on Thursday plans to publicly ...
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Thursday, September 22, 2011
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
NORTH CAROLINA: THE NEXT RENEWABLE ENERGY POWERHOUSE?
While this may seem meager when compared with other states, it is noteworthy because North Carolina is so far the only state in the American southeast to have implemented such measures. They have also mandated a generous renewable energy installation tax credit, giving homeowners and businesses up to 35%. This credit can be combined with the current 30% federal tax credit for renewable energy installation. These incentives have helped to foster a steady increase in solar installers, wind turbine installers and especially geothermal and energy efficiency companies.
All of this is encouraging, but what could make the big difference for North Carolina’s renewable energy future is its ace in the hole: the largest offshore wind resource of any state on the Atlantic coast. This fact was first described in a study published by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. It found that the coast of North Carolina offered not only good wind conditions, but also sufficient depth to support large wind turbines. It was further supplemented by a study conducted by the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill which conservatively estimated the coast’s practical potential at 55,000 megawatts. That is enough energy to power the entire state – and then some.
The fact that North Carolina is consistently ranked as one of the best places for business in the United States and the fact that is a major center of research and corporate development make the state almost ideal for the increased commercialization of renewable energy. The state government has even begun to market itself to businesses as a great place to research, produce and install renewable technologies. Slowly, surely and inevitably renewable energy continues its march towards the mainstream. Hopefully North Carolina’s southern neighbors as well as states across the country will follow its example.
By Richard Harrod
HEADLINES
Germany proves the promise of renewable energy: hits 20 percent renewables
Mongabay.com
By Karimeh Moukaddem, mongabay.com As many people in the United States question whether renewable energy is a viable alternative to fossil fuels, Germany now derives 20.8 percent of its electricity from renewable sources—a 15 percent increase since ...
S. Korea's Renewables Fund to Spur Investments, Official Says
Bloomberg
Companies that invest in clean-energy will have a ready domestic market as the government plans to introduce in 2012 a compulsory 2 percent quota of renewable energy that the country's 14 power generators will be required to derive, Park said. ...
GM Investigating Pure Electric Cars
Design News
General Motors, the giant automaker notable for killing the EV1 a decade ago, is accelerating its move into the battery electric vehicle (BEV) arena. GM recently announced that it will team with LG Group, a South Korean electronics and battery ...
GE to Provide 300 Megawatts of Turbines for Illinois Wind Farms
Bloomberg
(GE), the world's biggest maker of electricity-generating equipment, will deliver 300 megawatts of wind turbines for two projects that E.ON AG (EOAN) is building in northeast Illinois. GE will provide 188 of its 1.6-megawatt turbines to the Settlers ...
Friday, April 8, 2011
Bullish on Renewables
Imaging a world dominated by renewable energy and clean transportation. It surely seems to be coming a reality. More and more our world is being dominated by clean energy.
Sunday when I visited PV America and discovered that even with the cancellation of last year’s event, the show had grown. I ran into so many of the folks that were there in 2009 and met some new ones. It was awesome to see how upbeat everyone is on renewable and all the different strategies being discussed.
Wednesday evening I visited a Greendrinks location in Philly and met with Mike Ditizio who runs the Standard Tap group, a great local eatery and bar that had no televisions, conversation was the only entertainment, and the place was lively with discussions about politics, the environment and just about everything. Mike introduced me to William Toffey a Sustainability Strategist from Effluential Synergies, Alex Fuller-Young the Outreach Coordinator for Center E3 an advocacy group in Pennsylvania. I met with Nic Darling of Post Green a green contractor in Philly. I first read about Nic on a train trip, Arrive magazine had a large article about a young company that builds green sustainable homes for about 100,000 dollars. They want to take affordability out of the equation.
Check out the following stories that were in the news this past week.
Solar Costs May Already Rival Coal, Spurring Boom in Panel Installations as reported by Bloomberg
Solar panel installations may surge in the next two years as the cost of generating electricity from the sun rivals coal-fueled plants, industry executives and analysts said. Read the rest of the story
BP Wind Energy begins construction of 150MW Texas wind farm as reported in New energy World Network
BP Wind Energy has begun construction of the Sherbino 2 Wind Farm in the US state of Texas, which will have a generating capacity of 150MW. Read the rest of the story.
GE sees the new U.S. solar plant running by 2013
General Electric Co aims to have its new U.S. solar-panel plant up and running by 2013, the head of the largest U.S. conglomerate's renewable energy unit said in an interview. The plant would be the largest in America. Read the rest of the story.
GM Says Electric Car Goes 1,000 Miles Between Fill-ups as reported in Bloomberg
General Motors Co. (GM), the biggest U.S. automaker, said drivers of its Volt electric cars were traveling 1,000 miles (1,610 kilometers) before they need to fill up, enough to make the vehicles more practical for daily use. Read the rest of the story here.
Things continue to get more and more exciting. Let's help make it happen.
Visit http://www.thesolarandwindexpo.com/
Sunday when I visited PV America and discovered that even with the cancellation of last year’s event, the show had grown. I ran into so many of the folks that were there in 2009 and met some new ones. It was awesome to see how upbeat everyone is on renewable and all the different strategies being discussed.
Wednesday evening I visited a Greendrinks location in Philly and met with Mike Ditizio who runs the Standard Tap group, a great local eatery and bar that had no televisions, conversation was the only entertainment, and the place was lively with discussions about politics, the environment and just about everything. Mike introduced me to William Toffey a Sustainability Strategist from Effluential Synergies, Alex Fuller-Young the Outreach Coordinator for Center E3 an advocacy group in Pennsylvania. I met with Nic Darling of Post Green a green contractor in Philly. I first read about Nic on a train trip, Arrive magazine had a large article about a young company that builds green sustainable homes for about 100,000 dollars. They want to take affordability out of the equation.
Check out the following stories that were in the news this past week.
Solar Costs May Already Rival Coal, Spurring Boom in Panel Installations as reported by Bloomberg
Solar panel installations may surge in the next two years as the cost of generating electricity from the sun rivals coal-fueled plants, industry executives and analysts said. Read the rest of the story
BP Wind Energy begins construction of 150MW Texas wind farm as reported in New energy World Network
BP Wind Energy has begun construction of the Sherbino 2 Wind Farm in the US state of Texas, which will have a generating capacity of 150MW. Read the rest of the story.
GE sees the new U.S. solar plant running by 2013
General Electric Co aims to have its new U.S. solar-panel plant up and running by 2013, the head of the largest U.S. conglomerate's renewable energy unit said in an interview. The plant would be the largest in America. Read the rest of the story.
GM Says Electric Car Goes 1,000 Miles Between Fill-ups as reported in Bloomberg
General Motors Co. (GM), the biggest U.S. automaker, said drivers of its Volt electric cars were traveling 1,000 miles (1,610 kilometers) before they need to fill up, enough to make the vehicles more practical for daily use. Read the rest of the story here.
Things continue to get more and more exciting. Let's help make it happen.
Visit http://www.thesolarandwindexpo.com/
Saturday, January 8, 2011
General Motors, US DOE collaborate on lithium-ion batteries
Exiting News from the world of Energy Storage, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.
General Motors (GM) and the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have signed a licensing agreement to use Argonne's patented composite cathode material to develop advanced lithium-ion batteries that last longer between charges and can charge at higher voltages.
US Energy secretary Steven Chu said that this agreement gives GM the ability to use cutting-edge battery technology throughout its supply chain.
GM executive director Micky Bly said that engineers and researchers at GM are working on next-generation battery systems that will reduce cost while providing improved performance, expanding the practicality and affordability of electric vehicles in the future.
According to the Chicago Tribune and reported by Ted Gregory:
The reason: The material may enable them to travel twice as far as they do now before recharging by boosting the voltage of batteries, lightening their weight and extending their lives.
It's a patented composite cathode material Argonne scientists have been refining since inventing it in 2001. About a year ago, General Motors and LG Chem Ltd., a Korean battery-maker with a subsidiary in Michigan, approached Argonne and started negotiating licensing agreements that were announced last week at a teleconference.
"""This is the beginning of what would be a transformation of our transportation system,""" Argonne director Eric Isaacs said. """And that's huge. … The dawn of a new era."""
The reason for the enthusiasm is what Argonne calls the """unique combination of lithium- and manganese-rich mixed-metal oxides""" in the cathode, which is where current flows.
Compared with materials in widespread use in batteries now, the new composite material is less expensive and can be contained in the smallest, lightest package.
By allowing batteries to be charged at higher voltages, it can increase energy storage — called energy density — by as much as 100 percent over conventional cathode material, Isaacs and others said.
Read the rest or the story here.
"make green a reality" visit http://www.thesolarandwindexpo.com/
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| Argonne National Laboratory |
General Motors (GM) and the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have signed a licensing agreement to use Argonne's patented composite cathode material to develop advanced lithium-ion batteries that last longer between charges and can charge at higher voltages.
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| Steven Chu |
The cathode material licensed to GM is to be part of a diverse suite of lithium-ion battery inventions and patents developed at Argonne with DOE funding.
GM anticipates that use of the cathode material will yield advanced batteries that are high-performing, long-lasting and safe when compared to the existing technology.
US Energy secretary Steven Chu said that this agreement gives GM the ability to use cutting-edge battery technology throughout its supply chain.
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| GM's Mickey Bly |
It's nothing more than a piece of a battery that powers electric cars, but the technology developed at Argonne National Laboratory may be a turning point on the road to more efficient electric cars, experts say.
The reason: The material may enable them to travel twice as far as they do now before recharging by boosting the voltage of batteries, lightening their weight and extending their lives.
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| GM Volt |
"""This is the beginning of what would be a transformation of our transportation system,""" Argonne director Eric Isaacs said. """And that's huge. … The dawn of a new era."""
The reason for the enthusiasm is what Argonne calls the """unique combination of lithium- and manganese-rich mixed-metal oxides""" in the cathode, which is where current flows.
Compared with materials in widespread use in batteries now, the new composite material is less expensive and can be contained in the smallest, lightest package.
By allowing batteries to be charged at higher voltages, it can increase energy storage — called energy density — by as much as 100 percent over conventional cathode material, Isaacs and others said.
Read the rest or the story here.
"make green a reality" visit http://www.thesolarandwindexpo.com/
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