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Smart Grid Substations Prime For Automation

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The industry of substation automation, involving a multitude of devices, technologies, and business models requiring skilled product selection, implementation, interoperability, and engineering, is burgeoning. Committed Smart Grid nations are prioritizing their efforts to revitalize their decaying electric infrastructure by investing in critical upgrades to their substations and ensuring these structures can be seamlessly connected to the Smart Grid.

SBI Energy report “Global Smart Substation Products Market” examines the avid worldwide interest in smart substation development, including the market size, scope of the products and the uneven pace at which nations are adopting the different substation automation architectures. Keep reading →

 /  Published June 2, 2011 at 9:02 AM

Coal Concerns

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Coal, once the unchallenged king of Pennsylvania power generation, is set for further erosion in its market share as environmental regulations tighten and abundant natural gas becomes an increasingly attractive alternative for utilities.

The black gold now accounts for less than half the power generated in Pennsylvania, down from 92% in 1969, and the industry likely won’t be able to stop the slide despite growing demand from steelmakers in Europe and Asia. Keep reading →

 /  Published June 2, 2011 at 9:00 AM

A Veteran Joins the Fight

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The World Bank is wielding its biggest weapon in combating urban emissions: Data.

World Bank President Robert Zoellick announced this morning that the group would be officially partnered with C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group headed by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg. A data-aggregation master, the World Bank will give the C40 group critical help in collecting data from its member cities and providing a sense of uniformity to the collection of international members. Keep reading →

 /  Published June 1, 2011 at 3:05 PM
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Climate Action in MegaCities: C40 Cities Baseline and Opportunities

Source: Arup
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CDP Cities 2011: Global Report on C40 Cities

Source: Carbon Disclosure Project

Video: Tunisian Wind Export Hopes

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Wind energy is becoming a popular option even in parts of the world where oil production remains a dominant part of the economy. Tunisia, like distant Texas, is set to become a premier producer of wind power that it could sell to Spanish utilities to meet government requirement.

The World Bank is often criticized by both donor countries and those it lends to, and in this video the Bank defends itself by highlighting the potential benefits from establishing a wind power industry in a developing country. It echoes the lessons project managers took from a solar project in Morocco, also highlighted here. Keep reading →

 /  Published June 1, 2011 at 1:00 PM

C40 Summit Tweet

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Live-tweeting from #C40 Summit in Sao Paulo: Mayor #Bloomberg on C40 Cities reports: “In God we trust, but everyone else has to bring data” @c40cities @AOLenergy

 /  Published June 1, 2011 at 11:15 AM

Electrifying Commerce

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John Bryson, former CEO of Edison International, a major utility owner, and chairman of solar company BrightSolar, is President Obama’s choice for the next Secretary of Commerce.

The President was sure to cite Bryson’s energy past in his speech announcing the nomination, underlining the administration’s recent approach to energy industry innovation and clean energy as job creation engines and economic drivers. Keep reading →

 /  Published June 1, 2011 at 10:30 AM

Power to the Cities

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With President Obama promising to end tax breaks to oil companies and invest in clean energy for the future, it may seem that state and particularly city governments have little room to maneuver.

The C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, chaired by NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, is trying to illustrate just how powerful cities can be. The group released two reports on Tuesday that record detailed information about greenhouse (GHG) emissions in 42 participating cities across the globe and shows the impact of specific actions from mayors on those numbers (see full selected data graphs below). Keep reading →

 /  Published June 1, 2011 at 9:00 AM

Podcast: Clean Power Express

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The presence of Canadian electricity in the Northeastern US is often a surprise to consumers. If a number of developers, bankers and regulators get their way, more of that power will flow south.

Here, Breaking Energy correspondent Janet Whitman discusses her story “Northern Star” and the opportunities and challenges that stem from new energy projects proposed for Eastern Canada. Keep reading →

 /  Published June 1, 2011 at 8:00 AM
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