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In this video, Ken DeFontes, President and CEO of Baltimore Gas & Electric, discusses his company’s approach to implementing smart grid technology into BG&E’s territory.
It is a unique look at smart grid technology from a utility perspective. Keep reading →
In this interview, David Eves, President and CEO of Public Service Company of Colorado, the Xcel Energy Company based in Colorado, provides a roadmap of smart grid and renewable energy initiatives will take over the course of the next couple years.
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Google announced its largest ever investment in clean technology today: $280 million for a special fund that California-based SolarCity will use to help with leasing arrangements and that both firms hope will encourage more widespread adoption of rooftop solar panels.
This video shows what homes would look like with rooftop panels feeding them electricity directly and how consumers can save money on their power bills. Keep reading →
Melting chocolate bunnies! Do I have your attention?
LED company Cree certainly hopes so; they use the highly unexpected prop to illustrate the energy efficiency provided by new lighting technology. Keep reading →
With their minds on a sustainable future, Dutch firm DSM and Skysail have looked to the past. The companies have taken a centuries-old approach to solving the fuel challenges of today’s cargo ships, reintroducing the use of sails onto massive oil tankers.
The kite sail doesn’t look a traditional sail on ships from the seafaring past. It attaches to a variety of vessels by a light weight tow rope made with Dyneema, which DSM says is the world’s strongest fiber. Shipping accounts for 90% of international trade and in turn is responsible for over 3% of World CO2 emissions. DSM and Skysail’s kite sail reduces fuel use and related CO2 emissions by 35%, the company says. Keep reading →
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
When this video was filmed, most of the US power grid was already more than 50 years old, and concerns about technological innovation and investment levels in the electricity sector were intensifying. Keep reading →
On April 12, California Governor Jerry Brown signed a new renewables portfolio standard (RPS) that set a goal of 33% power from renewables by 2020.
This move has paved the way for developers to construct wind and solar project like never before. More megawatts of renewables are currently under construction in California than have been constructed in the past decade. Keep reading →
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 →
NJ Governor Chris Christie announced last week that his state would be pulling out the ten-state Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), providing an interesting look at the way in which governors, and other politicians struggling with economic woes, are handling pressures to reduce carbon emissions and internal pressures from constituencies.
RGGI is intended to lower greenhouse gas emissions by setting a cap and trade pricing system with steadily contracting limits. Keep reading →
