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Siemens Adds To Smart Grid Portfolio With eMeter Purchase

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The burgeoning global smart grid industry is beginning to consolidate as governments around the world look to use their energy resources more efficiency and limit carbon emissions without sacrificing electric reliability.

Siemens announced on Monday that it would acquire its long-time strategic smart grid partner, California-based eMeter, for an undisclosed sum, with the deal set to take effect mid-to-late December. eMeter specializes in smart meter data management software and is most famous for its EnergyIP platform, which can provide, readout and manage data produced by smart meters throughout a power grid. Keep reading →

 /  Published December 6, 2011 at 6:00 AM

High Winds: AOL Energy Year In Review

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Fear for the future amid the plenty of the present characterized the wind industry in 2011.

The US wind power business is only just getting started with 43,461 MW of installed capacity as of the end of September 2011–3.25% of the country’s electricity–and more than 8,400 MW under construction. Keep reading →

 /  Published December 6, 2011 at 6:00 AM

Entergy To Merge Its Transmission Business With ITC Holdings

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Entergy will divest its transmission business into a newly-formed entity, Mid South TransCo, which will then be merged with ITC Holdings to form the nation’s largest independent transmission company, the companies announced today.

Though the last few decades have seen mergers among power utilities that do everything from generation and transmissions to disaster repair and customer service as they seek operating scale, today’s deal underlines a countervailing trend toward specialization as companies seek investment capital and clearer regulatory signals. Keep reading →

 /  Published December 5, 2011 at 1:00 PM

Happening now in Durban: UN Climate Change Conference

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Happening now in Durban: UN #ClimateChange Conference http://bit.ly/vc4q4m. Follow #COP17 for updates @UN

 /  Published December 5, 2011 at 9:30 AM

Gaslands In Abundance: AOL Energy Year In Review

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2011 was the year of natural gas.

Production continued to boom while prices continued to stagnate. As the industry began to comprehend this year just how transformative natural gas will be, the public has also become more aware than ever of hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”), the relatively new technology that has unlocked the vast American underground shale plays. Keep reading →

 /  Published November 30, 2011 at 11:00 AM

UN Climate Change Conference Brings EVs To Africa

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The United Nations Climate Change conference in Durban, South Africa this year will shuttle its delegates to and from the conference in electric vehicles.

“We’re here to demonstrate that zero-emission vehicles are a real and affordable solution for reducing CO2 emissions,” Mia Nelson, of the Renault-Nissan Alliance, says in this video. “These cars are also extremely easy to use and extremely easy to recharge. In fact, with an EV you will never need to go to a gasoline station ever again. You can simply recharge from the comfort of your own home.” Keep reading →

 /  Published November 30, 2011 at 6:00 AM

BrightSource Adds Storage To Solar In Bid To Even Out Power Supply

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The intermittent nature of solar power has long been its most obvious weakness. What happens when the sun stops shining? People still need power.

One California-based solar company, BrightSource Energy, says it has developed a way to solve the problem. On Monday the company announced that it will be including its SolarPLUS thermal energy storage technology to several of its concentrated solar power (CSP) solar plants. The storage units will allow power from the sun to be stored for the evening when the sun is no longer shining but demand is up. Keep reading →

 /  Published November 29, 2011 at 2:00 PM

National Renewable Energy Lab Isolates Hydrogen For Power

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In efforts to transition to a new energy economy, the US federal government has been loaning money to solar and wind companies. It has also been pouring money into research and development.

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Colorado has been around for over 30 years, but funding for the government-owned lab–dedicated exclusively to R&D, commercialization and deployment of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies–has been boosted in recent years. In 2002, the lab received $215.8 million in federal funding. In 2010, the lab received $536.5 million. Keep reading →

 /  Published November 29, 2011 at 6:00 AM

Bloom Boxes Make Up New Fuel Cell Energy Center

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There are many uses for natural gas, the abundant resource that is emerging as America’s 21st century gold rush.

Hill International, a global construction risk management group, will be using natural gas to power another relatively new technology: fuel cells. Invented by Bloom Energy, the solid oxide fuel cell boxes–known as Bloom Boxes–will be grouped in a cluster and powered by natural gas to create the Red Lion Energy Center in New Castle County, Delaware, the companies announced on Monday. Keep reading →

 /  Published November 29, 2011 at 6:00 AM

Clean Energy Global Stock Indices Launched

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As clean energy becomes a more significant sector in the stock market, financial giants are trying to get on top of the numbers and make sense of the growing phenomenon.

NYSE Euronext and Bloomberg New Energy Finance announced today the creation of three new regionally-focused clean energy stock indices that will allow the companies most active in the space to be “tracked in unprecedented detail.” Keep reading →

 /  Published November 28, 2011 at 1:00 PM
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