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#Oil giant @exxon_mobil launched its very own #natgas and #fracking website to promote industry amid recent debate — aboutnaturalgas.com
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When looking into America’s future, one thing is clear-energy matters.
The Department of Energy (DOE) plans to invest in innovation for affordable clean energy technologies, Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy director Dr. Arun Majumdar said in a webcast on Wednesday. Keep reading →
In a previous article we wrote about the developments with Bank of America, Prologis and NRG Energy and the Department of Energy (DOE) loan guarantee for a portfolio of distributed solar projects in the US. We observed that the framework that these firms had developed along with the DOE program could be a harbinger for a solar securitization market. We noted that for the market for solar structured transactions to grow within a capital markets approach, it would require standardization of solar power purchase agreements (PPA) and lease contracts. In this article we will explore a standardized PPA in more detail.
A solar PPA is an agreement between a developer/investor of solar energy and a customer/ off-taker to purchase the solar power at an agreed upon price in a long-term contract. The developer/investor installs, maintains and retains ownership of the solar facility on a customer facility – be it a rooftop or other property. The customer pays only for the power generated by the facility and not for the cost of the equipment and installation costs. Keep reading →
Energy is core to our nation’s vitality. Our economy is dependent on it. Our alliances, fiscal strength, and overall competitiveness as a country are all strongly influenced by how we supply our energy needs. And right now, we’re endangering American leadership by not moving more quickly to develop a cleaner, more competitive energy economy.
The cost of our heavy reliance on fossil fuels is growing rapidly. It hurts our trade balance. Oil imports now account for nearly half of our trade deficit. It makes us vulnerable to global instability. Recent disruptions in even a tiny oil state like Libya sent gas prices soaring to $4 per gallon, causing hardship for millions of Americans. And it hurts our competitiveness. We use roughly 30 percent more energy to produce a dollar of GDP than Europe or Japan. Keep reading →
At the recent REFF Wall Street conference COO of meteocontrol Ben Compton told AOL Energy that he was hoping to expand the company’s American presence.
Today, the largely European-based company officially announced that it would be entering the American market in full force. Keep reading →
Investors and businesses searching for ways to benchmark their investments in clean energy are suddenly spoiled for choice.
After years of complex and cumbersome research requirements for those seeking investment portfolio exposure to alternative energy, companies are rushing out newly public index products and data sets that investors large and small can begin to use in their search for returns that aren’t correlated to traditional energy investments. Keep reading →
The White House‘s recent announcement of several American smart grid initiatives may have been more of a jump onto a rapidly moving train than an original idea.
Smart grid technology is in fact becoming increasingly popular around the world. IBM’s announcement of two new smart grid initiatives, in Brazil and Korea, points to a tremendous change that may be imminent in global electrical grids. Keep reading →
Assessing how much natural gas and oil are in the ground, and where, involves a lot of complex science – along with big dollops of art and luck.
While experts say their ability to predict has improved markedly with advanced technology like 3-D seismic testing, they say the only proof remains actual drilling – and the most promising geology can still produce a dry hole. Keep reading →
Fermentation is one of mankind’s oldest technological innovations, but it is also potentially the key to solving the evolving response to potential fossil fuel shortages.
A key “yeast technology” is at the heart of a takeover deal announced today by Dutch firm Royal DSM for fellow Dutch firm C5 Yeast BV from agricultural processing giant Royal Cosun. The C5 Yeast unit was part of Royal Nedalco, an alcohol unit divested by Cosun earlier this year. Keep reading →
It looks like a window, but this conference room is actually coated in solar panels.
Pythagoras Solar, whose conference room is shown above, was one of five Innovation Award winners last week in GE’s ecomagination contest. The California-based firm has developed a unique transparent photo-voltaic (PV) panel that acts as both a window and an electrical generator. In addition, the panel provides a thermal shading barrier that keep the sun’s heat out of buildings, ideally allowing them to use less energy for cooling during the summer. Keep reading →
