An oil depot, or fuel farm, is seen from the air over Carson, California, February 16, 2012.
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By Peter GardettThe US manufacturing industry is growing at its fastest pace in a decade. One reason? #natgas production http://bit.ly/ycErLi exxonmobil
The cellulosic ethanol and advanced biofuels industry is on the cusp of a major increase in scale that will prove critics of the effort to increase biofuels production in the US wrong, this rousing defense of the industry from the Advanced Biofuels Association claims.
“We know we have a technology,” says BP Biofuels North America President Sue Ellerbusch in this video, claiming the business is “right on the cusp of ‘told you so.’ Keep reading →
If you think it’s hard trying to get a loan from a bank or selling real estate in this economy, try “selling” money. Well, not actually selling money but giving generous rebates and incentives for energy efficiency projects. The sales process is not any easier even when the “product” is cash-back, moolah, money! In these tough economic times, businesses from all levels have pulled back and have become extremely guarded with how they spend their dollars. Accordingly, based on various energy efficiency polls, although public sentiments are aligned with the idea of energy conservation to reduce carbon emissions and to help the environment, many businesses do not plan to implement energy efficiency upgrades because they can’t afford it.
When the purse strings are tightened, how can the message get across that investing in energy efficiency today only benefits participants in the long haul? “People naturally think there is a catch but the catch is…there is no catch. Owners and managers of large office buildings, medium size retail outlets or any other commercial and industrial facilities interested in improving operations, reducing maintenance costs, lowering energy bills and procuring a more sustainable future, can greatly benefit from an energy efficiency rebate program” said David Pospisil, program manager for the Con Edison Commercial & Industrial Energy Efficiency Program. Keep reading →
Siemens & Atos join forces in areas of generation planning energy trading to optimize power gen reduce cost risk: ow.ly/8Tzdg
By Peter GardettSiemens & Atos join forces in areas of generation planning & energy trading to optimize power gen. & reduce cost/risk: ow.ly/8Tzdg Siemens_Energy
Solar energy is headed to the penthouse.
Atop Deutsche Bank’s 745 foot skyscraper Wall Street building is the world’s tallest solar panel array; a 122.4 kilowatt photovoltaic system designed to reduce the building’s electricity consumption and avoid 100 metric tonnes of carbon emissions each year. Keep reading →
Commercially viable cellulosic ethanol has held revolutionary promise as a fuel source for years, and now life and materials sciences giant Royal DSM and ethanol producer POET LLC are joining up to demonstrate and license “the next step in the development of biofuels.”
The new joint venture, called POET-DSM Advanced Biofuels, is scheduled to start production in the second half of 2013 at a facility called Project Liberty. The facility is currently under construction adjacent to POET’s existing corn ethanol facility in Emmetsburg, Iowa and will produce 20 million gallons of fuel in its first year before hitting an anticipated pace of 25 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol each year. Keep reading →
Vermont’s electricity grid is learning to talk back, thanks to a partnership between technology giant IBM and the state’s VELCO transmission company that the firms say is a model for smart grid efforts across the US.
A new communications and control network will be stung along more than 1000 miles connecting transmission substations to Vermont’s distribution utilities as part of efforts to improve power grid reliability and security, the companies said in announcing their partnership at the DistribuTECH conference this week. Keep reading →
Chesapeake updates its 2012 operating plan in response to low #naturalgas prices http://stks.co/22hB
By Peter GardettChesapeake updates its 2012 operating plan in response to low #naturalgas prices http://stks.co/22hB CHKhaynesville
Investors representing staggering sums of money gathered at the headquarters of United Nations to hear a day of discussions on climate risk and energy solutions this week.
The packed room included bankers, pension fund executives, policy-makers and the usual crowd of climate change professionals largely made up of consultants that cycle in and out of public and private organizations wearing different hats but often propounding the same message. Their message is one that seemed welcome in the last decade – that markets could be harnessed to solve climate change problems, that a price on carbon emissions would be good not just for health but for businesses currently facing (in the oft-quoted Nicholas Stern phrase) “a result of the greatest market failure the world has seen.” Keep reading →
