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 →
“To everything there is a season, a time to sow and a time to reap ….” Now is the time for America to realize the results of our investments in renewable transportation fuels. For the past 10 years, the U.S. government and industry have invested millions of dollars to drive the development of cellulosic biofuels. The bench work is complete and technology developments have exceeded expectations. Today pilot facilities across the country are producing cellulosic ethanol from agricultural residues, dedicated energy crops and municipal waste. But the real promise of these breakthroughs will not be recognized in pilot-scale.
The discouraging truth is that market access for renewable transportation fuels is restricted by formidable barriers. A primary barrier is infrastructure. Consumer demand will never become a driving factor in renewable fuels adoption until there are real options that allow consumer choice and create open-market competitive solutions. It is time for a new direction in biofuels policy. Keep reading →
More than 750 professionals from across the renewables sector met this week for the Renewable Energy Finance Forum at NYC’s Waldorf Astoria.
On stage in the hotel’s main ballroom and over drinks at the neighboring St. Barts restaurant, professionals in finance, generation, transmission, law and politics traded industry gossip, best practices and lessons learned. Keep reading →
Growth was on a group of top bankers’ minds as they discussed the prospects for renewable energy financing today, many of them shrugging off the impact of still-uncertain regulatory and political direction.
Bankers took center stage today at the Renewable Energy Finance Forum in New York City, replacing the project managers and developers were featured in the first day’s proceedings, and despite recent roiling in stock markets they painted a rosy picture for the future of companies financing renewable energy projects. Keep reading →
Breaking Energy is actively covering the Renewable Energy Finance Forum – Wall Street in New York City today. We’ll have a lot of coverage from the event, but some early highlights:
More than 750 attendees were registered as of this morning, the best showing to date. The new CEO of the American Council on Renewable Energy, former US Navy Admiral Dennis McGinn is representing the increased importance of the Defense Department and the US Armed Forces in increasing adoption of innovative renewable energy solutions on a large-scale basis. Keep reading →
Money can come from the strangest places.
With Google’s investment of $280 million in rooftop solar panels on Tuesday, bringing its total investments in renewable power to $680 million, experts are beginning to see the internet search-engine giant as the newest green tech finance firm. Keep reading →
Plans to open a fuel-cell manufacturing plant in Delaware represent a significant step forward in the development of a technology that is already helping to power companies like Google, Coca-Cola and Wal-Mart.
California-based Bloom Energy said on June 9 that, starting in 2012, it would like to begin manufacturing its fuel-cell servers in a former Chrysler factory site in Newark, creating 900 jobs and supplying 30 MW of electricity to the local utility, Delmarva Power. It plans to do this for 21 years. Keep reading →
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 →
With all the recent talk in Washington of smart meters, transmission may be getting the short end of the stick.
But Clean Line Energy Partners, a Houston-based transmission company that specializes in high voltage direct current (HVDC) technology, which can be effective in transmitting intermittent power generated by renewable fuels, is trying to balance the equation. On Monday it announced that it would partner with Siemens on HVDC technology for the Iowa wind to Illinois Rock Island Clean Line transmission project. Keep reading →
Choosing the right technology isn’t easy for anyone.
Proliferation of problems to solve and ways to solve them have made every consumers life more difficult, whether the consumer is a large electric utility or a teenager looking for an iPod. Keep reading →
