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Efforts to spread the production and use of clean electricity production as part of job creation are global.
This video outlines a project from the World Bank in the politically volatile Middle East, where the bank’s funds are helping build solar energy. The bank has begun investing millions in concentrated solar projects (CSP) that will not only capture the desert heat for electricity production, but also help temper the region’s sky-high unemployment rates. Keep reading →
Government policy initiatives have had a more powerful effect on the Chinese renewables industry than direct investment in research and development, said the founder of the world’s largest solar photo-voltaics (PV) company. Keep reading →
Energy management firm Hara received $25 million of funding today, writes TechCrunch. Keep reading →
Chinese energy consumption, and the country’s large-scale investment in clean energy, are increasingly becoming central to the development of the competing US clean energy industry.
Recent efforts at think tanks, colleges and other institutions to bring the US and Chinese clean energy industries to a closer understanding has resulted in a host of events, with Harvard’s China Energy and Environment Conference a recent high-profile addition to the field. Keep reading →
At the intersection of Thomas Edison and the Internet lies the smart grid, the energy industry’s newest effort to enhance the effectiveness of their power lines.
Integrating the multi-directional data capabilities of the Internet into the U.S.’s thousands of miles of transmission wires, still based on the 130-year-old system Edison designed to distribute electricity, remains one of the smart grid effort’s biggest challenges. Keep reading →
It has become commonplace in America to read about companies moving their jobs and operations overseas, in search of less expensive pastures.
But here is one story you likely haven’t heard: our company recently spent nearly $200 million to build a world-class facility, to produce gas turbines in North Carolina. It will create 1,000 direct new jobs and more than 2,000 indirect ones. It will actually cost us less to build these turbines in Charlotte than in any of our other manufacturing sites, even Shanghai, despite paying competitive U.S. wages. Keep reading →
Six key smart grid application trends are shaping the evolving electric industry sector.
Distribution automation, data analytics, demand response, carbon management, home energy management and electric vehicles have been identified as central to improving efficiency, reliability and versatility of the electric grid, according to analysts and experts who talked to Breaking Energy. Keep reading →
If you don’t know what a nacelle is, don’t worry – most people, even in the energy business, don’t.
Although it sounds like some sort of mythic creature, a nacelle is actually a device in a wind turbine that allows it to turn and maximize the amount of wind power it garners. The people at Siemens take that basic explanation and turn it into a (beautifully shot, documentary-style) video, which they’ve allowed us to feature here: Keep reading →
Chinese Walls
By Peter Gardett“China” remains one of the most loaded words in the energy business. Keep reading →