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Posted by Administrator on February 3, 2012 in Energy Efficiency, Home, Lighting, Solar, Wind
<img hspace="10" vspace="5" align="left" width="110" src="http://www.powersavestore.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/1fc38_0-clean-energy-how-much-hot-air.jpg” /> NewScientist’s January 28 issue is likely to unsettle clean energy advocates — but it is worth the read. The cover article, “Power paradox: Clean might not be green forever,” posits that even renewable energy can warm the planet, and eventually change climate, if we continue to ratchet up [...]
Posted by Administrator on February 3, 2012 in Energy Efficiency, Home, Lighting, Solar, Wind
<img hspace="10" vspace="5" align="left" width="110" src="http://www.powersavestore.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/87ba5_1332-suntech-dupont-to-collab-on-solar-backsheets-supply-chain.jpg” /> It’s easy to think about modules as singular units of power output, but the reality is that they are a collection of diverse components, each with influence over the end system’s total cost and performance. For DuPont, its focus is of course on the materials side, from metallization [...]
Posted by Administrator on February 3, 2012 in Energy Efficiency, Home, Lighting, Solar, Wind
<img hspace="10" vspace="5" align="left" width="110" src="http://www.powersavestore.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/93f8f_1332-suntech-dupont-to-collab-on-solar-backsheets-supply-chain.jpg” /> It’s easy to think about modules as singular units of power output, but the reality is that they are a collection of diverse components, each with influence over the end system’s total cost and performance. For DuPont, its focus is of course on the materials side, from metallization [...]
Posted by Administrator on February 3, 2012 in Energy Efficiency, Home, Lighting, Solar, Wind
<img hspace="10" vspace="5" align="left" width="110" src="http://www.powersavestore.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/cfdc0_1332-wind-power-to-the-south-aep-contracts-to-lower-electricity-costs.jpg” /> In a series of deals the investor-owned utility says is good for consumers’ wallets, American Electric Power subsidiary Southwestern Electric Power Co. (SWEPCO) recently signed long-term power purchase agreements for a total of 358.65 MW of capacity from wind projects in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas.
Posted by Administrator on February 3, 2012 in Energy Efficiency, Home, Lighting, Solar, Wind
<img hspace="10" vspace="5" align="left" width="110" src="http://www.powersavestore.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/451af_1332-doe-s-untold-impact-on-solar.jpg” /> The Obama Administration’s $60 billion Loan Guarantee Program (LGP) for renewable energy is considered a failure because of Solyndra, Beacon Power, and potential 2012 bankruptcies. What is not well known is that 75 percent of the program’s deployed funds went to relatively low risk power plants that will [...]
Posted by Administrator on February 3, 2012 in Energy Efficiency, Home, Lighting, Solar, Wind
<img hspace="10" vspace="5" align="left" width="110" src="http://www.powersavestore.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/bead0_1332-doe-s-untold-impact-on-solar.jpg” /> The Obama Administration’s $60 billion Loan Guarantee Program (LGP) for renewable energy is considered a failure because of Solyndra, Beacon Power, and potential 2012 bankruptcies. What is not well known is that 75 percent of the program’s deployed funds went to relatively low risk power plants that will [...]
Posted by Administrator on February 3, 2012 in Energy Efficiency, Home, Lighting, Solar, Wind
UK Energy Secretary Chris Huhne has resigned after learning that he is to face charges that he perverted the course of justice over a 2003 speeding incident.
Posted by Administrator on February 3, 2012 in Energy Efficiency, Home, Lighting, Solar, Wind
Multinationals need to turn their attention from their own carbon performance to that of their supply chain, according to a report from the Carbon Disclosure Project and Accenture.
Posted by Administrator on February 3, 2012 in Energy Efficiency, Home, Lighting, Solar, Wind
Speaking in the House of Commons this week, Minister for Energy and Climate Change Greg Barker pledged to propose raising the feed-in tariff for microCHP.
Posted by Administrator on February 3, 2012 in Energy Efficiency, Home, Lighting, Solar, Wind
US venture capital investment in clean tech fell 4.5% in 2011 compared to the previous year to reach $4.9 billion, according to consultants Ernst & Young.
