Alternate Energy

VF 247 – Vodafone’s First Solar Powered Mobile Handset for India
I order to help India’s rural masses who lack electricity, Vodafone Essar Ltd. recently developed a solar-powered mobile phone. According to officials, there are almost 20 million new mobile subscribe…..

The International Renewable Energy Agency Becomes an International Organization
The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) has become a chartered international organization 18 months after its founding. IRENA seeks to promote renewable energy use among its global member st…..

DOE Announces $30 Million for Energy-Efficient Housing Partnerships
DOE has announced up to $30 million in funding for 15 research partnerships that aim to deliver innovative energy efficiency strategies to the residential housing market. …..

DOE and U.S. Department of Defense Announce Clean Energy Cooperation Agreement
DOE has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the U.S. Department of Defense aimed at accelerating clean energy innovation while strengthening energy security. …..

DOE Creates a New Energy Hub to Develop Fuels from Sunlight
DOE is backing a California research team with up to $122 million for establishing an energy innovation hub to develop a method of producing fuels from sunlight. Cal Tech will lead the team in partner…..

Maine Signs Ocean Energy Agreement with Nova Scotia
Maine has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Nova Scotia, pledging to work cooperatively on renewable electricity from ocean tidal energy and offshore wind energy. …..

Unmanned Solar-Powered Aircraft Soars Nonstop for 14 Days
An unmanned solar-powered aircraft stayed aloft over an Arizona proving ground for 14 days, smashing records for such flights, according to its makers. …..

The Missing Oil, Death of a Climate Bill, and French Engineering
Join the forum discussion on this post The Missing Oil I just wanted to briefly touch on three energy stories that were in the news over the past week. The first is that the oil flowing into the Gu…..

U.S. Navy Soars into Solar Energy Future to the Tune of $100 Million
The U.S. Navy is getting serious about solar energy and has just awarded five contracts worth up to $100 million for the design, installation and management of solar arrays at Navy and Marine Corps …..

Portland Now Has Largest Solar Array in the Northwest
The largest rooftop solar array in the Pacific Northwest was finished this week. Portland General Electric (PGE) announced on Monday that it just finished the $14 million solar project that it started…..

Capstone Microturbine and Heliofocus CSPs Working Together Efficiently in Israel
We’ve been talking about the Capstone Turbine Corporation a long time ago. They used their turbines to everything from cars to solar generators. Now, Capstone and HelioFocus (a company specialized in …..

Installation of Largest Rooftop Solar Project in Portland Finally Completed
Portland General Electric and ProLogis have managed to finish what they started in March 2010, bringing their total solar build-out to 3.5 MW of solar energy. Atop of 7 ProLogis distribution warehous…..

Renewables & efficiency – July 27
-Councils key to meeting UK’s green energy target, report warns -Property prices soar in the desert -Clean Energy and the U.S. Handicap: One Man’s Storyread more …..

High-voltage power line would link Madison, La Crosse
From a blog post by Tom Content in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: American Transmission Co. announced Monday that it will seek to build a 345,000-volt power line linking Madison and La Crosse, with …..

A New Research Center to Develop Methods of Generating Fuel from Sunlight
A new research center in California is about to be established after the U.S. Department of Energy has invested $122 million. Researchers from the new center will try to find ways of generating fuels…..

Scientists Discover How to Extract Hydrogen From Waste Vegetable Oils
Waste vegetable oils have previously been used to fuel older diesel engines, but until now nobody succeeded to extract the hydrogen in them and to sequester the carbon dioxide with cheap and affordabl…..

Driving Green; Electric Car News; Enterprise Rent-A-Car To Offer the Nissan Motor Company, Ltd (TYO: 7201; Pink Sheets: NSANY) LEAF
July 27, 2010 – Driving Green at Investorideas.com reports on recent news and developments for green and electric car stocks from Nissan Motor Company, Ltd (TYO: 7201; Pink Sheets: NSANY) and EVCARCO …..

Southern California Edison Awards 36 Contracts for Utility-Scale Solar Rooftop Project
ROSEMEAD, Calif. – July 27, 2010 (Investorideas.com Newswire) – Southern California Edison (SCE) awarded 36 contracts to independent power producers for a total of nearly 60 megawatts from photovoltai…..

United States Patent and Trademark Office Grants EVCARCO (OTCBB: EVCA) Its Registered Intellectual Property Trademarks
DALLAS, TX and WASHINGTON, DC – July 27, 2010 (Investorideas.com Newswire) – EVCARCO (OTCBB: EVCA), a publicly held company in alternative energy vehicles, announced today that the company has officia…..

Electric Car News; Enterprise Rent-A-Car to Begin Offering Electric Vehicles in U.S.
St. Louis – July 27, 2010 (Investorideas.com renewable energy/green newswire) – Enterprise Rent-A-Car today announced the first phase of its plans to offer electric vehicles (EVs) at select offices th…..

Lithium/ Green Stocks; OTC Volume Leaders; Most Active ($5.00-$10.00): (OTCBB: NEWN), (OTCBB: EVCPD), (OTCBB: FIBP), (OTCBB: ELRE)
Point Roberts, WA (Investorideas.com Newswire) July 27, 2010 – OTC VOLUME LEADERS reports on the most active trading stocks on the OTCBB. …..

Electric Car Stocks; Nissan (TYO: 7201; Pink Sheets: NSANY) Announces National Market Roll-Out Plan for Zero-Emission Nissan LEAF
SAN JOSE, Calif. – July 27, 2010 (Investorideas.com renewable energy/green newswire) – Today, nearly 17,000 future Nissan (TYO: 7201; Pink Sheets: NSANY) LEAF drivers are learning when the world’s fir…..

U.S. Utilities Get Solar Power Tour of Japan
While the fossil fuel industry continues to wreak havoc over the American landscape in pursuit of coal, oil, and natural gas, U.S. utilities have started to make a collective shift toward safer an…..

Coulomb Brings its EV Charging Stations to the Home
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GE Joins Other Investors in SynapSense’s Latest Financing Round
07/27/2010 – SynapSense Corporation, developer of technology that improves energy efficiency and cuts power and cooling costs in data centers, recently announced that it is deepening its relationship …..

Economical Solar Panels to Yield More Energy
There has been research work going on to increase the efficiency of the cost-effective amorphous solar panels. TU Delft has been the center where this research work is being developed. The research w…..

“Climate Bill Set Aside, What’s Next for U.S. Energy Policy”
I appeared last Friday on 88.9 KCRW Santa Monica and Public Radio International’s nationally-syndicated show “To the Point” to discuss the recent withdrawal by Sen Harry Reid (D-NV) of a compromised E…..

Chevy Volt to Use AFS Trinity’s Ultracapacitors for Better Acceleration/Regenerative Braking
Hybrid and electric cars both have regenerative braking systems, which transfer the energy otherwise lost as heat back into electricity, by switching the motor’s function from its normal one into an e…..

Why You Should Get a Solar Estimate Every Six Months
Even if you have previously had a solar estimate, and did not act because it was just not penciling out for you, you should get a new estimate, if it was six months ago or more. At that time, given …..

Toronto Energy Company Scouts Rural Rooftops
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The Climate Bill and Home Solar Energy
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As Energy Use Goes, So Goes the Economy
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City of Corona Turns Bus Shelter into a Mini Power Plant
City of Corona today unveiled to the public its newly installed solar bus shelter providing comfort to its public transportation customers while being capable of generating clean, renewable energy th…..

POET: Senate Energy Bill missed an opportunity to do something about foreign oil addiction
Today, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid introduced an Energy Bill with the stated goal of lessening U.S. addiction to oil. POET CEO Jeff Broin made the following comments: …..

360+ Organizations Release Statement on Senate Inaction on Energy Bill
Clean Energy Works, a diverse coalition of more than 80 grassroots organizations representing more than 12 million Americans emailed a statement signed by more than 360 groups bemoaning the Senate’s f…..

Biomass Advancing in the Northeast
Gestamp Biomass, a division of Gestamp Renewables with worldwide operations, and New Hampshire-based Clean Power Development announced that they plan to bring biomass energy projects to the Northeast …..

OriginOil Generates Revenue
OriginOil is ready to ship the first part of its manufacturing system – technology that extracts renewable oil from algae – to Australia-based MBD Energy, triggering payment under the two companie…..

SEPA Representatives Learn about Japanese Solar
This week 18 U.S. utility executives from Hawaii to Maine and all points in between are in Japan to see firsthand how the Japanese have worked to create a successful utility-scale solar landscape. Th…..

Solarfun Sells 12 MW of Solar PV into Italy
A number of companies are shipping product into the booming Italian market before the country’s incentives are reduced next year. The latest announced deal was from the vertically-integrated Chinese m…..

A New Phase for the PV Inverter Market
With the PV inverter market growing so rapidly, product shortages are becoming increasingly acute around the world, especially in Europe. A new report from IMS Research highlights the numbers behind t…..

Rough Year for Wind
U.S. wind installations dropped 71% in the second quarter of this year compared to 2009, according to new figures released by the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA). The numbers point to a trend …..

COMMENT:VISIONS LAUNCHES ONLINE COMMUNITY
Comment:Visions recently revealed a new and improved ‘Contributor Community’, allowing policy-makers, industry-leaders and experts in energy and environment to interact and network with each other on…..

Time to scale back renewable energy incentives for the wealthy?
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Big Guns Join Aquamarine Power
BAE Systems has joined forces with wave energy developer Aquamarine Power as part of a project worth almost £1 million to produce and develop energy from ocean waves. …..

St. Lucia A Hotbed for Geothermal Energy
New company to the geothermal market, Qualibou Energy Inc put out a press release that announced its plans to develop as much as 170 MW of geothermal energy on St. Lucia in the Caribbean. …..

Senate unveils energy bill, doubts on passage
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Senate Democrats unveiled a slimmed down bill on Tuesday aimed at reforming offshore drilling, as doubts grew that Congress would be able to pass any substantial energy legislat…..

BP gets “wake-up call” and $32 billion in spill charges
LONDON/HOUSTON (Reuters) – BP Plc’s newly named chief executive on Tuesday called the Gulf oil spill a “wake-up call” for the entire industry as the company tallied up its losses and disclosed two U.S…..

Obama says will keep pushing for climate bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama pledged on Tuesday to keep pushing for legislation to fight climate change despite a move in the U.S. Senate to focus energy reform more narrowly on offsh…..

Britain pledges £43 million in electric car subsidies
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s coalition government will commit 43 million pounds ($66.73 million) over 18 months to subsidize the uptake of electric cars, the department for transport (DfT) said on Wed…..

GM sets $41,000 price for electric Chevy Volt
DETROIT (Reuters) – General Motors on Tuesday set a price of $41,000 for its electric Chevrolet Volt — $8,000 more than its nearest competitor, the Nissan Leaf. …..

Toyota pushes back U.S. Prius production by years
TOKYO (Reuters) – Toyota Motor Corp has pushed back plans to build its Prius in the United States by as much as six years, with a top executive saying U.S. production is likely to start only when the …..

Scottish wind energy plans would create 5,000 jobs
LONDON (Reuters) – More than 5,000 jobs could be created by the development of planned wind turbine manufacturing sites around port locations in Scotland, the country’s First Minister Alex Salmond sai…..

U.S. wind power installations drop in first half of 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The amount of new wind power installed in the United States fell by 71 percent in the first half of 2010 from a year ago as government support for the renewable energy source wane…..

Analysis: Canada clean power push faces labor shortage
OTTAWA/VANCOUVER (Reuters) – A shortage of skilled workers could stall Canada’s push to develop sources of clean energy — delaying construction schedules, boosting development costs and squeezing pro…..

UK says big changes needed to meet climate targets
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain may need to double its electricity supply and virtually eliminate emissions from power stations by 2050 if it is to meet legally binding climate change targets, the governme…..

Nuclear waste waiting for a home
WASHINGTON – The Obama administration said Tuesday it has no intention of building a long-planned underground repository in Yucca Mountain, Nev., to permanently store radioactive waste from Duke Energ…..

Findings show promise for nuclear fusion test reactors
Purdue nuclear engineering doctoral student Chase Taylor, at left, and Jean Paul Allain, an assistant professor of nuclear engineering, are using this facility in work aimed at developing coatings cap…..

Nuclear power move puts coalition on course for clash with Holyrood
THE coalition government set itself on course for a potential clash with Holyrood ministers and its own backbenchers yesterday as it announced a commitment to support the development of new nuclear po…..

Nuclear fusion reactor faces delays, budget woes
ITER involves a multinational effort to harness energy produced through nuclear fusion. …..

Judge orders feds to re-evaluate decision to kill nuclear waste repository on Utah reservation
A judge has thrown out a decision by federal officials to reject a nuclear waste repository on an American Indian reservation in Utah’s west desert. …..

Vietnam designs plan against nuclear incidents
” A national plan to cope with nuclear incidents is being designed to confront nuclear incidents occurring in Vietnam and other countries that affect Vietnam, said a senior expert on nuclear energy. …..

Experts Fuss Over Cost Of Nuclear Fusion Research
What would you pay for a clean technology that could meet all the world’s energy needs without producing an ounce of carbon dioxide? Enlarge ITER organization A cutaway view of the planned ITER Tokama…..

Government’s energy policy unveiled
Energy Secretary Chris Huhne is due to set out the Government’s policy to secure the UK’s energy supplies in the face of warnings of a potential power crisis. …..

‘Stealth’ fusion experiment gets $50 million
Stars, including the sun, are nature’s fusion reactors. False-color image of sun from Solar Dynamics Laboratory courtesy NASA. …..

Young bloke faces close shave
Photo: Paul Harris The Coalition is pinning its hopes on the baby-faced son of a strawberry farmer, writes Saffron Howden. …..

N.B. pressures Ottawa on AECL delays
Energy minister calls AECL’s communication on nuclear reactor delays ‘unacceptable and dysfunctional’ 2:20 PM AT CBC News Natural Resources Minister Christian Paradis is being asked by New Brunswick’s…..

Perry, Davis-Besse nuclear power plants have operating issues, NRC says
The NRC this week is holding public assessment meetings to question plant operators about problems the agency’s inspectors have found. …..

Nuclear energy
The offer of the Chinese government to provide nuclear power plants to Pakistan is highly appreciated by the people of the country. …..

South Korea signs on to finance first Jordan nuclear reactor
Intelligence official: there’s a chance to reach settlements with Palestinians, Syrians 15:41 Police chief announces security arrangements for Jerusalem’s Pride Parade 15:39 4 Yitzhar settlers held du…..

Nuclear experts seek to advance ITER fusion project
Tractors working on the future International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor site in Cadarache, southern France, in 2008. …..

Opposition party pledges to fight nuclear power extension
The Green Party says it won’t let the government extend the lives of nuclear power plants without a fight. …..

Nuclear blueprint
George Voinovich knows that curbing climate change requires a renewed commitment to clean, proven technology Published on Monday, Jul 26, 2010 T he failure to advance climate and energy legislation re…..

Nuclear dump opposed by elders
Aboriginal landowners have protested in Resources Minister Martin Ferguson’s electorate to oppose the establishment of Australia’s first radioactive waste dump on their land. …..

BAE to assist green energy project
Britain’s biggest arms manufacturer will contribute its marine engineering expertise to a wave-power project off Orkney Marine engineering for an innovative wave-power project off Orkney is to be prov…..