Alternate Energy

Enel Adds 20 MW of Geothermal in Italy
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U.S. Flushes 12.5 Trillion Gallons of Energy Down the Drain Every Year
Researchers from Newcastle University in the U.K. have done the math, and on the surface it looks pretty grim. Every year, the U.S. flushes about 12.5 trillion gallons of energy right down the drain……

FERC Wants Smaller, Faster, Distributed Storage to Speed Renewables
At the February 17th business meeting,  FERC proposed that we pay more for the now more valuable fast response energy regulation provided by the newer and more responsive energy-storage technol…..

Hydrogen economy? Maybe not, but Ballard Power is surviving just the same
My Clean Break column in the Toronto Star today takes a look at a former darling of the fuel-cell industry, Ballard Power — remember those guys? Ballard was the hot kid on the block back in the l…..

Danish Maersk Lines Cuts Shipping Emissions 50%
Shipping is going to need to use a lot less fuel if we still want to have international shipping in the carbon-constrained future that awaits. Even if polluters prevail and no climate laws get pass…..

Enphase Energy Expands into Europe on Heels of Record Sales
Enphase Energy, North America’s leader in solar microinverter systems, announced that it was expanding into Europe yesterday. The company is opening offices in Italy and France in order to capture a â…..

Xerox Researchers’ Finding Can Yield 10 to 30% More Energy for Lithium Ion Batteries
A new printing technology invented by Xerox promises to have the ability of packing more energy into EV batteries. The invention involves the printing of a striped pattern of energy storage materials …..

Farmers Adding Much More Renewable Power Than Expected
According to a new census from the USDA, farmers are reducing their costs by embracing renewable energy to power their operations in very unexpectedly big way. The use of renewable sources focuse…..

Energy programs get Walker ax
From an article by Mike Ivey in The Capital Times: If you like burning fossil fuels – hey, aren’t those Koch brothers in the pipeline business? – then you’ll love Gov. Walker’s proposed budget.Th…..

Climate Science Roundup
Cross posted on Climate Central. Welcome to Climate Central’s weekly science round up. Among last week’s noteworthy research papers were an investigation of over-estimating improved energy e…..

Agriculture Stocks Directory added to Investor Ideas Members Content
POINT ROBERTS, Wash., March 4, 2011 – www.InvestorIdeas.com, a global investor research portal, specializing in sector research, is pleased to report to recent additions to the Investor Ideas member c…..

From Toilets to Tap: How We Get Tap Water From Sewage
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Record Hill Wind Approved for a Conditional $102 Million DOE Loan Guarantee
03/04/2011 – U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu recently announced the offer of a conditional commitment to …..

Paper industry sets sites on PSC and renewable energy
The legislative agenda on energy of the Wisconsin Paper Council (from the association’s newsletter): • A limit on the amount of excess electric generation capacity that the Public Service C…..

Announcing Practical Energy Law School: Affordably Priced Programs, Practical & In Plain English!
Announcing the Practical Energy Law School , a series of value-priced online programs that provide practical instruction on energy law in plain english. Courses will cover how-tos, such as how to na…..

2011 Pivotal Leaders Nominations Open
A year ago, Pivotal Investments launched a list of the top prospective clean technology business leaders in the Northwest/Cascadia region. Pivotal is a Portland venture capital firm investing in North…..

The Fierce Urgency of Now: Notes from the ARPA-E Summit
by Matthew Hourihan and Matthew Stepp, Policy Analysts for the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation There are times when the nation’s political leadership in Washington is perfectly i…..

Deep Green – New Tidal Technology Uses Underwater Kites to Generate Energy
The Swedish tidal energy device developer Minesto has revealed its latest technology using underwater kites to produce clean electricity. Unlike other similar systems, the new technology, called Deep …..

SiGNa mobile H2: Water-Fueled Battery Recharges Your Gadgets Cheaply and Cleanly
SiGNa Chemistry Inc has created a kind of a battery that can be recharged with water. At first sight, there’s something fishy with their mobile-H2 in the sense that it only needs water to operate and …..

Global: Mitsubishi makes 2 global cleantech M&A transactions
This week, Mitsubishi enters the cleantech space forming an energy efficiency JV with China-based Shanghai Electric, and acquires a stake in Spanish solar company Acciona Termosolar. …..

Asia Weekly: Accel Partners raises £2 billion China focused fund
This week, Accel Partners will launch a fund targeting energy opportunities in China and the U.S., totalling $2 billion. …..

Europe Weekly: 3 new cleantech funds launched in Europe
This week, 3 cleantech focused funds totalling over $700 million were launched in Europe by BlackRock & NTR, Terra Firma, and the Solar Investment Group. …..

N America Weekly: VantagePoint makes 2 cleantech investments
This week, VantagePoint participated in 2 investment rounds: one for solar wafer developer 1366 Technologies which raised an additional $8.4 million, and another for advanced lithium ion battery produ…..

Europe Has Too Much Wind/Solar Energy, Supergrid Needed
The development of alternative energy has to go hand in hand with a reinforcement of the electrical grid, otherwise the latter will eventually become so busy and will cap the production to its capacit…..

Clean Energy Vehicle Stock Alert; Electric and Natural Gas Vehicle Company, EVCARCO (OTCBB: EVCA), Closes Up 38.66%
March 3, 2011 (Investorideas.com renewable energy/green newswire) Investorideas.com a leader in cleantech investor research, reports that clean energy vehicle dealership company, EVCARCO (OTC.BB: EVCA…..

Cleantech Stocks Q&A with Josh Levine of the MicroCap Investor Newsletter
New York, NY, Point Roberts WA, March 3, 2011 – Investorideas.com, an investor research portal specializing in sector investing including cleantech presents a Q&A with Josh Levine of the MicroCap Inve…..

Investor Alert for Lithium/ Battery Stock Lomiko Metals Inc. (TSX-V: LMR, OTC: LMRMF)
Point Roberts, WA – March 3, 2010 – Investorideas.com, a leader in sector research including mining and cleantech stocks, releases recent news and commentary on Lomiko Metals Inc. ( TSX-V:LMR , OTC: L…..

Solar Stocks; XsunX (OTCBB: XSNX) Signs Joint Business Agreement with Solar Module Manufacturer
ALISO VIEJO, Calif. – March 3, 2011 (Investorideas.com renewable energy/green newswire) – XsunX, Inc. (OTCBB:XSNX.OB) the developer of hybrid, thin-film photovoltaic (TFPV) solar cell technologies and…..

Funny Exxon Gas Station Sign, but…
The sign above has gotten extremely popular on the internet. It is definitely funny. But it misses some key points, as most news about gas does these days.I reported on Cleantechnica last July that th…..

Biofuel Crops Could Help Fight Climate Change…But It’s Not What You Think
The allure of biofuels rests in their potential for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles. That’s all well and good, but a team of researchers has discovered an entirely different way in w…..

Top Ranked States for LEED Green Buildings in 2010 Released
03/03/2011 – The U… …..

Visit Schiller LLC at the 4th Canadian German Solar PV Conference 2011
Schiller Automation GmbH & Co. KG, a world leading provider of production solutions to the solar industry, announced today that it will exhibit at the 4th Canadian German Solar PV Conference. The e…..

Finding PV’s Next Big Cost Reductions
Cost is one of the biggest barriers to bringing solar to scale. Tremendous strides have been made to date — module prices have come down 50-70% in the past two years alone. Where are the next cost…..

Deep in the Biomass Belt
In America’s Deep South, where towering loblolly pines cast long shadows and block intermittent winds, one of the best renewable energy resources can still be found in the forest – just take a clos…..

Enphase Energy Expands Globally with First European Offices
Enphase Energy, the leader in solar microinverter systems, today announced the appointment of two country managers and opening of new offices in France and Italy to service global demand for its high…..

Solectria Renewables to Exhibit at Building Energy and Renewable Energy World North America 2011 Trade Shows
Lawrence, MA – March 3, 2011 – Solectria Renewables, LLC, the leading U.S. PV inverter manufacturer, announced today that it will exhibit at Building Energy 2011 in Boston, Massachusetts and Renewabl…..

Flexible French FITs: Higher Biogas, Lower PV Tariffs Coming
In late February, the French government proposed to substantially raise feed-in tariffs for biogas, while dropping tariffs for solar photovoltaics (PV) by an equivalent amount. …..

AltaTerra Research to Discuss On-site Solar Policies and Incentives in Upcoming Briefing
Distinguished speakers from AltaTerra Research and the Solar Electric Industry Association will discuss on March 17 how solar policies are motivating business and institutional customers to “go solar…..

DNI satellite data truth? – How to handle the difference in values derived from different satellite data providers?
Technical Top Tip courtesy of Suntrace. When it comes to CSP project evaluation, one of the biggest uncertainty factors for the performance is the available Direct Normal Irradiance (DNI) a…..

Roundtable for Sustainable Biofuels Launches its Certification System at World Biofuels Markets 2011
The Roundtable for Sustainable Biofuels, the leading international initiative to ensure the sustainability of biofuels production and processing will launch their global certification system for biof…..

Growing Fears of PV Module Oversupply in 2011
On the back of last year’s record demand, there are growing concerns that photovoltaic (PV) module supply is set to outstrip demand throughout 2011, leading to significant oversupply in the industry……

Europe’s Power Sector At a Crossroad
Europe is the biggest energy junkie in the world. The EU is addicted to external energy sources, currently getting more than 50% of its energy from outside the region and that percentage is set to ri…..

Nuclear plant’s license renewed
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has renewed the operating license for the Kewaunee Power Station for 20 years, the agency announced last week. …..

China announces ambitious clean energy plans for next five years
China on Saturday announced goals of building 235 million kilowatts of power generation capacity from clean energy forms in the next five years, in an effort to trim the country’s heavy reliance on fo…..

The Clean Air Act and Nuclear Energy
Perhaps feeling a little besieged, the Environmental Protection Agency released a report the other day. …..

Top 5: Where to store spent nuclear fuel?
The $1.8 billion East Baltimore development was back in the news, and the latest story by Melody Simmons on the massive project was the most-viewed story this week by The Daily Record’s business staff…..

Davis-Besse, nuclear power plant, Nuclear Regulatory Commission
The Davis- Besse Nuclear Power Station on the shore of Lake Erie near Port Clinton, Ohio. …..

Uranium exec wants to end Va. mining ban in 2012
A company seeking to mine the largest uranium deposit in the United States will push for legislation in 2012 to end a 29-year Virginia ban on uranium mining, a top executive told investors. …..

TVA plan calls for more nuclear power, less coal
A Tennessee Valley Authority plan designed to guide decision making recommends greater use of nuclear power, natural gas and renewable resources and less reliance on coal in the next two decades. …..

UPDATE 1-UK Hunterston B7 nuclear unit restarts Fri.
EDF Energy’s 500-megawatt Hunterston B7 nuclear reactor in Britain restarted on Friday afternoon, a spokeswoman for the utility said. …..

AECL is no ‘fire sale’: natural resources minister
AECL continues to lose money because of problems with its refurbishment of the nuclear reactor in Point Lepreau, N.B., above, the need to upgrade infrastructure at the Chalk River research complex in …..

March 4, 1962: Nuclear Age Comes to Antarctica
While the idea of placing a nuclear plant in such an ecologically sensitive location may seem like madness today, in the pre- Chernobyl , pre- Three Mile Island world of 1962, nuclear power was seen a…..

No conflict accompanies nuclear funding
I am writing with regard to the recent commentary by Larry Lack and Lee Ann Ward. …..

China’s State Nuclear Power Technology Corp. Selects Intergraph SmartPlant Enterprise
The Chinese State Nuclear Power Technology Corp. Ltd. has selected Intergraph SmartPlant Enterprise solutions to increase productivity and safety and to accelerate project schedules for the engineerin…..

Russians visit Washington’s Hanford nuclear site
A group of Russians is getting a firsthand look at U.S. efforts to clean up nuclear waste at the highly contaminated Hanford nuclear reservation in Washington state.The visitors represent the regulato…..

Japan bank to support Toshiba in Turkish nuclear plant bid
Japan Herald Thursday 3rd March, 2011 A worker directs the moving of a nuclear fuel rod from Global Nuclear Fuel, a joint venture of General Electric, Toshiba and Hitachi, inside a reactor at Exelon’s…..

Generation mPower Names Executive Leadership
Generation mPower LLC, a joint company formed by The Babcock & Wilcox Company and Bechtel to design, license and build the next generation of nuclear power plants based on B&W mPowerTM reactor technol…..

My Turn: Support Yankee’s scheduled closure
Many people may be lieve that Entergy’s bid for the contin ued operation of Vermont Yankee died after the resounding defeat in the state Senate last year. …..

Wash. questions use of steam technology at Hanford
Washington officials are questioning a proposal by the U.S. Department of Energy to use steam reforming to treat radioactive waste at the Hanford nuclear reservation. …..

Potential of nuclear energy discussed at national meet
TIRUCHI: Impact of power generation on global warming; augmentation of green energy generation from nuclear, wind, solar and biomass energy sources; and ways and means to reduce carbon foot print at i…..

EDF wants help from Md. for Calvert Cliffs 3 nuclear plant
French utility EDF Group is asking the state for help in developing a third nuclear reactor at Calvert Cliffs in Southern Maryland. …..