Alternate Energy

Enel Adds 20 MW of Geothermal in Italy
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LED Light Manufacturer Brings New Green Jobs to Texas
As the U.S. gears up for the forthcoming phaseout of incandescent light bulbs, two schools of action are emerging. One, spearheaded by Texas Congressmen Joe Barton and Ron Paul, seeks to roll back …..

CLP India Expands its Wind Portfolio
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Finavera Receives Environmental Approval for 124 Megawatt Wind Projects in British Columbia
03/09/2011 – Finavera Wind Energy recently announced its 77 MW Wildmare and 47 MW Tumbler Ridge Wind Energy Projects have successfully passed the screening stage of the British Columbia Environmental …..

What You Aren’t Being Told About Ethanol and Corrosion
Join the forum discussion on this post Good Ideas Gone Bad History is littered with examples of ideas that seemed to be good for a while, but were later discovered to have unpleasant consequences. …..

Bullfrog Power launches “green” natural gas service to complement electricity offering
We knew it was coming, just didn’t think it would come so quickly. Bullfrog Power, just weeks after announcing the start of a pilot project with Kraft Canada, has launched a new “green” natural ga…..

Angry anti-wind crowd intimidates town board to change vote on trubine permitting
From an article by Tony Walter in the Green Bay Press-Gazette :GLENMORE — The Glenmore Town Board voted Monday to wait 60 days before voting on a permit request to have seven wind turbines built in…..

Australian MPs Getting Death Threats Over Proposed Carbon Tax
Just as it did here in the US, the threat of putting a price on carbon has roused the polluter industries to a frenzy of propaganda against it on talk radio and right wing news outlets in Australia…..

Air Hybrid Cars Could Be Cheaper Than Those Based on Electricity
According to Swedish researchers, storing energy as compressed air rather than in batteries would reduce the price of hybrid cars. Some hybrid and electric vehicles are already using brake energy to a…..

Biomass Transformed Directly Into Gasoline-Replacing Fuel, Energy Secretary Chu Excited About the Idea
I have been acknowledging the work of most scientists and their discoveries kept my interest awake to see what’s new every morning. It’s seldom times, though, when I read something like “the U.S. Ener…..

Smart Cities 101: Massively Connected Objects Give Rise to a Sea of Opportunity
This MIT Enterprise Forum event was formerly titled “The Internet of Things.” …..

Rubber Tree Inspires New Self-Repairing Plastic
Take the weight advantage of plastic, add the ability to self-repair small cracks before they become big cracks, and you’ve got yourself a durable new material that could improve the lifespan for tho…..

EPA Updates Database on Health and Environmental Impacts of Electricity Generation/ User friendly web tool allows Americans to search for power providers by zip code
WASHINGTON – March 8, 2011 (Investorideas.com renewable energy/green newswire) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency updated its database that helps Americans understand the health and environmen…..

Water Stocks News; Wescorp’s (OTCBB:WSCE) Completes the Commissioning of its 10,000 bpd H2Omaxx Mobile Water Remediation Unit
CALGARY, ALBERTA – March 8, 2011 (Investorideas.com Water Stocks Newswire) – Wescorp Energy Inc. (OTC.BB:WSCE) today announced it has completed the commissioning of its 10,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) mob…..

Solar News; Orbotech Announces the Receipt of First Order for Photovoltaic Systems
YAVNE, Israel – March 8, 2011 – ORBOTECH LTD. (NASDAQ/GSM SYMBOL: ORBK) today announced receipt by its subsidiary, Orbotech LT Solar, LLC, of the first order for its newly-developed product for the de…..

Electric Car Stocks Trading Alert; EVCARCO (OTCBB: EVCA) Trading Up 13.33% in Morning Trading
March 8, 2011 (Investorideas.com renewable energy/green newswire) Investorideas.com a leader in cleantech investor research, releases a trading alert for green automotive company EVCARCO (OTCBB: EVCA)…..

Electric Car News; Coulomb’s ChargePoint Network Expands Into Missouri: Novus International Installs First ChargePoint Stations for Electric Vehicles
CAMPBELL, Calif. – March 8, 2011 – Coulomb Technologies, a leading electric vehicle (EV) charging solutions provider, today announced that Novus International, Inc. a leading health and nutrition corp…..

U.S. Department of Energy Announces New Biofuel to Replace Gasoline
Things are moving along at a nice clip in the world of biofuel research, so it seems like news of another “breakthrough” is barely enough to provoke a yawn. Well, this latest piece of news sure s…..

FPL Unveils World’s First Hybrid Solar Energy Center in Florida
03/08/2011 – Florida Power & Light Company, along with Florida Gov… …..

NRGi Contracts Echelon for $16 Million Smart Grid Project in Denmark
03/08/2011 – Echelon Corporation recently announced that after completing a public tender process, the fourth largest utility in Denmark, NRGi, has selected Echelon’s Networked Energy Services smart g…..

Summit to focus on ‘green’ jobs, March 9-11
From an article by Tom Content in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Job and investment opportunities in environmental fields will be among topics addressed this week at the eighth annual Green Energy S…..

New Substrate for Graphene Could Finally Make It Useful and Electronics Greener
Graphene has lately been the electronic industry’s spoiled kid – everybody wants to have a piece of the research, but few have the tools and inspiration to find something new. A team of researchers fr…..

AERO-E: A Cool Wind-Powered Wireless Induction Phone Charger Prototype
Small gadgets like phones usually have small chargers, but they often get forgotten plugged in when you wake up in the morning and hurry up to go to work. These often-called “energy vampires” now have…..

Laser “Gas Detective” Probes Methane Emissions from Cows
It’s common knowledge that one of the single largest sources of greenhouse gas pollution related to human activity is methane emissions from livestock (yes, cow farts).  However, when it gets down …..

As far as acquisitions go, Magma is hot
Vancouver-based geothermal energy developer Magma Energy Corp., itself the creation of recent industry consolidation, has broadened its horizon even further with a plan to merge with hydro and wind de…..

Ford Giving Up on EVs? Not Quite, But They Focus on All Kinds of Technologies
One of the many things I learned in life is that people lose their dreams and never see them fulfilled just because they give up. So is the case with Ford, it seems, who is apparently a little circums…..

Wind Stocks Trading Alert; Clean Wind Energy Tower, Inc. (OTCBB: CWET) Up on Patent News
Point Roberts, WA – March 7, 2011 – Investorideas.com, a leader in cleantech stock research, releases a trading alert for Clean Wind Energy Tower, Inc. (OTCBB:CWET). …..

Renewable Energy Stocks; MAGMA ENERGY CORP (TSX:MXY) AND PLUTONIC POWER CORPORATION (TSX:PCC) ANNOUNCE MERGER TO CREATE ALTERRA POWER CORP.
VANCOUVER – March 7, 2011 – Magma Energy Corp (Toronto:MXY.TO) and Plutonic Power Corporation (Toronto:PCC.TO) today announced that they have entered into an arrangement agreement to merge and create …..

Wind Stocks; Clean Wind Energy Tower, Inc. (OTCBB: CWET) Files Unique Hydraulic System Patent
ANNAPOLIS, MD – March 7, 2011 (InvestorIdeas.com Newswire) – Clean Wind Energy Tower, Inc. (OTCBB: CWET) announced that the Company had filed with the United States Patent & Trademark Office “A Petiti…..

New Solar Retrofit Sparks Up Old Gas Power Plant
Why is this alligator smiling? Perhaps he (or she, whatever) is happy because his home state of Florida is beginning to establish itself as a solar power innovator and leader. The latest marker is th…..

Carbon Trust, Siemens Launch 550 Million Pound Green Finance Deal in the UK
03/07/2011 – A joint partnership between the …..

Spire Corporation to Present at the 2011 Solar Summit
Spire Corporation (Nasdaq: SPIR), a global solar company providing capital equipment and turn-key manufacturing lines to produce photovoltaic (PV) modules, announced today that its Executive Vice Pre…..

2011 Excellence in Renewable Energy Awards — Projects of the Year
The nominations have been reviewed; the editors votes are in and we are now pleased to announce the winners of the 2011 Excellence in Renewable Energy Awards for Project of the Year. This year’s Proj…..

So Many Summits, So Little Time!
As we enter the final few weeks of the industry’s “California Summit Tour”, let me highlight the Top 5 strategic industry challenges to be addressed at the final stage, March 29th and 30th in Santa C…..

2011 Excellence in Renewable Energy Award Winners Unveiled
Today, the Renewable Energy World Network of editors unveiled the winners of the 2011 Excellence in Renewable Energy Awards. These awards recognize the leading people, projects and technologies in th…..

Mexico’s Nuevo Leon Plots Wind Expansion
Mexico’s Mexico’s Nuevo Leon state is planning to grow its wind power industry and hopes to launch an international tender in the next year with a view to installing as many as 250 wind turbines, sus…..

Leading US Utilities and Operators Commit to Wind Energy Post Warranty O&M Meeting
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Balance of plant now big business in CSP
The CSP industry in Europe has started to translate promise into reality, and design to implementation – with 432.2MW of plants installed in Spain by August 2010. Further projects now in the pipel…..

Floating Offshore Wind Turbines Come Closer to Reality
Not just ships but wind turbines too could soon be floating off the Portuguese coast as the wind industry charters deeper, windier seas. …..

Economic Thaw Releasing Some Capital for Stalled Geothermal Projects
The United States’ geothermal industry is cautiously celebrating the return of investors to hot projects that had cooled off with the recession. …..

National Solar Trainers Helps Community Colleges Start New Solar Programs at the IREC Workforce Development Conference
National Solar Trainers Executive Director, David Sawchak will be attending the IREC national workforce development and education summit in Albany New York. He will speak on the importance of hands…..

Local ASHRAE Members and National Solar Trainers Holds Trainings on Offering Solar To Commercial Customers
National Solar Trainers provided free training programs at the latest ASHRAE and USGBC regional conference. The engineers and architects in these organizations are doing more than talking about ren…..

CSP tipped to emerge as dominant solar technology in MENA
Political stability is being cited as the biggest challenge for solar development in North Africa and Middle East, according to research conducted by CSP Today. …..

TMY – typical meteorological year – What should it represent and what means P50, P70 and P90
Technical Top Tip courtesy of Suntrace Solar Resource Assessment …..

Enhanced Geothermal Systems: Good Concept but Commercially Viable?
With a need for cheaper renewable energy on a vast scale, conventional geothermal energy has long been seen as a reliable source of energy, based primarily along continental boundaries. With the pote…..

Wind Power Mexico, 12 – 13 May 2011, Mexico City
This event will provide stakeholders with the opportunity to meet with both domestic and international market leaders and set the agenda for dramatic expansion in the Mexican wind market. …..

A Pressing Need for Design and Engineering Standards
The solar industry has historically applied its technical resources, research dollars and time to increasing the efficiency, driving down the cost and improving the reliability of modules and inverte…..

Small States Grapple With Big Canadian Hydropower
Peterborough, NH, USA — In New Hampshire a major transmission project that was announced last year is spurring discussion about what should qualify as renewable energy and what the goals of renewabl…..

Upheavals in the Chinese Polysilicon Market May Lead to Further Solar PV Cost Reductions
New standards for polysilicon manufacturers may cause shakeup in the market but ultimately drive down costs, analysts say. …..

Turning Bacteria into Butanol Biofuel Factories
University of California, Berkeley, chemists have engineered bacteria to churn out a gasoline-like biofuel at about 10 times the rate of competing microbes, a breakthrough that could soon provide an …..

MomentumNUCLEAR FOLLIES
DUMMERSTON, Vt. — When President Barack Obama said, during his State of the Union speech, “But to create more of these clean energy jobs… that means building a new generation of safe, clean nuclear…..

Aust paving way for uranium sales to UAE
Australia is paving the way to sell uranium to the United Arab Emirates. Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd has announced the government will begin negotiations with the UAE on a bilateral nuclear safeguards…..

Cable test raises fears at fusion project
Degradation of superconducting cables for the heart of the ITER fusion machine threatens to cause further delays. …..

Green groups urge feds to stall ‘nuclear garbage’ shipment
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Europe to turn up heat on climate targets
Comment about “Europe to turn up heat on climate targets” Phone Name Comment 0 Environment Europe to turn up heat on climate targets Christian Spillmann, AFP The EU is committed to going “green” betwe…..

NRC head: Decision on reactors possible by summer
The chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission says a final decision on whether to approve several new nuclear reactor designs could come as early as this summer. …..

Group Opposes Nuclear Energy Option
The city’s population continues to grow — as does its need for more energy — and CPS Energy officials are talking about about the possibility of purchasing nuclear power, to the consternation of a l…..

Bruce Power nuclear shipment hearings begin Mar 8, 2011 9:34 Am Et a "…
Bruce Power wants to ship 16 decommissioned nuclear steam generators through the Great Lakes and across the Atlantic Ocean to Sweden for recycling. …..

Opalinus Clay as a potential host rock for nuclear waste repositories
Nuclear chemists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany, are investigating the interaction between radioactive elements such as plutonium and clay stones Scientists at Johannes Gutenberg Univ…..

Nuclear risk ‘socialized,’ nuclear profit ‘privatized,’ report says
If Uncle Sam and co. had bought power on the open market and given it away free , it would have cost less than subsidizing nuclear power plant construction and operation over the last 50 years , says …..

TVA 20-year plan calls for more nuclear power, less coal use
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. …..

Bulgarian Govt Mulls ‘Reshuffle’ of Nuclear Power Plants in Belene, Kozloduy
The Kozloduy NPP might end up having a seventh reactor at the expense of the planned Belene NPP. …..

Monticello nuclear plant closes for – up-ratea
Xcel Energy shut down its Monticello nuclear reactor over the weekend as part of an estimated $133 million project to increase power generation and refuel the plant with new fuel rods. …..

Nuclear plant is ready to fire up
Published: Monday, March 7, 2011 at 9:40 p.m. Last Modified: Monday, March 7, 2011 at 9:40 p.m. After multiple delays, more than $440 million in repairs and power replacement and 18 months of down tim…..

Duke Energy will seek more acquisitions
That deal is expected to close by the end of this year. The paper says: Jim Rogers , who will be executive chairman of the merged company, told the Financial Times that Duke would be “in a stronger po…..

New ‘supercritical’ generators to boost nuclear output by 50%
US government boffins say they – or perhaps their rivals – will soon roll out a new and much more efficient type of turbine generator which is expected to be a boon to so-called “thermal” powerplant t…..

Sandia seeds culture of nuclear energy safety and security
The growing interest among Middle Eastern nations in establishing nuclear power programs prompted a Sandia National Laboratories team to conceive and lead development of a new institute that will seed…..

Nuclear plant area residents — check for those replacement batteries in the mail
Replacement batteries have been mailed to county residents who have an emergency planning tone-alert weather radio from the Oswego County Emergency Management Office. …..

Lane County Nuclear Information Night Tonight
MARCH 7, 2011 — All you ever wanted to know about Nuclear Energy will be available tonight at Harris Hall as the Lane County Nuclear Information Night focuses on the adverse effects of nuclear energy…..

Chernobyl: EU, EBRD beg for funds to secure nuclear disaster site
As the 25th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear accident approaches, international agencies are scrambling to locate funds to finance the next major project to deal with the disaster’s legacy. …..