Energy

Source: jacksonville.com --- 6 minutes ago
Saft broke ground today on its high-tech battery plant at Cecil Commerce Center, giving Jacksonville some international buzz in the field of “clean Energy,” a sector Florida regards as a key industry for job growth. Northeast Florida trails the Orlando area, the Tampa-St. Petersburg area, and South Florida in terms of businesses working in the clean Energy field, according to a map compiled by Enterprise Florida showing the location of those businesses. read more ...

Source: solveclimate.com --- 10 minutes ago
Aggressive federal Energy efficiency policies, such as building codes and appliance standards, would put money in consumer wallets in every state. That's the message of a new report that adds to evidence of the economic potential of curbing Energy use. Analysts at the Consumer Federation of America (CFA) calculated that U.S. citizens would save $301 to $451 annually on average on their utility bills in 2030, if the nation slashes projected Energy use by 20 to 30 percent, or 1 to 2 percent per year. The report is one of the first to look at how strong federal efficiency policies would shrink home Energy bills. Nationwide, households would save between $37 billion and $66 billion over two decades. The savings would be a "cushion to soften the blow" of costlier climate measures, said Mark Cooper, the study's author and research director at CFA, a consumer group of 300 organizations. "Efficiency lowers consumer bills, which provides an important cushion against other aspects of climate policy that might push bills up," Cooper wrote. To do the analysis, CFA looked to the states. The report is based on 24 state-level studies over 10 years and three recent reports from the National Research Council, McKinsey & Company, and the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE). The level of achievement varies widely. The research reveals that around six states have been able to slash Energy use by 1 to 2 percent over the past two dec ...

Source: www.tmcnet.com --- 16 minutes ago
eHydrogen Solutions has said that it expects its technology acquisition and recent advances to accelerate the research and development cycle of its Distributed Energy Initiatives. ...

Source: latimesblogs.latimes.com --- 19 minutes ago
The Chinese government has helped turn the country into an alternative Energy powerhouse using a slew of policies that support domestic renewable fuel industries, according to a study released Monday. A sweeping mix of preferential financing, rebates, tax incentives and subsidies for Chinese-owned and -controlled clean-tech companies between 2002 and 2009 was implemented as the country faced rising Energy consumption, according to the report from the National Foreign Trade Council . Policies include the 2005 measure that required wind farms in China to be built using at least 70% locally produced materials, which pushed several international companies to establish manufacturing facilities in the country. Chinese utilities must buy all renewable Energy generated in the country and then offer the power to consumers at a discount, according to a 2006 law. A $586-billion stimulus package from 2008 allocated significant funds to renewable Energy projects, and a 2009 program offered 50% investment subsidies for solar power systems connected to the national grid. China is turning into a major production base for electricity generated from hydropower, wind, biomass and solar sources at an astonishing scale and speed, according to the report. The number of wind turbine producers has soared to more than 100 in 2009 from about 25 in 2007. China also became the largest manufacturer of solar panels in the world in 2008, responsible for a third o ...

Source: dmnnewswire.digitalmedianet.com --- 31 minutes ago
(2010-03-15) AUSTIN, Texas, March 15 /PRNewswire/ — SmartDog Services, LLC, a leading provider of services for the Oracle community announces Cap Rock Energy Corporation as a recent addition to its extensive client list. ...

Source: www.watsoninstitute.org --- 33 minutes ago
From Energy policy to constitutional rebalancing, the US Foreign Policy Group of the British International Studies Association (BISA) addresses a broad range of foreign policy topics in the latest issue of its biannual newsletter, Argentia . Co-edited by Watson Institute adjunct professor Linda Miller, the January issue combines a pointed look at key issues with commentary on the sum-total of 2009’s victories and setbacks. ...

Source: washingtonpolicywatch.org --- 41 minutes ago
FACT: Europe’s Energy efficiency is the best in the world. As a result of widespread implementation of conservation and renewable technologies, Europe’s ecological “footprint” (the amount of the earth’s capacity that a population consumes) is about half that of the United States for the same standard of living. The European landscape is being transformed slowly by [...] ...

Source: www.futuresmag.com --- 51 minutes ago
Daily fundamental Energy analysis from Phil Flynn. ...

Source: snipr.com --- 52 minutes ago
http://snipr.com/nanoenergy - Courtesy MIT researchers. [196 views] ...

Source: climateprogress.org --- 54 minutes ago
Here is our Nobel prize-winning physicist Energy Secretary, Steven Chu, in a San Jose Mercury News interview: SJMN : Are you worried that the political will to enact a national policy or somehow tax or price carbon emissions is gone now? If you look at recent polls, the number of Americans who believe that global warming is real and man-made is declining. The political trends are not in your favor. Chu : Americans were believing because of sound bites, and now they’re disbelieving because of sound bites. One can honestly say that if we don’t do this, we will not be economically competitive. Ten and 20 years from now, the price of oil will likely be higher — this is not a stretch of the imagination. The debate for whether smoking causes lung cancer and emphysema was actually in the first decade among scientists, but they muddied the waters for 2½ more decades. Climate change, on a global scale, is a much bigger deal, and people are trying to muddy the waters, particularly people who think they might lose. Unfortunately, it’s easier to propagate fear than seeing a vision of prosperity. I prefer the phrase, “blow smoke in our face,” extending the tobacco analogy, but the point is the same: The global warming polluters are actively spreading disinformation to block action, just as the tobacco companies did. The questions now, as with Big Tobacco, are — how many people will the anti-science disinformers fool, how long will they delay act ...

Source: www.ktvb.com --- 56 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — A coalition representing governors of 29 states, includihg Massachusetts, is urging the federal government to take steps to boost wind Energy, such as a renewable Energy standard requiring utilities to produce at least 10 percent of their Energy from renewable sources by 2012. The bipartisan Governors' Wind Energy Coalition plans to make the recommendations Tuesday in a report to Congress and the White House. The Associated Press obtained a copy of the report ahead of its official release. The report comes as Senate sponsors of a climate bill prepare to unveil their legislation, perhaps as soon as this week. "We offer our assistance in working with Congress and the administration to achieve one of the nation's principal Energy goals, Energy independence, and increasing the role that wind Energy plays in meeting that challenge," wrote the coalition's chairman, Iowa Democratic Gov. Chet Culver, and its vice chairman, GOP Gov. Donald Carcieri of Rhode Island, in a letter to congressional leaders. A nearly identical letter was sent to President Barack Obama. The governors said that although the House began to address increasing wind power's role in climate legislation it passed last year, they are anxious to see the Senate follow through. Drew Hammill, a spokesman for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said that the House bill "includes many key provisions, including a renewable Energy standard, that would boost ren ...