Michael Giberson This could be one of the gee-whiz, how-cool-is-that posts about advancing technologies that we do here from time to time. The Arizona Republic has a story about how the new Phoenix Convention Center, which was finished in 2006, will begin to generate some of its own power courtesy of some gee-whiz technologies: peel-and-stick …
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Michael Giberson The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) announced today that the first allowance auction in the United States for a mandatory CO2 emissions reduction program will take place on September 10, 2008. A second auction will take place December 17, with quarterly auctions thereafter; the compliance period will begin January 1, 2009. The announcement …
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Michael Giberson The WSJ’s Environmental Capital blog reports that venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers (early backers of companies like Sun Microsystems, Amazon.com and Google), has become excited by clean technology. Kleiner partner John Doerr said the company hoped to cash in on what it believes will be a multi-trillion-dollar market for alternative …
Michael Giberson According to the Xcel Energy news release: The advanced, smart grid system – when fully implemented over the next few years – will provide customers with a portfolio of smart grid technologies designed to provide environmental, financial and operational benefits. Xcel Energy anticipates funding only a portion of the project, and plans to …
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Michael Giberson Via Texas Tech Today: If all of the cattle, swine and poultry waste across the United States could be collected and converted to electricity, the resulting energy could produce 80 percent of the nation’s current electrical power needs, while also generating marketable high-end plants and extracts. And the system works, at least on …
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Lynne Kiesling I am in Frisco, Texas for the next couple of days, to participate in KEMA’s Executive Forum in Retail Energy Markets, including moderating a panel of clean tech energy entrepreneurs. Should be fun!
Michael Giberson I’m swamped with work and have a lot of reading stacked up in the queue, so I haven’t had a chance to check out all of the good stuff that has been coming out of the Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center lately. Here are a couple of recent working papers: Seth Blumsack, Lester …
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Lynne Kiesling If you’re looking for a nice overview and an update on the smart grid ideas, technologies, and business strategies we’ve been discussing here at KP for a few years, check out this Currents podcast from PennWell: We’re actually seeing real-world implementation of smart grid technologies and starting to realize some of the benefits …
Michael Giberson So, I’ve been thinking more about Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano’s goal of turning the state into “the Persian Gulf of solar energy.” Last week I concluded that devoting about 236 square miles of Arizona desert to solar generators — like the recently announced state-of-the-art Solana Generating Station — would be enough to make …
Lynne Kiesling While at Wired I noticed their features of some of the technologies from the CleanTech Forum, including this mention of Nanoexa’s nanotechnology battery technology. Nanoexa is using nanotechnology and computational modeling to develop a new lithium energy storage technology. From what I can understand, the computational modeling will enable them to figure out …
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