Lynne Kiesling Mike’s two recent posts about turning animal waste in to electric power and John Doerr’s focus on methane recovery from animal waste prompt me to mention one of the innovative entrepreneurs in this space: RealEnergy. RealEnergy builds, installs, and manages distributed generation and combined heat and power (CHP) systems, and can do so …
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!
Lynne Kiesling I found a couple of interesting climate change articles over the weekend. First, this Foreign Affairs article discusses the geopolitical implications of Arctic ice cap melting; it creates and destroys territory in ways that various Arctic (and non-Arctic) nation-states are responding to by trying to stake property claims to the territory. Hmmm … …
Michael Giberson Allegedly the politics of climate change policy is pretty simple in the electric power industry: on the one side you have hydro, nuclear, and renewables, and on the other you have oil, gas, and coal. A company planning a coal-fired generating plant just outside of Sweetwater, Texas is an exception to this simple …
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Michael Giberson On Tuesday this week, while Florida transmission operators were getting everyone back online after a sub-station fire lead to cascading outages around the state, in Texas grid operators were responding to an emergency of their own. A sudden drop off in the West Texas wind produced an almost as sudden drop in wind …
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