• Volvo Mean Green Gets Records Recognized

    Updated: 2012-06-30 22:56:29
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  • Petrobras oil and gas output up 1.9% in May from April

    Updated: 2012-06-30 22:56:29
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  • Petrobras oil and gas output up 1.9% in May from April

    Updated: 2012-06-30 22:56:29
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  • Petrobras oil and gas output up 1.9% in May from April

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  • Petrobras oil and gas output up 1.9% in May from April

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  • Dealer Uses Truck to Wave Bioheat Flag

    Updated: 2012-06-30 22:56:29
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  • UK Report Indicates Fracking Needs More Regulations, Not A Ban

    Updated: 2012-06-30 22:56:29
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  • Energy Storage Solutions to be Piloted in Nova Scotia

    Updated: 2012-06-25 14:00:00
    When the Southwestern Municipality and Town of Digby in Nova Scotia started looking into developing a Combined Heat and Power Plant, it discovered a lack of grid capacity which has sent it in a bold new direction. “We engaged Lockheed Martin to give us a view on the feasibility of a CHP plant and one of the things that came out is the grid capacity

  • The Happy Meal of Solar Marketing: Advertising, Social Media, and PR

    Updated: 2012-06-22 15:00:00
    When your little angel tears open the box of mostly edible treats known as “The Happy Meal,” what she’ll find is a package: You get the cheeseburger, the fries, the chocolate milk, the apple slices, plus that toy. It’s a successful package, and it works. So too is solar marketing, but like the Happy Meal, it’s not often a balanced package. As much

  • UN Envoys Plan Sustainability Goals Without Impact in Draft

    Updated: 2012-06-19 14:53:16
    United Nations envoys endorsed the broadest steps yet to harmonize economic development with efforts to protect the environment, measures that pressure groups say lack the teeth needed to force change.

  • EHPA 'underwhelmed' by European energy saving moves

    Updated: 2012-06-19 01:00:00
    An agreement has been reached on the Energy Efficiency Directive (EED), part of the European Union's effort to reach a target of 20 per cent of primary energy savings by 2020.

  • 5,000 Followers and 16,500 Tweets Later, 9 Solar Marketing Lessons from Twitter

    Updated: 2012-06-08 14:00:00

  • Nova Scotia Feed-in Tariff Progress Report

    Updated: 2012-06-05 14:56:32
    Last year, Nova Scotia caught the world’ attention with its Renewable Electricity Plan that set a goal of implementing 25 percent renewable energy sources by 2015 and 40 percent by 2025. The plan includes North America’ first ever Community Feed-in Tariff (COMFIT) which, since launching in September 2011, has contributed to just over

  • US Government Should Trust the Free Market for Green Energy Investment

    Updated: 2012-05-29 12:10:00
    The loan guarantee program should be retired permanently. The path to commercialization requires brains, discipline and grit. It is rarely aided, and often impeded, by government involvement. Our government should trust the free market forces that have made America great.

  • Utility Success: Interview with Thierry Vandal, President and CEO of Hydro-Quebec

    Updated: 2012-05-24 14:00:00
    Thierry Vandal, president and chief executive officer of Hydro-Quebec, discusses methods his company uses to provide energy to customers, the differences between operating in Canada vs the U.S. and the future of hydro and its integration into other energy strategies.

  • Are IT Data Centers Emerging as a 'Killer App' for Green Power? Part 2

    Updated: 2012-05-24 01:48:00
    IT companies are increasingly exploring a wide range of green power solutions in response to growing energy use at their data centers and increased scrutiny from industry watchdogs. In part one of this article, we described utility-provided and offsite green power options available to IT companies. In this post, we will discuss the onsi

  • Will SolarWorld's Brand be Helped or Harmed by the China Trade Dispute?

    Updated: 2012-05-21 14:00:00
    When one thinks of the solar trade dispute that has led to a 31 percent-plus tariff on Chinese solar manufacturers, the first brand that comes to mind is SolarWorld, who publicly led the CASM Coalition and filed the complaint. Now that the decision is in, will SolarWorld’ leadership benefit its brand relationship with installers or hurt it?

  • Maintaining Electric Heaters

    Updated: 2012-05-14 14:49:13
    Electric heaters provide an inexpensive way of heating your home but they can also present risks, mainly in the form of fire hazards. For that reason it is essential to give proper maintenance to your heater. 1- How old is your heater? With the passage of time, electric components can become damaged or dysfunctional, raising [...]Advertisement

  • Hans-Josef Fell, Father of the Feed-in Tariff

    Updated: 2012-05-14 14:00:00
    I dropped by the Bundestag office of Germany’ Green MP Hans-Josef Fell the other day. Fell is a fascinating character and is one of the figures hailed as “the father of the feed-in tariff (FiT)” — ermany’ law that guarantees private producers of renewable energy a fixed, igher-than-market rate for their e

  • Winners and Losers in the Renewable Energy Race

    Updated: 2012-05-10 16:23:38
    According to a recent Pew Charitable Trust report entitled, “Who's Winning the Clean Energy Race,” the United States overtook China in green energy investments during 2011 after lagging behind for the previous two years. #xD; When you add up asset finance, public markets, venture capital, and small distributed investments together, we

  • Exxon's Big Bet on Shale Gas Won't Pay Off if Clean Energy Scales

    Updated: 2012-05-02 17:40:00
    For several years now, we’e been making the case that the clean energy industry has to dramatically scale its advocacy investment to meet an aggressive disinformation campaign trained against it by the fossil lobby. We’e found increasing receptiveness to that message, but we still run into people who think we’e got tin foil on

  • Quick Feasibility Analysis for Waste Heat Recovery Potential using GE In-House Simulation Tool

    Updated: 2012-04-25 21:32:59
    An incredible amount of up to 50% of the total energy input in the industrial sector is lost in the ...

  • Why "Passive Activities" May Be Clean Energy's Biggest Hurdle

    Updated: 2012-04-25 14:00:00
    If you care about the future of the American renewable energy industry, you need to learn what the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) calls “passive activities.” Because these important rules mean that as long as the U.S. relies on the tax code to provide renewable energy incentives, renewable energy can only grow as fast as Wall

  • Rural Africa Looks Beyond the Grid

    Updated: 2012-04-12 14:00:00
    In picking South Africa for last year's meet-up, the COP-17 climate change talks prompted some inevitable grumbles. Why was the global climate change industry holding its jamboree in a country that, despite its commitment to renewables, pumps out so much CO2?

  • Sponsor PennWell's Wall of Honor To Recognize Military Service Personnel

    Updated: 2012-04-09 20:30:21
    Exhibitors and attendees at PennWell's 2012 events in the U.S. can become sponsors of the Wall of Honor.

  • Chile's Uncertain Renewable Energy Future

    Updated: 2012-04-09 14:00:00
    In May 2011 Carlos Slim, the Mexican business magnate, predicted that Chile will be the first Latin American nation to attain the status of a developed country. Chile's GDP per capita of US$15,400 in 2010 puts it far ahead of most of its neighbours and with economic growth for 2011 slated at 6.5 percent, the country would appear to be well on course to achieve Slim's forecast.

  • Teaching Circuits and Solar

    Updated: 2012-03-25 18:58:13
    ATC is teaching a class – “Circuits and Solar” in Guatemala this month.  Our team of local engineers are teaching a very hands-on class that communicates the essence electricity, circuits and then how to make and install a small scale solar home energy system.  The ultimate goal is to get solar into households that lack [...]

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