Filed under: Celebrities, Health, Alternative Energy 30 Rock's Katrina Bowden and Judah Friedlander, Photo: Rob Loud, Getty Images This New Year's Eve, the world famous dropping ball (I'll do my best not to make puberty jokes) in Times Square will … [Read more...]
Pure Play Energy Storage Stocks Year-End Review And Outlook
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John Petersen With only a couple trading days left in 2009, this is as good a time as any for a performance review. The predictions I made at this time last year were pretty solid with an 80% accuracy rate on price direction. For the year, a $1,000 … [Read more...]
College Students Pursue ‘Clean Energy’ Careers
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Nowadays students are not oblivious to the hazards of global warming. They are quite keen on pursuing a ‘clean energy’ career. Now the concern about climate change is stimulating more undergraduate students to show interest in science and … [Read more...]
Impressive Fuel Cell Stack on Kia Borrego FCEV Uses 98% of the Hydrogen
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The partnership between Kia and Hyundai resulted in some huge steps forward regarding fuel cell technology. Kia has just released some footage about their latest FCEV prototype called Borrego (Mohave for the Korean market). Read more.... … [Read more...]
A safe investment in 2010: Hot water
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Though written in 2007, an analysis by RENEW's executive director Michael Vickerman may be even truer today an a few years ago, given the risk involved in “traditional” investments. The analysis shows that an investmnet in a solar hot water … [Read more...]
Foreign Windpower Giant Iberdrola Taps Saudi Arabia of Wind Because We Can’t
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Today, a European company put the finishing touches on a wind project in North Dakota which Americans have known for decades is “the Saudi Arabia of Wind.” Spain's Iberdrola Renovables, the parent company of Iberdrola Renewables Inc that … [Read more...]
Green Investor news – enXco Announces Commercial Operation of 1.8 MW(dc) Belle Mead Solar Project
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ESCONDIDO, Calif. - December 31, 2009 - enXco, an EDF Energies Nouvelles Company (PARIS: EEN) announces Commercial Operation of the 1.8 megawatt (dc) Belle Mead Solar Project. Read more.... … [Read more...]
Wind Stocks News – Iberdrola Renewables Completes Construction of Rugby, North Dakota Wind Plant
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RUGBY, N.D. - December 31, 2009 - Iberdrola Renewables has completed construction of the 149 megawatt nearly $300 million Rugby Wind Power Project near Rugby, North Dakota. Read more.... … [Read more...]
Wells Fargo Now Financing Solar Installations
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Welcome to the world of bank-financed solar installations! There's a new deal called “sale leaseback,” in which SunPower makes the contracts with consumers, Wells Fargo funds the installations and SunPower of San Jose, CA sells the electricity … [Read more...]
2009 in Review: Looking back on a year in solar
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2009 was quite a year for solar. Over the past year, the cost of solar electricity has dropped 50%, in cost per kilowatt hour for solar panels — the largest cost reduction in its history! If you're looking at solar in the long-run, 2010 is … [Read more...]