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In 2008, Formula Zero a race between hydrogen-powered cars built by six competing universities tried to show that sustainable energy needn be faced po,
F1 cars have used hybrid tech in the form of kinetic energy recovery systems, or KERS, since the 2009 season.
In this case, the car uses a type of advanced cellulosic 85%ethanol renewable fuel from woody biomass.
researcher Rabinowitch and colleagues have been pushing the idea of otato powerto deliver energy to people cut off from electricity grids.
With 1. 2 billion people in the world lacking access to electricity, a simple potato could be the answeror so the researchers thought. e thought organisations would be interested,
Compared with modern technologies like solar power, potatoes are perhaps less desirable as an energy source. Gaurav Manchanda, founder of One Degree Solar,
universities and entrepreneurship centres in every corner of the country like the King Abdulla City for Atomic and Renewable energy, near the capital Riyadh,
and financing to find solutions to pressing problems such as water treatment and renewable energy. Over 60%of Saudi water comes from desalination an expensive process
Butanol can be produced by bacteria in biomass and if an economically efficient method can be found to industrialise that process then your flight of the future could literally be fuelled by alcohol.
One of the solutions to cut down on polluting fuels is the use of wind energy. But the rise in wind farms has unintended its own effects.
Air traffic control systems are being interfered with, both offshore and across moors and hills. The movement of the turbine blades creates, essentially,
In places such as Scotland, where the projections for wind farms are amongst the densest in the world,
As the need for wind power increases, a solution will have to be found. Jet-rocket hybrideventually, mankind will see long distance travel-London to Sydney, for example-taking place outside the Earth's atmosphere.
They have backups for everything#water, electricity and food. With no reliable public transport available, Genpact provides cabs to take over 10,000 employees back home.
#Solar-power vehicles pushing boundaries of possibility The promise of fleets of clean, green transport powered by solar energy has for decades just been that:
such as the electricity grid or financial systems. Some cyber attacks use malware (malicious software) to gain access to enemy systems
and can work for 12 hours without electricity.##Bluetooth can also provide new ways of communicating in rural settings where internet access is unavailable or out of reach for the poor.
He also developed Com-Me, a collection of hardware and software components to help people with limited access to electricity
and be topped up with electricity that is generated more efficiently in a centralised power station, or even by renewable sources.
We are only at the start of the electric vehicle revolution, of course, with only a few models being offered by a few manufacturers.
And as they become one of the largest consumers of electricity people own the network needs to be able to keep up to reduce the risk of power cuts
Electricity is fed currently over cables to homes and offices in one direction, but increasingly there is the ability to send back information the other way,
Smart electricity meters are already being installed in many parts of the world which can give a real time data feed of how much power is being consumed.
and stored in a fuel cell that generates electricity. The catalysts are cheap, earth-abundant materials and form by self-assembly,
says Jim Lynch, Director of Green Tech at Techsoup Global. ith the growth of internet and electricity in Africa,
But, there are practical challenges. he biggest challenge is electricity, says Tooley. In off-grid areas with low power,
Solar panels on the structure top will generate power. Such concepts allow us to see bridges in new ways not just as a method of crossing natural barriers,
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Meantime the hurricane forcing the closure of a nuclear power plant this morning in Louisiana as well. Entergy Corporation saying it shut down of its plants in Colona (ph) Louisiana about 20 miles west of New orleans as a precaution.
I was surprised to see solar panels and water heaters sprouting from government buildings hospitals police stations bus shelters as well as thousands of gaily colored private homes throughout the Caribbean island.
Conventional electricity prices in the Caribbean are more than four times what we pay in the U s. due in part to high shipping costs for the Venezuelan crude that fuels the region power plants.
U s. pays for itself in lower electricity bills in less than two years. It is not just consumers who are noticing
what a great deal solar energy is becoming. Industries like the island only desalinization plant are installing large photovoltaic arrays to help defray their own electricity costs.
Solar advocate and advisor to the Barbados government William Hinds told me that there are already enough private investors who want to produce solar in Barbados that the country would shift to 100 percent solar in less than ten years even without government subsidies
Even in Barbados industries are restricted in the amount of solar energy that they can produce due to admittedly legitimate concerns about the stability of the power grid.
but it has year-round trade winds to run wind turbines. The Barbados government is also looking into harnessing the energy of the tides as well as introducing ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) a technology
which employs the temperature difference between cooler deep and warmer shallow sea waters to generate electricity.
The Barbados government commissioned agreen Economy Scoping Study prepared in partnership with UNEP and released last month in Bridgetown
The challenges of integrating wind and solar energy into the grid are cited often by the utility
and fossil fuel industries in the U s as reasons not to develop fully our renewable energy potential.
The bottom line is that alternative energies already cost a lot less (when their hidden costs are factored in) than conventionally produced power.
which favors a dirty and dangerous technology of the past over the clean energy future which is already here.
#U s. Guarantees $230 Million Loan For Construction of Latin america Largest Solar plant A large solar power plant is coming to Chile Atacama desert
The loan guarantee partly arises from President Barack Obama desire to work with Chile on expanding the clean energy futures for both nations. ee both very interested in energy
and how we can transition to a clean energy economyobama told The Associated press. nd wel be announcing some collaborations including the facilitation of a construction of a major solar plant inside of Chile that can help meet their energy needs. bama spent time with Chilean President
The U s. is already the largest lender to Chile having approved nearly $900 million of loan guarantees for six renewable energy generation projects in Chile in just over a year.
The country wants to increase renewable energy to 20 percent of its total power generation by 2025. he Luz del Norte project is an important step in furthering solar power development in Chile where the potential for this clean renewable resource
Mosaic has built a product that enables everyone to participate in transitioning the country to 100%clean energy.
The Southern Alliance for Clean energy will use Mosaic Places to take institutions solar across the Southeast United states. REVERB will be using Mosaic Places to help musicians
He is also chairman of Solarcity, which he said can helpprovide solar energy for the national network of Tesla EV chargers his company is creating e
#Carnival Corporation is investing $400 million to expand innovative exhaust gas-cleaning technology Carnival Corporation & plc, the world largest cruise company, today announced plans to significantly increase installations
#Generating Electricity While Remaining See-through New Energy technologies Inc. NENE), developer of see-through Solarwindowt coatings, capable of generating electricity on glass and flexible plastics,
today announced that its technology has set a new record for generating electricity while remaining see-through with over 50%greater power than prior attempts publicized by others.
Using today certified power-production data, Company engineers estimate that a Solarwindowt installation on a fifty (50) story commercial building located in Florida could generate enough electricity to power at least 100 homes
while eliminating the equivalent carbon emissions produced by vehicles driving approximately 2, 750,000 miles per year. Additional total power production and carbon offset estimates for skyscraper
The Company announcement is based on results of independent testing and certification of its Solarwindowt modules by the U s. Department of energy National Renewable energy Laboratory (NREL.
Inc. e are engineering our see-through Solarwindowt products to generate sustainable electricity, and be aesthetically attractive,
In contrast, conventional solar power systems are limited to very small rooftop areas on skyscrapers and tall towers,
and Dr. Scott Mauger. s NREL researchers, part of our mandate is to help companies move their renewable energy technologies closer to commercialization,
and over its 37-year history has been credited for ground-floor support of many of the commercial technologies employed by today renewable energy industries.
NREL and New Energy have been working through a Cooperative Research and development Agreement to advance the Company Solarwindowt technology for generating electricity on glass windows.
experimental lab device to a first-of-its-kind, see-through glass window capable of generating electricity.
About New Energy technologies, Inc. New Energy technologies, Inc.,together with its wholly owned subsidiaries, is a developer of next generation alternative and renewable energy technologies.
which generates electricity on see-through glass and flexible plastics with colored tints popular to skyscraper glass.
generating electricity using natural and artificial light conditions and even shaded areas. Solarwindow#uses organic materials,
and commercial partners, we strive to identify technologies and business opportunities on the leading edge of renewable energy innovation.
Charger for Tablets and Phones Combine Efficient Green energy with Appealing Design for Unique Product (Currentmess LLC;
and an efficient solar panel which lets it users charge smartphones, and even tablets, on the go. Featuring a solar panel the size of an ipad,
the Solartab lets its users charge any mobile device using green, sun-fueled energy. And even more impressively, ipad enthusiasts can charge their beloved touch-screen gadget even
Forward-thinking corporations are currently investing heavily in green energy alternatives, and Google alone have made recently wind
which means you can store solar power for later and give any tablet another full charge after sunset.
they not only increased the solar panel size way beyond what youl find on the average portable solar charger on the market today,
but also works as a stand for the solar panel, which lets users angle the solar panel in three different positions.
After adjusting the angle to the sun current position, all that left to do is plug in any smartphone
Making green energy truly accessible to design-conscious, young people with an active lifestyle, it no wonder that the Solartab team have struck crowdfunding gold on kickstarter. com. The Solartab Kickstarter campaign is available until April 30 on https://www. kickstarter. com/projects/solartab/solartab-the-premium-solar-charger
#See-through Solarwindow#Capable of Generating Electricity on Glass Columbia, Md. and NEW YORK New Energy technologies Inc.,developer of see-through Solarwindow#coatings,
capable of generating electricity on glass and flexible plastics, today made public never-before-seen images of the Company'#s largest area, high-performance Solarwindow#arrays.
These Solarwindow#arrays measure over 232 cm2,#a significant achievement for size, improving upon New Energy#s previous achievements at the U s. Department of energy#s National Renewable energy Laboratory (NREL),
and over its 37-year history has been credited for ground-floor support of many of the commercial technologies employed by today#s renewable energy industries.
NREL and New Energy have been working through a Cooperative Research and development Agreement to advance the Company#s Solarwindow#technology for generating electricity on glass windows.
its development of electricity-generating windows for skyscrapers. Engineers envision replacing today#s passive glass windows with New Energy#s electricity-generating Solarwindow#systems on all four sides of tall towers.
Such installations could contribute to the goal of self-powered skyscrapers. The prospect of applying Solarwindow#to all four sides of a building provides a significant advantage over conventional photovoltaic solar-power systems.
Solarwindow#also generates electricity from both natural and artificial light sources such as fluorescent, light emitting diodes (LED),
*Designed to generate electricity on glass, enhancing the performance of today#s insulated commercial windows;*
*Able to generate significant electricity from both natural and artificial light;**Does not require expensive high-temperature or high-vacuum production techniques inherent to conventional solar;*
and achieve significant milestones with size, electrical power, and color#some of the most important features to developing viable products.#
glass window capable of generating electricity. Today, the technology is the subject of forty-two (42) patent filings,
Inc. New Energy technologies, Inc.,together with its wholly owned subsidiaries, is a developer of next generation alternative and renewable energy technologies.
which generates electricity on see-through glass and flexible plastics with colored tints popular to skyscraper glass.
generating electricity using natural and artificial light conditions and even shaded areas. Solarwindow#uses organic materials,
and commercial partners, we strive to identify technologies and business opportunities on the leading edge of renewable energy innovation.
#Top 10 States for Clean energy Job Announcements Top 10 States for Clean energy Job Announcements Last Year:
California, Texas, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, Illinois, Nevada, Oregon, New york, Missouri WASHINGTON (March 12, 2014) More than 78,600 clean energy and clean transportation jobs were announced in 2013 at 260
Solar power generation was the year top sector with more than 21,600 jobs announced. Other strong sectors included building efficiency and public transportation.
This is the second full year that E2 has tracked clean energy and clean transportation job announcements. Over the past two years combined, E2 has tracked more than 500 announcements that could create more than 186,500 jobs.
When we invest in clean energy and clean transportation, we put people to work in every corner of the country.
Whether it a new wind farm in Iowa an energy efficiency retrofit in Massachusetts, or a utility-scale solar array in Nevada, these projects require American ingenuity and labor.
The sector is helping stimulate our economy, said E2 Executive director Judith Albert. Last year job announcements were about 30 percent lower than in 2012.
clean energy job growth also faced economic headwinds in 2013. These headwinds came from the continued low cost of natural gas,
as well as attempts by renewable energy opponents to block or roll back favorable policies at the federal level and in numerous states. s a business owner,
I see a strong need for long-term policies that can stimulate private investment in clean energy and energy efficiency.
Here a closer look at some clean energy and clean transportation announcements in 2013:**In California, the California Ethanol and Power Project will produce 66 million gallons of ethanol annually from sugar cane and sweet sorghum.
*In New jersey, Trinity Solar LLC installed solar panels at housing units at Joint Military Base Mcguire-Dix-Lakehurst in Burlington County,
Clean energy is an increasingly common presence on military bases nationwide. Looking ahead, clean energy and clean transportation job growth could see an uptick in 2014
if Congress reinstates critical tax policies such as the wind industry production tax credit (PTC) and several energy efficiency tax incentives.
Congress let these tax incentives expire at the end of 2013. Clean energy jobs also could benefit from the rollout of the first-ever limits on carbon pollution from power plants
as well as from other elements of President Obama climate change initiative. CONTACT: Ailis Wolf at (703) 276-3265, aawolf@hastingsgroup. com;
#GE Makes A Wind turbine Especially For Japan Generous solar power feed in tariffs have driven a boom in installations in the last year
and solar cools off wind power might find a new opening in the Japanese market. This is the speculation from industry players in a new Japan Times article looking at wind power in Japan.
GE sure seems to be positioning itself for opportunities in Japan introducing what it calls the. 85-103 wind turbine for Japan.
That right Japan gets its own wind turbine. GE says the 2. 85-103 comes with enhanced tower engineered for Japanese environmental conditions including seismic and extreme wind events as required by Japanese construction and building codes.
image via GE) What is it about Japan that it requires a specially designed wind turbine?
GE explains: GE 2. 85-103 wind turbine is engineered specifically for Japanese environmental conditions and is able to withstand higher turbulence areas typhoon class extreme wind speeds
and lightning beyond the current IEC standard. The 2. 85-103 for Japan includes the Japanese requirements for lightning protection across all Japanese regions
Japan installed wind power capacity inched up steadily during the 0s with 200 to 300 megawatts going in each year.
Cleveland-based quasar energy group uses organic waste to produce a renewable energy source known as biogas which is converted then into Compressed natural gas (CNG) one of two fuels that can power the 2015 Chevrolet Bi-fuel Impala.
For instance its Columbus Ohio Renewable energy Facility processes up to 25000 wet tons of biosolids from the City of Columbus Department of Public utilities for wastewater.
More information on Chevrolet models can be found at www. chevrolet. com. quasar is a Cleveland Ohio based renewable energy company that designs builds owns
plug-in hybrid electric buses that use rechargeable batteries to run on both electricity and diesel, battery electric buses that do not use any diesel fuel
Benefits of commuting on electricity Though electric buses are not newhe first was introduced in Berlin in 1882lder models frequently required wires to hang over each bus route, marking bus paths through city streets.
Volvo claims its plug-in hybrid buses can operate on electricity alone more than two-thirds of the time,
and wind power to charge their batteries or produce hydrogen to power fuel cells. Moreover, as Ie previously mentioned, driving on electricity is compared cheaper to driving on oil.
The expected operating cost-per-mile of an electric bus in New york is $0. 20 to $0. 30 cents,
No wonder why companies like Volvo and BYD are beginning to take advantage of the many reasons why cities are shifting bus fleets to rely on electricity instead of diesel.
(and get involved yourself) by discovering why driving on electricity is a part of the UCS plan to alf the Oil.
According to the National Renewable energy Laboratory, zero emission buses can achieve more than double the fuel economy of buses running on diesel and other fuels l
and less-polluting domestic clean energy infrastructure. Notably, in 2013, the state of New york set the foundation for a $1 billion state green bank to support private investment in New york clean energy economy.
In December 2013, Gov. Cuomo announced an initial capitalization of $210 million to fund the bank launch in early 2014.
At the same time, new clean energy technologies are distinctly ready to meet this challenge, but bringing these technologies to scaled deployment across the economy is contingent on having ready access to capital and strong market structures to support new investment.
the clean energy sector has demonstrated dynamic growth. U s. solar power capacity, for instance, recently surpassed 10 gigawatts as the price of solar panels has fallen some 75 percent during the past five years
and continues to drop. Furthermore, America largest source of new electrical capacity in 2012 came from wind power,
lifting the total U s. wind capacity to more than 60 gigawatts. These successes are spurring new private-sector attention to the opportunities for clean technology.
and better manage financial risk is a bright spot in advancing the development of a clean energy economy powered by a modernized and climate-resilient electricity infrastructure.
one of the primary hurdles to bringing new clean energy technology to market remains the availability of the affordable capital needed to move great ideas from the research
These financial institutions are some of the most powerful tools for mobilizing new sources of public and private capital into emerging and necessary clean energy projects.
and predictability to investors by ensuring reliable access to efficiently priced and long-term sources of credit to finance publically beneficial, clean energy infrastructure.
and systematically marshal public credit supports to build emerging clean energy markets. In the United states the Connecticut Clean energy Finance and Investment Authority is building a strong track record of success,
while Hawaii, Massachusetts, and California are also establishing similar clean energy financing entities. These emerging green banks also draw on the experiences of infrastructure banks employed in California, Puerto rico, British columbia,
and elsewhere to finance the construction of bridges, roads, transit, and other public facilities. Current state of clean energy financing programs Connecticut The New york Green Bank will join the Connecticut Clean energy Finance and Investment Authority,
or CEFIA, in paving the way for the successful implementation of state green banks and public,
state-level, clean energy financing. Established in 2011, CEFIA featured an initial capitalization of $48 million to provide broad credit support to Connecticut clean energy projects and companies.
CEFIA supports the development of Connecticut clean energy industry through a combination of grants, loans, and other credit supports,
as well as educational programs for businesses and homeowners. These programs include lending for residential solar electricity and hot-water systems,
deep energy efficiency retrofit loans through the Property Assessed Clean energy, or PACE, program for commercial and multifamily buildings,
and a competitive grant program for micro-grids. In 2013 CEFIA used $40 million to attract more than $180 million of private investment f
This investment supported almost 30 megawats of new clean energy and savings of 9, 000 MMBTU of energy per year.
which authorized $100 million in bonds to finance a renewable energy loan fund that can provide low-cost financing for homeowners
and businesses to invest in solar panels and other clean energy projects. The loans, which are designed to offset the upfront cost of photovoltaic systems,
The California Alternative energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority, orcaeatfa, and the California Pollution control Financing Authority, or CPCFA.
These programs have issued more than $13 billion in tax-exempt bonds to finance low-cost loans for energy-efficiency improvements and tax incentives for clean energy manufacturing.
Such a bank would further augment California ambitious support for a robust clean energy industry and would represent an efficient use of funds already designated to reduce California emissions.
Massachusetts In 2009, Massachusetts established the Massachusetts Clean energy Center, or Masscec, which invests in early stage clean energy companies and renewable energy projects.
Masscecalso provides financing tools to municipalities, homeowners, and businesses in the form of loans, rebates, and grants.
Masscec programs have helped support the growth of Massachusetts clean energy industry, with an 11.8 percent increase in clean energy jobs from 2012 to 2013.
The most likely projects for WCX are new development and the retrofit of the region electricity grids and water infrastructure.
but underutilized tools because they attack the very heart of the challenges currently facing renewable energy and energy efficiency in capital markets.
These financial institutions can specifically target some of the most significant and persistent market barriers that have served to slow the development and deployment of new clean energy technologies.
green banks can employ improved mechanisms to flexibly facilitate the aggregation, credit enhancement, andsecuritization of renewable energy and energy-efficiency projects.
By doing so, states can significantly improve the function and structure of their clean energy markets.
Currently, the volume and project size of clean energy transactions are often too small and decentralized to attract private capital efficiently into the market.
decreasing investment and establishing a vicious cycle that suppresses clean energy deployment. By serving as a warehouse for energy-efficiency and renewable energy loansnd by providing a clear point of entry into the market for customers
investors, and project developersreen banks can play a critically important function in beginning to build volume,
Credit enhancement A key principle of green banks is that they use public dollars strategically to reduce perceived risks for private investors in undertaking investments in clean energy projects.
Securitization Green banks can add great value to a state renewable energy and energy-efficiency market by facilitating the securitization of these asset-backed investments.
and origination of specific clean energy projects and the scaled institutional investment in pooled financial products. The current inability of project developers to efficiently access institutional capital in the secondary market limits the liquidity of investments
green banks will greatly support the development of clean energy projects across states and will positively impact the cost of clean energy development by offering real consumer protection for ratepayers,
while expanding the deployment of renewable energy and energy-efficiency projects. A key design principle of any proposed green bank is that it is structured to increase private-sector participation in the market for clean energy project financing.
This will gradually reduce the need for public subsidy as the market achieves maturity and commercial scale.
Rather than crowding out participation of private financial institutions, a green bank should use carefully targeted inducements to leverage greater private investment
Through green banks, these strategies can be employed to meet the specific challenges of clean energy deployment and market transformation.
and 25 states haveeers mechanisms to promote clean energy development. Green banks can act as powerful accelerants of these important policies by facilitating the availability of the capital necessary to finance the costs of meeting these goals
Green banks can enhance the predictability and stability of renewable energy and energy-efficiency markets and, if properly administered
otherwise be unavailable for clean energy investments. Furthermore because green banks are designed to recycle the proceeds from these transactions,
accelerating the maturation of state clean energy markets, and helping the nation as a whole move toward a transformed, clean energy economy.
Conclusion With the initial capitalization of the New york Green Bank, New york has launched a dynamic tool that,
which will continue to invest in clean energy projects and promote overall economic growth long after the Obama administration tenure.
as well as sound energy policy, and it will benefit New york ratepayers and taxpayers as it improves environmental and community health.
and expanding clean energy markets that meet the needs of a vibrant and growing economy. As clean energy technologies continue to demonstrate their growing competitiveness
they will require access to sufficient streams of affordable capital for successful commercialization. This trend is already underway through new investments in public solar companiesand auto companiesrenewed focus on clean technologies.
As our country faces the growing danger of extreme weather and climate change, it is all too clear that investment in state of the-art-the art clean energy infrastructure is essential for the continued strength of the U s. economy.
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