BYLewis Perkins Relevancy Score: 100 Wed Sep 23, 2009 at 11:33 AM
Yesterday (September 22), President Obama addressed the United Nations Climate Change Summit with a speech focused on how the United States is "determined" to combat Climate Change. While the Waxman-Markey bill has been held up in the ...READ»
BYJennifer Reingold Relevancy Score: 100 Mon Mar 14, 2005 at 2:18 PM
The phone rang at 6:00 a.m. to tell me that my monthly appearance on CNBC to discuss our "CEO See-Ya" column had been postponed, thanks to the breaking news that Disney CEO Michael Eisner's long awaited successor would be Robert ...READ»
BYAriel Schwartz Relevancy Score: 100 Wed May 13, 2009 at 1:30 PM
The world's largest wind farm, dubbed the London Array, has been given the go-ahead after months of doubt caused by Shell pulling out of the project. The project, funded by E.ON, Dong Energy, and Masdar, is back on thanks
to ...READ»
BYAriel Schwartz Relevancy Score: 100 Thu Oct 1, 2009 at 12:05 PM
Texas is home to the world's biggest wind farm, according to officials at E.ON Climate & Renewables. The wind energy company recently put the finishing touches on its 781.8 megawatt (MW), 627-turbine facility in Roscoe, Texas. ...READ»
BYAnya Kamenetz Relevancy Score: 100 Fri Aug 8, 2008 at 4:15 PM
Activist-turned-entrepreneur Paul Fenn's effort to bring affordable sustainable energy to California could be revolutionary -- and electricity giant PG&E isn't happy about it at all.READ»
I have spent most of this month researching and writing about emerging green careers for a book about that subject, and the effort has made me aware of the many factors that must be in place before an emerging career can reach the ...READ»
BYAriel Schwartz Relevancy Score: 100 Mon Jun 1, 2009 at 4:09 PM
Geothermal power plants are the ugly ducklings of the energy world; they're not as big or flashy as wind and solar plants, and most of their energy-producing magic happens underground. But a new $25 million geothermal plant being ...READ»
The Department of Energy gave a big boost to solar and wind projects across the United States yesterday when it handed out nearly $503 million to companies in an attempt to raise their prospects of receiving outside capital. The ...READ»
BYAriel Schwartz Relevancy Score: 100 Fri Feb 27, 2009 at 2:24 PM
Only one week after unveiling three plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) charging stations in San Francisco, Mayor Gavin Newsom announced the submission of a permit application to bring renewable ocean energy off the city's ...READ»
Wind power in the U.S. appears to have taken a turn for the worse this week with T. Boone Pickens' announcement that he is scrapping plans to build the world's biggest wind farm in Texas. But according to the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), the wind situation isn't too dire--yet. te9ju5mi2aREAD»
I’ve interviewed hundreds of business outthinkers, and one
of the most common patterns of success is “coordinate the uncoordinated.”
We’ve seen this work for companies like Credit Justice Services, an
ethonomic credit ...READ»
The country that unleashed ABBA, IKEA and H&M on the world is gearing up to impress us once again--this time with Europe's largest wind farm. Swedish company Markbygden Vind AB wants to build 1,101 wind turbines in the northern ...READ»
BYAriel Schwartz Relevancy Score: 87 Thu Oct 29, 2009 at 12:14 PM
One of the biggest criticisms of on-the-grid renewable energy is its inherent unpredictability--the sun doesn't always shine and the wind doesn't always blow, but coal is always there to lend a helping hand. Weather information ...READ»
BYAriel Schwartz Relevancy Score: 87 Thu Jun 18, 2009 at 4:54 PM
You didn't think Google would end its involvement in the smart grid industry with PowerMeter, did you? The Internet giant announced yesterday that it's working on smart car charging software--the place where IT and ET (energy ...READ»
BYAriel Schwartz Relevancy Score: 80 Thu Oct 29, 2009 at 3:19 PM
Oh, the irony. All-American oilman T. Boone Pickens scraps his plans for the world's biggest wind farm--a $10 billion project in Texas--and who comes in to pick up the pieces? China. The communist country is honing in on the Texas ...READ»
BYAriel Schwartz Relevancy Score: 78 Wed Jun 24, 2009 at 3:02 PM
Every renewable energy source has its downside--nuclear power uses radioactive material, wind turbines generate noise complaints, solar production can leach chemicals into water supplies, and geothermal projects...cause earthquakes?READ»
BYAriel Schwartz Relevancy Score: 77 Fri Jun 12, 2009 at 5:27 PM
The world's first solar hybrid power plant is set to open on June 24 at Kibbutz Samar outside Eilat in southern Israel. When operating at full capacity, the flower-like AORA plant will supply 100 kilowatts of electric ...READ»
BYKit Eaton Relevancy Score: 77 Fri Jan 30, 2009 at 9:54 AM
A power generator fueled by whiskey. Strictly speaking, the upcoming power station to be built in Scotland will be powered by by-products from the whiskey distillation process, rather than the golden drinkable alcohol itself. Still, ...READ»
BYAriel Schwartz Relevancy Score: 75 Tue Nov 24, 2009 at 12:57 PM
Amidst news of massive solar and wind power plants comes word of a small but significant achievement--the world's first osmotic power plant. Statkraft's $7 million plant, located in Tofte, Norway, only produces enough energy to run ...READ»
BYAriel Schwartz Relevancy Score: 71 Tue May 5, 2009 at 2:15 PM
The electric grid is a hot topic right now, with improved smart grid technologies and alternative power sources coming online every day. It's also massively complex--an aging network of local and regional fiefdoms. But NPR has ...READ»
Move over T. Boone Pickens, your grand Texas wind farm dreams have been overtaken by energy start-up Baryonyx, which has won bids for three land leases--two offshore, and one in the Texas Panhandle--to build data centers in ...READ»
BYAriel Schwartz Relevancy Score: 68 Mon Aug 24, 2009 at 3:55 PM
What do you think of when you hear the phrase "solar power"? Chances are, you don't picture a Chevron oil field. Yet that's exactly where BrightSource Energy wants to put a 29-megawatt solar thermal plant by the end of 2010. As oil ...READ»
