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- Microsoft's Hohm Enters Crowded Home-Energy Monitoring Market
- Microsoft leapt into the increasingly-crowded home-energy management market this week with its release of Hohm, a free Web application designed to help customers monitor and ultimately conserve energy use. The software giant has been working on the Web tool for two years now and its unveiling follows...
- Blog posts 2009-06-25
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- Regulators Slam Duke's Solar Funding Plan
- North Carolina regulators gave a green light for Duke Energy’s Carolinas subsidiary to install 10 megawatts of photovoltaic systems at hundreds of commercial and industrial buildings, homes, and schools last week. But the energy company’s plan to recover costs for the $50 million project through rate hikes has come to...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Will The Fortune 500 Save the Solar Industry?
- The economy may be giving renewable energy companies plenty to fear in the year to come, but not all the forecasts are gloomy. At a time when analysts are predicting shrinking venture capital investment and companies are shelving plans for new factories, some industry insiders are predicting at least one...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Battery Maker Boston Power Fuels Up With $55M
- On the heels of news that it had scored a deal with laptop maker Hewlett Packard, lithium-ion battery maker Boston Power says this morning it has raised $55 million to keep growing its business. The 4-year-old company has now raised a total of $125 million, making it one of the...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Air New Zealand Takes Off With Jatropha Biofuel
- Air New Zealand has completed what it says was the first commercial test flight using biofuel made from the jatropha plant. Jatropha, which produces seeds that contain inedible lipid oil, can be grown on land that’s not usable for food crops, making it a potentially more environmentally friendly feedstock for...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Algae Startup GreenFuel Cutting Almost Half Its Staff
- GreenFuel is encountering even more hurdles in its path to producing algae, fed with recycled CO2, that can be turned into biofuel. This time it’s the battered economy throwing up roadblocks, and the comapny has cut nearly half its staff, according to XConomy. One of the recently laid off folks...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Energy Roundup: Abu Dhabi Adds Output, T. Boone on Ropes, Green VCs Double Down, and More
- Abu Dhabi set to invest $20 billion to increase crude output -- The Abu Dhabi government plans to invest some $20 billion through 2010 to increase its crude output 30 percent. Current crude production is 2.7 million barrels per day. Abu Dhabi hopes to raise that to 3.5 million barrels...
- Blog posts 2008-10-28
- Energy Roundup: Royal Dutch Shell Talks French, Odebrecht to Spend $100M Offshore Angola, and More
- Shell calls “force majeure†on Nigeria exports due to OPEC cuts -- Royal Dutch Shell has called force majeure on some of its crude exports from Nigeria. Shell called the force majeure based on Nigeria’s compliance with OPEC -- of which Nigeria is a member -- to reduce output by...
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- California Regulators Say Heck Yeah to Sunrise Power Line
- An engine designed almost 200 years ago could be the future of solar energy. At least that’s what San Diego county is banking on, along with Phoenix-based Stirling Energy Systems, which will be building a 1,000-MW solar plant run off of Stirling engines in the county’s desert thanks to the...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Energy Roundup: Conduit Wins Peru Gas Concession, Solyndra Gets $600 Million, Drop in Solar Prices, and More
- Conduit Capital wins $1.4 billion concession to build 700 mile Peruvian gas pipeline -- The private equity investment firm, Conduit Capital Partners has announced that subsidiary, Kuntur Transportadora de Gas, was awarded a 30-year concession contract by the Peruvian Government to build a 700 mile pipeline to carry natural...
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Energy Roundup: Exxon Invests in Lithium, Venerex Strike, Mach Gen, Metcalfe and More
- ExxonMobil set to invest $325 million in lithium batteries for cars -- ExxonMobil’s got to spend its windfall profits somewhere, so why not someplace that will make the Exxon Valdez owner look good and prove profitable? The company is reportedly set to invest $325 million in a lithium battery parts...
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Energy Roundup: Konarka Opens Largest Thin-Film Plant, Exelon-NRG Merger, Great Ohio Goes Belly-Up, and More
- Largest thin-film solar plant opened -- Konarka Technologies says it has opened the world's largest -- 250,000 square feet -- roll-to-roll flexible thin film solar manufacturing plant in New Bedford, Massachusetts. The company is ramping up to begin shipping its "Power Plastic," thin, lightweight photovoltaic material in commercial quantities. [Source:...
- Blog posts 2008-10-20
- Energy Roundup: OPEC's "Economic Terror," Venezuela to Diversify, HelioVolt Opens Huge New Plant, and More
- John W. Rich, Jr.: OPEC production cuts are economic terrorism â€" True to its word, the OPEC cartel cut production Friday by some 1 million barrels per day. Always outspoken coal-to-liquid advocate and WMPI PTY President, John. W. Rich, Jr., was quick to react, labeling the move nothing less than...
- Blog posts 2008-10-24
- Energy Roundup: Obama's Oil Dilemma, Iraq's 'Nam Flashback, Ethanol in Peril, and More
- Fed to allow 1.9 million acres worth of shale development on public land… maybe -- It's a perfect illustration of the kind of dilemma that the incoming administration will face with energy policy, caught between the rock of energy independence and the hard place of environmental concern. On Monday the...
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Why Pick On Google? How Green Are We The People?
- Did you know that breathing for about 12 minutes emits roughly 7 grams of carbon dioxide into the air? According to a recent study conducted by Alex Wissner-Gross, a Harvard University physicist, that's the same amount of carbon dioxide that's emitted when you type in a search on Google. So,...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Tech Roundup: Game Companies Hunt Pirates, Bad Oracle Consultants, Green Google Investments, and More
- Activision Blizzard chases individual game pirates -- Clearly some in the gaming community have been watching the RIAA a bit too closely. Activision Blizzard has been suing individuals who have pirated its game Call of Duty 3. Out of six people so far pursued, three settled for $100,000, one for...
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Will Google Reorganize the Worldââ¬â¢s Energy Data?
- Last week we flippantly joked that Google might be of better use in the energy sector if it used its search technology to find more oil, rather than coming up with an energy plan that competes with others’, like that of T. Boone Pickens. But at least...
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Energy Roundup: IEA Sees Drop in Oil Demand, Spectra Sells Gas Interests to Keyera, Calderon Wants Pemex Autonomy, and More
- Oil demand drops to 1993 levels -- The International Energy Agency has cut its oil demand growth forecast for 2008 to its lowest rate in percentage terms since 1993. The IEA cited economic weakness and "a spiraling liquidity crisis." [Source: Commodity Online Spectra selling gas interests to...
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Energy Roundup: BP Strikes Oil, Pemex-Global Deal, Galp and Petrobras go Bio, and More
- BP reports oil strike in Gulf of Mexico -- BP America may one day go "beyond petroleum," but not quite yet. The oil giant has reported a new discovery in the Gulf of Mexico, in its Freedom Prospect area, about 70 miles off the Louisiana coast. Andy Inglis, the company’s...
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Energy Roundup: ConocoPhillips, Chevron, Marathon to Explore Indonesia, Masdar Buys Into Wind Farm, and More
- Indonesia doles out 22 oil and gas blocks -- Indonesia awarded exploration rights for 22 oil and gas blocks to foreign and local companies including Marathon Oil, Kanzai Oil, ConocoPhillips, Chevron, Husky Energy, Pearl Energy, Australian Worldwide and Sinochem Petroleum E&P. The planned investment will total more than $300 million...
- Blog posts 2008-10-16
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