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Advanced Evaporative Cooling White Paper

This paper "Advanced Evaporative Cooling" (attachment A-1), provides an exceptional overview of evaporative cooling technology and markets produced by Davis Energy Group in 2002. Davis Energy Group has developed a "Generation 3" indirect-direct evaporative cooler IDEC with support from the California Energy Commission's PIER program. The unit combines advances in...

Tags: California Energy Commission, manufacturing

White papers 2004-03-01

Potential Health and Environmental Impacts Associated With the Manufacture and Use of Photovoltaic Cells

EPRI and the California Energy Commission CEC, the principle sponsor of this project, have collected information on potential environmental impacts of chemicals used in California's photovoltaic PV industry. This report provides an overview of the photovoltaic industry and includes the types of cells that were manufactured or under development through...

Tags: California Energy Commission, photovoltaics, chemicals, cell, manufacturing, industry, health care

White papers 2003-11-01

Feasibility of a Strategic Fuel Reserve in California

The report recommends that the state investigate the possibility of a "strategic fuel reserve," consisting of gasoline kept in public storage tanks that would be available to private suppliers through a daily auction. The state's gasoline refineries are operating at near maximum production, and when an unplanned refinery outage occurs,...

Tags: California Energy Commission, gasoline, California, supplier, storage

White papers 2003-07-01

Additional Resources

Siemens

A one megawatt solar energy system, the equivalent of 150 average-size residential solar panel systems, will be installed by Siemens Transportation at its light rail vehicle manufacturing plant in Sacramento. The installation is to be completed by late October. Siemens says it's the first privately owned company in California's capital...

Articles 2008-05-01

Governor Schwarzenegger Inaugurates Frito-Lay's Solar Field

FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLOSE-UP-24 April 2008-Governor Schwarzenegger Inaugurates Frito-Lay's Solar FieldC2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com SunChips, Frito-Lay's line of multigrain snacks, announced it is using solar energy to help make some of the snacks at its Modesto, Calif. manufacturing facility. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger inaugurated the...

Articles 2008-04-24

Using the Power of the Sun to Help Make SunChips Multigrain Snacks

GOVERNOR SCHWARZENEGGER INAUGURATES SOLAR FIELD AT FRITO-LAY'S MODESTO, CA FACILITY ON EARTH DAY PLANO, Texas, April 22 /PRNewswire/ -- SunChips, Frito-Lay's popular line of multigrain snacks, is living up to its name by using solar energy to help make some of the snacks at its Modesto, Calif....

Articles 2008-04-22

Phoenix Motorcars Exhibits at Low Carbon Fuels 2008

ONTARIO, Calif. -- Phoenix Motorcars, a California-based electric vehicle manufacturer, recently participated at the Low Carbon Fuels 2008, a two-day event in Sacramento featuring the latest in alternative fuel technologies. Phoenix Motorcars displayed its zero-emission sport utility truck SUT and participated in the "Ride and Drive" activity. "This...

Articles 2008-04-17

Notice to Proceed Issued to Wartsila by Pacific Gas and Electric Company for Their 163 Mwe Gas Power Plant In California

HELSINKI, April 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Wartsila North America, Inc., a subsidiary of Wartsila Corporation, a leading global provider of power plants for flexible power generation, was in March released to begin detailed engineering and manufacturing on a 163 MWe gas-fired power plant ("Plant") for Pacific Gas and Electric Company...

Articles 2008-04-02

Wartsila Corporation receives approvals for power plant in California

NORDIC BUSINESS REPORT-2 April 2008-Wartsila Corporation receives approvals for power plant in CaliforniaC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com Finnish power plants and ship power solutions supplier Wartsila Corporation said on Wednesday (2 April) that it was selected in April 2006 to deliver a 163 MWe gas-fired power plant to...

Articles 2008-04-02

Energy Business Expert Joins CMTC

TORRANCE, Calif. -- Energy business expert Scott Sullivan has joined California Manufacturing Technology Consulting as its Regional Sales Manager, infusing his years of sales experience and expertise into the company's Energy Savings Program. With fifteen years in the energy business, Sullivan, who assumed his post last month, has...

Articles 2007-11-13

UQM Technologies Announces Contract with the California Energy Commission and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory to Develop an Advanced Grid-Connect Interface

FREDERICK, Colo. -- UQM TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (AMEX:UQM), a developer of alternative energy technologies, announced today that it has received a $1,046,500 cost-share contract from the California Energy Commission's Public Interest Energy Research Program and the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory NREL to develop an advanced grid-connect inverter...

Articles 2007-11-05

L.A. companies push for choice of electricity providers: firms seek 'direct access' from PUC in drive for cost savings

Hoping to cut energy costs, dozens of major companies based or operating in Los Angeles are pushing state regulators to once again allow them to choose their electricity providers--a key component of deregulation shelved after the 2001 power crisis. Real estate companies, supermarkets, restaurants, manufacturers such as Boeing...

Articles 2007-06-04

ACES Applauds CPUC Votes to Grant Petition Opening Investigation into Lifting Suspension of Direct Access

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Today, the California Public Utilities Commission CPUC voted to grant a petition opening an investigation into lifting the suspension of direct access and restoring consumers' ability to choose electric service providers. In December a petition was filed with the CPUC asking they open an investigation...

Articles 2007-05-24

ZENERGY POWER PLC - Grant and Utility Installation.

Embargoed Release: 07:00hrs Monday 2nd April 2007 Zenergy Power plc ...

Articles 2007-04-02

Danish wind turbines manufacturer Vestas Wind Systems A/S wins new order in the US

NORDIC BUSINESS REPORT-6 March 2007-Danish wind turbines manufacturer Vestas Wind Systems A/S wins new order in the USC1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com Danish wind turbines manufacturer Vestas Wind Systems A/S said on Tuesday (6 March) that its unit Vestas Americas A/S has secured an order for V90-3.0 MW...

Articles 2007-03-06

AHAM Applauds U.S. Department of Energy's Denial of California Petition for Separate Water Standards for Residential Clothes Washers

To: POLITICAL EDITORS Contact: Joseph M. McGuire of Association of Home ApplianceManufacturers, +1-202-872-5955, ext. 311, Cell: +1-202-256-8754, Fax:+1-202-872-9354, jmcguire@aham.org WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The applianceindustrytoday applauded the decision by the Department of EnergyDOE to deny apetition by the California Energy Commission CECseeking separate waterusage regulations for residential clotheswashers sold...

Articles 2006-12-28

California Consumers' Right to Choose Energy Providers Denied

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Today, K-12 schools, universities, retailers, restaurants and manufacturing and electric suppliers from across the state came together to file a petition asking the California Public Utilities Commission CPUC to investigate lifting the existing suspension and restoring consumers' right to exercise choice in electricity suppliers. California consumers, by...

Articles 2006-12-06

IN BRIEF

New Employer for Pierce R. Anthony Pierce, PE, a member of HPAC Engineerings Editorial Advisory Board, has a new employer: Facility Dynamics Engineering FDE. As senior engineer, Pierce manages commissioning projects and performs field and investigative work related to building systems for FDE. He is based in Southern California....

Articles 2006-12-01

3rd Rock Taps PV Laminates from United Solar Ovonic for Solar School Projects in California

ENERGY RESOURCE-16 November 2006-3rd Rock Taps PV Laminates from United Solar Ovonic for Solar School Projects in CaliforniaC2006 JeraOne - http://www.jeraone.com United Solar Ovonic, a wholly owned subsidiary of Energy Conversion Devices Inc., has supplied 420 kW of photovoltaic PV laminates to 3rd Rock Systems & Technologies Inc....

Articles 2006-11-16

Shifting laws and nifty walls

Let's start off with a couple of items of interest you might've missed earlier this year, ranging from the courtroom to what sounds more like science fiction than science. A STATE OF CHAOS The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a blow to appliance and equipment manufacturers in...

Articles 2006-09-01