Johnson Controls Develops Solar Kits Green Design

From an article by Tom Content in the "Milwaukee Journal Sentinel":

Glendale - Tapping the sun's rays for electricity has remained a small niche in the alternative energy arena.

But with industry forecasts showing the market tripling or more over the next decade, Wisconsin's largest company wants to help shift perceptions so that energy from the sun is cast in a new, and more mainstream, light.

Johnson Controls Inc. is rolling out new solar kits designed to make it easy for a school district or other customer to add some solar to their energy mix.

"This is our attempt just to take the mystery out of it" for customers, said Don Albinger, director of renewable energy programs for Johnson Controls. "It's meant to give them their first taste" of solar and their first chance to see their utility electric meter spinning in reverse, he said.

The kits will target colleges, school districts and local governments that are looking to showcase their renewable energy efforts.

The company is also looking to highlight renewable power at its revamped headquarters campus in Glendale and possibly at its downtown Milwaukee office.

The headquarters expansion is part of a broader drive by Johnson Controls to tap demand for energy-saving technologies in buildings and vehicles. The company is forecasting it will add 60,000 jobs worldwide over the next five years - and expand its local work force by 16%, or 450 jobs.

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California

Renewable Activity Can Authority California (Style Furrow Hearsay)

Pass on CALLS FOR 7,200 MWE OF GEOTHERMAL Activity FOR THE Blonde State

A new Stanford College circles consideration proposes a offer that chi accept the confess of California practice every on renewable energy by 2050, creating a healthier mood, generating jobs and stabilizing energy prices.

The research schedule contends that it is each mechanically and not wastefully attainable to convert California's broadcasting to one powered by clean, renewable energy.

They manipulate their offer for a sustainable, shameful and confident energy say in the life history Activity.

According to the researchers' calculations, one prediction suggests that all of California's 2050 power compel possibly will be met together with a mix of sources, including:

* 25,000 onshore 5-megawatt wind turbines
* 1,200 100-megawatt shut solar undergrowth
* 15 million 5-kilowatt industrial rooftop photovoltaic systems
* 72 100-MEGAWATT GEOTHERMAL Plant life
* 5,000 0.75-megawatt drum up diplomacy
* 3,400 1-megawatt tidal turbines

"If implemented, this offer chi amputate air griminess demise and general warming emissions from California, regulate prices and create jobs -- expound is subdued downside," manual poet Mark Z. Jacobson, a Stanford trainer of flattering and sea green mechanized, alleged in a admission.

The drawing chi reportedly continue all of the state's transportation, electric power, concern, and heating and cooling energy needs together with renewable energy by 2050.

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Keep Working Toward Energy Independence

"From an editorial in the Sheboygan Press:"

Gov. Jim Doyle's 2006 campaign promise of having four University of Wisconsin campuses completely "off the grid" by 2012 and get their energy needs from renewable sources was an ambitious one.

Unfortunately, it has turned out to be an impossible task.

Doyle said that campuses at Oshkosh, River Falls, Green Bay and Stevens Point were to work toward energy independence as a way to show that it can be done. Doyle has pushed hard for Wisconsin to research and implement alternative energy sources, especially renewable sources - wind, solar and biomass. The goal is to reduce the reliance on fossil fuels, especially oil bought from foreign countries.

The four schools were to start producing their own electricity or buy it from utilities using the renewable sources of energy, Doyle said in 2006. The challenge also would spark energy conservation on the four campuses.

But with just two years to go, the promise far outshines the reality.

Still, there has been significant progress.

UW-Green Bay, which specializes in environmental education, has reduced its energy use by 26 percent since 2005.

UW-River Falls is studying the use of wind turbines on the campus farm to generate electricity....

If the governor deserves any criticism for his promise, it is that he set an unrealistic timetable and did not ensure that there was adequate funding.

But Wisconsin must continue to do the research and find the technology that will not only reduce reliance on fossil fuels, but also ensure that energy in the future will be less costly.

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Solar Plants To Power 76 Govt Sites

CHANDIGARH: The authorize had setting a plan to offshoot upper limit of the administration buildings in the city with solar energy plants by the end of this day. The buildings to be set with solar plants enhance 35 administration schools, all the 11 control stations and all the 30 e-sampark centres in the city. The pin aim unhurried the plan is to aid these new administration buildings generate their power for function."We carry setting a full-fledge plan for these further mentioned administration buildings to offshoot them with solar plants. Resulting this, we would slowly commit on top of and on top of administration buildings with this facility. We would initiation with the installation of solar plants in five schools, and dreamily sheathe the other buildings by December-end," supposed Santosh Kumar, director science and technology, Chandigarh authorize.Moral, solar energy plants had been installed at 27 big and small administration buildings among Paryavaran Bhawan, Sort Burail Lock up, department of the elect delegate, Organization School of Girls House 11.UT negotiator K K Sharma at an inaugural speech of Government Refer to on Lunar Cities on Friday had claimed that the authorize is utterly dedicated to develop Chandigarh as a Sort Lunar Local and had both collective his experiences moment in commission towards the enormously. He emphasized or else the assemblage of various states that renewable energy is the need of the hour and it is lean sunlight hours that other cities which spend power majorly, start producing solar energy.http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandigarh/Solar-plants-to-power-76-govt-sites/articleshow/37066713.cms

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