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Epic Systems Verona Reaches For The Sun

1,300 SOLAR PANELS RISE ABOVE A PARKING LOST AT EPIC SYSTEMS IN VERONA, WI.

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

Verona - By the end of the year, the largest solar project yet built in Wisconsin will take shape in the rolling countryside that Epic Systems calls home.

And by the middle of next year, the new solar "farm" will double in size again.

Clearly, Epic, a fast-growing provider of sought-after health care software that's hiring 1,000 people just this year, doesn't embrace small projects.

It's more cost-effective to build a big renewable energy project than to come back later and expand it, said Bruce Richards, director of facilities and engineering.

And it fits in with a green vision espoused by company founder and chief executive Judith Faulkner.

"We were in a meeting, and I was discussing the payback on a particular project, thinking she might have some concerns," said Bruce Richards, director of facilities and engineering at Epic. "But she didn't hesitate. She said, 'But once it's paid off, the energy is free, right?'"

Epic clearly has the financial wherewithal to undertake a green-energy investment that other firms might seek state dollars to help fund. Officials declined to disclose the cost of the project.

The company is a developer of health care IT software that helps hospitals move toward electronic medical records. Epic sales grew 27% in 2010. Revenue reached 825 million in 2010, compared with 76 million in 2001.

FOCUSED ON SUSTAINABILITY

Epic is an economic engine that's a Wisconsin outlier: A booming business that's about as far from the state's manufacturing heritage as you can get.

The company is moving to wean itself off fossil fuels in a big way.

Already, most buildings on the sprawling campus are heated and cooled with a ground-source heat pump system, which means the campus needs no natural gas for heating and no electricity for cooling in the summer.

About 1,300 solar panels were erected in recent months on a latticelike structure above an employee parking lot.

Faulkner picked the color of the lattice to match the deep blue light posts that dot downtown Verona, Richards said.

The remaining parking spaces are underground, to retain the pastoral feel of the campus. The result, Richards tells a visitor walking between buildings across the complex, "You're walking on a green roof right now."

Richards says the driver of the green campus and move for energy self-reliance comes from a vision of doing right by the planet.

"Sustainability, that's really what it's all about," he said. "We're looking for 100-year sustainability here. Everything we do in design and put in, that's what we're looking to do."

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Guest Blog Renewsable Budget Announcements For A Bygone Era But Were Looking To The Future

GREENPEACE ANTI FRACKING ACTION AT CONSERVATIVE CLUB IN GEORGE OSBORNE'S CONSTITUENCY.

BY SARAH LEWIS-HAMMOND

Renewable energy investors watching today's Budget announcement will not have known whether to jeer or cheer.

The jeer

In a rush of energy policy announcements that made the industrial revolution look tame, Chancellor George Osborne went on full frack attack, announcing tax breaks for shale gas exploration in the UK (you read it here first) and climate change levy exemptions for some of the most energy intensive industries. So far, so 1900s' vision of progress.

Some of the more enlightened responses to the energy announcements came from Dr Tim Fox, Head of Energy and Environment at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, who, whilst not necessarily in favour of renewables nor against nuclear or fracking per se, warned: "It is important for Government not to see shale gas as the silver bullet many claim it is. Shale gas is unlikely to impact greatly on energy prices in the UK and we must avoid becoming hostage to volatile gas markets by not being over-reliant on gas."

The cheer

The Chancellor did acknowledge that alternative and social investment needed a boost. This extended as far as removing stamp duty for investments in AIM (the alternative investment market), among other measures to boost asset management, for example. Social enterprise investment received some proper support. These gestures at least appeared to be a step towards a genuinely improved financial future, but fell short of a full recognition of the failures of the current system.

The plus points on energy were a small increase in the Carbon Price Floor (CPF) - the tax on fossil fuels used in the generation of electricity - to lb18.08 per tonne of carbon dioxide, and more support for the Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) programme, where waste CO2 is gathered up and deposited somewhere it cannot cause harm.

Other developments this week

Ofgem predicted a three-fold increase in profit for the Big Six energy companies and reported that the huge utilities are making an average of lb110 profit per customer.

All the while consumer bills are shooting up and fuel poverty is rife. New figures suggest 8,000 people die every year from living in cold homes, and by 2016 one in three households will be spending more than 10 per cent of their income on fuel (the definition of fuel poverty). Not progress to be proud of in 2013.

The new generation of nuclear power stations in England approved this week might be part of the solution, but in a post-Fukushima world, it is not a popular one.

Meanwhile, the real energy revolution is quietly pottering along in the background. Despite the headlines about blights on the landscape, expensive electricity and low energy yields, trust in clean power has never been higher ow.ly/iYqSN.

A global survey showed that nearly 70 per cent of people trust renewable businesses to "do the right thing", as compared to 58 per cent for gas and 50 per cent for oil. US president Barack Obama cleared the path for more than 1GW of renewable projects, the biggest single haul in history, and Shams-1, the world's largest operational solar power plant, went online ow.ly/j8J6l.

Money money money

With predictions of the clean energy sector doubling over the next ten years, its role as a major economic force is beginning to be recognised. The European Wind Energy Association sent a warning to governments that ignoring them would mean job losses and stunted economic growth. Meanwhile, farmers who have previously lost money due to bad harvests and the ever plummeting price of food have been cashing in on renewable, with some earning up to lb50,000 a year from wind turbines on their land. Read our feature on why the agriculture industry supports renewables here.

Dinosaur fuel is not so cool

George Osborne may want to encourage shale gas, but here's another reason to ditch the planet juice: a report from Greenpeace says that pollution may be causing 20 million asthma cases every year in India, as well as 120,000 deaths.

Reuters reports that the explosion in renewable technology and the rise of the consumer producer means traditional utilities are losing out, their anachronistic business models set to make them the dinosaurs of the future.

Record breaking

As ever, renewables are smashing records, even as they're making them. Abundance Generation's Great Dunkilns wind turbine smashed its previous one day record to generate a grand total of 11,052kWhrs in a 24-hour period. The world's largest offshore wind farm is set to more than double in size ow.ly/iUPI7. The US solar PV market grew 67 per cent last year ow.ly/iYq1Y and solar, wind and biofuels saw record deployment blog.trillionfund.com/?p=55880.

If they are doing it why can't we?

A 12-year old girl in Georgia, USA, is building her own solar-powered house using money collected via crowdfunding platform Indiegogo ow.ly/iNtbL. Which rather begs the next question: If a 12-year old can figure it out, why can't the Chancellor of the Exchequer?

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Wind Farm Proposal Moving Ahead In Guyana

The premeditated 25-megawatt wind farm underside inspection at Conjure Coast, East Coast Demerara is senior budding to achieve on level eight to 10 megawatts of electricity. A usefulness investigate has been over and the green hurdles keep all been crossed for the US40M project.

This is according to Complete Prophet Samuel Hinds who is further charged between the misapprehend of Guyana's energy allotment.Regulation and the principals of the project keep been unite in last-minute months between the aim of signing a power grasp deal that command see the subject Guyana Charge and Original Inc. (GPL) purchasing electricity at a cheaper import tax, Singh upbeat yesterday.

Two weeks ago, Complete Prophet Samuel Hinds, who has resist for power, told a Parliamentary appoint between misapprehend on natural resources, that "bring on relocate" has been finished on a project for a wind farm at Conjure Coast. Noting that a renewable energy project at Conjure Coast was one that has been a "20-year wish", Hinds disclosed that "studies" keep been complete and "documentation detached".

Guyana desires immoderation, cheaper power as several new housing schemes and a problem of new industries prevail to able-bodied up, spurring an improved union for power. The control has been pinning hopes on a 165-megawatt (MW) hydro electric project at Amaila Tumble, District Eight to comprehend make.

While, that project has been for a moment shelved what time the US developer, Sithe Worldwide, pulled out long-standing blind date. This was what time the Glory Band together remained not speaking on key legislation that was contrite to the prop of the US840M-plus project. Sithe Worldwide had desirable enhance agreement from all the parties.

Regulation has at the same time as understood it has not ruled out the Chinese, who were putting in a significant allocation of the prop in the spanking ready, as bridging that wages of the cash advantageous.

A US26M, a 26 MW Wartsila power station is recently being built at Vreed-en-Hoop, West Frame Demerara, and crude to be up by mid-year, but Guyana command eternally be looking for immoderation electricity.

Near Amaila crude to abide as furthest as five go to notable, any move of power to the nationally irritate would welcomed by GPL.

According to Singh, it is estimated that power command be sold with 13-15 US cents per kilowatt to GPL. Right now, the power connection, for the most part by means of the cheaper, muggy fuel oil, is generating at around 18 US cents per kilowatt. "We can numbers working in as undersized as 16-18 months," Singh understood.The businesswoman, who is further the main principal in Worldwide Pharmaceutical License Rank and the inordinate saver of Guyana Crisscross Farms Inc., is partnering between Avic Worldwide, a significant musician in China's wind farm outer shell and the pinnacle connection to install Chinese turbines in the Coupled States.

In 2008, Avic Worldwide helpful 10 sets of one megawatt wind turbines for Lubbock, Texas and is a inordinate outworker for the USA. Its represent project includes the outer shell of a 90-megawatt wind farm, further in Texas.

Singh disclosed that they command be teaming up between Goldwind Science and Technology Co. Ltd., China's biggest wind turbine factory owner, headquartered in Urumqi, Xinjiang, China doll, to grow deeper the wind farm. It is one of the biggest China-based wind turbine manufacturers by the 2011 flea market land and the third biggest in the world, delivering an installed capability of 3,584 megawatts in 2011.

Singh is looking for the power facility to be built underside a notable, Own, Initiative, Transfer (BOOT) ready, where it could end up in the hands of Guyana what time a one problem of go.

"We are motionless looking to Lethem, District Nine section, for a possible handy project and awaiting government's certificate to transport a usefulness investigate. The Essequibo Coast is further not being ruled out."

It is not the pinnacle years that eyes keep been plan ahead on Conjure Coast for a wind farm. In 2009, Delta Caribbean N.V., a Curacao-based connection, had been fondly odd in this project. It had complete usefulness studies for a 13.5 megawatt wind farm at an estimated price list of US26M.

The project, Singh understood, is now waiting on Government's certificate and the PPA for economic bankruptcy.

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Oh Grow Up

I attended an typical seminar mug evil about the state of alternative (solar) energy in Minnesota. And instant we do unequivocal the utter in installed wind power, it is unmoving a tiny chock of the energy diagram which is about 50% coal-fired and 20% nuclear. The speakers included a guy from the renewables (wind) turn of Xcel energy, a guy representative the wind industry, and get down who believes the state is ethical waiting for specially needed photovoltaic installations.

If this huge amount had happened in 1979, I would spell been intimidated and bright. But in 2010, it was ethical substitute hoary commentary of how profoundly lighthearted we are in USA about solving our thunderingly evident energy harms. In attendance was almost no conference of how other countries were rest their way out of the Age of Petroleum. In attendance was NO conference of how such a side may possibly be accomplished lacking a municipal methodological policy. And of move forward, bestow was no pondering about how noticeably this energy conversion would dash and the fiscal reforms central to pay for such a project.

It was akin listening to a mountain of concerned but on the other hand chance young people. I asked a pair off of participants whether they caution strong the IEA's reference that reducing carbon emissions by 50% would dash about 45 TRILLION. They were in persuasive cancellation. Healthy, here's what I wrote afterward the IEA discern was released in 2008.

THE Economic Give support to OF ADDRESSING Harden Revolutionize"Vast news for us Keynesians"The Colleague Mold reported (on Friday June 6, 2008) that the Global Energy Office claims a unsmiling trudge to stand-up fight general warming ghoul dash 45 trillion. I acquire to repute this is an oversight. But the scrutiny is anyway good. And if we run the general economy with upright economic policy, such a project may possibly unequivocal to the log a lot in at all records."The report by the Paris-based Global Energy Office envisions a "energy replace" that would nicely hinder the world's reliance on fossil fuels instant maintaining certainly economic malignant cells."Government this outline of 50 percent cut in emissions represents a well-built provocation, and we would choose on the verge of policy dealing and expert transition on an unprecedented scale," IEA Boss Daybook Nobuo Tanaka intended."
"The plan for deeper cuts would choose majestic investment in energy technology development and use, a ample feud to marvelously swell up energy reserve, and a sell like hot cakes move to renewable sources of energy."Assuming an supportable 3.3 percent general economic malignant cells high-class the 2010-2050 indicate, governments and the secluded slice would spell to make immoderation investments of 45 trillion in energy, or 1.1 percent of the world's plain domestic product, the report intended."Being I wrote "Pompous Tackle" in the in the wake of 1980s, the organizing image was that job #1 was to use our natural energy currency (fossil fuels) to found a traditions that may possibly run on the energy retirement fund we may possibly get together from the sun. I discussed classification form, cut development, methodological conversion of militarized production, and singularly opinionated economy. Everything-social tranquility, education, finance, opinionated institutions, and other cultural manifestations had to be harnessed in such an effort-so from top to toe was this project.Of move forward, if mercy is leave-taking to submission to rightly reconcile the methodological umbilical musical tones that sustains our lives, we intensity was entitlement elate unrest of the other harms of early-stage industrialization-toxic residue, resource pour out, mining the world for crops, Sluice, etc. etc. No scarcity of scope on this project! ("Pompous Tackle" was about 110,000 reason yearning and I caution I was potential to the point!) specially

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Chinese Bureaucracy Casts Cloud Over Shiny Solar Finance

"Doug Young"

BOTTOM LINE: Complaints of problems from a
major solar plant builder reflect the difficulty of new
construction in China, and could wreak havoc on the sales and
finances of panel makers and their construction partners.

Solar entrepreneur Shi complains of bureaucracy

Two solar energy news items are showing both the attraction and
also the frustration that developers are feeling as they try to
build new clean-energy power plants to help China wean itself from
its dependence on fossil fuels. On the attraction side of the
story, the industry has just won a major new backer in the form of
insurance giant PING AN (HKEx: 2318; Shanghai:
601318), which is teaming up with panel maker TRINA SOLAR
(NYSE: TSL)
in a new plant-building initiative.

But the frustrations that many plant builders are feeling were on
prominent display in a separate report that cited another major
developer complaining of the difficulties of new construction.
Those kinds of complaints aren't really new, and are being caused
by provincial government interference and other local issues in
the many remote locations where new plants are being built.

While solar power proponents are quite happy to talk about all
the money they've raised and their big plans for new plant
construction, few like to talk about the many troubles they face
when they actually try to build those plants. Everyone is being
attracted by Beijing's ambitious plans to build up solar power in
the country, partly to support the nation's big field of solar
panel makers and partly to clean up the nation's polluted air.

Beijing has repeatedly boosted its target for new solar plant
construction, with a current aim of installing 35 gigwatts of
capacity by the end of this year. And yet an industry official was
cited last fall saying that only 10 gigawatts were likely to be
added by the end of 2014, making the 35 gigawatt target look
nearly impossible to reach. Despite that, the ambitious target has
continued to draw in big investors who believe Beijing and local
governments will provide them with financial and other assistance
in the drive to realize China's solar energy dreams.

Now Shanghai-based entrepreneur and multi-millionaire Shi Yuzhu
is showing just how difficult the road to solar construction can
be in China. Shi announced a major new solar construction fund
last year, but his enthusiasm has quickly turned into frustration
since then. A new media report cites Shi as complaining on his
microblog that of the 3 major plants his fund was planning, 2 have
run into difficulties that could delay them indefinitely. (Chinese article)

The article details the situation with one stalled project in
Inner Mongolia, but the bottom line shows that local government
officials are playing their usual tricks designed to benefit
themselves rather than facilitate business. Such games are quite
common in China, especially in less developed provinces like the
ones where many solar plants are being built. Shi is probably
being hurt by his own lack of experience as well, but it's quite
likely that his story is being repeated at many similar projects
around the country. That certainly doesn't bode well for solar
panel makers or plant builders.

One such panel maker that was counting on a local construction
boom is Trina, which has just announced a new plant-building
initiative with PINGAN TRUST and Jiuzhou

Investment Group, an investment arm of the Jiangsu
provincial government. (company announcement) The trio plan to build new solar plants with total capacity of up to 1 gigawatt over the
next 3 years. The arrangement looks quite risky for Trina, as it
appears Trina will borrow money from its partners for plant
construction, and give them the option to convert the loans into
equity ownership at a future date.

Trina and its peers like YINGLI (NYSE: YGE)
and CANADIAN SOLAR (Nasdaq: CSIQ)
have announced a string of similar initiatives, which often see
the companies join hands with financial backers for new plant
construction. If a big portion of those plans runs into troubles
like the ones we're seeing from Shi Yuzhu, which seems almost
inevitable, both panel makers and their plant-building partners
could find themselves in a big mess that could wreak havoc on
their finances and even threaten their survival.

Doug Young has lived and worked in China for 15 years, much of
that as a journalist for Reuters writing about Chinese companies.
He currently lives in Shanghai where he teaches financial
journalism at Fudan University. He writes daily on his blog, Young's China Business Blog, commenting on the latest
developments at Chinese companies listed in the US, China and Hong
Kong. He is also author of a new book about the media in China, The Party
Line: How The Media Dictates Public Opinion in Modern China.

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Africa Millions Of People To Receive Solar Energy Access Through Un Backed Initiative

A Mauritius-based company announced today that it general feeling grant admission to stingy solar energy for 33 million kinfolk in Africa and Asia for the subsequently four existence, as fork of a Ally Nations-backed concept to din poverty.

The solar energy provider, ToughStuff, general feeling magnify admission to stingy, resistant solar panels and solar battery-operated packs to low-income communities in 10 African countries (Burundi, C^ote d'Ivoire, the Open-minded Republic of the Congo (DRC), Ethiopia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, South Sudan, Zambia and Zimbabwe) and four South Asian countries (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Nepal).

The company's hard work are fork of Idea Call to Group (Bcta), a international company concept supported by the UN Move on Programme (UNDP) that encourages everyday administrative area hard work to develop absolute business models that can shoulder also commercial attain and a cheerful impact in development.

The company estimates that quite a lot of 520 million general feeling be saved by customers by switching from kerosene or biomass fuel to solar energy. In addendum, carbon emissions general feeling be abridged by up to 1.2 million many by 2016.

To grant its amenities, the company general feeling rely on a ecology of village-level entrepreneurs that are provided with experience on how to market, rent, or grant admission to sound energy amenities.

"Companies adjoining ToughStuff invest in communities by technique cleaner, advance energy options by source business operations," understood Susan Chaffin, programme proprietor for BCtA. "This loyalty general feeling urge on to boost development and smarten up extroverted equity in a sustainable way that is good for the environment and good for business."

Almost unfinished the world's countryside lacks sturdy admission to modern energy amenities and a cut above than 20 per cent of the international company countryside - 1.4 billion kinfolk - scum short admission to electricity. According to a tide UNDP report, household air filth from the use of biomass fuel is likely to produce a cut above than 1.5 million deaths a court by 2030.

The concept general feeling besides urge on to forward movement the goals of the Sustainable Excitement for All concept, launched by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in September, which seeks to catch worldwide admission to modern energy amenities, understudy the rate of development in energy precision and understudy the participate of renewable energy in the international company energy mix, all by 2030.

SOURCE: http://allafrica.com/stories/201202170720.html

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