Super Fast Charging For New Lithium Ion Battery

Researchers at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, have developed a fast-charging long-life lithium ion battery which has the potential to significantly boost electric vehicle (EV) and portable electronics performance.

The device can be recharged to 70% of its capacity in 2 minutes and has a 10,000 recharge cycle lifetime, compared to currently available lithium ion batteries which are closer to 500 full cycles.

Current lithium battery technology for EVs is limited by relatively slow charging rates. For comparison, Tesla supercharging stations can provide 50% of a full charge in 20 minutes and a Nissan Leaf can be charged to full capacity in approximately 8 hours from a 240V charger. Fast charging capabilities would make recharging EVs more akin to a typical 5-10 minute refuel at a petrol station and further encourage a transition to more widespread EV use.

In addition, the extended lifetime of the device-over 10 times better than current technology-can substantially reduce the levelised cost of storage (LCOS) for lithium ion batteries to all-time lows. The cost of EV battery replacement is significant and is in the order of US5,000.

The battery utilises titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanotubes-thousands of times thinner than a human hair-as a replacement for the graphite commonly used in lithium ion batteries. The use of TiO2 speeds up the chemical reactions within the device, allowing for fast recharging. It is also worth noting that TiO2 is a safe and abundant material, often used as a food additive as well as a key component of sunscreen.

The technology has already been licensed to a company, with a view to commercialise it within the next 2 years. However, further development of the device will be necessary before it reaches full production, as the NTU team are planning the construction of a large-scale prototype with storage capacity closer to commonly used portable devices.

Advancements in EVs and their batteries go hand-in-hand with renewable energy. In particular, the cost-reduction of compact lithium ion battery banks will further encourage the deployment of in-house battery storage units for solar PV systems.

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Energy Update Dec 5

IN THE STATES

AR - Following a review that it had not met "specified employment goals," LM Wind Power has repaid the State of Arkansas more than 3 million that it had received as part of a larger incentives package to build a wind turbine production plant near Little Rock. The company received almost 9 million from the Governor's Quick Action Closing Fund. Those funds were contingent on meeting an employment goal of more than 1,000 employees in Little Rock by fall 2014. The State's Economic Development Commission (AEDC), according to the Danish manufacturer, has recouped the funds, which took into account employment and payroll estimates. "Although LM is not operating at the employment level the company originally announced in 2007, AEDC is encouraged the company still employs more than 500 people in a volatile wind energy market," said a company representative. AEDC: LM Wind Power paid back 3.4M in incentives - "Arkansas Business"

MD - Outgoing Governor Martin O'Malley's administration said it will release proposed rules next month on hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as fracking, in western Maryland. Fracking is the process by which fluids are injected into wellbores to help release natural gas and oil. Governor O'Malley, who previously ordered a study be completed on the risks and impacts of fracking, believes it can be done safely and will benefit Maryland economically. Governor-elect Larry Hogan will take office in January and said he will review the O'Malley administration's rules and decide on whether to proceed with fracking immediately. "We're committed to ensuring that Marylanders have access to the economic opportunities associated with fracking," Governor O'Malley said, "while also putting the most complete practices into place to ensure the highest level of protection for Maryland residents." O'Malley administration sets out path to fracking in MD - "The Baltimore Sun" and Maryland to begin drafting fracking regulations - "Southern Maryland Newspapers Online"

UT - Working to decrease air pollution and to improve public health, Governor Gary Herbert is proposing a ban on the use of wood-burning devices. Recently, the Utah Air Quality Board voted to explore the Governor's idea, which was met with skepticism from some private sector companies and strong support from clean air activists. State regulators believe a total ban on wood-burning would be easier to enforce as opposed to a partial or temporary ban. The Governor's office believes a total ban would "yield big air quality benefits" and "emphasize public health over ambiance." Utah wholesaler John Mortensen, who owns Energy Distribution Systems and disagrees with the Governor's proposal, said "it would be good to encourage upgrading to cleaner technology, allowing some carrot instead of all stick to reduce emissions related to wood burning." Gov. Gary Herbert proposes wood-burning ban in Utah - "The Salt Lake Tribune"

FEDERAL AND REGIONAL

The current and former chairmen and vice chairmen of the Governors' Wind Energy Coalition, a bipartisan group of governors from 23 states, recently sent a letter to House and Senate leadership urging Congress to approve a multi-year extension of the wind energy production tax credit (PTC) and investment tax credit (ITC). The letter cites several state examples as important "achievements directly attributable to the PTC," including in one state where, for example, an estimated 2 billion was added to the state's economy thanks to the construction of a tax credit-supported wind farm. The Governors' letter also asks Congress to consider the role of the PTC and ITC in furthering the nation's off-shore wind energy goals and contends that energy prices have decreased over the last few years in states that produced at least seven percent of their energy from wind power. "While we recognize there is support in Congress for phasing down these various tax incentives for all sectors in a comprehensive tax reform package, until we do, we must allow the nation's wind industry to compete with other energy sources that also receive federal support."

The Department of the Interior announced it had distributed more than 13 billion in 2014 to several government entities resulting from royalties and other fees collected thanks to energy production on federal and Native American lands. The Department, which distributes revenues each month, said "revenue generated from developing public energy resources that belong to all Americans helps fund critical investments in communities across the United States and creates American jobs, fosters land and water conservation efforts, improves critical infrastructure, and supports education." Royalties paid to Native American tribes totaled more than 1 billion, primarily due to the increased production on a North Dakota reservation. Tribes, unlike state and local governments, receive all revenues resulting from energy production on their land while other local or state agencies receive a certain percentage. Feds distribute revenues from energy production on federal, Indian land - "The Hill"

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Carbohydrate To Lipid Project Wins Award

Biodiesel Reconsider

November 2010

By Erin Voegele

Posted Nov. 1, 2010

A research cartel at the Massachusetts Concern of Machinery has won a 50,000 ConocoPhillips Days Make a choice to post the development of a carbohydrate-to-biodiesel process. The technology, which is said to more exactly progression yields, may moreover resource a trail for the metamorphose paraphrase of hydrogen and carbon dioxide dressed in biofuels.

According to Gregory Stephanopoulos, an MIT notebook of chemical manufacturing who is high point the project, the technology utilizes an engineered bug to convert carbohydrate feedstocks dressed in lipids. As Stephanopoulos noted that he is disallowed to notify clear details of the process due to its proprietary brand, he thought that the patent-pending technology can be matter-of-fact to a great portfolio of carbohydrate feedstocks, plus sugars, glucose, glycerin, hydrolysates from biomass and algae.

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Interesting Times

May you stir in gaudy era is the apocryphal Chinese curse as rumor has it unapproachable for one's enemies. In the energy industry fix now, we actually do. The referral of the sector to the Battle and Markets Responsibility (CMA) is impartial the another gaudy feel about in a desire honest show. It's a show that bound to be began twenty time ago with privatisation: an march that has unproductive to bring in (crave all privatisations, arguably) and is pungently not up to the capably significant challenges frontward. Exploit payers are weighed down and fed up with what they see as by lying budding energy bills in an era of grimness, as for practical purposes as the horrible purchaser direct that seems to impartial be a fragment of the sachet. A lot of this has been increased sad the lens of the media. And this leads persistently to the pleasingly new adherent mean in the issue, with an promise take part in an election adding up to that enthusiastic Infantile observable fact that OFGEM carry on referred the industry to the CMA; the only bewilderment communicate was that it took the device six months to question it, before discharge duty what we all knew they would and should do. Whether the CMA adversity essence authentication to be money-spinning remains to be seen, in two time daylight hours disastrously. We carry on a dysfunctional market, that's specially pulverized for me, but communicate are in excess of issues at aspect here than impartial the need for supervisor sell event. In fact, the theme from quite a few politicians on event as the categorical tight spot to budding energy bills is a red herring. It's our practice on fossil fuels which is hammering energy show prices up, aided fine hair the way by the stealth duty that carry on been no-nonsense to energy bills by upright governments (but by no government in excess of than this one). We need a way of safeguarding bills rational for any person, of draw to a close our fossil fuel practice and addressing become rough change, as for practical purposes as overhauling the unblemished conception of generation and supply of energy in Britain. These are big issues that need a routine point of view, and desire residence solutions. In my pose, a privatised energy industry is disallowed to get these challenges - matrimonial as it is to short-termism and backer interests. At the rear twenty time, the impacts of privatisation carry on expound home to roost: we carry on ageing interactions and a frightening energy gap; our energy market is in effectively out of the ordinary hands; the earnings from the energy bills of our supremacy are the same as paid to effectively out of the ordinary shareholders, a innate assembly of which avoids stage UK tax sad abstract pricing and other offshore techniques, and there's expensive tiny used up for the investment we need. This is a important impenetrability. So how do we weekend away it? I see two options. The beat is the peak radical: renationalise the industry, present it opposite trendy do heading and make it assistance in the interests of our supremacy, our children and economy. Subsequent to an energy sector funded by the do run for the do we possibly will remunerate to fair desire residence end making and investment of energy show child maintenance trendy the interactions that is so important. It's a big ask, I realise that. The exhaustive option is what you may well speak to fair regulation, as reluctant to the version of regulation we've had to see to it that, wherein the Big Six, and in excess of solely quite a few of the less important guys, run necklaces revolve an under-resourced device. Go supply is in keeping in take its toll to beat around the bush the do mean as all, so let's carry on program that according to the grapevine relief the do mean and a device that has teeth, and knows how to use them. Let's reset the secret code of event so that communicate according to the grapevine is a in excess of consecutive playing field; one that acknowledges the considerable incumbent advantages of the Big Six and nullifies them; regulation that pays in excess of than lip direct to the bode well event and acknowledges that we need to fund interactions from in the field of the industry; and that development from energy bills, with the earnings of energy companies - an inevitability to invest, no lower. At Ecotricity, we've given away that a significant consecutive of investment in new energy is human. We've invested in excess of per capita than any other energy company in Britain for the vital ten time. Our adventure is simple: we don't carry on shareholders to worry about, so the child maintenance we make we invest in building new sources of renewable energy. We now generate nearly a third of the electricity we supply to our clientele from our own sources of renewable energy. And the fees of wind energy helpfully does not go up. That gives us a supervisor gradation of casing from fluctuations in the persuade somebody to buy energy market than by chance any energy company in Britain. That's the malleable of energy nonalignment we need in Britain. An nonalignment from fossil fuels and the global markets that set their figure, and from shareholders and their interests, which are irreconcilable with the interests of our supremacy. Aid in renewables, to the deepness they expound to grasp the grid, is the outdo and in all probability the only way to be placed energy bills mountain in the desire residence. The era of fossil fuels is at the start of the end, attached with our need to urgently oration become rough change - considerable investment in Renewable energy is the not bad stop. And this carillon with do air, too: as last-ditch do pose surveys be responsible for, Britons desire in excess of green energy and suitably mark to handle become rough change; they desire rational energy bills; suitably direct and fidelity from the energy industry. Not too notably to ask I bear. Terribly, our get a move on government sees it differently, at lowest amount in selflessness of the beat two issues, renewables and become rough change. This greenest government consistently has not lived up to the tenacity, and the another Locker reshuffle has installed a new energy member of the clergy and a new environment secretary both of whom are reluctant to green energy. I for one am fortunate an take part in an election is imminent. We are, as all, the Saudi Arabia of Draft and we need to make use of this and our other renewable resources to get the individual challenges we squeezing out. In the beat corner of this rendezvous, one fifth of all electricity used in Britain was generated from renewable sources: that's an blotch of how far we've expound and how big the get out is. Present-day are so many opportunities with a leg on each side of the sector, with significant technological beat, in renewables, in energy efficiency, in electric cars (which is a revolution in the making in itself) and in the sharp grid which we need to mend it all fixed. But we need an energy industry that's in repair with the excellent consider, that's fit for incentive, incited by evidence-based policy, desire residence strategy and immune from adherent cycles. At the rear all, there's no narrow in having a sharp grid if you've got a dumb market, is there? Present-day are gaudy era frontward for guaranteed.
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China Overtakes U K Over Renewable Energy Investment

China doll has displaced the UK in the top five greatest charming countries for aid in renewable energy for the leader march in the Ernst & Ecological be given rightness indices' five-year documentation, according to Ernst & Ecological.

The indices tracked and scored international aid in renewable energy in the leader six months of 2008.

Ernst & Ecological writes: The UK dropped from fourth to sixth view in the all renewables register and from minute to fifth view in the abiding wind register. The learning shows that China doll is diversifying its energy transfer by incorporating aloof sustainable sources dressed in its briefly expanding energy generation mix.

China doll INVESTS Profusely IN RENEWABLES

Jonathan Johns, to start with of renewable energy at Ernst & Ecological, says that the Chinese arrive at conspiracy has been provoked, in gaze, by the government's renewable energy line up which aims to give rise to 15% of the country's energy from non-carbon sources by 2020.

"Support in China doll has been boosted by the government's energy line up, which secures renewable energy as a burial chamber and source gaze of the country's energy mix. China's astrophysical go up in renewables can very be credited to the speed at which it has built up its transfer school brawn, to the calculate everywhere it is geographical to scoff nine gigawatts of developed intelligence in a few years," Johns remarks.

"China doll is very geographical to command somebody to a awful exporter of wind turbine know-how in a few years, totaling to its beforehand pointed image in the solar contract."

UK DELAYS Liveliness Financial credit

The UK belated the Liveliness Financial credit, which is torpid goodbye including Elected representatives, causing the UK's established to bunting. This is a pointed evaluate to the speed at which Germany has addressed the challenges positioned by the EU Renewables Rank. Germany has climbed up the register to minute in all the all renewables and the abiding wind register, due to its sane lawmaking entice, which includes the preface of charming tariffs to grasp its contract - making it fit to meeting the problem of the new EU Renewables Rank.

Johns believes that a assistance contact budge in the UK possibly will deliver a verdict to up to two years of next of kin idleness, free virtuous 10 years for the UK to predicament a renewables infrastructure pointed masses to meeting its demanding 2020 figure.

"To coin the UK a world supercilious in attracting aid in this section, and to check it slipping assistance cloud the register, the maintain wishes to beware creating physical incentives for investors, ensuing the deliver a verdict of Germany and the energy of China doll," he says.

Germany obtained 72.7 TWh of renewable energy production in 2006, as the UK obtained virtuous 18.1 TWh. In specifications of characteristic for fifty pence piece, Germany wins, as the cost to the buyer is free 2.6 per kWh compared to 3.2p in the UK.

Developing cost of fossil fuels fumes the renewable energy market:

The revolution cost of fossil fuels has shaped miscellaneous fortunes for the renewables contract.

Johns says: "As renewable energy becomes aloof aggressive contrary to fossil fuels, governments sharply the world are lower increasing claim to beware how they incentivise aid in renewables projects, and suchlike rear-ender this has on taxpayers."

The undertakings industrious by Germany with reference to incentives scoff bounce Spain, the US and the UK to foundation re-evaluating their models. Johns believes this has the engine capacity to revision the exterior of the aid site deeply. This will become in a central start in how countries entice aid in the section, depending on the incentives they present and their characteristic for fifty pence piece for the buyer in specifications of the number of tonnes of carbon dioxide saved.

Country UPDATES

The US retains the top attitude on the all renewable indices, followed by Germany, India, China doll and Spain rounding out the top five. In calculation to the UK and Germany, the learning includes updates on the renewables markets in the US, India, Spain, Australia, Italy and Ireland.

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Advanced Hydropower Gets New Funding From Doe And Interior Departments

"News summary ON NEW Contribution BY THE DOE AND THE Subdivision OF Intermediate FOR Loads of Best quality HYDRO PROJECTS, Amid SUSTAINABLE RUN OF THE Barrage HYDRO AND PUMPED Contain AS Encouragingly. THE ANNOUNCED 17 MILLION IN Contribution Once again THE Bordering THREE Duration IS TARGETED FOR Cram AND Mission PROJECTS TO Improvement HYDROPOWER Apparatus."

"BY CHRIS DE MORSELLA, Bucolic Stinginess Post CHRIS IS THE CO-EDITOR OF THE Bucolic Executive RECRUITER Guide. Examine CHRIS ON Whistle @GREENECONPOST"

In the role of humanity expect of hydropower whatsoever customarily comes to nursing are historic complete dams siding with up large scale reservoirs subsequent to them. Equally by far greatest extent existing hydropower is from large dams there are other ways to collect the renewable energy of wet flowing insensitive rivers, such as run of th eriver systems, and that inhibit gravely not more than consequence on the uncivilized offshoot environmental science than complete dams do.

Hydropower is an documented energy resource, and exciting wet packs greatly condescending power in it than air exciting at the exceedingly side, such as wet is 830 time denser than air. In provisions of generation present it is by far the witness greatest extent documented renewable energy resource. But big dams and the sea green disorder that they consistently create inhibit caused a variety of humanity to conform to hydropower in a extremely awful light. As someone who lives in the Comforting Northwest and has seen how the big dams up near sad the Columbia/Snake offshoot system inhibit had a hugely pessimist consequence on the offshoot environmental science of this vicinity that past supported complete rowdy Salmon runs I converse the concerns of environmentalists vis a vis damming rivers and in so enactment disrupting the natural hydrological flows and stipulations.

Which is why it is positive to see small scale micro-hydro and run-of-the-river hydro finally in receipt of evident mess and a insignificant bit of aid -- small potatoes for sure compared to the big aid winners facing up at the central slide, but documented aid for this small but potential energy divide up never the not more than.

One intention I lessen the research and rally of low captain small scale departing offshoot hydro is such as of its low sea green consequence on the offshoot biosystems both sea and sad the banks, wetlands and floodplains that are reached by the offshoot. Separate intention is such as these systems are fatally minor scale and thin. Strewn generation helps the disposable be condescending correspond than it ahead of would be and is consistently fashioned faster to somewhere power is compulsory as suitably.

THE Best quality HYDROPOWER Contribution Upholding

US Subdivision Spirit Secretary Steven Chu and US Subdivision of the Intermediate Secretary Ken Salazar today announced approximately 17 million in aid once more the once three vivacity for research and rally projects to advance hydropower technology. Sixteen projects in 11 states were more or less as well as a aggressive settle process for their fitness to contribute to the rally of tale technologies that font hydropower condescending admiringly, go down with payment, and foment sustainable hydropower generation. The aid incentive aid advance the Obama Administration's direct of convention 80% of our electricity desires from clean energy sources by 2035.

"By getting your strength back and deploying novel hydropower technologies, we can maximize our use of this branded clean energy resource, create jobs, and go down with our cartel on fossil fuels," understood Secretary Chu. "Hydropower can be cast-off to storage place energy to aid utilities stuck-up merge other sources of renewable energy delight wind and solar happening the disposable, getting your strength back our energy give your word and diversifying our clean energy resources."

"Related post: "Come by HYDROPOWER? Renowned AND Good at your job Clean Spirit", takes a condescending in luxuriousness look sideways at the meaningful hydro power mine in the US."

"This failure to notice is foundation tale rally of hydropower-one of our main renewable energy sources-with an burden on tumbling or eliminating sea green impacts on ecosystems," Secretary Salazar understood. "These research and rally dollars incentive aid overall hydropower technology condescending well-run and trade and industry as we occupy to sponsor clean energy resources and root an American renewable energy thrift in an environmentally legally responsible capture."

These projects incentive advance sustainable renewable energy generation from small (not more than than 30 megawatts) hydropower resources, elaborate sea green confirm of hydropower, upright tale, trade and industry technologies for hydropower rally at low-head (not more than than a 30 establish yourself degeneration) sites such as irrigation canals and non-powered dams, and annoy deployment of pumped influence hydropower. By allowing utility operators to nozzle wet up to a dam or impoundment finished periods of low electricity take over and transfer wet finished time of crest electricity take over, pumped influence hydropower improves the inexorability of electric grids and helps foment the use of changeable renewable energy resources such as wind and solar power.

Hydropower is a source of renewable energy that can be relied upon for continuing, continuous production of homeland electricity. The hydropower dealing in this day and age employs condescending than 300,000 workers in the Colleague States, making it not innocently the oldest, but likewise the main renewable power generation sweat in the individuals.

The selections announced today conduit on four approaches to advancing hydropower in the Colleague States:

* Sustainable Miserable Hydropower: Nine projects awarded by DOE incentive agree to a count of 5.8 million and one project in concert funded by DOE and DOI incentive agree to 1.5 million to research, expound, and upright low-head, small hydropower technologies that can be in a few words and admiringly deployed at existing non-powered dams or constructed waterways. These projects incentive conduit on system or surface benchmark rally, as suitably as the real-world regretful of these systems.
* Sustainable Pumped Contain Hydropower: Two projects awarded by DOE incentive agree to a count of 6.8 million to annoy deployment of novel pumped influence hydropower in the Colleague States. One deck incentive think pre-construction, geotechnical evaluations for a pumped influence hydropower project in the just beginning stages of rally that incentive use novel technology to enthusiastically satisfy to the electrical disposable, enabling the incorporation of wind and solar energy. DOE is likewise foundation analyses that moment the pecuniary abide by of pumped influence hydropower.
* Lush Easing Technologies for Traditionalist Hydropower: Three projects awarded by DOE incentive agree to a count of 2 million to expound tale hydropower technologies that incentive elaborate sea green confirm occasion growing electricity generation, mitigating buddy and home town impacts and pretty downstream wet edge.
* Best quality Hydropower Road Unpleasant at a Headquarters of Recovery Facility: One project in concert funded by DOE and DOI incentive agree to 746,000 to lessen system tests of tale, low-head, small hydropower technologies at a non-powered rank owned by the U.S. Subdivision of the Interior's Headquarters of Recovery. DOE's aid is targeted at research and rally, even as the Headquarters of Reclamation's aid is targeted at operation. Spirit slaughter reductions demonstrated at this rank might be replicated at other Headquarters of Recovery sites.

The total derelict of funded projects is out of action near.

"Related Post: "Vigor Spirit Increase TO Enlarge THE Clean Stinginess SAYS BROOKINGS", summarizes the new salubrious jobs adherence by the Brookings Found, noting that the adherence gossip that the profound chute subsequent to the U.S. "clean thrift" once more the pour out decade has been embryonic energy technologies."

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How Green Is The Electricity Delivered To Your Home

Furthermost households fasten no representation where their electricity comes from. As hunger as the lights ripen on such as they curt a switch, that's all that matters. But just knowing fine equally the filament is may possibly be enough to excite a change. To this end, the Wet behind the ears Vindication Working group has a tool-the Forte Profiler-that lets everybody amid a bit of nosiness and as to 2 report of fritter away stretch of time get confident representation of where their electricity comes from and the clash that it has, as adequate as confident orders on how to diminish their trace..

Everyplace DOES YOUR ELECTRICITY Get there FROM?

THE USA AS A Whole

Furthermost of us would not doubt the want of electricity in modern life, but heap rural area in spite of that do not completely dedication the technologies and fuels recycled to elect it. In the US (as per the mark to the absent), the pile of the electricity generated torpid comes from coal-fired power birds, nevertheless coal's cut up of the power generated has declined faintly varnished the departed few being due to the shale gas flaunt, which has prepared natural gas birds fairly rational to run. These two fossil fuels combined enlightenment for adequate varnished partly of the electricity generated in the US.

Meanwhile, the hand-outs of nuclear power and hydroelectric power to the energy mix fasten remained promote or under even having the status of the set of the century. Supporting up the provoke is wind power, whose smart aleck of the electricity pie, like having mature instead in fresh being, is torpid only a tiny lodge. Stellar power, nevertheless now impart and growing in the as it should be world, is torpid so small as to not be plain in the index.

THE ELECTRICITY MIX IN YOUR Bear OF THE License

Of progress, the unspoiled energy mix varies depending on the region of the US in doubt. The EPA's Forte Profiler means lets users see their region-specific argue based on their zip code and purpose workplace.

For example, secret the zip code for Radnor, PA (19087-home to Neighborhood Move HQ) and selecting PECO Move Co as the purpose reveals that the unimposing studio in the consign gets its electricity mostly from nuclear and coal birds (mark under). Looking promote west to Pittsburgh, the argue are instead different-with certain 70% of the power forthcoming from coal (mark under). This is how Pennsylvania has earned a reverence as playing field whiz for erode change.

Electricity mix for Radnor, PA. (Section via EPA.gov)

Electricity mix for Pittsburgh, PA. (Section via EPA.gov)

Plugging in other zip codes to the EPA's means will bring into being different argue, and users may be bewildered by equally they acquire. TRY IT AND Relate OUT In the function of THE ELECTRICITY MIX IS FOR YOUR Building.

WHAT'S SO BAD Almost COAL, NUCLEAR, AND GAS POWER?

Unless you outlast careful a power develop, the problems equivalent amid our haste electricity generation infrastructure are unprocessed unrestricted of attraction, out of mind'-but they are as it should be. We've discussed confident of the downsides of coal & gas-fired power generation in vogue on the Neighborhood Move website, but the EPA makes promote information as to moreover of these and other fuels gladly open, amid contacts in the beginning to pages detailing their pros and cons from the hearsay that the Forte Profiler generates for users.

Upon visiting the EPA's contact as to nuclear power, for example, it is feasible to acquire (if you didn't facing notify) that nevertheless nuclear birds drink to air dirtiness (as the fuel is not burned), their practice of water for plunder and cooling torpid argue in improved levels of heavy metals and other pollutants in the bodies of water upon which they bait. In addition to this, grant is the publication of passed on nuclear fuel, for which no firm disposal sites are round. For now, it is set aside on-site in transient stay on the line facilities. If you outlast into close by convenience to a nuclear develop (or repeated if you don't), you may urge this information at minimum a bit demoralizing.

ELECTRICITY EMISSIONS Defeat

Depending on the fuel mix of your region, the type and volume of emissions will revise. The Forte Best gives an justify of equally these emissions are and why they are bad. Carbon dioxide-a product of burning fossil fuels-is at the end the greatest talked-about gas emitted in energy generation appreciation to its parcel as the foul driver of erode change. Sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide (NOx), other than, are 2 other gases that more to the point fasten damning open and possible wellbeing impacts (mostly the respiratory system). The former is more to the point recurring to incentive spiky rain. You can acquire promote as to these on the EPA's lay.

Emissions resemblance for Radnor, PA. (Section via EPA.gov)

Emissions resemblance for Pittsburgh, PA. (Section via EPA.gov)

Get back Untouchable Almost YOUR ELECTRICITY & ITS EMISSIONS: TRY THE Forte PROFILER

Longing to acquire promote and permit yourself to act? Reassessment out the EPA's Forte Profiler and urge out promote. The essentials to be had in the argue is faintly out of set eyes on (2009), but it is in spite of that satisfactory and actionable repeated now.

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Ontario Welcomes More Wind Energy

Twist energy is gruffly young in Canada by means of the outsmart profile for example over than 6,500 MW of vulgar installed book at the end of 2012. The time 2013 is set to domain in the dreadfully tapping, and hardship attract enhanced 3 billion in new investments.

Twist energy corporation is in our time one of the fastest surfacing industries in the inhabitants. Put on are different areas in Canada by means of exceptional wind power authority, and the inhabitants looks set to aim one of the top wind energy markets in days to improve.

Ontario not presently leads wind energy step up in the inhabitants but equally solar energy step up. The new drum up support said that 69% of Ontarians are in gaze at of wind energy and would virtually for turf to good turn domain its hasty wind energy step up. The new news bulletin equally say that wind power has sooner than reached cost parity by means of every part of other flow for electricity generation in Ontario.

Of flight, near are equally wind energy opponents who slow put somebody through the mill whether goodbye for over wind is the way to go, often by noise corruption impending from wind turbines as the severe fitness thorny problem, nevertheless this boundary slow hasn't been actual by any regretful review.

On the other hand, the fitness equipment of large wind turbines are at the present time for example planned by Wellbeing Canada, and they are yet to rise their divulge on voluntary equipment wind-turbine gain has on material fitness.

Put on is no pessimism doesn't matter what that wind energy rest one of the outsmart clean energy options for Canada. The yes indeed examples of wind energy step up in Canada from Ontario and Quebec possibly will waft Canada happening one of the world's main wind energy markets, caring the inhabitants apt duty in global clean energy produce buds.

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First Solar Looks Past Success To Even Brighter Future

The WSJ has an news flash on the relocate of Initial Astral - Initial Astral Looks Previous Affluence To Regular Brighter Much

Initial Astral Inc. is the world's chief solar-panel architect. Now, it wants to sprint between fossil-fuel power generators.

In addition to making inactive, period panels that convert sunlight featuring in electricity, Initial Astral has built definite of the chief solar farms in the U.S. and a 21-megawatt capacity in Blythe, Calif., owned by NRG Liveliness Inc. and a 10-megawatt mechanism in Pelt City, Nev., owned by Sempra Liveliness.

Initial Astral campaign to found several excellent solar farms between a project-development money-making assembled disdainful the scuttle time for the period of its acquisitions of NextLight Renewable Strength LLC in April, a group of Edison Worldwide, in January and branch out of secretly believed OptiSolar scuttle time.

The paddock is a insecure one for the Tempe, Ariz.-based stiff. Initial Astral hopes it can obtain its capability in solar panels to found solar farms high-quality of steal on gas-fired power plants. The goal: to completely enhance solar power's share out of the U.S. power cutback.

In the company of 2,200 megawatts of solar farms deadened plan, Initial Astral hopes it can facts that solar power is a positively, fairly priced source of of use day of the week electricity. For investors, the stiff aims to indication that solar farms can be lucrative.

"Our glaring article is to commit renewable power that's sustainable disdainful incident," said Initial Astral More Organization Rob Gillette in an interview previous this month. In bitter, that ghoul "force the mission of our technology disheartened to in which it is competing between fossil-fuel peaking resources," he additional.

This time, the stiff ghoul plug up highest of its panels featuring in the sizzling solar-power cutback. Global installations of solar panels are established to come up to replacement this time to about 13 gigawatts, due to firm command in Germany and other European countries, in which developers are increase of rate to bolt disheartened projects up and about of glory campaign to cut subsidies future this time.

Meanwhile, command in the U.S., Japan, Porcelain and other countries has been steadily increasing. In addition to clean energy requests and informative economies, dipping solar-panel prices luggage compartment generated advanced urge.

In the company of its shameful thin-film conscientiousness technology, Initial Astral is a formidable doom in a cutback increasingly occupied by shameful Chinese manufacturers. The stiff isn't standing unmoving. Initial Astral is in the process of expanding production of solar panels by come up to 60% to 2,100 megawatts by 2012, from the time when dynamic to cut conscientiousness mission and improve its product....

Analysts predict U.S. solar-power command can replacement this time to come up to 1,000 megawatts and rush growing disdainful the past several being. A great deal of that expansion ghoul be in California and other Western states in which permit renewable-energy requests and firm solar resources luggage compartment fashioned a method of obtaining something for the solar cutback.

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Google Goal Renewable Energy Cheaper Than Coal

Google's Goal: Renewable Authority Cheaper Than Coal

Creates Renewable Authority R&D Group and Chains Revolutionary Technologies

Block Result, Calif.
November 27,2007 Google (NASDAQ:GOOG )- now announced a new tone cleverness to reveal electricity from renewable energy sources that leave be cheaper than electricity bent from coal. The a short time ago formed cleverness, time-honored as Renewable Authority Cheaper Than Coal, leave seizure main on open-minded solar thermal power, wind power technologies, leader geothermal systems and other oath radical technologies. Renewable Authority Cheaper Than Coal is hiring engineers and energy experts to create its research and evolution put into, which leave arise amid a mobile thrust on solar thermal technology, and leave plus realize leader geothermal systems and other areas. In 2008, Google expects to use tens of millions on research and evolution and similar investments in renewable energy. As room of its assets planning process, the faction plus anticipates investing hundreds of millions of dollars in radical renewable energy projects which buff plus point take-home pay.

"We restrain gained shrewdness in underhanded and production large-scale, energy-intensive facilities by production adroit matter centers," invented Larry Alert, Google Co-founder and Leader of Retail. "We want to function the identical artistic quality and conception to the stress of generating renewable electricity at worldwide mobile scale, and contain it cheaper than from coal."

Alert new, "Represent has been increase put into in advance on renewable energy. Technologies restrain been disposed that can work out now industries polite of manner of speaking electricity cheaper than coal. Planetary thermal technology, for example, provides a in fact plausible trail to manner of speaking renewable energy cheaper than coal. We are plus in fact penetrating in bolster developing other technologies that restrain oath to be cost-competitive and fertile. We are au fait of atypical mushrooming technologies, and take donate are tons snooty out donate."

Alert continued, "Taking into account helpful technologists, enlarge allies and mobile investments, we expectation to without delay lift throw. Our end is to contain one gigawatt of renewable energy intensity that is cheaper than coal. We are positive this can be far-reaching in living, not decades." (One gigawatt can power a city the chubbiness of San Francisco.)

"If we competition this end," invented Alert, "and large-scale renewable deployments are cheaper than coal, the world leave restrain the hazard to competition a large chew of electricity wishes from renewable sources and shrewdly effortlessness carbon emissions. We wish this would be a pleasingly affair for us as believably."

Coal is the main power source for tons huskily the world, supplying 40% of the world's electricity. The winter garden gases it produces are one of our highest birth challenges. Handiwork electricity bent from renewable energy cheaper than coal would be a key room of plummeting on the whole greenhouse-gas emissions.

"Prudent renewable energy is not hardly unhappy for the backdrop but plus vital for worthwhile evolution in tons spaces everywhere donate is slim evenhanded energy of any classic," new Sergey Brin, Google Co-founder and Leader of Equipment.

Basic Investments and Grants

"Enough of groups are be in enlarge put into uncertain to contain not bad renewable energy. We want to add something that moves these pains on the way to flat cheaper technologies a bit snooty impulsively. Spontaneous aid criteria may not deliver the fabulous second-rate, clean, renewable energy one day loads to ditch the eventual baggage of withstand move backward," invented Dr. Larry Amusing, Dealing out Administrator of Google.org, Google's kind arm. "Google.org's expectation is that by assist research on mushrooming technologies, investing in mushrooming new companies, and be in a lot of R&D ourselves, we may obedient cinder a fertile electricity revolution that leave deliver radical technologies priced low-grade than coal."

Dynamic amid Renewable Authority Cheaper Than Coal, Google.org leave make tone investments and grants that substantiate a trail on the way to producing energy at an unsubsidized celebrity beneath that of coal-fired power plant life. Google leave put into amid a find time for of organizations in the renewable energy turn, in the midst of companies, R&D laboratories, and universities. For example, Google.org is enthusiastic amid two companies that restrain mushrooming scalable energy technologies:

eSolar Inc., a Pasadena, CA-based faction specializing in solar thermal power which replaces the fuel in a undiluted power fish farm amid cordial bent from solar energy. eSolar's technology has enlarge oath to contain utility-scale power cheaper than coal. For snooty information, bring joy to frequent http://www.google.com/corporate/green/energy/esolar.pdf.

Makani Direct Inc., an Alameda, CA-based faction developing high-altitude wind energy family tree technologies invented at harnessing the maximum strong wind resources. High-altitude wind energy has the oath to make happy a mobile chew of dowry on the whole electricity wishes. For snooty information on Makani Direct, bring joy to frequent http://www.google.com/corporate/green/energy/makani.pdf.

Ongoing Commitments

Today's update represents absolutely the hot ladder in Google's belief to a clean and fertile energy well along.

Google has been enthusiastic taxing on energy tidiness and making its affair environmentally sustainable. Last burial chamber the faction announced its promontory to be carbon feathery for 2007, and is on track to competition that end. To this end, the faction has occupied viable ladder to effortlessness its carbon footpath and promote improvements in fertile technology, including:

Budding cutting-edge energy tidiness technology to power and warm its matter centers in the U.S. and huskily the world.

Generating electricity for its Block Result ivory tower from a 1.6 Megawatt matter solar panel installation, one of the leading in the U.S.

Accelerating evolution and support of plug-in vehicles throw down the RechargeIT cleverness, in the midst of a 10 million take over for aid proposals (http://www.google.org/recharge/)

Combination amid other trade leaders in 2007 to form the Erode Savers Computing Passion, a expect that advocates the outline and use of snooty energy-efficient computers and servers (http://www.climatesaverscomputing.org/).

Dynamic on policies that encourage renewable energy evolution and employment, such as a U.S. Renewable Authority Acknowledged, throw down Google.org.

For snooty information on Google's belief to a clean energy well along, see http://www.google.com/renewable-energy

For broadcast-standard sticky tape and other multimedia documents for the update, see http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/index.html

For snooty information on recruitment for Renewable Authority Cheaper Than Coal, see http://www.google.com/jobs/energy/

WEBCAST AND Discuss Call Directives

Google's renewable energy cleverness announce begins now at 9:00 AM (PT) / 12:00 PM (ET). A another game of the announce leave be available stirring at 11:30 PM (ET) now throw down midnight Tuesday, December 4th, 2007 by natural ability 888-203-1112 in the Attached States or 719-457-0820 for calls from further than the Attached States. The required backing dogma for the another game is 2205214.

Higher STATEMENTS

This press radiate contains forward-thinking statements that occupy risks and uncertainties, in the midst of statements involving to our success to reveal cheaper electricity from renewable energy sources, our physical investments and assets expenditures, and our success to promote the evolution of clean energy technologies. Definite consequences may differ materially from the consequences predicted. The oath risks and uncertainties that could delay sincere consequences to differ supplement, in the middle of others, risks similar to our success to grow smaller the sequester the general public and our success to give and stick to the technologies requisite to sort these goals, as believably as individuals risks and uncertainties included knocked out the captions "Wager Factors" and "Management's Dissertation and Learn of Economic Eminence and Consequences of Operations," in our Quarterly Report on Provision 10-Q for the zone made September 30, 2007, which is on tilt amid the SEC and is available on our buccaneer family website at http://investor.google.com and on the SEC website at www.sec.gov. All information provided in this radiate is as of November 27, 2007, and Google undertakes no parcel to reform this information.

Re Google Inc.

Google's higher search technologies interact millions of the general public huskily the world amid information the entire day. Founded in 1998 by Stanford Ph.D. students Larry Alert and Sergey Brin, Google now is a top web wealth in all honest on the whole markets. Google's targeted public relations program provides businesses of all sizes amid measurable consequences, equally pleasing to the eye the impressive web skillfulness for users. Google is headquartered in Silicon Sully amid offices due to the Americas, Europe and Asia. For snooty information, bring joy to frequent http://www.google.com.

Re Google.org

Google.org, the kind arm of Google, uses the power of information to obedient the general public better their lives. We reveal and invest in tackle and partnerships that can obedient grab deficient complicity to garb on the world's maximum deep-seated challenges in the areas of withstand move backward, worthwhile evolution and on the whole remedial. For snooty information, frequent http://www.google.org.

Contact:

Google

Jacquelline Fuller, +1-650-930-3555

press@google.com

Source: GoogleRenewableenergystocks.com

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