Green Buildings Are Coming of Age
Source: knowledge today 21 May 2013
There has been major progress the last couple of years in learning to make buildings more energy efficient. The latest milestone: buildings that...
Work starts on £650m Swansea Bay tidal energy scheme
Source: BusinessGreen 21 May 2013
Early work has started on the ambitious project to develop a £650m tidal power lagoon in Swansea Bay, which if completed would become the first...
Plugged In: US Electric Car Sales Hit 100,000
Source: Earth Techling 21 May 2013
Somewhere today – probably in Portland, San Francisco or Seattle or some place like that – the 100,000th plug-in electric vehicle was sold in the...
Ideas from IBM - Smart Grids
Source: YouTube 21 May 2013 Sponsored
Entering the digital age.... IBM is helping utilities add a layer of digital intelligence to their grids. These smart grids use...
Back Off On China Solar Duties, Germany Urges EU
Source: Earth Techling 21 May 2013
Germany’s solar manufacturing sector has been hit hard by cheap Chinese products but that doesn’t mean all of Germany is going to sit by quietly as...
How clean is the air we breathe in cities?
Source: The City Fix 21 May 2013
More and more cities worldwide are grappling with the ever-increasing menace of air pollution — especially in India, which contains some of the...
The Smart Micro Grid: IT Challenges for Energy Distribution Grid Operators
Source: IBM 21 May 2013 Sponsored
Modern society is facing the global dilemma of an increased demand for energy, while traditional energy generation resources are diminishing...
LEDs in greenhouses deliver same yield as grow lights, using just 25% of the energy
Source: Tree Hugger 21 May 2013
Even with our growing emphasis on and awareness of the benefits to the environment when eating locally and seasonally, there hasn't seemed to have...
National Grid makes sustainability hub part of its smart grid pilot
Source: Smart Grid News 21 May 2013
National Grid is one of the U.S. utilities working hard to do it right. It has tied its 15,000-meter smart grid pilot in Worcester, MA to...
Eos Energy raises $15M from NRG, investors for zinc-air batteries
Source: Gigaom 21 May 2013
Startup Eos Energy Storgae announced on Monday that it has raised a $15 million series B round from a group of investors including power company...
Energy Efficiency: In Praise of Waste
Source: The Energy Collective 21 May 2013
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The title of this piece will hopefully arouse curiosity, but I have to confess it’s not quite what I believe. My parents lived through...
The IBM Start Summit 2012
Source: IBM 21 May 2013 Sponsored
This year's IBM Start Summit 2012 focused on Sustainable Infrastructure. The aim was to take four real infrastructure issues from...
EU tariffs on Chinese solar imports 'a grave mistake' says German minister
Source: BusinessGreen 21 May 2013
A German minister has warned Brussels that imposing punitive import duties on Chinese solar products would be "a grave mistake"...
Using data and computer models to store wind energy underground
Source: Gigaom 21 May 2013
The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has completed a study that comes up with two ways to use compressed air technology to store wind energy...
Are Britain’s ports ready to reap the benefits of offshore wind power?
Source: BusinessGreen 21 May 2013
When I touched down in Belfast City Airport last Friday morning, the first thing I saw out the window was 50 giant yellow towers lined up along the...
Exclusive: BT announces 100 per cent renewables Npower deal
Source: BusinessGreen 20 May 2013
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BT has become one of the largest companies in the world to switch to 100 per cent renewable power, after inking a landmark deal with npower that...
Underwater batteries are making a splash for energy storage
Source: Gigaom 20 May 2013
Hydroelectricity generation exploits the tremendous height differential that occurs naturally at waterfalls or artificially at dams as water flows...
Green Investment Bank makes £5m biomass commitment
Source: BusinessGreen 20 May 2013
A Green Investment Bank-backed fund has injected £10m into a project to replace inefficient heating systems with biomass...
Urban Wind Energy That’s Fuzzy And Fetching
Source: Earth Techling 20 May 2013
Wind power devices on city buildings looks great, but the truth is it’s woefully inefficient – in its conventional formats, that is, with...
