Green from the roots up, Sustainable from the top down
From the category archives:
Ok, not all the time, but last weekend at 5:50am on Sunday morning (8th Nov) Spain set a new record, hitting 53.7% of its energy requirements being supplied by wind energy.
As you can see from the graph above, the amount of electricity being supplied by wind, the light green portion of the graph, doesn’t [...]
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I attended a Logica Analyst briefing earlier this week in Logica’s recently opened International Utilities Competence Center (pictured above).
The days was chock full of talks from both Logica staff and also from Jọo Torres, President & CEO EDP Distribui̤̣o Рthe Portuguese DSO, and a Logica customer.
Most of the talks were very interesting but two [...]
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I ReTweeted a couple of posts yesterday from HP’s Ed Gemmell. The posts from Ed were some data about HP’s use of renewable energy in various EU countries. The retweets were:
RT @EdGemmell: HP Ireland running on 50% wind power saving 27,000 tonnes CO2
RT @EdGemmell: HP in Italy has been running on [...]
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A couple of interesting announcements were made in Ireland in the last week.
On the 8th of Oct., Eirgrid, the Irish grid operator launched their Grid25 strategy (pdf warning). In the strategy document they announced they are spending €4 billion reinforcing the Irish distribution grid in the expectation of a 60% rise in electricity [...]
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While it is exciting to watch the stories breaking today about the successful startup of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, I have to wonder about the price tag.
The total cost of the LHC is estimated at between €3.2 to €6.4 billion and while that is a wide margin, even if it [...]
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The traditional look of windfarms, like the one above, could be changing if an article I read on News.com recently is anything to go by. The piece was about a new type of wind turbine from a company called FloDesign.
The devices have:
-shorter sturdier rotors so the turbines can be placed closer together. [...]
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I was talking to Tom last night, and it struck me that a bubble won’t be all bad. There are a couple of reasons why. First off, unlike the last time a green bubble popped when oil prices collapsed in the 1980s, this time around we have China and India to sustain [...]
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