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GreenMonk Energy & Sustainability show – 30th March 09

by Tom Raftery on March 30, 2009 · 0 comments

in GreenMonkTV, video

This is an archive copy of this week’s GreenMonk Energy & Sustainability show and the chat stream is below:

05:31 TomRaftery : Anyone seeing video? Hearing audio?
05:31 paulsavage : I see it
05:31 ustreamer-9468 : not yet tom
05:31 paulsavage : and I hear
05:31 paulsavage : Doing good
05:31 mikeTheBee : Hi tom
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The financial markets might be in trouble but renewables are seeing boom times!

by Tom Raftery on October 17, 2008 · 1 comment

in renewables

Photo Credit pseudorlaya
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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Demand response – how to get more wind energy onto the grid

by Tom Raftery on August 29, 2008 · 4 comments

in demand response

I read a fascinating article in the New York Times yesterday about how the electricity grid in New York can’t always cope with the amount of electricity being produced by the Maple Ridge wind farm and so from time to time the wind farm has to shut down production!
This problem is not unique to [...]

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