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Friday Morning Green Numbers round-up 03/19/2010

by Tom Raftery on March 19, 2010 · 1 comment

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Here is this Friday’s Green Numbers round-up:

Nissan: 500,000 Electric Cars by 2012 – News – Automotive Fleet
Nissan is planning for a production capacity of 500,000 Leaf electric cars in North America, Japan and Europe by 2012, the Chicago Tribune reported.
tags: nissan leaf, nissan, greennumbers, electric cars, electric vehicles

Carbon capture [...]

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Is there really any need for baseload power?

by Tom Raftery on March 17, 2010 · 8 comments

in utilities

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The electricity grid may not need “baseload” generation sources like coal and nuclear to backup the variability of supply from renewables.
Jon Wellinghof is the Chairman of the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). FERC is an independent agency that amongst other things, regulates the interstate transmission of electricity, natural gas, and oil [...]

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Friday Morning Green Numbers round-up 03/12/2010

by Tom Raftery on March 12, 2010 · 1 comment

in GreenNumbers

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Here is this Friday’s Green Numbers round-up:

11 Siberian tigers starve to death at Chinese zoo
Eleven Siberian tigers died of starvation in north-eastern China’s Liaoning province after a cash-strapped zoo fed them only chicken bones, state media said Friday. The 11 tigers died over the past three months at the privately [...]

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Google Energy to start disrupting the utility industry?

by Tom Raftery on January 10, 2010 · 20 comments

in utilities

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There is no doubt about it but Google is a disruptive company.
First Google disrupted search, then advertising, then video (with their acquisition of YouTube), and then Office applications with the launch and continued development of Google Apps for Domains. Most recently Google has disrupted the mobile phone industry, first with the [...]

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US Smart Grid future looking bright?

by Tom Raftery on October 30, 2009 · 11 comments

in smart grid

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President Barack Obama was in Florida on Tuesday this week for the official opening of Florida Power and Light’s new solar energy power plant. The 90,000+ solar panel plant, which has been installed across 180 acres of the 5,000 acre FPL property, is expected to generate 25MW of clean electricity (enough [...]

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UK Low Carbon Transition Plan

by Tom Raftery on July 17, 2009 · 2 comments

in Carbon emissions

Earlier this week Ed Miliband, the UK’s Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change launched The UK Low Carbon Transition Plan.
The plan is comprehensive and lays out several targets for the year 2020:

* More than 1.2 million people will be in green jobs
* more [...]

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RealtimeCarbon.org gives realtime CO2 intensity of electricity generation in the UK

by Tom Raftery on July 17, 2009 · 4 comments

in Carbon emissions

If you actively select for cheaper electricity, you are de facto selecting for greener electricity because cheaper electricity has a higher % of renewable energy in the mix.
I wrote previously that it would be great if utility companies were mandated to publish realtime generation mix (% from coal, % for nuclear, % from wind, etc.). [...]

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