The national hospital community gathered in Phoenix in early April 2011 for the most influential conference on sustainable health care, “CleanMed.” Hospital administrators, clinicians, businesses and organizations servicing the health care community, such as green builders, were in attendance. The …
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In a phone conversation with my mother just now, we talked about this article in today’s New York Times: a pending project whereby 200,000+ power poles in New Jersey will be outfitted with solar panels. Apparently, residents are dismayed about the …
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I had a wonderful chance encounter the other day with Melinda Keller, a professor of engineering at California Polytechnic at the Santa Barbara Summit on Energy Efficiency. It seems that she specializes in CSP (concentrated solar power) – and is …
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY4p4x34Br4] In this segment of the 2GreenEnergy Video Report, I cover concentrated solar power (CSP), aka solar thermal. It appears that one of our clients has made a real breakthrough in lowering costs and improving efficiencies.
I’m in New York City for a few days, and I’ve scheduled my lunch today with Belen Gallego, the Director of CSP Today (Concentrated Solar Power, aka solar thermal). When I interviewed Belen for my “Clean Energy Radio” show a …
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During a slow period at the Electric Drive Transportation Association conference this afternoon, I walked a couple of miles across town to interview spokespeople for the Environmental Law Institute (ELI) – Senior Attorneys Jay Pendergrass and Lisa Goldman. We talked …
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San Jose State University and SolarTech conducted a study recently in Silicon Valley to understand consumer attitudes toward solar energy and solar power for home use. Silicon Valley (Santa Clara County) is considered a bell-weather county in a state that …
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The World Economic Forum says worldwide investment in green energy rose 30% in 2010. Investment reached $234 billion in 2010, up from $186 billion a year earlier. The WEF states that higher oil prices would most likely increase demand for …
(Continued from an earlier post…) U.S. Venture Capital U.S. Venture Capital investments increased in 2010, too, from $3.5 billion in 2009 to $5.1 billion in 2010 (a 45.7% increase). The number did fall short of the record-breaking $6.1 billion invested …
[The Vector] Clean Energy Trends 2011 Report – Continued Read More »
Clean Energy Trends 2011, the annual report from Clean Edge, Inc., was recently published. This is the 10th annual report the company has written on green energy, with now a full decade of accumulated information of the industry. The authors, …
