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US Smart Grid Future Looking Bright?
Photo credit Barack Obama 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,...
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The Coming Green Sprawl
A research paper published by the Nature Conservancy is warning of expanded reliance renewable energy leading to a new phenomenon called “green sprawl”. While not critical of renewable energy...
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Google Energy to start disrupting the utility industry?
Photo credit filippo minelli 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...
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Friday’s Green Numbers round-up 01/15/2010
Photo credit arekiiu Here is today’s Friday Green numbers round-up: TVA purchasing up to 815MW wind power from Kansas and Illinois TVA has inked four deals to purchase wind power generated in Illinois...
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Friday Morning Green Numbers round-up 03/12/2010
Photo credit Unhindered by Talent 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...
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Is there really any need for baseload power?
Photo credit wonderferret 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...
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Friday Morning Green Numbers round-up 03/19/2010
Photo credit: Unhindered by Talent 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...
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SunSpec Alliance setting standards for the solar industry
Photo credit Tom Raftery (Me!) Sunspec.org is an alliance of renewable industry companies whose aim is to define communication standards data monitoring for the solar power industry. Up until now there...
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Friday Green Numbers round-up 06/18/2010
Photo credit Unhindered by Talent And here is this week’s Green numbers: BP oil spill costs hit $1.6bn | Business The cost of BP’s clean-up operation in the Gulf of Mexico has now hit $1.6bn (£1.1bn),...
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Friday Green Numbers round-up 06/25/2010
Photo credit Unhindered by Talent And here is this week’s Green numbers: Six Infrastructure Projects to Save 1.3 Billion Gallons of Water in Australia Australia is no stranger to tight water supplies,...
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Cloud computing companies ranked by their use of renewable energy
Cloud computing is booming. Cloud providers are investing billions in infrastructure to build out their data centers, but just how clean is cloud? Given that this is the week that the IPCC’s 5th...
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IBM to increase the amount of renewable electricity it procures
After returning from IBM’s InterConnect conference recently we chided IBM for their aping of Amazon’s radical opaqueness concerning their cloud emissions, and their lack of innovation concerning...
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Equinix rolls out 1MW fuel cell for Silicon Valley data center
Equinix is powering one of its Silicon Valley data centers with a 1MW Bloom Energy fuel cell As we have pointed out here many times, the main cloud providers (particularly Amazon and IBM) are doing a...
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Salesforce on track to being the cloud crm provider with the lowest carbon...
We have highlighted often enough what a poor job some cloud companies are doing of making their cloud infrastructure cleaner, and being transparent about their emissions. Against that backdrop, it is...
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