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Mercom: Battery storage, Smart Grid, and Efficiency Companies Receive Increased Funding in 2017

Mercom Capital Group, llc, a global clean energy research and communications firm, recently released its report on funding and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity for the battery storage, smart grid, and energy efficiency sectors for 2017. In 2017, a combined $1.5 billion was raised by battery storage, smart grid, and energy effficiency companies, an increase from the $1.3 billion raised ...

Feb. 2, 2018

By Smart Grid Observer

Energy firms join CO2 research programme

The international energy companies E.ON, ScottishPower and Statkraft have underlined their commitment to meeting the climate challenges by joining SOLVit - a pioneering R&D programme into carbon capture technology, led by Aker Clean Carbon, the Norwegian CO2 technology company. The R&D institute SINTEF and the university NTNU are selected research partners. “We are very pleased that some ...

Apr. 16, 2009

By SINTEF Group - Marine Environmental Technology

American oil companies call for end to export ban

American oil companies have not been allowed to export crude for 40 years, but the industry wants to change that, even though the U.S. still consumes far more oil than it produces. A surprising surge in domestic production of light, sweet crude - a particular type of oil that foreign refiners covet - has triggered growing calls to lift the restrictions, which were put in place after the Arab ...

Jan. 7, 2014

By Associated Press

UK business `too busy to be green`

New research finds senior business leaders expect the looming economic recession to hamper efforts to reduce energy consumption, including 'green' IT purchasing habits. A survey of senior UK business leaders has found that, with a pessimistic economic outlook, they are 'too busy to be green'. That's bad news from a technology perspective, where expenditure on installing energy efficient ...

Feb. 19, 2008

By Dennis Publishing Limited - IT PRO

Geothermal: the dark horse of renewable energy

Geothermal energy is clean, quiet, virtually inexhaustible and able meet the world’s annual electricity and heating needs many times over with little impact on the climate or the environment. In many jurisdictions, geothermal energy is emerging as a reliable and affordable alternative to fossil fuels. This fourth article in the GLOBE-Net series on renewable energy discusses the dark horse of ...

Jan. 29, 2008

By British Columbia Environment Industry Association (BCEIA)

Geothermal: The dark horse of renewable energy

Geothermal energy is clean, quiet, virtually inexhaustible and able meet the world's annual electricity and heating needs many times over with little impact on the climate or the environment. In many jurisdictions, geothermal energy is emerging as a reliable and affordable alternative to fossil fuels. This fourth article in the GLOBE-Net series on renewable energy discusses the dark horse of ...

Jan. 23, 2008

By GLOBE SERIES

AMETEK Programmable Power Helps Invertor Manufacturers Meet Rapid Growth In Demand

AMETEK Programmable Power, a leader in programmable power test solutions (www.programmablepower.com), is ready to help manufacturers of photovoltaic (PV) inverters meet the rapid growth expected in the solar energy market over the next several years. According to Pike Research, a global clean energy market research and consulting firm, the demand for solar power worldwide is expected to increase ...

Jul. 6, 2011

By AMETEK

Low on natural gas, California told to power down

Water isn't the only resource running short in California. The drought-stricken state is also low on natural gas. With a move that usually comes in the height of summer when temperatures are soaring and air conditioners blasting, Californians were urged to voluntarily cut their electricity use after frigid weather across the U.S. and Canada caused a shortage of natural gas at Southern California ...

Feb. 7, 2014

By Associated Press

REC Solar Saves California School District Millions Through Innovative Solar Energy Solutions

REC Solar, a subsidiary of Duke Energy Renewables, is working with the Pleasanton Unified School District in Pleasanton, Calif., to utilize solar plus energy storage solutions to significantly cut its emissions and save on energy costs. The project will include the installation of 1 megawatt (MW) of solar carports and a 660 kilowatt-hour (kWh) battery energy storage system at Pleasanton ...

Jun. 19, 2019

By Smart Grid Observer

Crunch year for US biofuels

US biofuel policies are set to collide this year – with each other and with reality – Bloomberg New Energy Finance finds in new “What to Watch for” biofuels white paper. New York, 25 February 2013 – Policies that govern the use of US corn-based ethanol – one which calls for a minimum amount of consumption, and another which limits how much can go into ...

Feb. 26, 2013

By Bloomberg New Energy Finance

Digital Lumens Named in the Global Cleantech 100 for the Third Year in a Row

Digital Lumens, the leader in intelligent lighting systems, has been named in the prestigious 2012 Global Cleantech 100, produced by Cleantech Group, a leading global research and advisory firm focused on innovation in energy and the environment. The Global Cleantech 100 list is unique in the sector because it highlights the promise of private clean technology companies from all around the ...

Oct. 2, 2012

By Cleantech Group LLC

Clean-energy trends 2008

The following is an excerpt from Clean-Energy Trends 2008. To read the full report, please download the PDF file by clicking on the link below. Amid a challenging economic outlook—plummeting housing prices, rising foreclosure rates, record-high oil prices, sinking consumer confidence, looming recession—2007 was another banner year for clean energy, with no signs of a slowdown in ...

Mar. 15, 2008

By GLOBE SERIES

Huge solar plant lags in early production

The largest solar power plant of its type in the world - once promoted as a turning point in green energy - isn't producing as much energy as planned. One of the reasons is as basic as it gets: The sun isn't shining as much as expected. Sprawling across roughly 5 square miles of federal desert near the California-Nevada border, the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System opened in February, ...

Nov. 17, 2014

By Associated Press

Caldecott joins Bloomberg New Energy Finance

Move deepens company’s offering for governments, international institutions and energy sector clients Ben Caldecott, one of the UK’s thought-leaders on energy and climate change issues, is joining research firm Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Caldecott, who spent the last four years as head of policy for investment bank Climate Change Capital, will take on a new role at Bloomberg New ...

Jul. 16, 2013

By Bloomberg New Energy Finance

Natural gas industry struggles to keep promises

America's plan to use more natural gas to run power plants, make chemicals, drive vehicles and heat homes may not go as smoothly as expected. There's plenty of natural gas in the ground, everyone seems to agree. But the harsh weather this winter shows there are obstacles to producing it, and more pipelines have to be built. The bitter temperatures boosted demand for natural gas to heat homes ...

Mar. 10, 2014

By Associated Press

California`s green economy needs blue collar workers

To achieve the California's energy efficiency goals and provide better career opportunities, the state should modify its clean energy programs and its extensive but fragmented training and education programs, according to a report by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley released last month. The report offers the first comprehensive analysis of the job impacts and workforce ...

Apr. 20, 2011

By GLOBE SERIES

US Power Sector Emissions Poised To Fall To Two-Decade Low In Transformative Year

This should prove to be a watershed year for the “de-carbonization” of the US power sector, with record volumes of coal-fired capacity to be shuttered, renewables capacity to be built, and natural gas to be consumed. The result, according to research firm Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF): CO2 emissions from the power sector should drop to their lowest level since 1994. Three ...

Apr. 9, 2015

By Bloomberg New Energy Finance

Trilliant Named in the Global Cleantech 100 for Fourth Consecutive Year

Trilliant, a global smart grid communications leader who helps utilities and energy retailers deliver the benefits of a smarter grid, today announced it was named in the prestigious 2012 Global Cleantech 100, a list produced by Cleantech Group, a leading global research and advisory firm focused on innovation in energy and the environment. The Global Cleantech 100 list is unique in the sector ...

Oct. 2, 2012

By Trilliant Incorporated

Testimony: IHS Energy Senior Director, Jamie Webster -- U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere

IHS Energy Senior Director, Jamie Webster testified today on the immense changes in the energy market, its impacts on the Western Hemisphere, and the importance of crude exports before the U.S. House of Reprepresentatives Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere. IHS recently released the latest in a series of studies examining the economic impacts of removing the ban on U.S. crude oil exports. ...

May 14, 2015

By IHS Markit

China and US boost search for carbon capture solutions

Capturing carbon emissions from polluting industries has long been touted as a key way of helping to address climate change, but a new China-US agreement looks like giving much-needed stimulus to development of the technology. For years, the energy companies have been telling us not to worry. Yes, mounting carbon emissions threaten to heat up the world – but technology, particularly carbon ...

Jul. 18, 2014

By GLOBE SERIES

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