Some top wind energy news from around: Research How Wind Cuts Electricity Bills “Wind as an electricity supply resource has been getting steadily cheaper, and its technical performance characteristics continue to improve as larger turbine sizes and higher hub heights capture both economies of scale and more of the … [continued]
Some top clean transportation news from around: EVs Frost & Sullivan: Electric Vehicles Power to the Forefront of Sustainable, Smart Mobility in Central and Eastern Europe “Electric vehicle (EV) sales in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), a region with a population of over 100 million people and a solid macroeconomic environment, … [continued]
There’s been a lot of energy-efficient lighting news in the past week or so — there was a big lighting event in Las Vegas last week (Lightfair International 2012), and there was big news from other parts of the world as well. Here’s a quick roundup of some of the … [continued]
New York City is hosting Creative Week this week, May 7-11. The week includes a number of interesting events, but I’m just seeing one related to cleantech — GE’s Throttle Up event and experience. Throttle Up, located at 56 Water Street in DUMBO, Brooklyn from 11:00 am to 9:00 pm all week, … [continued]
GE Energy’s Industrial Solutions business has launched the WattStation and WattStation Connect this week at the SAE 2012 World Congress in Detroit. The comprehensive electric vehicle charging station and software platform has numerous features. For example, it: lets owners manage charging stations remotely, lets them manage and set customer pricing for EV charging, can … [continued]
GE has launched a cool energy-efficient light bulb savings calculator on its GE Lighting website. The calculator, of course, only features GE light bulbs (6 of them) — would be great if someone created such a calculator/webpage for a larger selection, especially with some LED bulbs added in (update: … [continued]
The Canadian subsidiary of China’s largest wind energy developer has selected GE to supply the wind turbines for a 100-MW wind farm in Ontario. Canada Longyuan Renewables will be the first project developer to take delivery of GE’s new 1.6-100 wind turbines. […]
The European wind power industry is expected to see more than half a million people working for it by 2020, increasing it’s contribution to the EU economy threefold over the same period. This news comes courtesy of a report to be presented on Monday the 16th of April at … [continued]
Something I think we don’t talk about enough when discussing the clean energy revolution we’re in the midst of is that we are also giving more power back to individuals and households in this transition. Of course, not in all cases, and there are efforts to limit that, but … [continued]
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure, right? While that phrase has been around for ages, it has taken society a while to make it more applicable to industry. Industrial waste has long ended up… just waste (nothing like treasure at all). It has polluted our environments, damaged our … [continued]
