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Are EV Incentives Justified?

October 21, 2010 by Geoffrey Styles
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The Wall St. Journal has been running an interesting series of articles on electric vehicles this week, coinciding with the mounting excitement surrounding the arrival of the first truly mass-market EVs in the US within a month or two. The articles cover a wide range of issues, including the cost of the batteries, efforts to overcome the... [read more]

The DOE Funding Recipients

December 14, 2009 by Robert Rapier
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I am so far behind on the things that I have been intending to write. It is hard to believe that it has already been over a week since the most recent US DOE biorefinery grants were announced. I have been meaning to list them and comment, but I have finally decided just to list them without too much comment. Let's just say that some of... [read more]

US Smart Grid future looking bright?

October 30, 2009 by Tom Raftery
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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, which has been installed across 180 acres of the 5,000 acre FPL property, is expected to generate 25MW of clean electricity (enough to... [read more]

Smart Grid: On its way…slowly

October 27, 2009 by Marc Gunther
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Today, President Obama travels to Arcadia, Florida, home to one of the nation’s biggest solar power plants, to announced 100 grants providing a total of $3.4 billion in recovery-act funding for the smart grid. The federal money will unleash $4.1 billion of private investment that, according to the government, that will bring smart... [read more]

The EPA - The Governments Eco-Friendly VC Firm

April 30, 2008 by DaveSattler
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According to the EPA, small business employs more than half of all <?xml:namespace prefix="st1"?>U.S. workers and is responsible for the majority of new eco-friendly technologies developed in the country. That may explain why the EPA has become a quasi venture capitalist firm in recent years providing funding to the best eco-... [read more]