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Industrial energy efficiency for sustainable wealth creation

January 27, 2012 by Charles Arthur
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A recently published report by the UN Industrial Development Organization addresses the role of industrial energy efficiency in sustainable industrial development. [read more]

ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit Preview

January 26, 2012 by Nino Marchetti
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In about a month, D.C.’s Gaylord National Conference Center will be teeming with energy researchers, entrepreneurs, investors, corporate executives, and a couple of wild Bills.The third annual ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit promises to bring together the type of leaders that can develop energy solutions for the future, and boy did they... [read more]

Advanced biofuels could create millions of jobs while greening the economy

January 26, 2012 by Annegrethe Jakobsen
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A new report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance - launched during World Economic Forum at Davos - estimates the socioeconomic prospects of deploying advanced biofuels in eight of the highest agricultural-producing regions in the world, i.e. Argentina, Australia, Brazil, China, EU-27, India, Mexico and the USA.The report was commissioned... [read more]

State of the Union Addresses All-of-the-Above Energy

January 25, 2012 by Geoffrey Styles
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Anyone expecting the announcement of big new energy initiatives in this year's State of the Union address was disappointed last night. What was new, however, was a welcome shift in the President's emphasis on conventional energy--the fuels he referred to as "yesterday's energy" in last year's speech. Never mind that the resurgent oil... [read more]

How Bainbridge Island Cut Peak Power Consumption

January 23, 2012 by Joseph Romm
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The 23,000 citizens of Bainbridge Island in Washington State are showing how a combination of transparent price signals, online social networking and old fashioned community organizing can make a big difference in reducing energy consumption. Located in Puget Sound, Bainbridge Island has been a major energy hog — with residents consuming... [read more]

The Future of Global Climate Policy: Taking Stock of Our Climate Outlook (Part 1)

January 23, 2012 by Matthew Stepp
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  Significantly limiting humanity’s impact on the global climate is quite simply an enormous task. Unfortunately, thanks to budget austerity and federal gridlock, any hope of implementing sweeping U.S. climate/energy policy has been optimistically pushed back to 2013 or beyond (though some incremental improvement is possible). And... [read more]

How overturning conventional energy wisdom could resurrect real progress in climate talks

January 23, 2012 by Jim Pierobon
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Ever since the Copenhagen round of global climate talks failed in 2009, there have been no shortage of prescriptions and declarations about what needs to change. The subsequent failures in Cancun in 2010 and Durban last year underscore the need for a new way of thinking. There is no denying the world  needs, and is going to be using... [read more]

New Energy-Efficient Lighting Puts People to Work

January 15, 2012 by Rocky Kistner
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Deep in the heart of America’s rust belt a new generation of companies is riding a wave of job-creating lighting technologies as new federal lighting efficiency standards are phased in starting next month. In Ohio, the birthplace of Thomas Edison and home to light bulb manufacturers GE and TCP... [read more]

Energy Efficiency in 2012: Forecast Is Mostly Sunny

January 7, 2012 by Steve Nadel
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Looking forward into 2012, I see more reasons for optimism than pessimism. Many states and utilities are committed to ramping up their energy efficiency programs this year and even more are considering similar steps. For example, Massachusetts electric utility programs are targeting 2.4% savings this year as part of a ramp-up rate... [read more]

Energy Pricing Predictions for 2012

January 1, 2012 by Matthew Cook
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The oil price has rarely fallen below $100 a barrel since the Arab Spring threatened supplies at the start of 2011. Libya is now nearly back at full-scale production post-war, which some suggest could increase global supply and theoretically lead to price falls. But other analysts believe other Opec powers such as Saudi ... [read more]

Can Video Games Solve Energy Challenges?

December 28, 2011 by Silvio Marcacci
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Advanced gaming technology now means anyone can immerse themselves in warfare, become a rock star, or win the World Series, albeit virtually. But what if video games could also teach people about energy technologies and environmental concerns? energyNOW! correspondent Lee Patrick Sullivan plugs into several video games that could help people make better energy choices and potentially create real-world energy solutions. [read more]

Ushering in a Hydrogen Economy

December 15, 2011 by Charles Arthur
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Making It interview with Dr. Mustafa Hatipoğlu, managing director of the International Centre for Hydrogen Energy Technologies (ICHET), a UNIDO project supported by the Turkish Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources. [read more]

Power Plants Suffer Water Woes

December 5, 2011 by Jonathan Smith
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Union of Concerned Scientists Image via Wikipedia A previous reprint of an article originally published in Ecocentric noted that power plants need lots of water primarily for cooling. “Several Texas power plants that rely on cooling ponds are in a tough spot because their reservoirs aren’t being replenished, and that lack of cooling... [read more]

Our Shifting Energy Diet

November 28, 2011 by Geoffrey Styles
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It's fairly easy to agree on the desirability of shifting our energy diet away from fossil fuels and toward more renewable or sustainable sources, but it's much harder to agree on the time scale involved. While recognizing the great potential of renewable energy technologies such as wind, solar and geothermal power, along with advanced,... [read more]

Back To Basics: Utilities Must Communicate To Customers On Smartgrid

October 27, 2011 by Allison Eckelkamp
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The Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative (SGCC) released on Monday its report titled "Excellence in Consumer Engagement," based on the analysis of efforts by U.S. organizations and utilities with consumer-facing smart grid programs. As a communicator, I found myself constantly nodding my head in agreement with what I considered to be a... [read more]