Monday, February 28, 2011

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Green Energy by Gaby Mindreci.mov


Green Energy presentation on February 23rd, 2011 at Society of Manufacturing Engineers (Toronto - Chapter 26) meeting in Mississauga, Ontario. Presenter: Gaby Mindreci, Regional Manager for Region of Americas with Positronic Industries Inc of Springfield, MO, USA.

Green Energy presentation on February 23rd, 2011 at Society of Manufacturing Engineers (Toronto – Chapter 26) meeting in Mississauga, Ontario. Presenter: Gaby Mindreci, Regional Manager for Region of Americas with Positronic Industries Inc of Springfield, MO, USA.


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How Dry Can Our Climate Get? Africa’s Lake Victoria Dried Up… 17,000 Years Ago


Lake Victoria, photo: Marc Veraart / Creative Commons Take this next one as a sign of how dry the climate has gotten and could get , not a specific prediction, projection or anything like that: New research published in Science shows how dry things got in a massive mega...

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Friday, February 25, 2011

Green Energy: State Senate Approves Ambitious Clean-Energy Mandate


The state Senate on Thursday approved a measure requiring California utilities to buy 33% of their electricity from wind, solar and other renewable energy sources by the year 2020, with supporters arguing it will help recharge the ...

The state Senate on Thursday approved a measure requiring California utilities to buy 33% of their electricity from wind, solar and other renewable energy sources by the year 2020, with supporters arguing it will help recharge the …


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Thursday, February 24, 2011

Colorado Promotes Clean Energy with HB 1228 | The Energy Collective


Under a new bill to be put before the Colorado House on Feb. 23, Colorado's Office of Economic Development (OED) would be required to institute a study of the likely benefits of distributed generation from renewable energy sources like ...

Under a new bill to be put before the Colorado House on Feb. 23, Colorado’s Office of Economic Development (OED) would be required to institute a study of the likely benefits of distributed generation from renewable energy sources like …


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Reducing Black Carbon Soot Would Slash Arctic Warming Two-Thirds by 2030, Cut Temp Rise by 0.5C


In addition to burning fossil fuels and cookstoves, industrial processes such as brick production are also important sources of black carbon emissions. Photo: jerseyshowaa / Creative Commons . A new UNEP report highlights what a growing body of research shows is an overlooked and powerful contributor to global warming:

In addition to burning fossil fuels and cookstoves, industrial processes such as brick production are also important sources of black carbon emissions. Photo: jerseyshowaa / Creative Commons . A new UNEP report highlights what a growing body of research shows is an overlooked and powerful contributor to global warming:


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March 24, 2010 Megan speaks to the need for green energy funding


March 24, 2010 Megan asks if the Government will work with the Provinces to develop eco-energy programs and invest in a green power economy and green technology.

March 24, 2010 Megan asks if the Government will work with the Provinces to develop eco-energy programs and invest in a green power economy and green technology.


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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Is America Really Adopting Clean Energy?


Alternative energy, green energy or clean energy, whichever way we term these concepts, it does not seem that the implementation of these sources of energy is for the near future. In spite of the fact that the United States's super ...

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Mixed Greens: LinkedIn Alum Joins Sungevity; Will $5 a Gallon Make the U.S. Panic?


VCs always like to say they invest in people, not technologies.
The axiom seems to have taken hold at Sungevity.
The solar installer today announced that Patrick Crain, formerly the chief marketing officer at LinkedIn, has joined Sungevity at CMO. Th...

VCs always like to say they invest in people, not technologies.


The axiom seems to have taken hold at Sungevity.


The solar installer today announced that Patrick Crain, formerly the chief marketing officer at LinkedIn, has joined Sungevity at CMO. The idea here is to help Sungevity expand its grass roots-style marketing programs as it expands from its base in California, Arizona and Colorado to other parts of the country. Sungevity also wants to go overseas, founder Danny Kennedy told us last year.


Earlier in the month, Sungevity hired Mac Irvin, formerly the managing director of structured finance at SunPower, to become CFO. In December, Sungevity raised $15 million in a third round. In 2009, the company also lured Charles Ferer, a former SolarCity exec and an expert on solar leasing, to come to Sungevity.


The flurry of executive activity comes from both the infusion of capital and an ongoing growth spurt at the company. Installations, measured in terms of kilowatts, grew 10X from 2009 to 2010, and the total number of installations are up 9x. A rush of hiring like this can go awry: @Home -- remember them? -- had more all-stars on its executive roster than the original Poseidon Adventure, but the ending was still a tidal wave that killed all in its path. Managing the egos of drop-in talent can be a headache. Still, expanding the management team could help Sungevity navigate its growth to an IPO.


Like competitors SolarCity, SunRun and others, part of Sungevity's explosive growth comes through solar leasing, which allows consumers to skip the down payment. More than 99 percent of the deals that were booked in One Megawatt October revolved around leases. (Leasing and finance -- both huge topics -- will be covered at our Solar Summit taking place March 14 and 15.)


Sungevity's software examines satellite imagery of a rooftop as well as data on the pitch of the roof, local solar radiation, and the angle of the roof toward the sun, among other factors, in order to concoct a bid on a project. The software has been fine-tuned over the past few years. Sungevity projects now are almost one kilowatt larger on average than they were 2.5 years ago. Sungevity takes solar orders online and by the phone, but then hires subcontractors -- under supervision -- to conduct the actual installations.


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--Here's an idea. Lately, states like Mississippi and South Carolina have provided low-cost loans and grants to greentech startups like Stion and Soladigm to build factories. Mississippi, for instance, gets bond funds for around 4 percent and gives it, without a premium, to its startups. Because these are better terms than the companies would get at a bank, they can be considered subsidies. These aren't loan guarantees like the DOE gives out: these are actual loans.


Why not take half of that money and build solar farms -- either on roofs or in fields -- in those jurisdictions? Think of it. Manufacturing startups face an uphill climb and must navigate around technological and economic risks: success is not easy. Solar farms carry almost no risk: developers construct solar farms from technologies backed with decades of field data and then sell the power to established utilities like Duke Energy that will be in business 50 years after anyone now reading this is dead. It's the modern day equivalent of a savings bond in a Christmas card from your grandmother.


"Both the technology and credit risk levels have been proven over the last several years. In fact, the residential solar lease industry has not, to my knowledge, experienced a single default," Sungevity's Ferer told me earlier this month.


Such a program would create a number of construction jobs and ameliorate that constant complaint of developers: that their projects are held up because of a lack of funds. Laws would have to be changed: some states recruiting green firms don't have renewable portfolio standards. They want to make, but not necessarily use, the technology. Nonetheless, shifting the funds around in this way could help balance the policies at the state and federal levels.


--USA Today and other publications warn that the U.S. could see $5 per gallon gas with continued unrest in the Gulf region. If we start to see a clamor that the U.S. must defend our allies so gas prices stay low, it will be a historical moment. We will then know that Americans are just too dense to survive in the wild on their own.




The Future of Energy: Alternative and Green Energy » Alternative …


Today, more people are becoming aware of the need to find alternative sources of energy which includes Green Energy . Green energy is energy that comes from renewable sources that do not pollute the environment. ...

Today, more people are becoming aware of the need to find alternative sources of energy which includes Green Energy . Green energy is energy that comes from renewable sources that do not pollute the environment. …


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Americans Use 11,000 Watts to Live


Gizmodo points us to a crazy statistic: The average American needs a whopping 11,000 watts to function on a daily basis. Well, "needs" is a loose way of putting it. Geoffrey West, a distinguished theoretical physicist, states in a New York Times article , "Well, when you add up all our calories and then you add up the energy needed to run the computer and the air-conditioner, you get an incredibly large number, somewhere around 11,000 watts." It's a long piece, but mos...

Gizmodo points us to a crazy statistic: The average American needs a whopping 11,000 watts to function on a daily basis. Well, “needs” is a loose way of putting it. Geoffrey West, a distinguished theoretical physicist, states in a New York Times article , “Well, when you add up all our calories and then you add up the energy needed to run the computer and the air-conditioner, you get an incredibly large number, somewhere around 11,000 watts.” It’s a long piece, but mos…


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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden | Dlegs Hybrid …


The United States Department of Energy has devoted itself to the cause of renewable energy promotion with its creation of the National Renewable Energy .

The United States Department of Energy has devoted itself to the cause of renewable energy promotion with its creation of the National Renewable Energy .


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Monday, February 21, 2011

Australia’s Floods Endanger An Already Stressed Great Barrier Reef


Photo by eutrophication&hypoxia via Flickr Creative Commons We've been hearing about the intense flooding in Australia for weeks now , but a lesser known side effect is the impact those floods are having on the Great Barrier Reef. Adding to the stresses already faced by the coral reef are both the cyclone itself and all of the pollutants washed from shore....

Photo by eutrophication&hypoxia via Flickr Creative Commons We’ve been hearing about the intense flooding in Australia for weeks now , but a lesser known side effect is the impact those floods are having on the Great Barrier Reef. Adding to the stresses already faced by the coral reef are both the cyclone itself and all of the pollutants washed from shore….


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AEP CEO on Obama’s Clean-Energy Push


American Electric Power CEO Michael Morris weighs in on President Obama's plan to promote green energy.

American Electric Power CEO Michael Morris weighs in on President Obama’s plan to promote green energy.


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Solar3D Explores Path to Better Light-Trapping Cell | Renewable …


One way to boost solar cell performance is to effectively trap light, and many companies have come up approaches to minimize reflection and keep the photons bouncing around the semiconductors. A new entrant, Solar3D, is investing a way ...

One way to boost solar cell performance is to effectively trap light, and many companies have come up approaches to minimize reflection and keep the photons bouncing around the semiconductors. A new entrant, Solar3D, is investing a way …


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Thursday, February 17, 2011

Researchers: 100 Percent Green Energy Possible By 2050


We approach energy policy with care here, since GreenCarReports is largely about ... well, cars.

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Best Reading for Understanding Peak Water


Photo by Jaymi Heimbuch The topic of Peak Water is always top of mind here at TreeHugger, and we're constantly reading up on the subject, from what exactly "peak water" means, to the implications running out of water will have on humans and ecosystems. How are we running out of water, what happens when we do, and how can it be avoided? It's a fascinating and scary topic, but there are a handful of articles that we think represent some of the best writing summing up the topic.

Photo by Jaymi Heimbuch The topic of Peak Water is always top of mind here at TreeHugger, and we’re constantly reading up on the subject, from what exactly “peak water” means, to the implications running out of water will have on humans and ecosystems. How are we running out of water, what happens when we do, and how can it be avoided? It’s a fascinating and scary topic, but there are a handful of articles that we think represent some of the best writing summing up the topic.


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Bill Ritter: Natural Gas and America’s Clean Energy Future


Natural gas has many applications, for utilities, transportation and other energy needs. It can and must be a major part of our energy future -- along with wind, solar, biofuels, clean coal, nuclear, energy efficiency measures, ...

Natural gas has many applications, for utilities, transportation and other energy needs. It can and must be a major part of our energy future — along with wind, solar, biofuels, clean coal, nuclear, energy efficiency measures, …


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Keeping Clean Energy Clean – GreenEnergyMarket.org


So many green jobs are being created by switching energy sources from fossil based to clean energy , but here's one you might not have thought of. Keeping clean energy clean.The Germans, who are years ahead of us in solar adoption, ...

So many green jobs are being created by switching energy sources from fossil based to clean energy , but here’s one you might not have thought of. Keeping clean energy clean.The Germans, who are years ahead of us in solar adoption, …


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EnerNoc CEO: Demand Response Is Not Free


The fight over the future of demand response is going to be a hot one.
"Demand response is not a free resource. Demand response should not be underpaid," said Tim Healy, CEO of EnerNoc in an interview after earnings today in response to claims that de...

The fight over the future of demand response is going to be a hot one.


"Demand response is not a free resource. Demand response should not be underpaid," said Tim Healy, CEO of EnerNoc in an interview after earnings today in response to claims that demand response companies might be getting over compensated. "We believe it has to be actual, verified megawatts."


The dispute, which came to a head earlier this week, concerns how demand response providers should be compensated and how to calculate how much peak power they are shaving.


PJM, the East Coast grid operator and one of the biggest demand response customers in the nation, uses a somewhat complex calculation. It looks at its five peak days from the year before to determine an individual customer's power consumption. If your factory happened to be consuming 2 megawatts, you are a 2 megawatt company. In a future demand response situation, PJM argues that the customer can get paid for up to two megawatt.


But what if the factory is actually ordinarily a 5 megawatt customer and that the load on the day grid operator took its measurements were unusually light? In a future peak power situation, that customer might shave 3 megawatts EnerNoc believes demand response providers--and their customers--should be compensated for that.


"They (the industrial factory owners) are foregoing a right (to consume electricity) that creates hundreds of millions of dollars of value. The majority of the value being created is being shared by people taking no action," he said. "We want full payment for full credit...If a customer curtails, that customer should be paid for the act of load reduction."


The alternative? The utility can risk a brown-out or fire up expensive peaker plants, if any sit in reserve.


The accounting conducted by EnerNoc and other demand response providers is verified through power meters. Once the order to curtail power goes out, you can see consumption (via the meter) drop. Algorithms also compensate for weather, holidays and other anomalies to ensure that payment for power reduction isn't gratuitous or fortuitous.


"If there is an energy emergency and you need curtailment, you should be paid. We believe this is an issue for underpayments, not an issue of double counting," he added. "There is no market manipulation. Those are silly labels.


"PJM wants people to agree to provide DR for free," he added.


PJM, of course, disagrees. Nonetheless, EnerNoc's argument does seem to have a straightforward appeal. This should be an interesting argument.


On other notes:


--Healy added that EnerNoc's business will grow. It will sign new utilities as well as expand its relationship with existing utilities. Some of the growth, however, will be dented by lower prices. The company predicts that revenue will come to $300 million to $320 million, or a four percent increase -- less than the jump from 2009 to 2010. Net income is expected to come in at 25 cents to 50 cents a share in 2011 or 97 cents to $1.23 per share under non-GAAP rules -- in other words, somewhat in the same range of 2010. That still makes the company the only public smart grid startup to maintain profitability, but this isn't exactly hockey stick growth, either.


Prices may begin to trend up in 2013.


--By 2013, EnerNoc hopes to be garnering 20 percent of its revenue from efficiency and its other platform initiatives. Starting in late 2009, EnerNoc began to acquire other companies to become a full-fledged energy service provider. (Silver Spring Networks began about eight months later.)


Right now, EnerNoc gets around 5 percent of its revenue from its non-demand response businesses.




Wednesday, February 16, 2011

EnerNoc Reports Profitable Year, But Is Business Slowing?


2010 was a very good year for EnerNoc. 2011 might just be okay.
The demand response specialist reported its first full year of profitability as a public company today. Revenue for 2010 came to $280.2 million, up 47 percent from revenue of $190.7 milli...

2010 was a very good year for EnerNoc. 2011 might just be okay.


The demand response specialist reported its first full year of profitability as a public company today. Revenue for 2010 came to $280.2 million, up 47 percent from revenue of $190.7 million in 2009.


Net income, meanwhile, came to $9.6 million, or 37 cents a share, way up from a loss of $6.8 million loss in 2009. The net income figures in both cases were weighed down by acquisitions and other issues. Non-GAAP earnings per share in 2010 came to 97 cents.


Overall, EnerNoc can now call on 5.3 gigawatts of capacity during demand response events, up from 3.55 gigawatts worth of capacity at the end of 2009. In all, the company dispatched power resources over 220 times in 2010. It has 3,600 end customers (customers it can pull power from) and can pull power from 8,600 sites.


To top it off, the company formally expanded from being a demand response provider in 2010 to more of a full-fledged energy provider. Through its EfficiencySmart platform, it can provide building management services, carbon accounting and other services. The ten acquisitions to date have helped flesh out this strategy. It also began to branch out overseas.


Now look forward to 2011. The company predicts that revenue will come to $300 to $320 million, or a four percent increase, or less than the jump from 2009 to 2010. Even if you look at it in terms of gross growth, revenue is expected to grow $40 million, or less than half of the $89.5 million increase in 2010. (Cash flow from operations grew from $37 million in 2009 to $45 million in 2010.)


Net income is expected to come in at 25 to 50 cents a share in 2011 or 97 cents to $1.23 per share under Non-GAAP rules. In other words, somewhat in the same range of 2010. That still makes the company the only public smart grid startup to maintain profitability, but this isn't exactly hockey stick growth either.


PJM may also change rules that will clamp down on "double counting" for some demand response events in 2011. EnerNoc denies it has violated any rules. Nonetheless, the accounting standards employed seem to be the reason double counting exists, so changes could effect the profits and revenue of EnerNoc and other demand service providers.


Fourth quarter revenue came to $22.7 million, down from $26.7 million in the fourth quarter of 2010. The net loss came to $21.2 million, an increase over the net loss of $15.2 million in 2010.


First quarter revenue is slated to come in at $25 to $31 million with a net loss of 85 cents per share to $1.05.




China’s Water Plight: Confronting Water Scarcity and Energy Demand in the World’s Largest Country


Circle of Blue has an absolutely fantastic write-up of China's looming water problems . "Over the last decade alone, 70 million new jobs emerged from an economy that this year...Yet, like a tectonic fault line, underlying China's new standing in the world is an increasingly fierce competition between energy and water that threatens to upend China's progress. Simply put, according to Chinese authorities and government reports, China's demand for energy, pa...

Circle of Blue has an absolutely fantastic write-up of China’s looming water problems . “Over the last decade alone, 70 million new jobs emerged from an economy that this year…Yet, like a tectonic fault line, underlying China’s new standing in the world is an increasingly fierce competition between energy and water that threatens to upend China’s progress. Simply put, according to Chinese authorities and government reports, China’s demand for energy, pa…


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Off Grid Renewable Energy Solar Wind Setup Part1


We have 2 Evergreen Solar panels 180 watts each, Tristar 60Amp Controller, 2, 400 watt Air-x wind generators, about 8 marine deep cycle batteries from walmart now. A 250A DC breakerbox from Midnight Solar, Xantrex DR-2412 2400Watt Inverter, and a Reliance transfer switch.

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The US Clean Energy Economy: Buy Indian – Solar Novus Today


The change to a “clean energy economy” has become the Obama Administration's tagline for pulling out of the recession by investing in renewable energy and clean technologies, and the ARRA is one way the administration is walking the ...

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Monday, February 14, 2011

EnerNoc Stock Sags to Year Low Amid Questions About Demand Response


EnerNoc, the company that likes to claim it is the only smart grid startup to record a profit, goes into an earnings call later this week under a cloud.
The company's stock has slid to below $18 this morning because of concerns over a possible discrep...

EnerNoc, the company that likes to claim it is the only smart grid startup to record a profit, goes into an earnings call later this week under a cloud.


The company's stock has slid to below $18 this morning because of concerns over a possible discrepancy between how it accounts for "negawatts" saved and how its biggest customer counts them.


PJM, the grid operator on the East Coast and EnerNoc's biggest source of revenue, tries to get end customers to reduce power through Peak Load Contribution (PLC) and Load Management (LM). PLC is essentially your five peak hours from the previous year. Industrial customers may hire consultants, but PLC is basically their homework assignment.


LM constitutes power reduction that can be accomplished by a demand response service. Power reduced through a PLC can't be added to the LM total. However, if the customer chooses a compliance metric that goes by the acronym GLD, the total reduced by the demand response provider can be seemingly exaggerated. In that situation, the demand response provider gets greater credit that it deserves. Rule changes may go into effect later this spring.


PJM has been monitoring the double accounting issue since last April.


For its part, EnerNoc says it played by the rules and that the accounting needs to be straightened out. If a third party curtailed power, it should be paid.


"The PJM statement does not question the fact that PJM receives a megawatt of actual load reduction for every megawatt it pays for through its mechanism of crediting CSPs (curtailment service providers or demand response providers), including EnerNOC. EnerNOC has long advocated for fair compensation for actual, verifiable load curtailment provided during grid emergencies, a position FERC has consistently and strongly endorsed."


The company also said COO Darren Brady resigned.


EnerNoc will announce year-end results on February 16. In the third quarter, it reported revenue of $162.8 million and net income of $43.9 million. It is expected to report a positive net income for 2010 as a whole. In the past 18 months, EnerNoc has gone on a buying spree -- it made its tenth acquisition in January -- to diversify its revenue.