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Cafe Musings (or How Clean Tech is Becoming Ubiquitous)
by Ron Pernick
Back in 1996, already three years into the Net revolution, I recall sitting in San Francisco Bay Area (my home for 13 years) cafes, and realizing how all the talk I overheard was dominated by the Internet.
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May 6, 2008 12:30PM PDT |
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5/1 Rockefeller Family Puts Pressure on ExxonMobil to Pursue Renewables
In an unprecedented step, a majority of Rockefeller Family members -- the oldest continuous shareholders in Exxon Mobil Corporation -- publicly called on other shareholders to join them in supporting a shareholder resolution to require an independent chairman of the board of directors, so that the company founded by John D. Rockefeller can better maximize long- term shareholder value in a rapidly changing energy environment.
Clean Edge News |
4/24 SunEdison and SkyPower Begin Construction of 19MW Solar Park in Ontario
Joint venture partners SkyPower Corp., a Lehman Brothers Company, and SunEdison Canada recently announced the official groundbreaking of First Light, North America's largest solar photovoltaic energy park to date, located on approximately 300 acres of land in Lennox & Addington County, Ontario. Construction of the 19-megawatt (MW) solar park is anticipated to be completed by the end of 2009.
Clean Edge News |
4/23 NTR Invests $100 Million in Stirling Energy Systems for Utility-Scale Solar
Stirling Energy Systems, Inc. (SES), a Phoenix-based developer of
utility-scale solar powered electricity generation plants, recently announced an agreement for NTR plc, an international developer and operator in renewable energy and sustainable waste management, to invest $100 million and take a controlling interest in the company.
Clean Edge News |
4/22 eSolar Raises $130 Million for Pre-Fabricated Solar Thermal Power Plants
eSolar, a producer of scalable solar thermal power plants, announced that it has closed $130 million in funding from Idealab, Google.org, Oak Investment Partners, and other investors for the construction and deployment of pre-fabricated power plants.
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4/21 Wind Leaders Call for Extension of Production Tax Credit
Senior executives from four of the world's top wind turbine manufacturers— GE Energy, Gamesa, Siemens and Vestas— recently joined in urging Congress to act promptly to extend the renewable energy production tax credit (PTC). The PTC is now set to expire December 31, 2008, although a one-year extension was recently approved by the Senate.
Clean Edge News |
4/17 Bush Climate Speech Covers Familiar Ground
President George W. Bush today outlined a new climate goal for the United States, calling for the nation to halt the growth of its greenhouse gas emissions by 2025.
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4/17 Environmental Groups Launch National Green Jobs Campaign
The United Steelworkers (USW), the Sierra Club, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the Blue Green Alliance, a partnership of the USW and Sierra Club, recently launched the national Green Jobs for America campaign.
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4/15 Foundation Capital Earmarks $250 Million for Clean Tech
Foundation Capital, a venture capital firm committed to early stage company building, recently announced that it has closed a $750 million venture capital fund, Foundation Capital VI.
Clean Edge News |
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The Vulcan Project - Carbon Mapping
The University of Purdue recently released maps showing carbon emissions across the United States. The maps are the result of three years of work and provide an unprecedented level of detail. The Vulcan project offers maps that show emissions data at the level of individual factories, powerplants, roadways and neighborhoods and is quantified at the level of fuel type, economic sub-sector, and county/state identification.
The project is complementary to NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory project which is collecting carbon data via satellites and is expected to provide a similar worldwide carbon map later this year, or early 2009.
Since you can't manage what you can't measure - the Vulcan Project is an excellent contribution to crafting effective carbon policy. The new maps will not only help in providing a baseline for emissions, but could provide a critical 'check' to data reported under any future regulatory system.
For more information visit the Vulcan website where you can actually download portions of the data that went into the map. Also be sure to check out the video.
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