The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is now reviewing a proposal to link three separate North American electricity grids with state-of-the-art switching terminals and superconducting cables.  Those three grids – the Eastern Interconnection east of the Rocky Mountains, the Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC) west of the Rockies, and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) [...]

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While the world stops and watches the Copenhagen meetings, I find some stats that CNBC is reporting as very interesting from a capital investment perspective: $451 million in private equity deals flowed into the solar sector in the third quarter of 2009, with service companies getting more attention than manufacturing or research-oriented ones. That investment [...]

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