I came across this book over the weekend, The Green Year, by Jodi Helmer, in a local bookshop that I thought was pretty neat. It gives you 365 ideas on how to be more resource-conscious in your everyday life. You don’t have to install solar panels or a get behind the wheel of an electric [...]

Washington DC enacted a 2008 law which is now in effect as of January 1 called the “Clean and Affordable Energy Act”. It is designed to motivate property owners to adopt energy-efficient technologies by making their monthly power bills a matter of public record. Beginning this month, property managers who oversee buildings with more than [...]

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) [...]

The US Department of Energy has targeted 2030 as the date to which 20% of all electricity consumed in the US will come from wind.  Texas managed 6,223 megawatts from wind on a  day in October when demand load was 35,000 (17.78%). Earlier that day (3am to be exact), wind produced 25% of ERCOT’s demand, according to [...]

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 [...]