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As part of the Obama Administration’s Startup America Initiative, US Energy Secretary Steven Chu has announced the “America’s Next Top Energy Innovator” challenge, which will give start-up companies the opportunity to license ground-breaking technologies developed by the National Laboratories for $1,000 and build successful businesses. As part
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Commissioners in Colorado’s Weld County have approved Harrison Resource Corporation’s plans for development of the Niobrara Energy Park. The 640-acre project is designed to integrate natural gas and renewable energy generation facilities, including solar and wind energy, with data centres and energy research. Niobrara Energy Park has received
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Power and automation technology group ABB has been selected by Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. (PGCIL) to deliver an ultrahigh-voltage transmission system worth about $900 million. The link will supply hydropower from northeastern India to the city of Agra over a distance of 1,728 kilometres. ABB will execute
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Syracuse University Research Fellow Janet Marsden plans to discuss her vision of a future in which homes can produce all the energy they need off-grid when she speaks at the third-annual IEEE Green Technologies Conference. The conference is set for 14-15 April at the Hilton Hotel in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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UK gas and electricity watchdog Ofgem has proposed a radical overhaul in energy practices following a review that found supply companies are “failing consumers.” Among the reforms it proposes: * A simplification of pricing * Requiring the “Big Six” utilities to auction up to 20 per cent of their electricity generation output
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Alstom has teamed up with Rotem Industries Ltd and Gefen Biomed Investments — two Israeli firms specialising in cutting-edge technology — in creating a joint venture to finance and support the growth of innovative startups in the field of renewable and alternative energy and energy-saving technologies. Alstom will have a 50-per cent
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The governing board of the International Energy Agency (IEA) has confirmed the selection of Maria van der Hoeven, a Dutch citizen, as the next executive director of the agency. She will succeed Nobuo Tanaka of Japan, who will complete his four years of service at the end of August 2011.
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The primary part of one of Michigan’s largest solar power generation systems at Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant is now up and running, delivering renewable energy to help power the production of fuel-efficient small cars. The system is the result of collaboration between Ford, DTE Energy, Xtreme Power, the
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The US Department of Energy (DOE) has launched two new fellowship programs designed to attract the country’s best and brightest scientific minds to work on advanced clean-energy technologies. The two fellowship programs — the Postdoctoral Fellowships Program and the SunShot Initiative Fellowships Program — will prepare budding scientists and engineers for
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The UK’s Renewable Energy Association has established a Green Gas Certification Scheme (GGCS) that tracks biomethane, or “green gas, ” through the supply chain to provide certainty for those who buy it. The scheme was developed by the association working with Bio Group, British Gas, E.ON, National Grid, Milton
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In the quest for inexpensive biofuels, cellulose proved no match for a bioprocessing strategy and genetically engineered microbe developed by researchers at the US Department of Energy’s BioEnergy Science Centre. Using consolidated bioprocessing, a team led by James Liao of the University of California at Los Angeles for the
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Real-time IT solutions and information provider Telvent will provide a comprehensive liquid natural gas (LNG) supply management platform to the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC). CNOOC is China’s largest producer of offshore crude oil and natural gas and one of the largest independent oil and gas exploration, production