energy
Like an itinerant millionaire without an heir, PSE&G (the utility, not the sponsors of Sesame Street) is seeking to give away millions. Like an itinerant millionaire without an heir that’s not altogether ready to shed his wealth, PSE&G is giving it away in the form
india
Perusing the website of Orb Energy, Greenbang was taken on a mental musical mystery tour. The landing page of the site bears the legend ‘you’ve got the power. Before Greenbang could get any deeper into the site, she was assailed mentally by thoughts of Snap’s mid 90s charttopper
homeowner
Tax credit. Is there a sexier phrase in the English language? No? What about if Greenbang used the phrase ‘free money’ instead? Oh yes, that’s an attention getter indeed. Greenbang would sell her own granny for some free cash. Except it wouldn’t be free then, she supposes. And
china
Like Marty McFly and Sam Beckett, China is doing a little bit of time travel, unveiling a plan for renewable energy that covers 2006 to 2010. While you might be wondering what’s the point of presenting a plan that covers two years that are already dead and gone, let’
electricity
PC box shifter Dell is now powering its HQ – a bit of a beast at 2.1 million square feet and home to 10,000 Dell types – with ‘green power’. Greenbang had rather hoped that meant the company has The Incredible Hulk down in the basement and is milking him
coal
Like the ‘if a shark and a tiger were to have a fight, who would win?’ question, two mortal enemies – solar and coal – are locked in a life and death battle for the title the cheapest per watt energy. Who will win? Ladies and gentlemen, place your bets, pur-lease. North
lux
Can you ever get enough sun? Greenbang guesses that all those SAD cases in Britain would mumble a wishfully resounding ‘no’. After all, it’s not as though we’re overly blessed with sunshine. For the average Brit, one sunny Saturday afternoon does a summer make but not only will
energy
AES: three little words worth a wholes hedload of dollars. Well, Greenbang says shedloads, but on reflection, I guess it depends on the size of the shed in question. Can sheds fit $1 billion in it? Has anyone ever tried? Greenbang would like to find out. To inject some sense
coal
Greenbang is a big fan of the Germans – a nation that has a love of unfeasibly large two pint glasses of beer, is rather partial to a bit of football and knows that their meat should come in large portions with some bread involved in there somewhere. If Greenbang needed
photovoltaic
As Roy Castle sang, “If you want to be the best, if you want to beat the rest, ooo-ooo, dedication’s what you need – if you want to be a record breaker”. If Castle’s comments are right, then in seems Mitsubishi Electrics has got dedication (ooo-ooo) in abundance. The
energy
Greenbang strongly suspects that no one has been telling the US Department of Energy to “stick their money where the sun don’t shine” for two reasons: one, they’ve given away $13.7 million in grants and you don’t want to offend someone with a wallet that big
concentrating solar power
Greenbang would like to introduce you to Torresol, or ‘Sun tower’ in English, a company that has a bit of a ‘does what it says on the tin’ approach to naming. Can you guess what they do yet? No, silly, nothing to do with holiday apartments. Masdar, the company behind