June 2009
Monthly Archive
Iberia prompt power down as wind parks recover - Reuters
Posted by Make a Wind Generator on 30 Jun 2009 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
Iberia prompt power down as wind parks recover - Reuters
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Iberia prompt power down as wind parks recover
Reuters Wind power in Spain — the world's third-largest producer — was seen rising to as much as 2800 megawatts on Wednesday, up from 580 MW on Tuesday afternoon, … |
High Cost of Fossil Fuels report released
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This in via e-mail from Environment Ohio: Dependence on Fossil Fuels Could Cost Ohio $993.6 Billion By 2030 Environment Ohio Call on Ohio’s Decision Makers to Repower America with Clean Energy Columbus, Ohio - A new report, The High Cost of Fossil Fuels: Why America Can’t Afford to Depend on Dirty Energy, shows that Ohioans are already spending thousands on fossil fuels, and that cost is only expected to increase. At the same time, pollution from fossil fuels is the number one source
Carl Pope: Almost, But Not Quite, Mr. President
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Washington, D.C. -- President Obama delivered some stellar remarks yesterday after the passage by the House of H.R. 2454, the climate and energy bill championed by Congressmen Waxman and Markey and steered through a narrowly divided House by Speaker Pelosi. President Obama pointed out, most importantly, that the bill is far more than the cap-and trade-system that has received most of the media attention and generated the political heat: You look at the constituent parts of this bill -- not on
The Best of Times, The Worst of Times
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The following is derived from an update I sent to readers of the Alternative Energy Speculator upon my return from the Renewable Energy Finance Forum Wall Street, minus the premium stock information. "It's never been better and it's never been worse." That was the line ACORE President Michael Eckhart used to open the sixth annual Renewable Energy Finance Forum Wall Street . ACORE is the American Council on Renewable Energy, a well-respected member-based organization that has b
Final Words From Shell’s Departing C.E.O.
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Agence France-Presse/Getty Images“Carbon dioxide is a problem for which there is no easy solution. There is no silver bullet,” said Jeroen van der Veer, the departing chief executive of Royal Dutch Shell. After five years as Royal Dutch Shell’s chief executive officer, Jeroen van der Veer, 61, is stepping down today. I wrote on Monday about some of the challenges that his successor, Peter Voser, now faces at Shell. Last week, I spoke with Mr. van der Veer over the phone about his years at Shell,