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    1. Bloom Energy Announces Industry-Leading Customers

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      Bloom Energy Announces Industry-Leading Customers
      The Bloom Energy Corporation, a Silicon Valley-based company, is committed to changing the way people generate and consume energy. The Bloom Energy Server™, a patented solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology, provides distributed power generation, enabling customers to create their own electricity on site. The Company claims that it is a cleaner, more reliable and more affordable alternative to today‟s electric grid as well as traditional renewable energy sources.
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    2. Google off-setting carbon emissions

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      Google off-setting carbon emissions
      Google's Berkeley County data center is about to undertake a first-of-its-kind project in the Lowcountry, burning off methane at the county landfill to reduce emission of CO2 into the atmosphere. The May 26 burn, which local Google Operations Manager Eric Wages says "sounds bad, but is actually good," is part of the company's commitment to becoming carbon neutral. Energy efficiency is an important component of the company's bottom line — something it seeks to achieve through innovative infrastructure design, "green" operational protocols, and renewable energy practices at its Silicon Valley headquarters. But the enormous energy consumption at a typical data center requires the company to purchase voluntary carbon assets to meet its goal.
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    3. Bill Joy on Sun's downfall, Microsoft's prospects, green tech (q&a)

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      Bill Joy on Sun's downfall, Microsoft's prospects, green tech (q&a)
      Though he helped start Sun Microsystems, Bill Joy has been spent the last five years thinking a lot more about solar energy than about that other Sun. "It's early days," Joy said of the green-technology industry he now focuses on as a venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins. "It's like the Internet before the Netscape IPO." But, he said, there are needs in his new field that are quite different from those encountered by most Internet ventures. "Most Internet companies don't make anything other than software or a Web site," Joy said. "They don't have factories like you'd see in China or Taiwan. Starting a lot of these companies is a lot more like trying to create a manufacturing base."
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    4. DOE: Grid can tap more wind, solar

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      DOE: Grid can tap more wind, solar
      Large amounts of solar and wind power could be added to the western U.S. power grid without significant spending if utilities make operational changes, the U.S. Department of Energy said Thursday. The DOE report, conducted by the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) over a three-year period, focused on how the WestConnect power grid would respond if 35 percent of its electricity was generated by renewable sources. The results, researchers said, were surprising. "You need to make some significant changes to operational practice to accommodate wind and solar, but you don't need a whole lot of additional infrastructure to handle that," said Debbie Lew, a senior project manager at NREL.
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    5. Senators Could Face Difficult Climate Vote, One Way or ...

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      Senators Could Face Difficult Climate Vote, One Way or ...
      Time is closing in for the Senate to cast a rare vote, which Republicans will control, that seeks to block the Obama administration from reducing carbon emissions through new tailpipe standards and smokestack limits. It is a theatrical demand that would make lawmakers take a stand on a politically inflamed climate issue as they approach midterm elections, which could shuffle the balance of power in Washington.
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    6. National Academy of Sciences Urges Swift US Action to Curb Greenhouse Gases

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      National Academy of Sciences Urges Swift US Action to Curb Greenhouse Gases
      The National Academy of Sciences wants to put the United States on a low-carbon diet. More News From Greenwire MMS Lacks Sufficient Rules for Offshore Drilling Safety Devices, Interior Chief Says WWF Emerges as Leading Lobbyist on Senate Climate Bill Corruption, Mismanagement Strangle Vital Kenyan Watershed Biotech Cotton Curbs One Pest Only to Unleash Another Software Prospects Fuel Manufacturer of High-End Electric Motorcycles A blog about energy, the environment and the bottom line. Go to Blog » That is the underlying message of a hotly anticipated trio of reports requested by Congress and released today. In them, the academy describes an "urgent need" for the nation to trim its greenhouse gas emissions. The reports say available evidence "makes a compelling case" that climate change is happening now, is largely driven by human activities and threatens the well-being of people today and in future generations.
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    7. Carbon tax could whack data centers

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      Carbon tax could whack data centers
      A carbon tax is inevitable, several speakers and panelists said at the Uptime Institute IT Symposium this week. Data centers that don't plan for it could get whacked with millions of dollars in additional operating costs per year -- and it could happen sooner than most people might think. "There will be a price for carbon, in spite of the nasty, messy politics in Washington," said Jonathan Koomey, a data center energy efficiency researcher, consulting professor with Stanford University and project scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. It is impossible to meet government mandated carbon reduction targets without one, he says.
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      Mentions: The Green Grid Uptime Institute Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

    8. Why Google Could Crush The Coal ETF

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      Why Google Could Crush The Coal ETF
      When Google (GOOG) announced earlier this month that it was making a nearly $40 million investment in two wind farms owned by NextEra Energy Resources, many investors were left scratching their heads. The Mountain View, California-based company is known for allowing its employees to pursue pet projects on company time, but a not-so-insignificant investment in wind turbines located in North Dakota seems like a stretch for the world’s largest search engine. Upon closer review, however, the wind power investment is right up Google’s alley, and its latest business venture could have some wide-ranging effects.
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    9. IBM liquid-cooled supercomputer heats building

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      IBM liquid-cooled supercomputer heats building
      An IBM supercomputer is doubling as a space heater via a technique that reduces energy use by 40 percent and dramatically lowers the overall carbon footprint. Based at Swiss university ETH Zurich and dubbed Aquasar, the liquid-cooled supercomputer went live on Thursday and started analyzing fluid dynamics while simultaneously providing heat for the building. In a typical data center, about half of the energy is used for cooling.
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    10. Can green tech operate under Moore's Law?

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      Can green tech operate under Moore's Law?
      Doubling the performance of clean-energy technologies every 18 months, as the semiconductor industry has seen with Moore's Law, is a tough goal to hit. But the same technical and business concepts that underpin Moore's Law can play out in green tech, say executives from General Electric and Intel. More businesses are seeking to make money around energy technology and environmental sustainability. But the scale and speed of innovation needs to ramp up in order to tackle environmental problems and conserve natural resources, according to a panel at the annual Ceres conference here on Thursday.
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    11. Data Center Greenwashing? Time Will Tell If It Was

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      Data Center Greenwashing? Time Will Tell If It Was
      Every year around Earth Day, countless individuals and organizations look to make some type of contribution to the greener good of our planet. Many companies are making environmentally friendly gestures like donating a tree, organizing a quick promotion or offering a gift to a worthy cause. These are all great ways to commemorate the holiday, but it seems a lot of folks going down this route are simply buying into the holiday hype for a one-night stand with Mother Nature. With environmental concern at an all time high around the globe, now is the perfect time to reassess outdated practices and consider a more long-term commitment to environmental efficiency before it's too late.
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    12. Federal Green IT Program Offsets 100% of CO2 Emissions

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      Federal Green IT Program Offsets 100% of CO2 Emissions
      More than a dozen federal agencies, including the Energy, Justice, and Commerce departments, as well as the Navy, are participating in a “green” IT program that enables them to buy new data servers and receive carbon emissions credits to offset their carbon footprint, reports Government Computer News. In January, President Obama ordered the government, the largest consumer of energy in the U.S., to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions 28 percent by 2020, which includes increasing energy efficiency.
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    13. What Data Centers Can Teach the World about Earth Day

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      What Data Centers Can Teach the World about Earth Day
      Tomorrow is Earth Day, and the 250+ Earth Day-themed emails in my inbox attest to the fact that companies of all types, in all industries, and of all sizes are trying to cash in on the heightened awareness of April 22, 2010 -- which marks the 40th anniversary of environmentalism's Big Day. But I just came across a post on Data Center Journal that maps interesting new territory for Earth Day coverage. In "Earth Day: A Day for Data Centers to Celebrate," Jeff Clark writes:
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    14. Will Forest Carbon Markets Thrive, or Get Lost in the ...

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      Will Forest Carbon Markets Thrive, or Get Lost in the ...
      This is the first piece in a three-part series on the growing field of "impact investing," whereby investments are designed to generate both financial return and positive social and environmental impact. Written by industry practitioners and drawn on content being taught in a new course at the University of Michigan’s Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise, the series will explore the progress, challenges and practical applications of impact investing within the context of institutional portfolio management by reviewing emerging investment strategies in forest carbon, energy efficiency and microfinance.]
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    15. Four Reasons Why CFOs Need a Plan for Energy Efficiency

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      Four Reasons Why CFOs Need a Plan for Energy Efficiency
      Increasing energy prices, the hidden cost of carbon, growing risks from energy supply disruption and climate-change compliance issues are four key reasons why finance executives need a multi-year efficiency strategy to maximize costs savings, meet carbon reduction goals and make financial decisions based on total cost of ownership, according to a Verdantix study. A key finding of the report indicates that the energy-efficiency plan should include investments with a short payback period, such as installing lighting controls, in combination with larger energy efficiency projects such as voltage power optimization that deliver bigger cash and carbon savings, reports Green Economy Post.
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    16. A Three-Step Plan to Using IT to Reduce Emissions

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      A Three-Step Plan to Using IT to Reduce Emissions
      IT increasingly plays a leading role in business operations from data centers to shipping logistics, as well as enabling companies to reduce business travel for meetings and commuting. And the rise of greenhouse gas emissions laws like the U.K's Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency program makes an even stronger case for incorporating IT into every level of the enterprise. The confluence of IT's increasing role in business and the rise of carbon legislation opens up a number of opportunities for IT departments. In order to seize on those opportunities, Greenstone Carbon Management this week laid out the steps that IT professionals and resellers can use to put technology to work on meeting legislative requirements for carbon emissions, while also cutting costs from energy used across any business.
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    17. Will Cloud Computing lead to Global Smog?

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      Will Cloud Computing lead to Global Smog?
      Today has seen the release of the Greenpeace report: "Make IT Green - Cloud Computing and its contribution to Climate Change" catch the headlines. The report basically claims that the rise of cloud computing is increasingly reliant on the use of dirty fossil fuels and that urgent action needs to be taken to redress the situation. According to the report, Greenpeace claims that the energy consumption and carbon emissions of cloud computing is already significantly higher had been previously estimated. Using carbon emission projection data provided by McKinsey (included within the 2008 study Smart 2020: enabling the low carbon economy in the information age published by the Climate Group) and updating it with data supplied by the Environmental Protection Agency, Greenpeace has concluded that the actual energy consumption of cloud computing is 1.3 times greater than intimated by the Smart 2020 study.
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    18. U.S. wind power growing fast but still lags

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      U.S. wind power growing fast but still lags
      Wind-generated electricity is growing rapidly in the United States but the pace still lags far behind that in China, the organizer of an industry conference in North Carolina said. "With the right policies in place, we can see explosive growth...It's a global footrace," said Jeff Anthony, business development director of the American Wind Energy Association. Although the United States has the largest amount of installed wind power capacity in the world, the wind power industry is "fighting to get on a level playing field" with other government-subsidized power providers, Anthony told a conference of parts manufacturers, suppliers, wind project developers, and economic development officers from around the southeastern United States.
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    19. Tuning the energy innovation engine at MIT

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      Tuning the energy innovation engine at MIT
      "China speed," climate change, financing gaps, government policy, nuclear and natural gas, and, of course, science experiments. The MIT Energy Conference on Saturday had a little bit of everything, as entrepreneurs, business people, and academics tried to get their arms around big-picture energy challenges. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has become a hotbed for clean-energy innovation over the past four years, attracting students and faculty to the energy field, some of whom have spun out promising companies. At a showcase, local companies and researchers working in wind, solar, biofuels, storage, and efficiency displayed some of their ongoing work. But at the conference, discussion focused more on conventional energy sources, policy, and financing.
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    20. Europe 'supergrid' hopefuls cast fate to wind

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      Europe 'supergrid' hopefuls cast fate to wind
      Ten companies pushing to build a pan-European offshore power network that could help cut carbon emissions and cost customers over 20 billion euros got together in London on Monday. The Friends of the Supergrid (FOSG) brings together companies that want to build the High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) infrastructure together with those that hope to develop, install, own, and operate it. Building interconnectors to link offshore wind farms across the North Sea from Sweden and Denmark to Britain could cost 15 billion to 20 billion euros, according to a report commissioned by Greenpeace, in addition to the tens of billions needed to build the wind farms themselves over the next decade.
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    21. Greenpeace Admits Using ‘Dirty’ Power

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      Greenpeace Admits Using ‘Dirty’ Power
      There are red faces over at Greenpeace International, after the environmental organisation took Facebook to task last month over a data centre it is building in Oregon that will use mostly coal-based electricity. Greenpeace’s beef with Facebook’s data centre was that it is not using renewable energy, which led the environmental group to reportedly say that “the only truly green data centres are the ones running on renewable energy.”
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    22. Green tech seeks its 'Netscape moment'

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      Green tech seeks its 'Netscape moment'
      If you're wondering what the next big thing in green tech will be, this is a good place to look. The ARPA-E Summit, a conference designed to showcase potential breakthrough clean-energy technologies, started on Monday, attracting some 1,700 investors, entrepreneurs, and policymakers all vying to reinvent the energy infrastructure to be cleaner and more efficient. Given the makeup of the group, the mood is optimistic that new technologies can shake up even the slow-moving energy business. At the conference, scientists and entrepreneurs showed off early-stage ideas, such as kinetic energy storage systems or methods for low-cost solar power.
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      Mentions: General Electric InfoWorld Department of Energy

    23. Can Bloom Boxes Power Data Centers?

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      Can Bloom Boxes Power Data Centers?
      Is the Bloom Energy Server the future of data center power? Or is it the latest promising energy technology to fall short of the economics and scale required to support major data centers? Last week Bloom Energy officially unveiled its fuel cell, also known simply as the “Bloom Box.” The company has deployed its units at a lineup of blue-chip customers including Bank of America, Coca-Cola, eBay, FedEx, Staples and Wal-Mart. Early adopters are enthusiastic, including major players in the data center space. “Distributed power is a big deal,” said Google co-founder Larry Page. “I’m a big supporter of this. I’d love to see us having an entire data center running on this some day.”
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    24. John Kerry says compromise climate bill coming

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      John Kerry says compromise climate bill coming
      Senator John Kerry said a bipartisan climate change bill would emerge soon in the U.S. Senate, contradicting what he called the "conventional wisdom" that the legislation was dead this election year. Kerry is working closely with the Obama administration and a bipartisan group of senators on a comprehensive bill to reduce U.S. carbon dioxide pollution blamed for global warming. "We're on a short track here in terms of piecing together legislation we intend to roll out," Kerry told a climate policy forum, without giving details of his proposals. The Massachusetts Democrat and White House officials are among the most optimistic that a bill to tackle global warming can be produced, despite strong opposition among many lawmakers and as time runs out ahead of the November midterm elections.
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