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    1. Europe’s Data Centres Hit By US Shale Gas Prices

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      Europe’s Data Centres Hit By US Shale Gas Prices

      Data centres could move from Europe to the US, thanks to low cost energy from shale gas, according to research from 451 Research. Cheaper energy could also dampen interest in efficiency measures for large cloud data centres, the report warns. The US will have cheap electricity and prices will be stable for some time, thanks to the large-scale exploitation of shale gas. This means that data centres, which can use several megawatts of electric power, will be cheaper to run in America. 

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      Mentions: Iceland Europe Rackspace

    2. $9 megawatt-hr difference in profit margin for coal makes in hard for Europe to pass on Coal

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      $9 megawatt-hr difference in profit margin for coal makes in hard for Europe to pass on Coal

      National Geographic has a post on the shift in the USA to cleaner Natural Gas and the rise of coal exports. The reality is it is hard for European power producers to pass on a $9 megawatt-hour difference in profit margin if they use coal vs. natural gas. European utilities are now finding that generating power from coal is a profitable gambit. In the power industry, the profit margin for generating electricity from coal is called the "clean dark spread"; at the end of December in Great Britain, it was going for about $39 per megawatt-hour, according to Argus. By contrast, the profit margin for gas-fired plants—the "clean spark spread"—was about $3. Tomas Wyns, director of the Center for Clean Air Policy-Europe, a nonprofit organization in Brussels, Belgium, said those kinds of spreads are typical across Europe right now. The article has lots of data like the drop ...

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    3. Microsoft pins Hotmail, Outlook outage on hot data center

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      Microsoft pins Hotmail, Outlook outage on hot data center

      Outlook and Hotmail users came blame the recent outage on an overheated data center, Microsoft says. On Tuesday at around 1:30 p.m. PT, the two online e-mail services suffered a service disruption, rendering them inaccessible to many users. Microsoft started to bring them back online the rest of the day and on into Wednesday. But access wasn't fully restored until 5:43 a.m. yesterday, according to the company.

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    6. Sleeping Geothermal Giant Stirs

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      Sleeping Geothermal Giant Stirs

      Rumblings in the geothermal power sector have been highlighted in early 2013 by several important developments.  Geothermal startup AltaRock Energy, which is backed by Google, Khosla Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, and Vulcan Capital, has reported cost reductions through the successful creation of multiple engineered geothermal areas from a single drilled well at its Newberry project outside of Bend, Oregon.  JP Morgan, meanwhile, has purchased an interest in eight existing geothermal plants owned and operated by a U.S.-based subsidiary of Ormat Technologies.

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    7. Biomass Breathing New Life Into Coal Plants

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      Biomass Breathing New Life Into Coal Plants

      Coal-burning power plants may get a new life and one that is tied to the co-firing of biomass, or wood chips, that may result in less pollution. While some are saying that this is a harbinger of things to come, others are cautioning that such technology is not only expensive but also a potential ecological hazard.

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      Mentions: Department of Energy Forbes

    8. Novel Designs Are Taking Wind Power to the Next Level

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      Novel Designs Are Taking Wind Power to the Next Level

      New technology, including better control algorithms and communications, is improving the performance of wind turbines. Superficially, wind turbines haven’t changed much for decades. But they’ve gotten much smarter, and considerably bigger, and that’s helped increase the amount of electricity they can generate and lower the cost of wind power.

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      Mentions: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory National Renewable Energy Laboratory Nrel

    9. Why taxing pollution deserves serious discussion

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      Why taxing pollution deserves serious discussion

      Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his party have recently attempted to demonize Opposition Leader Tom Mulcair for his alleged advocacy of a “job-killing carbon tax.” As has been widely noted, Mr. Mulcair and the NDP have, in fact, only called for a cap and trade system based on the broader principle of “polluter pay,” which would require major carbon polluters to purchase emission permits from the government or on a carbon market

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    10. Coal use is going up in Europe vs. the USA, renewable energy replaces nuclear and gas, not coal

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      The Economist has an article on the use of Coal in Europe and how the renewable energy deployed is not replacing coal. WHILE coal production and use plummet in America, in Europe “we have some kind of golden age of coal,” says Anne-Sophie Corbeau of the International Energy Agency. The amount of electricity generated from coal is rising at annualised rates of as much as 50% in some European countries. Since coal is by the far the most polluting source of electricity, with more greenhouse gas produced per kilowatt hour than any other fossil fuel, this is making a mockery of European environmental aspirations. How did it happen? The article closes with a summary of the situation. If policies work as intended, electricity from renewables will gradually take a larger share of overall generation, and Europe will end up with a much greener form of energy. But at the moment ...

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      Mentions: Europe International Energy Agency The Economist

    12. The Consumerization of Energy

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      The Consumerization of Energy

      Last year I wrote an article on the consumerization of energy in which I predicted that “Distributed energy technologies… will soon be able to provide electricity at costs and reliability levels that are competitive with grid power. For the first time in 100 years these technologies will enable consumers to bypass their local electric utility compa

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    13. How cheap gas, weather & fuel cells are driving the consumerization of energy

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      How cheap gas, weather & fuel cells are driving the consumerization of energy

      Familiar with that trend the consumerization of IT, where work IT tools are increasingly distributed and controlled by employees? Well, a similar thing is happening with the decentralization of energy, and in 2012 it was driven by cheap gas, fuel cells and extreme weather.

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    18. Microsoft Dips a Toe in Wastewater-to-Energy

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      Microsoft Dips a Toe in Wastewater-to-Energy
      By Tina Casey | November 21st, 2012 0 Comments Tweet University of Wyoming biogas StreetKleen Microsoft green data center Microsoft Data Plant Microsoft biogas green data centers Cheyenne green data center biogas data center AgStar Microsoft has been pushing the green data center trend for a number of years and now the company is ready to embark on its first zero carbon data center. In a blog post earlier this week, Microsoft laid out its plans fo
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    19. Microsoft speaks poop to power

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      Microsoft speaks poop to power

      The more data centers are built, the more power is consumed. The more power is consumed, the more people rely on that power. The more we rely on the grid, the more chance there is, perhaps, that something will go wrong. The more we become reliant on the cloud, such a calamity will annoy more people who are desperate to, um, watch Netflix or stare at Instagram.

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    20. California Tackles Climate Change, But Will Others Follow?

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      California Tackles Climate Change, But Will Others Follow?

      Can California save the planet? The state that has instigated every key U.S. effort to curb fossil-fuel emissions since the 1960s now will tackle the greatest challenge of all—reining in greenhouse gases—with a cap-and-trade system launched this week. In a closed three-hour auction conducted online Wednesday, California's energy companies and large manufacturers placed their bids for 62 million permits that essentially give them the right to pollute. Using these chits and a healthy number of fre

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    22. Renewables Growing Fastest But Can't Compete Without Help: BP

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      Renewables Growing Fastest But Can't Compete Without Help: BP

      Renewable forms of energy are growing far faster than any other form of energy, a BP economist said in Chicago last week, but are unlikely to significantly impact the world’s reliance on fossil fuels without continued government interventions, such as a price on carbon. The world’s oil consumption grew by less than 1 percent in 2011, natural gas by 2 percent, coal by about 5 percent, and nuclear reactors contributed 4 percent less energy in the wake of the Fukushima disaster, according to Mark Finley, BP’s general manager for global energy markets.

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    23. A Billion People in the Dark

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      A Billion People in the Dark
      Solar-powered microgrids could help bring power to millions of the world's poorest. The village of Tanjung Batu Laut seems to grow out of a mangrove swamp on an island off the coast of Malaysian Borneo. The houses, propped up over the water on stilts, are cobbled together from old plywood, corrugated steel, and rusted chicken wire. But walk inland and you reach a clearing covered with an array of a hundred solar panels mounted atop bright new metal frames. Thick cables transmit power from the panels into a sturdy building with new doors and windows. Step inside and the heavy humidity gives way to cool, dry air. Fluorescent lights illuminate a row of steel cabinets holding flashing lights and computer displays.
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    24. Data Centers: How a Modern Smart Grid Can Support the Core of our Digital

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      Data Centers: How a Modern Smart Grid Can Support the Core of our Digital
      Data centers are a vital cog in our digital world. As data centers become increasingly important, we need to look at the infrastructure behind them: the electric power grid. The grid is aging infrastructure designed in the 20th century well before the advent of digital services like those provided by data centers – and it's simply not suited to meet the power demands of data centers. Data centers depend on a reliable supply of electricity in order to perform 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Toda
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