Category: Wind

1. Countries in the News

   (14 articles) Europe

   (4 articles) Netherlands

   (2 articles) Iceland

   (1 articles) United Kingdom

   (1 articles) Norway

2. Organizations in the News

   (10 articles) Department of Energy

   (8 articles) LEED

   (7 articles) Google

   (6 articles) IBM

   (5 articles) Carbon Reduction Commitment

   (5 articles) U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

   (5 articles) Microsoft

   (4 articles) InfoWorld

   (3 articles) Carbon Trust

   (3 articles) American Electric Power

3. People in the News

   (7 articles) Barack Obama

   (2 articles) Steven Chu

   (1 articles) Carol Wilson

   (1 articles) Doug Mohney

   (1 articles) Todd Stern

   (1 articles) Arnold Schwarzenegger

   (1 articles) Jeff Monroe

1. Will Politics Slow the Wind?

   Explore Article Science News, Articles and Information (7 hours, 27 min ago) Wind

   Not many years ago, there wasn't enough wind power coming from the Great Plains to worry about. Now there is, and lots of people are worrying. A group of mostly East Coast utility companies calling itself the Coalition for Fair Transmission Policy fears that the prime conditions in the Great Plains will make the region's wind power too cheap for its members to compete with, unless developers there are made to pay the costs of moving wind power eastward.
   

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2. Greenpeace Loses Round Two in Tiff with Facebook

   Explore Article greenercomputing.com (9 hours, 19 min ago) Wind , Servers

   Glass houses, stones, etc. That's the sort of lesson coming out from the latest round in the Greenpeace vs. Facebook skirmish currently afoot on the internet. To recap, briefly: In January, Facebook told the world it was opening a green data center, one that set a target of a highly energy efficient 1.15 power usage effectiveness ratio. In mid-February, advocacy groups including Change.org as well as Greenpeace called Facebook out for not using renewable energy to power its planned data center. As I wrote back then:
   

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3. Tuning the energy innovation engine at MIT

   Explore Article Technology News (Mar 8 2010) Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Nuclear , Solar , Wind

   "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 ...
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   InfoWorld   MIT

4. Europe 'supergrid' hopefuls cast fate to wind

   Explore Article Technology News (Mar 8 2010) Emissions , Fossil Fuel , 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 ...
   

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5. Greenpeace’s Hosting: Not ‘Truly Green’

   Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Mar 3 2010) Construction , Carbon Footprint , Wind , Servers

   Finding renewable energy sources for huge data centers is a daunting challenge. It’s a far more complex issue than reflected in recent headlines, in which the environmental group Greenpeace International has bashed Facebook over its power choices for a new data center the social network is building in Oregon. In its stinging critique of Facebook’s power sourcing, Greenpeace asserts that “the only truly green data centers are the ones running on renewable energy.” Given that stance, one might expect Greenpeace’s hosting operations to be housed in a “truly green data center” powered entirely by 100 percent renewable energy.
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   The Green Grid   Netherlands   LEED

6. Green tech seeks its 'Netscape moment'

   Explore Article Technology News (Mar 3 2010) Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Solar , Wind

   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.
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   General Electric   MIT   InfoWorld

7. Top 10 Green Web Hosting Sites!

   Explore Article earthtimes.org (Feb 18 2010) Solar , Wind , Servers

   What with all the electricity used to run computers and servers, and just the basic offices. Web hosting outfits use an enormous amount of energy; with the Internet doubling every 4-5 years, it currently takes between 3-5 % of the world’s electricity to support the ‘net. The more of that power that’s conserved and green - renewables, small hydro, biofuels, etc., the better we all are. “Green” web hosting sites are popping up like mushrooms on a spring lawn, using green power, carbon offsets, efficiency and other strategies to reduce or eliminate their footprint on the planet.
   

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8. Green supplier report: Purchasing counts the carbons

   Explore Article purchasing.com (Feb 11 2010) Cap and Trade , Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Wind

   Purchasing departments are playing key roles in company campaigns to reduce their carbon footprint from greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Purchasing has been looking for energy savings since long before climate change science fingered GHG as a contributing cause. Aside from finding greener energy sources and contributing to energy efficiency innovations, they are involved in changing the materials buy or moving to processes that emit less CO2 and other gasses. "There has been surge of interest over the last year and half in inquiries about GHG emissions," says James Solo, vice president at Trucost, a U.K.-based consulting firm that assists companies ...
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Cisco   IBM   U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

9. Morse Identifies Loopholes in CRC Regulations

   Explore Article Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Feb 2 2010) Carbon Reduction Commitment , Emissions , Wind

   The government's CRC laws are flawed, as companies can simply offshore their data centres and it doesn't take into account power from renewable sources, warns Morse's Brian Murray IT services provider Morse has identified what it believes are a number of serious flaws with the British government's looming CRC (carbon reduction commitment) regulations. The UK's Carbon Reduction Commitment is now called the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme and is due to begin in April 2010. However Morse feels it has the potential to pose a “serious threat to UK businesses and could even have little, no or possibly negative effect on ...
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Europe   Carbon Reduction Commitment   CRC

10. The World's Biggest Green Energy Projects

    Explore Article Forbes.com (Jan 29 2010) Geothermal , Nuclear , Solar , Wind

    The U.S. government, desperate to add jobs to a feeble economy, is looking skyward for help: to the wind and the sun. "We should put more Americans to work building clean energy facilities," Obama said to applause during his State of the Union address Wednesday. Solar and wind power projects tend to appeal to politicians on both sides of the aisle. They are clean and domestic sources of power, and thanks to this government largesse, they are growing fast.
    

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11. Is clean tech China's moon shot?

    Explore Article Technology News (Jan 28 2010) Construction , Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Solar , Wind

    The global race to develop clean technology is not just about who can build the best solar parks or wind farms. It is also shaping up as a contest between Chinese-style capitalism and the more market-oriented approach fancied by the United States and Europe. The question comes down to this: will China's highly capitalized command-and-control economy trump laissez-faire in a low-carbon shift that is widely portrayed as the next industrial revolution? The failure in Copenhagen to agree to replace the Kyoto Protocol with a new global climate treaty when it expires in 2012 has thrown the focus on national measures. ...
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Europe   Netherlands   Carbon Trust

12. DOE to IT industry: We'll help you get more energy-efficient, if it costs us

    Explore Article ZDNet Technology News (Jan 20 2010) Solar , Wind , Servers

    Together, enterprise computing giant Hewlett-Packard and power efficiency specialist Eaton have snagged a $7.4 million grant from the Department of Energy to help fund research focused on improving energy efficiency in IT products. The pair’s joint proposal actually received the third-largest grant out of the $47 million in total being focused on companies in the IT and communications sectors. The projects are focused on three areas: Equipment and Software - Changing core components of a data or telecommunications center in order to optimize energy use Power Supply Chain - Developing technologies to minimize energy waste as power moves from one ...
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   IBM   Hewlett-Packard Co.   Hewlett Packard

13. Energy Efficiency Hottest Sector for Green Mergers & Acquisitions

    Explore Article environmentalleader.com (Jan 18 2010) Wind

    llustrating the potential growth in energy efficiency, the sector posted the most growth in mergers and acquisition activity in 2009, according to the 2009 Greentech M&A Round-Up from Peachtree Green Advisors. Rising from $164 million in deals to $1.258 billion in 2009, the U.S. energy efficiency sector grew a whopping 664 percent. That tops the 421 percent growth in deals in the U.S. biofuel sector (from $255 million in 2008 to $1.327 billion in 2009). By dollar value, the wind power industry overtook solar as the top sector.
    

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14. How Terremark keeps its colo and data centers green

    Explore Article TELEPHONY Online (Jan 10 2010) Wind , Servers

    Increasing energy efficiency in data centers is a never-ending challenge. And the task is more complex for providers that have to split their facilities between data centers and colocation facilities, like Terremark (NASDAQ:TMRK), which has facilities around the globe including its largest in Miami, where it’s headquartered. Managing energy efficiency could become even more complicated as a result of government initiatives on the horizon. Ben Stewart, Terremark’s senior vice president of facilities engineering, spoke with Connected Planet about his green thumb. On cooling the colo floor versus the cloud: We have large colocation floors, so we have a lot of ...
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Iceland   Google   U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

15. The next decade: Renewable Energy

    Explore Article ABC7.com Green Content (Jan 5 2010) Cap and Trade , Carbon Tax , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Geothermal , Hydro , Wind

    The clock has just struck midnight on New Year’s Eve, 2020, and your rooftop cocktail party is in full swing. An urban garden, with potted evergreens and fruit trees, carpets the top of your downtown apartment building. The structure itself is vintage – a 1960’s brownstone that’s been retrofitted, by city-wide mandate. It operates on the new multi-source national electrical grid, which is supplied by wind, solar, geothermal power, as well as fossil fuels whose emissions are trapped underground. Rooftop Garden (Photo: Adpower99/Dreamstime.) In your apartment, appliances and plumbing fixtures are energy- and water-efficient – something you were able to ...
    

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