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    1. 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

    2. Top 10 Green Web Hosting Sites!

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      Top 10 Green Web Hosting Sites!
      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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    3. Green supplier report: Purchasing counts the carbons

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      Green supplier report: Purchasing counts the carbons
      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 in tracking and mitigating their emissions. "Just getting a handle on which operations generate emissions can be a challenge," Solo says.
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      Mentions: Cisco Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory IBM

    4. Morse Identifies Loopholes in CRC Regulations

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      Morse Identifies Loopholes in CRC Regulations
      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 global emissions.”
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      Mentions: Europe Carbon Reduction Commitment CRC

    5. The World's Biggest Green Energy Projects

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      The World's Biggest Green Energy Projects
      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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    6. Is clean tech China's moon shot?

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      Is clean tech China's moon shot?
      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. And by almost all accounts, the Chinese are coming on strong.
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      Mentions: U.N. Europe Netherlands

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

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      DOE to IT industry: We'll help you get more energy-efficient, if it costs us
      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 system to another Cooling - More effective methods for reducing heat
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      Mentions: Hewlett Packard Department of Energy Hewlett-Packard Co.

    8. Energy Efficiency Hottest Sector for Green Mergers & Acquisitions

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      Energy Efficiency Hottest Sector for Green Mergers & Acquisitions
      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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    9. How Terremark keeps its colo and data centers green

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      How Terremark keeps its colo and data centers green
      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 different customers bringing their data centers into our facilities. Most customers only load their servers up to 20% or 30% utilization. But in one part of the floor, we set up our very high-density cloud environment. There all the servers are running at close to 100% utilization ...
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    10. The next decade: Renewable Energy

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      The next decade: Renewable Energy
      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 afford with the help of government incentives that started in 2010.
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    11. Data Center Powered Entirely By The Wind

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      Data Center Powered Entirely By The Wind
      A small lSP and hosting company in Illinois may be the first data center operator in the U.S. to power its facility entirely with wind power from an on-site turbine. On Oct. 19, Other World Computing (OWC) began using a 131-foot tall wind turbine to provide all the electric power for its building in Woodstock, Illinois, which includes the company’s headquarters and a data center supporting its web hosting and ISP services. There are other data center operators that use utility power that is sourced from wind generation. But this is the first example we’ve seen of a working data center with on-site wind generation that can produce enough power to support its entire facility. That’s partly due to the fact that OWC has a small data center, which can be supported by a single wind turbine, limiting the initial investment required to commit fully to ...
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      Mentions: Microsoft Corp

    12. How Green Survived 2009's `Econolypse'

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      How Green Survived 2009's `Econolypse'
      Despite the economic calamity, the greentech industry didn't do badly in 2009. The Department of Energy will have given away $36.7 billion by the time the calendar rolls over. Venture capitalists and corporate investors will invest more than $4 billion in startups this year, about half as much as in 2008 but more than any other year. Although some electric cars were pushed back to 2010, hybrids and electric cars are clearly not going away. Ford says that in 2020, 25 percent of cars coming out of factories will drive in part or wholly on electricity. A massive surfeit of solar panels also made it cheaper to put panels on your house. And some interesting trends and surprises emerged along the way. Here are some of the best. 1. Solar Fixes Its Plumber's Crack: The solar industry has primarily focused its attention in the last few decades ...
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      Mentions: Department of Energy

    13. Deepwater Wind to build first U.S. ocean wind farm

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      Deepwater Wind to build first U.S. ocean wind farm
      The tiniest state in the nation may build the first U.S. offshore wind farm, after privately held Deepwater Wind on Thursday landed a deal to sell power from the first phase of a Rhode Island project that eventually could supply 15 percent of the state's electricity. Under a 20-year power purchase agreement, developer Deepwater Wind will sell electricity from up to 8 turbines producing 28 megawatts to National Grid. Earlier this year Rhode Island set a target to obtain 20 percent of its electricity from renewable resources by 2015. Many states and their utilities have looked to solar and wind power to meet clean energy goals, but Rhode Island expects offshore wind power to make up the bulk of its green energy.
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    14. What most will miss in EPA’s GHG announcement, impact on water and power infrastructure

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      What most will miss in EPA’s GHG announcement, impact on water and power infrastructure
      It is pretty cool that you don’t have to be official press event on Dec 7, 2009 to see news events like EPA’s GHG announcement. I could watch a live feed through MSNBC. The official press announcement makes warnings to health and environment, but in the report is impact to water and power infrastructure both of which you need for data centers. I was able to get to the official climate change page http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/endangerment.html Endangerment and Cause or Contribute Findings for Greenhouse Gases under the Clean Air Act You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader, available as a free download, to view some of the files on this page. See EPA's PDF page to learn more about PDF, and for a link to the free Acrobat Reader. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson press briefing – Live Streaming available through ...
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      Mentions: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

    15. On-Site WInd Power Provides 100% of Power to Data Center

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      On-Site WInd Power Provides 100% of Power to Data Center
      We've heard of data centers that are running on green power, though these are often mostly done through buying energy credits for distant generating facilities. But Woodstock, IL-based Other World Computing is the first to have 100% on-site wind power to run its operations. The 39 meter (128 foot) diameter, 500 kW turbine is expected to generate an estimated 1,250,000 kilowatt hours (kWh) per year. This is more than twice as much electricity as is used by all of OWC's operations. The facility is grid-tied, and will sell the excess power back to the local utility, as well as being able to utilize grid power as backup during slack wind periods. Not only is this facility generating more electricity than it needs, the building that houses OWC is also anticipating LEED Platinum certification.
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    16. Non-hydro Accounts for Just 30% of U.S. Renewable Energy

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      Non-hydro Accounts for Just 30% of U.S. Renewable Energy
      While the use of solar, wind and other renewable energy continues to grow, hydroelectric energy continues to account for the lion’s share of U.S. renewable energy, at 70 percent. Biomass accounts for nearly 15 percent of U.S. renewable energy, while wind accounts for 10 percent and large-scale solar less than 1 percent, according to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. The U.S. lags other nations such as Germany and Spain in adding solar. For instance, Germany is expected to add a record 2.5-3 gigawatts of solar capacity this year, and it already had a third of the world capacity for solar.
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    17. Underground data center to help heat Helsinki

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      Underground data center to help heat Helsinki
      In the chill of a massive cave beneath an orthodox Christian cathedral, a city power firm is preparing what it thinks will be the greenest data center on the planet. Excess heat from hundreds of computer servers to be located in the bedrock beneath Uspenski Cathedral, one of Helsinki's most popular tourist sites, will be captured and channelled into the district heating network, a system of water-heated pipes used to warm homes in the Finnish capital.
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    18. Reportlinker Adds Green Telecom Networks

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      Reportlinker Adds Green Telecom Networks
      Energy consumption is one of the leading drivers of operating expenses for both fixed and mobile network operators. Reliable access to electricity is limited in many developing countries that are currently the high-growth markets for telecommunications. At the same time, many operators have adopted corporate social responsibility initiatives with a goal of reducing their networks' carbon footprints, and network infrastructure vendors are striving to gain competitive advantage by reducing the power requirements of their equipment. All of these factors will continue to converge over the next several years, creating significant market potential for greener telecom networks. These market drivers are manifesting themselves in several ways within the global telecom industry. The large equipment vendors are creating highly-efficient network elements that consume far less power than in previous hardware generations.
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      Mentions: Europe Cisco Hewlett Packard

    19. Progress on $1.5 Billion Scotland Data Center

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      Progress on $1.5 Billion Scotland Data Center
      A massive $1.5 billion data center project near Lockerbie, Scotland is a step closer to reality after receiving the blessing of local planning officials. Lockerbie Data Centres Ltd. proposed building the £950 million project, which it says may generate a total of £3.5 billion in investment in the region. Planning officials at the local Dumfries and Galloway Council have recommended the company’s application be approved by the town council, which will meet Nov. 25 to discuss the project. The developers hope this will lay the groundwork for construction to begin in mid-2010 and opening for business in late 2011.
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    20. Green IT and more (Part Ii) - Cleaning Up IT

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      Green IT and more (Part Ii) - Cleaning Up IT
      In the second of a series of articles, David Tebbutt explains how you can reduce the environmental impact of IT before you buy IT devices, during their lifetime, and after you’ve finished with them. Balancing the Benefits and Costs of Going Green The reach of IT is wide, from a hand-held device such as a BlackBerry to a data centre; from office printers to building management. And every element provides an opportunity to reduce environmental harm. Sometimes the benefits accrue immediately and sometimes they take longer. Sometimes you need to change behaviour and at other times you need a change in procurement or operational systems. The trick is to balance any negative consequences of making changes against the practical benefits to the organisation. Think about installing a wind turbine on an urban bungalow roof. Would the energy savings ever compensate for the environmental consequences of its manufacture?
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    21. How Well Do You Know...Green IT?

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      How Well Do You Know...Green IT?
      Technology has transformed the office, made it possible to communicate instantly around the globe and put the world's art, music and books at our fingertips. Can it now help improve the environment? Technologists say yes, as they use computing power to save energy, reduce waste and produce power more efficiently. Try our quiz to see how well you know green IT. 1) Which of these roles for information and communications technology has the potential to yield the biggest reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions by 2030? The Journal Report See the complete Technology report. A. Retrofitting existing buildings B. Designing new buildings for reduced emissions C. Telecommuting and virtual meetings D. E-commerce and replacing paper
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      Mentions: Amazon.com Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Hewlett-Packard Co.

    22. Mile-High City Goes Green

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      Mile-High City Goes Green
      Going from Wyoming to Denver, Green House Data is expanding operations of its collocation and managed hosting business. Green House Data is headquartered at Cheyenne, Wyoming and pitches itself as an environmentally conscious and responsible company. It has a 10,000 square foot data center at Cheyenne. It now notches up a new office space in downtown Denver to cater to its growing Front Range business. It is a sign of the times that the company is keeping up with a demand for not only growing markets but also a need to locate in eco friendly hosting and collocation climes.
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    23. Business still 'unprepared' for CRC

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      Business still 'unprepared' for CRC
      New research has revealed the majority of organisations affected by the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) will struggle with the burden created by the scheme. A CRC simulation, run by regional development agency One North East, of what would happen when the legislation is implemented revealed companies would be exposed to a number of issues with the potential of fines. The simulation, focused on the north east of England over a 12 month period, revealed organisations would struggle with 'reporting and verifying' energy use.
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    24. UK: Environment Agency to outline emission cuts

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      UK: Environment Agency to outline emission cuts
      The Environment Agency will today (November 9) give details of greenhouse gas emission reduction it believes will cut climate change over the next two decades. The chairman of the agency, Lord Smith, is due to speak at the agency's annual conference later today where he will call for 'more scientists and more engineers' to build the technology for a low carbon economy. He will also, at the environment '09: creating the climate for change at the QEII Conference Centre in London, call for a climate challenge fund, with match funding from business and government, to co-ordinate and prioritise research on combating climate change.
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