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1. Rutgers’ Chinese Solar Panels Show Clean-Energy Shift

   Explore Article BusinessWeek (Jul 23 2010) Fossil Fuel , Solar

   At Rutgers University in New Jersey, 7,600 panels convert sunlight into electricity, saving some $200,000 in energy costs this year in the biggest solar-power experiment at a U.S. college. Yingli Green Energy Holding Co., China’s second-largest solar-panel maker, supplied the $10 million project. Yingli is one of several Chinese manufacturers that have slashed costs to reduce global prices for solar modules by about 50 percent in two years. The drive made them more affordable for buyers from Rutgers to Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the biggest U.S. retailer. (Read Full Article)
   

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2. Your Next IT Budget: 6 Ways to Support Business Growth

   Explore Article BusinessWeek (Jul 21 2010) Cloud Computing

   After a year of deep recession affecting IT budgets, businesses are finally returning to a growth agenda. And infrastructure and operations is no exception: in the coming year, Forrester expects a noticeable bump in IT spend. So what does this mean for the infrastructure professional? It's time to reprioritize initiatives to align with the business' focus on growth. To do so, look at where your dollars are coming from, tap into funds set aside for innovation and growth, and deliver on three critical I&O initiatives. (Read Full Article)
   

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3. Apple Falls After Consumer Reports Won’t Back IPhone

   Explore Article BusinessWeek (Jul 13 2010)

   Apple Inc. declined a day after Consumer Reports said it wouldn’t recommend the iPhone 4, fueling concern that demand for the smartphone may drop and speculation that the handset may be recalled. Apple fell as much as $10.86, or 4.2 percent, to $246.43 at 11:39 a.m. New York time in Nasdaq Stock Market trading, the biggest drop in two weeks. The stock had risen 22 percent this year before today. (Read Full Article)
   

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4. U.K. to Cut Barriers to Nuclear Power, Minister Says (Update1)

   Explore Article BusinessWeek (Jun 16 2010) Nuclear

   June 16 (Bloomberg) -- Nuclear power can play a key role in the U.K.’s future energy mix, Minister Charles Hendry told executives from Electricite de France SA, Centrica Plc and other utilities. While the new coalition government won’t subsidize the industry, it will remove regulatory barriers and encourage nuclear power by establishing a minimum price for carbon, the energy minister said at the Nuclear Industry Forum in London. Britain, needing 200 billion pounds ($300 billion) to renew aging power plants in the next two decades, will have to tap international investors for the first time, according to the Department of ... (Read Full Article)
   

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5. The Next Sparks for the Economy Could Surprise Us

   Explore Article BusinessWeek (Jun 8 2010)

   The U.S. economy is slowly reviving, leaving behind with each passing month the worst downturn since the Great Depression. It goes without saying that an expanding economy is better than a contracting one, but the consensus outlook is far from cheery. Instead, it calls for years of muted growth and high unemployment. (Read Full Article)
   

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6. U.S. Falls From Internet Elite, Aims to Catch Iceland, Hungary

   Explore Article BusinessWeek (Jun 2 2010) Networking

   Laurent Bernard, an intern at HSBC Holdings Plc in Paris, recalls his U.S. Internet experience in 2008, the year he moved to New York City as a student. “I noticed right away that the Internet was slower,” Bernard, 24, said in an e-mail. “The most annoying thing was the time it took for each Web page to load on the screen. In France, it’s pretty much instantaneous.” After ranking third in the world a decade ago, the U.S. has dropped to 15th in the proportion of citizens receiving fast Web service, or broadband, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation ... (Read Full Article)
   

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7. IBM’s Palmisano to Spend $20 Billion on Takeovers (Update1)

   Explore Article BusinessWeek (May 12 2010) Cloud Computing

   International Business Machines Corp. Chief Executive Officer Sam Palmisano, seeking to boost earnings by focusing on software and services, said he plans to spend $20 billion on acquisitions in the next five years. Operating earnings will jump to at least $20 a share by 2015 from $11.35 or more this year, helped by cost savings and software demand, Palmisano said in a meeting with investors in New York today. The company also predicted sales growth that beat analysts’ estimates, sending the stock higher. (Read Full Article)
   

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8. ‘Black Swan’ Volcano Offers Three Simple Lessons: Matthew Lynn

   Explore Article BusinessWeek (Apr 20 2010)

   For a generation or more, no one ever gave a second thought to Iceland. Now it has shaken up the world twice in a couple of years. First its banks collapsed in the most dramatic illustration of the fragility of our financial system. Now an Icelandic volcano is spewing ash into the sky, prompting a shutdown of European airspace. The continent is paralyzed. Planes are grounded. Travelers are stuck thousands of miles from their families and workplaces. Business is grinding to a halt. (Read Full Article)
   

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9. A Gold Rush in Green Technology

   Explore Article BusinessWeek (Apr 15 2010) Carbon Footprint , Geothermal , Solar , Wind

   Like bright sunshine charging up solar panels, investor fervor is fueling the market for public offerings of green companies. Electric automaker Tesla Motors, U.S. green energy producer Ameresco, and Spain's T-Solar have filed to go public, and many more are waiting in the wings. "There's renewed appetite for green IPOs," says Luigi Ferraris, chief financial officer of Italian utility Enel, which plans to sell a minority stake of its renewables subsidiary Enel Green Power for $5.4 billion by the end of the year. That would be Europe's largest listing since 2007. (Read Full Article)
   

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10. U.K. Shuts Airports as Iceland Eruption Chokes Skies (Update1)

    Explore Article BusinessWeek (Apr 15 2010)

    Airports in the U.K. and northern Europe shut down as a cloud of volcanic ash swept south from an eruption in Iceland, disrupting travel for thousands of people booked on flights with British Airways Plc and other carriers. U.K. airspace is closed until at least 7 a.m. tomorrow, according to flight-control body National Air Traffic Services, while Norway and Sweden also shut airports as the ash threatens to stall jet engines and affect the air quality in plane cabins. British Airways scrapped flights for the rest of the day and carriers including AMR Corp.’s American Airlines cut services. (Read Full Article)
    

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11. U.K. Lawmakers Call for Intervention in Carbon Market (Update1)

    Explore Article BusinessWeek (Feb 8 2010) Construction , Carbon Tax , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Nuclear

    Europe needs stricter limits on greenhouse gases and the power to intervene in carbon markets as its cap-and-trade program fails to encourage investments in cleaner energy, U.K. lawmakers said today in a report. “It is imperative that there are mechanisms for reducing the EU cap,” the committee said. While the U.K. alone couldn’t change EU caps, the 16-member panel representing the Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties said “the U.K. should be prepared to act “unilaterally” to curb its supply of permits and “demonstrate a continuing leadership role on tackling climate change.” (Read Full Article)
    

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12. India May Start Trading of Renewable-Energy Credits in May

    Explore Article BusinessWeek (Jan 21 2010) Emissions

    India may let power companies start trading renewable-energy credits in May in a push to create a multibillion-dollar market to encourage reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions. India is pressing ahead with its own efforts to fight climate change after last month’s Copenhagen talks failed to reach a new global climate treaty. The move puts the world’s fourth-largest emitter ahead of China and other developing nations in creating a domestic emissions-trading market to boost investment in solar, wind and other clean-energy projects. (Read Full Article)
    

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13. A Breakthrough for Hydrogen Storage?

    Explore Article BusinessWeek (Dec 11 2009) Emissions

    Israeli entrepreneur Moshe Stern admits he didn't know much about alternative energy when Russian scientist Evgeny Velikhov first approached him in 2005 about a novel technology for safely storing hydrogen gas. But four years later, the 62-year-old Stern has become an expert—and a believer. He is convinced that the Russian invention could play a major role in helping scientific institutions and industrial giants harness the commercial potential of hydrogen as a green energy source. Now, Stern's conviction has just gotten a big outside boost. The hydrogen storage technology, being developed by Stern's Swiss-based startup, C.En, has been endorsed for its ... (Read Full Article)
    

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14. Cisco's Chambers: Tough Talk on Data Centers

    Explore Article BusinessWeek (Dec 9 2009) Servers

    Cisco Systems Chief Executive John Chambers had pointed words for journalists skeptical of his company's foray into equipment for big corporate data centers, an area of technology traditionally dominated by computer makers. "We've taken on big peers in the past," Chambers said over a bento-box lunch for members of the media at Cisco's financial analyst conference on Dec. 8. He was referring to Cisco's move early this decade into corporate telephony, a market where it now has a 33% share. "We didn't know anything about that market when we got started," he said. By contrast, data centers are run by ... (Read Full Article)
    

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15. Do Electric Cars Save or Risk the Planet?

    Explore Article BusinessWeek (Nov 19 2009) Carbon Footprint

    "Electric cars should be rewarded for their energy efficiency, not for moving emissions from exhaust pipes to powerstation chimneys" says the UK's Environmental Transport Association (ETA). In a report titled "How to avoid an electric shock—Electric cars: from hype to reality", the ETA has taken a close look at electric-powered vehicles (EVs) and their associated technologies. In what could be a shock to some commuters—and governments—the report states that EVs could potentially speed climate change, rather than reduce it, and might not be as good for the planet as some of the spin suggests. Simply put, it's not necessarily the ... (Read Full Article)
    

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16. Finding the Capital to Go Green

    Explore Article BusinessWeek (Nov 13 2009) Construction , Power and Cooling

    Contrary to the popular misconception that going green is expensive, in a very large range of cases, environmental initiatives don't raise costs, they lower them—and fast. In operational areas such as facilities (heating, cooling, lighting), fleet, IT, and waste, leading companies continue to find large savings in shockingly simple actions, such as changing lighting or using outside air to cool a data center. But even for the most head-slappingly obvious changes with super-fast paybacks, companies still need to find the capital to buy the new bulbs, optimize the HVAC system, or add auxiliary power units (APUs) to trucks. (Read Full Article)
    

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17. German Energy Giants Eye a Greener U.S.

    Explore Article BusinessWeek (Nov 1 2009) Solar , Wind

    A group of academics on Friday considered the ultimate engineering challenge: building machines to stabilize the earth's climate. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology convened a symposium here to discuss the potential benefits and pitfalls of geoengineering, also called climate engineering. Everything from shooting light-blocking particles into the atmosphere to "artificial trees" is being seriously studied, despite trepidation among researchers and opposition from others. During talks Friday morning, academics said climate engineering techniques are not well understood and, because of the complexity of the global climate system, individual approaches are pockmarked with uncertainties. (Read Full Article)
    

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18. Green IT Can Save Money, Too

    Explore Article BusinessWeek (Nov 1 2009) Carbon Reduction Commitment , Emissions

    It's no surprise that for some companies green initiatives are dropping down the list of IT priorities. In a recent silicon.com survey, more than a quarter of respondents admitted green IT was off the agenda because of the recession. But many organisations have found the key is to align green goals with broader cost-cutting initiatives—which are definitely in vogue with CIOs and CFOs. In some cases government policies are already giving businesses a shove in the right direction. For example, in July 2008, the UK government informed 10,000 businesses that they could be affected by the Carbon Reduction Commitment—a climate ... (Read Full Article)
    

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19. Eastern Europe Jumps into Eco-Power

    Explore Article BusinessWeek (Oct 21 2009) Solar , Wind

    Despite a wide-spread belief that former communist states are not keen on adopting green initiatives, some of the EU's member states in the east are forging ahead with renewable energy policies, according to a representative from energy giant General Electric (GE). Romania, Hungary and the Czech Republic are particularly active in the field of renewable energy although Poland is lagging behind, says Rod Christie, General Electric president for central and eastern Europe, Russia and the CIS countries. (Read Full Article)
    

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20. Soros to Invest $1 Billion in "Clean" Energy

    Explore Article BusinessWeek (Oct 12 2009) Carbon Tax

    The upcoming climate talks in Copenhagen are less than two months away, and everyone is looking to throw in his/her two cents. On Oct. 10, it was billionaire George Soros’ turn to get in on the act. Giving a speech in Denmark, the man who famously ‘broke the Bank of England’ in the early 1990s now plans to invest $1 billion in clean energy technology. Another $100 million — doled out in $10 million increments annually over ten years — will fund the newly-created Climate Policy Initiative, a foundation targeted at environmental policy. That’s a sizeable amount of cash, though ... (Read Full Article)
    

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21. A Power Station in Your Basement

    Explore Article BusinessWeek (Sep 10 2009) Wind

    German green energy provider Lichtblick has an ambitious new approach to power generation: Thousands of small home generators networked into the grid (Read Full Article)
    

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22. Cloud Computing: Washington vs. Washington

    Explore Article BusinessWeek (Aug 11 2009) Construction

    The feds want cloud computing services as part of their tech infrastructure, but Washington State plans to build its own data center When I spoke with U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra last month, he outlined a pragmatic approach to federal technology that involved adopting a hybrid model of data centers and cloud computing solutions. Buying infrastructure as a service instead of banking solely on energy-guzzling data centers is a good way to stretch tax dollars, he argued. Kundra's colleague, Aneesh Chopra, Chief Technology Officer of the U.S., shares his approach. (Read Full Article)
    

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23. Special Report: The Outlook for Energy

    Explore Article BusinessWeek (Aug 6 2009) Carbon Footprint , Fossil Fuel

    Under pressure from customers and the government, utilities are going green and changing the way they produce and deliver power to homes and businesses (Read Full Article)
    

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24. Now Hiring: Green-Collar Workers

    Explore Article BusinessWeek (Jul 23 2009) Solar , Wind

    The federal government is poised to pump billions into clean energy projects that could create as many as 1.5 million new green jobs. When Alden Zeitz started the Wind Energy Program at Iowa Lakes Community College five years ago, 15 students enrolled. This year, 102 students enrolled in the two-year training program for wind turbine technicians, including some students who abandoned another career for the economic promise of green technology. The wind energy industry hasn't been immune to the recession, but students are counting on the federal government's injection of $80 billion in clean energy projects to change that. (Read Full Article)
    

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