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Residential Battery Storage Nears Grid Parity in Germany
It’s very close, according to the German government and some industry observers. Source: www.greentechmedia.com >”It is now generally recognized that rooftop solar has reached “socket parity” —...
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CEC Delays Energy Benchmarking and Disclosure Requirements 2 Years for...
>”[...]Compliance with AB 1103 is not suspended, and will continue to be required, for the sale, lease, or financing of buildings over 10,000 square feet that are otherwise subject to the...
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California Real Estate Assn’ Educates Members on Building Energy Performance...
In California, brokers are at the heart of every non-residential sale or lease. Can the AIR organization get them on board with benchmarking? Source: www.greenbiz.com >”Commercial buildings are...
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Methods of Improving Data Centers’ Energy Efficiency and Performance
America’s data centers are consuming — and wasting — a surprising amount of energy. Source: www.livescience.com >”Our study shows that many small, mid-size, corporate and multi-tenant data centers...
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Fossil Fuel Development in the Arctic is a Bad Investment
Source: www.earth-policy.org >”Currently, about 10 percent of the world’s oil and one-quarter of its natural gas production come from the Arctic region, which has warmed by more than 2 degrees...
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UK Renewable Energy Subsidy Underwrites Development
Energy secretary, Ed Davey, says new subsidy scheme will help underwrite green energy and reduce reliance on imported gas Source: www.theguardian.com >”[...] “Solar has been the rising star in the...
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Microgrid Integration with Public Transportation
Superstorm Sandy crippled much of New Jersey’s critical infrastructure two years ago. Stuck without power at home, many also couldn’t get to work because the operations center for New Jersey Transit...
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Intelligent Efficiency: Evolution of the Energy Efficiency Market
In the past, energy efficiency was seen as a discrete improvement in devices,” says Skip Laitner, an economist who specializes in energy efficiency. “But information technology is taking it to the...
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Could desalination solve California’s water problem?
Desalination would seem to answer every prayer to fix California’s water shortages. But turning the sea into drinking water is not so easy. The state’s first major desalination plant, under...
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Multifamily Building Energy Efficiency: SLEEC Financing
This winter, ACEEE, in partnership with Energi Insurance Services, will host a second gathering of select members of the Small Lenders Energy Efficiency Community (SLEEC) in Washington, D.C. The...
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Cove Point LNG Project Obtains Federal Approval and Opposition
Initially, Cove Point helped the United States overcome what was then an energy shortage. Now that our nation is developing a burgeoning surplus of natural gas, Cove Point can help send a small...
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Solar Energy Storage Added to Eight California Schools
Burton School District, in the heart of California’s sun-drenched San Joaquin Valley, will also house combined solar and energy storage systems[...] Source: www.pvsolarreport.com >”In the...
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Energy Storage Technologies Will Replace Utilities Gas Fired Turbine Peaker...
“Power grids need extra generating capacity to work properly. For example, about 20 percent of New York State’s generation fleet runs less than 250 hours a year. Because they don’t run much, “peaker...
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The financial case for energy efficiency
duanetilden:“The report, Building the Future, has piled pressure on Ministers to act to fix Britain’s badly insulated homes. The report shows that a much more ambitious energy efficiency investment...
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Energy executive quits NEB, blasts Kinder Morgan review as ‘fraudulent,’
Marc Eliesen has withdrawn as an intervenor in the federal government’s review of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline and oil tanker expansion project, detailing his reasons for quitting in a...
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Will Falling oil prices cause oil sands shut-downs in Alberta?
Alberta Premier Jim Prentice says his province’s oil companies are not facing closures, even as prices approach $70 a barrel. Source: www.ctvnews.ca >””We don’t see oilsands operations shutting...
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Commodity Copper Price Forecast Drops on Rising Dollar, Falling Oil
Copper prices will fall next year as a strengthening U.S. dollar and weaker oil prices push down marginal production costs, according to Goldman Sachs Group Source: www.hellenicshippingnews.com >”...
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Keystone XL Pipeline Climate Backgrounder
Pembina Institute Backgrounder, January 2013 Source: www.documentcloud.org >”The climate implications of the proposed Keystone XL oilsands pipeline by Nathan Lemphers At a Glance Canada’s oilsands...
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Why Electric Vehicles are not 100% Green
In 2013 Tesla’s [time-stock symbol=TSLA] Model S won the prestigious Motor Trend Car of the Year award. Motor Trend called it “one of the quickest American four-doors ever built.” It went on to say...
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Coal Power Plants Get Repowered With Natural Gas
Old U.S. coal-fired power plants, the target of new anti-pollution rules, aren’t necessarily shutting down. Many are getting a second life as they’re “repowered” with natural gas. Source:...
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