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Every little bit helps. You wouldn’t think of something as benign as avoiding a left-hand turn could conserve fuel, but Atlanta-based United Parcel Service (NYSE: UPS) swears by it. In fact, the parcel carrier has technology in its systems that map this out routes that minimize the number of left turns the driver has to make. According to spokesperson Steve Holmes, avoiding left turns at intersections reduces idling which in turn lowers fuel consumption. “It seems small, but when you multiply it across 88,0000 vehicles making nearly 15 million deliveries every day during the course of a year, it adds up.”And at stop lights, making a right turn at an intersection tends to be faster than at a left turn, since you have only to wait for an opportunity to turn in one lane of traffic. You also have the option of “right on red” in most jurisdictions. “So even if you didn’t save fuel, you’re going to move more quickly through a route.”“Because 98% of our packages are processed electronically by shippers, we know what’s entering our system each day, what’s still in our system each day, when each package is going to arrive at a center, when the […]
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Even sustainable investors focus on disruptive, hugely scaleable technologies with high returns and quick exits. There needs to be a place for patient capital.
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Offering loans to residential customers would grow the U.S. PV market significantly. With more installers merging, that could be coming.
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News and EventsDOE Awards $22.7 Million for Basic Solar Energy Research DOE Invests $19 Million in Advanced Vehicle Technologies Research New York City to Shift Taxi Fleet to Hybrids by 2012 GE Unveils Hybrid Locomotive for Freight Trains Iowa Establishes a $100 Million Clean Energy Fund Minnesota Act Sets Efficiency and GHG Goals while Boosting Renewables DOE Awards $22.7 Million for Basic Solar Energy ResearchDOE announced last week that it has awarded $22.7 million to 27 projects aimed at improving the capture, conversion, and use of solar energy. These basic research projects will help increase the amount of solar power in the nation’s energy supply and will focus on two technical areas: the conversion of solar energy to electricity and the conversion of solar energy to chemical fuels. Directly converting sunlight to chemical fuels will help overcome the problem of the lack of nighttime solar resource and provide solar-derived energy in forms useful for transportation, residential, and industrial applications. DOE selected projects at 23 universities and two DOE national laboratories: Brookhaven National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.Fourteen projects will receive $9.9 million over three years for research in the conversion of solar energy to electricity. The projects will involve […]
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News and EventsSixteen Cities and Five Banks Join Efficiency Effort for Buildings EPA Proposes Criteria for Clean Vehicles Allowed in HOV Lanes General Motors Achieves a Record Distance in a Fuel Cell Vehicle Racers Fall Short of Mileage Record at Shell Eco-marathons Energy ConnectionsEIA: World Energy Use to Grow 57 Percent by 2030 News and EventsSixteen Cities and Five Banks Join Efficiency Effort for BuildingsSixteen of the world’s largest cities – including Chicago, Houston, and New York – have joined in a global effort to reduce energy consumption in existing buildings. The Energy Efficiency Building Retrofit Program, a project of the Clinton Climate Initiative, will draw on $5 billion in financing to be provided in equal amounts by five banks: ABN AMRO, Citi, Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan Chase, and UBS. The banks will finance cities and private building owners to undertake energy efficiency retrofits. Four energy service companies – Honeywell, Johnson Controls, Siemens, and Trane – will conduct energy audits, perform building retrofits, and guarantee the energy savings of the retrofit projects. The companies will be assisted by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) and the U.S. Green Building Council. See the ASHRAE press release.The municipal and […]
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RSI Silicon of Westborough, Massachusetts is the winner of this year’s Ignite Clean Energy Business Competition, sponsored by the MIT Enterprise Forum.The company has developed a unique technology to address the critical worldwide shortage of silicon, which affects more than 90% of solar cells made today. While prices of silicon skyrocket and supply from standard sources diminishes, RSI Silicon’s process provides solar grade silicon at a fraction of the current cost, with only 10% of the capital cost. By using this new process, the team expects to compete with large silicon manufacturers and revolutionize the way the material is produced. The team will use the funding to build a pilot line and R&D facility, followed by a large silicon plant to produce up to 15,000 tons per year. RSI will receive $25,000 cash, three months worth of public relations services from Bell Pottinger USA, $15,000 in legal services from Mintz Levin and a choice of one year of office space from Cummings Properties valued at $25,000 or incubator space at the U. Mass Dartmouth Applied Technology and Manufacturing Center worth $15,000. The two second place teams are Fox 2 Technologies of Hampton, New Hampshire and Bagazo of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Fox2 […]
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Hospitals could be otherwise known as “waste central” – practically everything they use is disposable. Because Ascent Healthcare Solutions is changing that, the company won the sole award this year in its category from Hospitals for a Healthy Environment (H2E) for actively promoting awareness of environmental stewardship in the healthcare sector. Ascent reprocesses single-use medical devices and out of 130 entrants, was the only medical device reprocessor to receive an award. Ascent was honored for its environmental initiatives and for helping its hospital and surgery center customers improve their environmental performance. Ascent’s unique Advantage(TM) program provides hospitals with a one-step, easy-to-use collection system that promotes device reprocessing and recycling and dramatically reduces the use of disposable sharps containers and their contents in rapidly filling landfills. Additionally, the company has pioneered an innovative disinfection technology for its own collection containers that dramatically decreases water consumption and eliminates environmentally harmful cleaning agents. Since the company’s inception, Ascent’s customers have safely reprocessed in excess of 50 million medical devices, eliminating more than 10,000 tons from local landfills and saving customers more than $500 million in medical device supply costs through reprocessing and recycling medical products. In 2006, Ascent eliminated over 1000 tons of […]
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$93 billion a year to restore the earth's systems isnt' much, compared to the $400 billion a year the world's invested for decades into the existing world energy structure.
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Solar not only provides clean energy - it creates well paying, life enhancing jobs.
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The American Wind Energy Association has been working closely with Congress on bills S. 673 and H.R. 1772 that, if passed, would provide a tax credit of $1500 per kilowatt of capacity for small wind systems. The bill also calls for 3-year accelerated depreciation and a credit carry-over for a customer unable to take advantage of the entire credit within a one-year period.There has been no federal support for small wind systems since 1985. Meanwhile, residential solar systems, which serve the same market as small wind, currently receive a 30% investment tax credit.The federal Production Tax Credit (PTC) applies only to large utility-scale wind projects, not to individuals who want to install their own wind systems for on-site power. Federal support would help broaden the small-wind industry on a national scale.There are now two Small Wind Investment Tax Credit bills in Congress – one in the House (H.R. 1772), and one in the Senate (S. 673) – that would provide individuals a tax credit when purchasing small wind turbines for their homes, farms, or small businesses.To become law, these bills must show a broad range of support from Members of Congress. Having your members of Congress add their names to […]
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