GreenHunter Energy has joined the growing list of U.S. biodiesel companies struggling with European tariffs on exports and low oil prices. Just last year the company opened a massive biodiesel refinery in Texas — considered the largest in the U.S. — capable of producing 105 million gallons a year. Now that same refinery, located along the Houston Ship Channel, may be sold....
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June 2009
Europe plans massive solar power project — If $555 billion can be raised for construction, Europe could someday have a massive electrical network sending solar power from Northern African deserts to the chilly states of the EU. The Desertec consortium of 20 companies, with support from national governments, will hold its first meeting to discuss the plan on July 13. [Source: BusinessWeek...
ExxonMobil generally doesn’t evoke the kind of “green” images typically associated with the electric car industry. It is afterall, the world’s largest publicly traded oil company, and a conservative one at that. The energy giant tends to stick with what it’s good at: making money finding, producing and selling fossil fuels. So it surprised a lot of folks when Exxon...
It’s been a big week for Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk. And it’s only Tuesday. Musk started the week by firing off a detailed rebuttal of sorts — in a lengthy blog post — to Martin Eberhard’s lawsuit against him. Today, Tesla received $465 million from the Department of Energy to help build its electric Model S sedan as well as manufacture electric powertrains....
President Obama has rolled over for politicians in coal states, and the coal industry is free to keep growing for at least a decade, the LA Times reports. But environmentalists still have hope of bringing down coal someday. At some point, emissions caps will force coal use to decline, especially if alternatives begin to catch up in price, right? The answer is perhaps yes, but probably no. As it...
Duke Energy’s latest project, at a Charlotte, N.C. suburb called McAlpine Creek, doesn’t look like much on paper. Some 213 solar panels, enough for just a handful of homes, have been deployed in the neighborhood with a few thousand smart meters. Along with them, though, is a 500 kilowatt zinc-bromide battery, which substantially outweighs the 50KW output of the panels. The...
Determining the cost of cap-and-trade legislation on U.S. households is one of those inextricable tasks that promises to produce disputed and controversial results. So there was some reason to breathe a sigh of relief — albeit a small one — when the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office issued its report late Friday on the cost of cap-and-trade legislation included in the...
Google developing smart-charging software for plug-in vehicles – Google is developing software that will better manage how plug-in electric cars are charged in an effort to smooth out demand for electricity and keep excessive loads off the power grid. There’s a concern that as more plug-in electric vehicles hit the road, drivers will charge during peak hours — typically...
Power plant operator NRG says that a hostile bid made by Exelon, a larger rival, to acquire the company significantly undervalues it. To prove it, NRG has been going gangbusters for months at racking up deals and partnerships. It’s going out of its way to secure a place in the new, renewable energy-based economy, and doing so in a very public way. Is the strategy working? The answer, of...
Deutsche Bank’s ginormous “Carbon Counter” — unveiled Thursday in New York City — is the type of in-your-face campaign passers-by will find nearly impossible to ignore. The towering electronic billboard — with its 13-number red digital display and ‘Climate Change Affects Everyone’ message perched on top — is more than an ever-growing tally...
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