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Featured Event Funding Opportunities $18 Million Available for Businesses to improve Energy Efficiency. Industrial Process Improvements and Product Development Appalachian Power Renewable Energy Public Service of Oklahoma Renewable Energy Solar Photovoltaic Generating Project NEW! Featured Books SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT HANDBOOK Did You Know? In May, the San Francisco Bay Area passed FIRST EVER fee imposed on carbon emissions, authored by an engineer for the Bay Area Air Quality Board - 4.4 cents per metric ton. This is FIRST IN COUNTRY. Do you have a renewable success story? Fast Facts Forecasts strong continuous growth for the global wind industry. The world market volume of annual Featured Seminars CREATING A SUSTAINABLE ENERGY Plan CLEAN ENERGY/RENEWABLE ENERGY PROJECT FEASIBILITY ANALYSIS SERIES Additional Resources
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As an Association of Energy Engineers division member, we welcome you to the 2008 Summer issue of the Alternative & Renewable Energy Development Institute (AREDI) newsletter. This issue is filled with interesting topics that cover a wide range of issues in the alternative energy marketplace. Featured topics include: new car innovations from our columnist Rich Costello, offshore wind energy, space based solar power, sustainable schools, organic photovoltaics, biomass research, open comments for LEED, and much more.
Recently, while driving on Sunset Blvd., Richard Costello stumbles on the latest innovation in driving and conservation. He is even able to get an up close look at this machine that could play a part to reduce American dependence on foreign oil. Read more .
Buoyancy Supported Offshore Wind Energy There is a significant energy resource in the form of wind offshore of much of the United States. Floating platforms represent the most straight forward solution. The basic concept behind a floating system is that most of the wave load comes from the water plane, where the body pierces the water surface, but the buoyancy can be anywhere, so the motions of a platform due to waves can be reduced by having most of the body well submerged with only small members piercing the surface. Click here to read full story. Fast-Tracking Your Organization's Energy Plan Adopting cleaner, renewable energy options can reduce long term energy costs, and prepare for a strong future. Green-minded advocates in organizations all over the nation are pushing solar electric power to control their company's energy futures and minimize their carbon footprints. But these same well-intentioned visionaries sometimes get stuck planning and selling their proposed energy strategies to executive management. In this article you will find ways to help you achieve your goals. Rebuilding with Sustainability After Katrina With the help of a $2 million grant from the Bush Clinton Katrina Fund and other agencies, these agencies launched a high performance schools initiative that is helping benefit thousands of New Orleans students. On April 24, 2007, Global Green USA announced an exciting expansion of its green rebuilding initiatives in New Orleans that would help benefit thousands of students and teachers by providing technical assistance and resources to local schools and local agencies involved in the recovery efforts. Read more... This article was presented at the 2008 GLOBALCON Conference & Expo Measured Energy Savings for Solar & Boiler Projects Installed at an Oregon Swimming Pool This facility installed a solar water heating system for the main pool and a high efficiency condensing boiler system. The pool gas use has been reduced by 27%. It has lowered its natural gas costs by approximately $17,000 per year. This is a result of a boiler upgrade that saves 20% of the baseline use and a solar pool system that saves another 7%. These two measures will completely pay for themselves from the energy savings in 11 years. This article provides a background of the projects and presents the measured energy savings. Click here to read the full article.
This article was presented at the 2008 West Coast Energy Management Congress in Seattle Washington. Space Based Solar Power As an Opportunity for Strategic Security The magnitude of the looming energy and environmental problems is significant enough to warrant consideration of all options, to include a concept called Space Based Solar Power (SBSP). The basic idea is very straightforward: place very large solar arrays into continuously and intensely sunlit Earth orbit (1,366 watts/m 2 ), collect gigawatts of electrical energy, electromagnetically beam it to Earth, and receive it on the surface for use either as baseload power via direct connection to the existing electrical grid, conversion into manufactured synthetic hydrocarbon fuels, or as low intensity broadcast power beamed directly to consumers. Read more (pdf document). Materials for Thin Film and Organic Photovoltaics This article identifies the opportunities and challenges for materials suppliers in the rapidly growing thin film and organic photovoltaics sector. It examines each of the major materials classes used in this sector and discusses where the most profitable areas are likely to be found for specialty chemicals firms and similar firms. It also takes a look at the evolving relationship between materials suppliers and solar panel manufacturers and the factors for materials suppliers to take into consideration in assessing the size and growth of the opportunities available to them. Read this in-depth article.
New Analysis Concludes Fuel Cell Vehicles Are the Best Pathway to Environmental and Energy Security New Report on Grid-Connected PV Metering & Interconnection Practices Offers Ways Utilities Can Help Simplify Solar PNNL & WSU Open Biomass Research Lab
Open for Public Comment: The U.S. Green Building Council's Proposed Improvements to the LEED Green Building Rating System The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has opened the first public comment period on LEED 2009, the next evolution of the LEED green building certification system. LEED 2009 represents a reorganization of the existing LEED rating systems for commercial buildings, combined with a series of major technical advancements focused on improving energy efficiency, reducing carbon emissions, and addressing other environmental and human health outcomes. The public comment period will be open for 30 days, from May 19 through June 22, 2008. US Technical Advisory Group DOE Announces Up to $7.5 Million in Advanced Technology Research to Harness Energy Potential of Oceans, Tides and Rivers
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ENGINEERS: If We Build it, Change Will Come With regulation setting the bar for standards, engineers are being looked to more than ever to create solutions through innovation. As an engineer my mission has been to develop systems that enable our customers to be both compliant and competitive in response to regulations and changing priorities from the corporate boardroom to the end customer. Our hardware/software system provides users with an eagle-eye view of a company's energy usage, from multiple plants, down to facilities sub-systems - even as detailed as the carbon created in the manufacture of a single unit product. Read more... |
