Metering.com Posted by: Metering International December 9, 2014 US utility Duke Energy and Siemens this month revealed results of a demonstration of their new electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE). The EV charging system, which has been approved by Underwriters Laboratories, aims to gives consumers a better understanding of how much it costs to charge their … Read more
By Tom Tamarkin Dec. 8, 2014 By by cheap energy in America. Last night CBS “60 Minutes” attacked the coal fired utility industry and no one realized it. They did a story about fly ash and bottom ash waste coming from coal fired electrical generating stations. Without any independent scientific explanation Lesley Stahl allowed the … Read more
The Telegraph, UK | By Emily Gosden, Energy Editor | Nov. 24, 2014 Peterhead power station, paid to guarantee it can help keep the lights on, fails to function properly during testing Britain’s plans to keep the lights on this winter have been thrown into fresh doubt after a power plant supposed to provide back-up … Read more
Energy Matters November 26, 2014 by Roger Andrews Here at Energy Matters we pride ourselves on writing original posts that aren’t just rehashes of what someone else has written, but once in a while along comes an article of sufficient interest to justify putting it up for discussion. This article is one. It’s a post-mortem … Read more
New York Times: By DIANE CARDWELL and MATTHEW L. WALD NOV. 26, 2014 PJM Interconnection, a grid operator, says its program saved $650 million in a summer week.CreditPJM Interconnection, via Pr Newswire Over the past few years, the federal government has nurtured the growth of an odd kind of player in the energy markets: companies … Read more
Friends of Maine’s Mountains November 22, 2014 First Wind’s schtick was money, not progress Hello Friends. Perhaps First Wind should have named itself “Me First.” Because this past week offered the most blatant proof yet that the company’s interest in Maine was never energy independence for our state. It was ALWAYS purely financial. Of course, … Read more
[php function=7] Today’s renewable energy technologies won’t save us. So what will? By Ross Koningstein & David Fork Posted 18 Nov 2014 | 20:00 GMT Download this article as a PDF Google cofounder Larry Page is fond of saying that if you choose a harder problem to tackle, you’ll have less competition. This business philosophy … Read more
UK Register By Lewis Page, 21 Nov 2014 Windmills, solar, tidal – all a ‘false hope’, say Stanford PhDs Comment Two highly qualified Google engineers who have spent years studying and trying to improve renewable energy technology have stated quite bluntly that renewables will never permit the human race to cut CO2 emissions to the … Read more
Mothers against wind turbines Faulty Turbines Sending Siemen’s Wind Power Division Broke as Samsung Cuts & Runs from Europe November 16, 2014 by stopthesethings German fan maker, Siemens has been running a huge propagandacampaign in South Australia over the last couple of weeks, surrounding the opening of the extension of the Snowtown wind farm – … Read more
Meygen, UK MeyGen agrees terms for a funding package to finance Phase 1A of the MeyGen project. The funding syndicate includes: the Department of Energy & Climate Change, Scottish Enterprise via the Renewable Energy Investment Fund (delivered by the Scottish Investment Bank), Highlands and Islands Enterprise, The Crown Estate, and Atlantis Resources Ltd. MeyGen, the … Read more