I moderated a solar thermal panel at Intersolar on Wednesday with three major players in the rapidly emerging solar thermal market – Ausra’s Glen Davis, Acciona’s Gilbert Cohen and Josef Eichhamer of Solar Millennium.
All of the firms that were on the panel have major contracts to provide power, are building or have built numerous power [...]
Greentech Media hosted an enormously successful all-day seminar on Concentrated Solar Power Markets and Technologies yesterday at Intersolar in San Francisco. Daniel Englander reported on it here. Over 300 people attended the seminar.
But as informative and compelling as the speakers were at the podium and on the panels – sometimes the more interesting conversations occur [...]
The transition to a restructured electricity supply industry in the U.S. has, to an extent, allowed for greater efficiencies stemming from the introduction of new technology. Specifically, the ability of new entrants to compete against incumbent utilities - at least in the 1980s and 1990s - was premised on the introduction of the combined cycle [...]
Despite the near daily hum telling us that we’re in big trouble, sometimes we read something that makes us think: wow, we’re in big trouble. An Ernst & Young report released yesterday profiling 40 benchmark oil exploration and production companies in the U.S. found oil production has remained flat at 1.2 billion barrels per year [...]
New Jersey’s Public Service Electric & Gas Company, an investor owned utility, has filed a proposal with the state’s Board of Public Utilities to launch a $45.9 million demand side management program. Demand side management (DSM) is a method utilities use to reduce consumer demand for electricity and gas through the introduction of efficiency measures [...]
Babcock & Brown, an infrastructure investment holding company, endured a 50 percent blow to its stock price last week over fears of an unsustainable debt level. The company’s debt stands at roughly A$2.8 billion, while its market cap is only about A$1.75 billion. B&B has received a lot of criticism for its company model, which [...]
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Tesla Motors chairman Elon Musk is serious about getting beyond sports cars. At a press conference with California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tesla co-founder and chairman Elon ...
Despite the near daily hum telling us that we're in big trouble, sometimes we read something that makes us think: wow, we're in big trouble. ...
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