China’s leadership in the green technology sector represents “a wake-up call” for California companies but it also provides opportunities, a top state official said Wednesday. In just a few years, China went from being “barely on the map” to the largest manufacturer of solar panels and the largest energy consumer in the world, said Margret [...]
The Arizona Court of Appeals recently upheld a lower court decision rejecting a challenge by The Goldwater Institute over the Arizona Corporation Commission requirement that Arizona utilities source 15% of their electricity from alternative sources, such as solar power and wind power, by 2025. This was the fourth legal challenge by the Institute’s watchdog group, [...]
By: Jim Greenberger via The Energy Collective Next week the 2011 ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit will be held in Washington, D.C. The Summit is a much-anticipated annual conference highlighting the development of next generation energy technologies in the United States and the Department of Energy’s flagship Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E), which provides [...]
Improve the energy efficiency of your home and tax money at the same time with these energy efficiency tax credits: 1. Fuel Cells Fuel cells are an incredibly exciting technology that many people do not know about. A fuel cell is an electrochemical device that converts chemical energy into electricity. More technically, fuel cells use [...]
With the start of the New Year, energy advocates are gearing up and setting out to make the energy effort even stronger. Here is a list of 10 green conferences in the United States that are worth considering: Fortune Brainstrom GREEN April 4-6, Laguna Niguel, CA This program brings together CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, [...]
By: John K. Norris, Contributing Writer to MyEnergySolution.com As I wrote about earlier, the market for solar power and energy efficiency within the federal government is huge and largely untapped. Pursuant to Presidential Executive Order 13423, federal agencies are required to improve energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions of the agency, through a substantial reduction [...]
A home energy audit is a comprehensive review of the exterior and interior of a home to determine its level of energy use and whether there is potential for energy efficiency improvements and energy savings. A home energy audit can be conducted by you – the homeowner – or it can be performed by a [...]
Do-It-Yourself Home Energy Audit Checklist Making your home green by conducting a do-it-yourself home energy audit is very easy to do. With a simple but careful inspection, you can isolate problems in your house where you are losing energy and correct them. When auditing your home, make sure you keep track of what you do in [...]
By: John K. Norris, Contributing Writer to MyEnergySolution.com Recently, Michael Shellenberger, President of the Breakthrough Institute, posted an article by a leading energy economist, Harry Saunders – one of the authors of a recent paper in the Journal of Physics, explaining why energy efficiency does not decrease energy consumption. In his article, he examines specifically the [...]
By: John K. Norris, Contributing Writer to MyEnergySolution.com One the largest opportunities for saving energy and lowering utility costs exists with multifamily residential buildings. Multifamily residential buildings are a type of housing where multiple separate housing units for residential inhabitants are contained within one building. The most basic example of a multifamily building is an apartment [...]
