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The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) has released its fifth annual State Energy Efficiency Scorecard, which ranks all 50 U.S. states for their various energy-efficiency programs and policies.
Honda has just announced that 10 of its 14 manufacturing plants in North America are operating with zero-waste-to-landfill as part of its “Green Factory” initiative in North America.
A new report by the Urban Land Institute (ULI), a nonprofit land use and urban planning think tank, and Ernst & Young (an accounting and professional services firm) suggests that the U.S. is falling behind other industrialized nations in its infrastructure planning as a result of crippling federal, state and regional economic conditions – a condition exacerbated by failure at both the national and local levels to achieve a political consensus on what is actually needed.
Walmart (NYSE: WMT) is reporting that it has fallen behind on it’s goal to reduce it’s carbon emissions according to its 2011 Global Responsibility Report.
The Hertz Corporation (NYSE: HTZ), one of the world’s largest rental car companies in the world, announced that it will undertake its first phase of installing solar electric systems at its rental locations, starting with sixteen locations across the United States.
Ecomotors claims MPG efficiency superior to Toyota Prius from its opposed piston opoc™ engine architecture
In this 2nd part of my three-part interview with GridWise Alliance president Katherine Hamilton, she discusses the challenges facing smart grid deployment, next steps in the smart grid transformation, and why smart grid solutions benefit society.
The technology for electric vehicles (EVs) is available, the demand is there, however, the biggest question remaining is: how to charge the vehicles in a way that will not steal energy from the grid. Industrial Designer, Neville Mars has an idea.
One of the main issues with blades used in building wind power structures is transportation through existing infrastructure - the last thing you want is a massive wind turbine blade jammed under a highway overpass.
What should the path forward be on energy issues?
Well, if you have a spare $100 million to thrown around and a Texas Twang, you too can buy your ways into the Halls of Power with a superficially appealing, yet fundamentally unsound, "answer" to America's energy problems.
