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Many of India’s solar projects are being connected to the grid to generate power for cities. But some companies are looking to build businesses off of solar for off-grid rural India, including solar developer SunEdison, which announced a new rural solar project in India on Wednesday. Read more »

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There is still not a solar panel capable of displacing electricity from fossil fuels. Disruption calls for smart innovation; several companies are ready for the challenge. The clear winner will be the solar-energy player that breaks new records in solar efficiency without the breaking the bank. Read more at GigaOM Pro »

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India is struggling to add more electricity capacity for the country’s rapidly growing economy, but the domestic coal industry is an absolute mess. That situation means that India could possibly be one of the most high-growth solar markets in the world. Read more »

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Buried in last week’s catfight between Apple and Greenpeace over the energy sourcing for Apple’s new North Carolina data center and how clean it would be, was a surprising fact—that the conversation between Apple and Greenpeace was happening at all.
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Professor Tom Murphy looks at a future that will inevitably be dependent on fossil fuels for quite some time. What does this future look like? Read more »

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The solar industry has begun 2012 with some trepidation, with many on the warpath to cut costs and reduce output. These moves give the market a chance to reduce inventories and get production more in sync with demand. But recovery will likely come slowly. Read more at GigaOM Pro »

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Utility scale energy storage doesn’t get the type of attention as, solar or electric cars — particularly a tech as dry as compressed air energy storage. But startups are innovating in this area, and two in particular are moving ever closer to commercialization: SustainX and General Compression. Read more »

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The latest twist in the road to comprehensive climate and energy legislation arrived on Wednesday, in the form of Sen. Dick Lugar’s (R-Ind.) proposal for what he calls the “Practical Energy and Climate Plan.” Read more »

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Duke Energy says cost estimates for an Indiana coal plant (designed to test carbon capture and storage technology and use what’s called integrated gasification combined cycle tech) have ballooned to $2.88 billion, up from original estimate of less than $2 billion. Read more »

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Peabody Energy, the world’s largest coal company, has taken a shine to an idea from a Silicon Valley startup to capture and recycle carbon emissions. The coal giant announced today that it has invested $15 million into 3-year-old Calera, which has developed technology to capture carbon […] Read more »

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A new year often starts with reflection and resolutions, looking back on where you’ve been and making wishes for where you hope to go. Just as important to your success, though, is what’s happening in each given moment. Here are a few things you’ll need with […] Read more »

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Three carbon capture and sequestration projects valued at a total of $3.18 billion have scored $979 million in stimulus funds, according to a release from the Department of Energy. In all, the three projects — each a commercial-scale demonstration of a heretofore experimental technology for scrubbing […] Read more »

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Definite GOP Votes for Climate Bill: “There are definite Republican votes,” for the Senate’s climate legislation, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) said today, “and we hope to grow that over the next weeks and months.” — The Hill’s E2-Wire Lockheed Martin Backs MIT Greentech Research: Lockheed Martin […] Read more »

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AppleGazette’s Kevin Whipps addresses the quandary over how to choose between a MacBook and a MacBook Pro, noting that it used to be that if you wanted a 13-inch Mac laptop (excluding the MacBook Air), the only option was the original MacBook. Now with a 13-inch […] Read more »

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Penelope Trunk thinks that most of the career tools out there don’t cut it in today’s world. Every job site or social network requires a resume that follows a traditional format, but many of us can’t make our resumes fit that format. We no longer spend […] Read more »

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Cash for Clunkers Tally: Cash for clunkers may not be the most cost-effective emission reducer, but trade-ins under the program have resulted in an average fuel economy gain of 9.6 MPG, which translates to an estimated $1,000 in savings at the gas pump and 660,000 metric […] Read more »

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Citi Investment Research’s Mark Mahaney said today he’d been convinced that online video companies like YouTube can become profitable because infrastructure prices have come down dramatically. After holding a call with RampRate, the IT services analysts who’d recently declared that YouTube’s costs were vastly overestimated, Citi […] Read more »

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So much for the “rapid restart” that Department of Energy Chief Steven Chu had in mind for the FutureGen project, a controversial public-private initiative to test experimental carbon capture and storage technology at a new 275 MW coal plant. Less than two weeks after Chu announced […] Read more »

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FriendFeed rolled out a new file-sharing feature on its site this afternoon in hopes of encouraging more organizations to use FriendFeed as a collaboration tool. On its blog, FriendFeed explained: This has been an especially popular request from organizations and companies that collaborate using FriendFeed groups. […] Read more »

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Thaw Nears for Frozen Climate Bill?: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman has come close to an agreement on the energy and climate bill with Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson, who earlier this week warned of a rural Democrat “revolt” over the legislation if not […] Read more »

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Development of the public-private “cleaner coal” demo project known as FutureGen has been anything but smooth sailing. Plans for a 275 MW coal-fired power plant equipped with experimental carbon capture technology ran hugely over budget in the early stages, and hit a dead end when the […] Read more »

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It’s been a mixed bag for coal this week, with some companies throwing in the towel on planned coal power plants and others slipping coal plants by regulators with compromises. In a time when Congress is mulling not whether, but how to implement a cap-and-trade system […] Read more »

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Despite what much of the coal industry likes to say about “clean coal,” capturing and storing carbon emissions from coal power plants remains an experimental technology that’s unproven at commercial scale. Powerspan Corp., however, has just pocketed $50 million in new financing from a heavy-hitting group […] Read more »

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Palin on Climate Change: Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who has previously questioned the science behind predictions of sea ice loss, acknowledged yesterday that climate change is harming her state, but said increased natural-gas production could mitigate its effects. — Los Angeles Times Peapod on the Way: […] Read more »

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Brits Go Ahead With Green Auto Bailout: Jaguar Land Rover and Nissan’s British factory have won hundreds of millions of dollars in loans to develop cleaner vehicle technology. The money comes from the European Investment Bank in the first round of money for UK-based carmakers. — […] Read more »

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Buying Time: The draft energy bill introduced in Congress last week leaves a big hole for the business-as-usual development of traditional coal-fired power plants over the next six years. — WSJ’s Environmental Capital Cash for Clunkers Under Fire: A growing chorus of critics say cash-for-clunker programs […] Read more »

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OK, so coal isn’t actually going anywhere, but plans for coal plants in the US continue to get the ax. The reason: concerned power companies are facing difficult economic times — not to mention the likelihood of upcoming regulation that would put a price on carbon, […] Read more »

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Carbon capture and storage technology has barely left the trial stage — let alone be proven as safe or effective at commercial scale. But according to a new report from Emerging Energy Research, the industry could be “well-positioned” for commercialization by 2016 if demonstration projects go […] Read more »

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The current downturn is likely to be a tipping point for e-commerce, as thrifty buyers search for bargains on the web. We saw early signs of this trend recently when Amazon reported great sales performance for the holiday season — quite the opposite of its brick-and-mortar […] Read more »

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I have worked hard in my office all week but the beautiful weather today enticed me out from behind the desk and down to the neighborhood coffee shop.  I’ve been here for a while but sadly the experience hasn’t been as good nor as productive as […] Read more »

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Instead of shoveling coal into the furnace, Ontario wants to go big with biomass. The province’s four coal-fired power plants are set to be phased out by 2014, but why let those plants go to waste when they could keep on working, but with lower emissions? […] Read more »

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It may not have arrived at Macworld, as some thought possible, but it looks like we could yet see a quad-core iMac from Apple in 2009. The rumors have gained renewed strength based on news from Intel regarding new, low power quad-core processors that they’ve just […] Read more »

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The Edison Electric Institute, which represents about 70 percent of U.S. electricity producers, revealed a new industry wish list for climate change legislation this morning. The group voted last week to support national mandates to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 80 percent below current levels by […] Read more »

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