- Hydro Ottawa has applied to the Ontario Energy Board to increase its rates by 1.1 per cent as of Jan. 1, which would be the third rise in electricity prices in a year. - Ottawa residents can expect their electricity bills to soar by more than 40 per cent by 2015, according to an analysis filed with the Ontario Energy Board. - Energy marketing firms continue to object to giving consumers side-by-side rate comparisons - A building was evacuated at Carleton University after staff discovered two suspicious envelopes, one with the word "bomb" marked on it. - Seventy-one per cent of B.C. residents surveyed in a new Angus Reid poll say they’re buying less as a result of the Harmonized Sales Tax. - The corner of Road 13 and Cloet Road northeast of Simcoe looks like any other typical rural landscape: gently rolling hills, a few farmhouses and random traffic set against a sea of green soybean plants.[...] - Thanks, Joe Warmington, for writing “Access denied” (Sept. 7). Not only do the disabled not have complete access to restaurants, pubs and subways, but just try looking for an apartment that is accessible. I tried for three months to find an apartment in a wheelchair-accessible building. - Hey, $50 is $50. Since Premier Dalton McGuinty, out of the goodness of his … uh … heart, is prepared to give parents up to $50 through a tax credit to help defray the costs of extra-curricular activities for kids under 16, we aren’t going to tell him to take it back. - Dozens of mallet-wielding cyclists from across Ontario and parts of the United States are competing in Ottawa this weekend in the fourth annual Northside bike polo tournament. - Calendar Tip: Click on a date to see what's happening in your community! Add An Event Tip: Keep the community up to date with our shared Events Calendar. You can have your event up and posted in just a couple of minutes with our easy to use Event Information form.
- CAMARILLO, Calif. -- Power-One, Inc. , a leading provider of renewable energy and energy-efficient power conversion and power management solutions, announced today that it has commenced production of its renewable energy inverters for the Photovoltaic and Wind markets in Ontario, Canada. - China overtook of the U.S. to lead a quarterly index of the most attractive countries for renewable energy projects for the first time, according to the the global accounting firm Ernst & Young, which compiles the list. - CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - 09/08/10) - Suncor Energy today announced that, together with an affiliate, it has reached an agreement to sell a number of UK offshore assets for GBP 240 million (approximately Cdn $390 million) to an affiliate of Dana Petroleum plc, with an effective date of July 1, 2010. The sale involves Petro-Canada UK Limited's interests in 12 offshore production and ... - MILWAUKEE, WI--(Marketwire - 09/07/10) - ZBB Energy Corporation (AMEX: ZBB - News ), a leading developer of intelligent, renewable energy power platforms, today reported increased annual revenues for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2010. Net loss on the basis of accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (GAAP) was $9.6 million or $0.74 per diluted share in the year ended June ... - SEAL BEACH, Calif.--Clean Energy Fuels Corp. has completed the acquisition of substantially all of the assets of IMW Industries, Ltd. (IMW). IMW manufactures and services advanced natural gas fueling compressors and related equipment that is sold to station operators and commercial fleets and has provided more than 1,000 installations in over 20 countries. - Pattern Energy Group LP today announced that MetLife has made an equity partnership investment in Pattern's Gulf Wind project . Gulf Wind is a fully operational 283 megawatt wind farm located in Kenedy County, Texas that produces clean energy equivalent to the power needs of 80,000 Texas homes. - CALIBRE SPEAKERS AND 4,000 PARTICIPANTS WILL GATHER IN MONTREAL TO DEBATE THE WORLD ENERGY SITUATION FROM SEPTEMBER 12 TO 14 - OXFORD, Mich.----ITW Futura Coatings, a division of Illinois Tool Works, Inc., has introduced the first window foam with renewable agricultural content. The new Foamseal® E-Z Fill™ Plus Window Foam, produced in Oxford, Michigan, replaces some of its petroleum-based content with renewable corn, soy and castor plant material. - CAMARILLO, Calif. -- Power-One, Inc. , a leading provider of renewable energy and energy-efficient power conversion and power management solutions, today announced the launch of its PVI-250 and PVI-300 Central PV inverters for the North American marketplace. - Government officials from around the world used to come to Long Beach, Southern California's industrial port city, to catch a glimpse of the future: Two-story piles of trash would disappear into a furnace and eventually be transformed into electricity to...
- The goal of the presentation is to provide an overview of utility communication technologies and outline the value of VSAT satellite and where it fits in with communications networks currently used to support the smart grid. In this presentation, iDirect will share key findings and implications - The Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories is investing $8.5 million for four projects that have reached Stage III of the Solar Energy Grid Integration Systems (SEGIS) program. - Doble Engineering Co. has introduced the PDS100 Partial Discharge Surveyor, a handheld RF interference tool that detects partial discharges in live high-voltage substations. - Hipotronics, Inc. has received a 2010 Exporter of the Year award from ThinkGlobal Inc., publisher of Commercial News USA, the official export promotion magazine of the U.S. Department of Commerce - Onset, supplier of data loggers, has announced a new online professional training course on data loggers for performance monitoring. - LumaSense Technologies has acquired fiber optic sensing technology from Canada-based Opsens Inc. used to help energy companies identify transformer hot spots and perform critical high-voltage equipment temperature monitoring - Alstom Grid’s Instrument Transformers has developed a new range of digital
instrument transformers solutions enabling full IEC 61850 implementation. - The Profile P3 from Kelvatek offers a range of new features that make both the capture and analysis of a circuit breaker's first trip easier and less time consuming. - Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. (SEL) has released the SEL-734B Monitor and Capacitor Bank Control. - Public power utilities monitored the progress of Hurricane Earl throughout the week and were prepared to quickly respond to any outages and are pleased to announce that none were experienced.
- 300 HIGH-CALIBRE SPEAKERS AND 4,000 PARTICIPANTS WILL GATHER IN MONTREAL TO DEBATE THE WORLD ENERGY SITUATION FROM SEPTEMBER 12 TO 14 MONTREAL, Sept. 7 /CNW Telbec/ - The sessions of the World Energy - (all amounts in USD unless stated otherwise) VANCOUVER, Sept. 3 /CNW/ - Magma Energy Corp. (TSX: MXY) announces that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Magma Energy Sweden A.B., today has closed the
- In an effort to promote trade and investment in the solar industry between the U.S. and India the U.S.-India Business Council (USIBC) was formed this week. The USIBC is comprised of private-sector companies and seeks to help the United States' export solar technologies while furthering India's goal of reducing its dependence on imported coal and fossil fuels through the use of solar energy. The USIBC Solar Task Force is a subcommittee of USIBC's Energy, Environment, Enterprise (EEE) Executive Committee, which is comprised of more than 100 members. - 
A group of businessmen, farmers and renewable energy advocates who met today to support Alex Sink for Governor, were abruptly met with an attack from the Rick Scott campaign. - 
What about a recently laid-off woman who now pushes a reel mower yard to yard to make money? Would lawn lady's be a green job created, a general job lost, or would the two cancel one another for a net job gain of zero? - The evolving discussion over renewable energy technologies has a tendency to get a bit technical. Most of us who work in the renewable energy space take for granted that many potential customers, investors and partners haven't spent any time in academia studying photovaltaics or wind turbines. In fact, they may not have a background in general energy metrics. Terms that once belonged to the realm of industry-insider jargon are quickly becoming standard. Thus, anyone who wants to follow the renewable versus traditional energy debate needs to know what we mean when we say "watt." Here, then, is a brief crash course in energy lingo. - 
A significant piece of good news for the ambitious €400 billion (Dh1.87 trillion, US $509 billion) scheme came in April, when one of its members, Germany's Solar Millennium, said its 150 MW Kuraymat project in Egypt was nearing completion and could serve as a template for other north African solar farms. - 
A new low-cost etching technique developed at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory can put a trillion holes in a silicon wafer the size of a compact disc. - 
Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C. is pleased to announce the Shine-On Solar edition of the Clean Energy Patent Growth Index (CEPGI) by the firm's Cleantech Group. - 
In what they are calling a "clear and easy choice" for the future of the renewable energy industry, the Florida Alliance for Renewable Energy (FARE), announced today their endorsement of State CFO Alex Sink for Governor and encouraged every organization, business and individual involved in the renewable energy industry to do the same. - 
Remember back in the good 'ol days of 2008 when manufacturing solar PV below a dollar a watt was a big deal? How quaint that vision seems today. - 
From PV data and market growth to state solar and regulatory policies, from DOE and Solar ABCs updates to clean energy workforce development and credentialing, IREC has again assembled some of the best in the business to share the latest information on these issues at its 2010 Annual Meeting on Monday, October 11, in Los Angeles. - 
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Schneider Electric announced today its participation at the 25th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition (EU PVSEC), the world's largest international conference for solar technology, in Valencia, Spain, from September 6-9, 2010. Schneider Electric will display its global solutions for a wide array of photovoltaic (PV) markets including solar farms, large commercial, residential, off-grid and backup power. These solutions range from inverters, switchgear, and monitoring to security products from Schneider Electric's vast offering of electrical and energy management solutions.
- The debate, hosted by Toronto Greenhouse and moderated by yours truly, took place this evening. Please come back after noon on Wednesday for access to a transcript of the event and to post any followup questions you may have. Candidates have been invited to visit this site and answer questions. Stay tuned. UPDATE: After a sincere [...] - A new report from Friends of Earth is taking aim at several companies — including Canada’s Kimminic Corp. of Mississauga — for buying up land in Africa and clearing it so biofuel crops can be grown. The group claims that Kimminic has purchased 13,000 hectares of land in Ghana that will be used to grow [...] - I meant to review Joe Romm’s most recent book Straight Up a few months ago but didn’t really dig into it until I started research for my own book. Also, I’ve been regularly following his blog, www.climateprogress.org, since it was started and much of the content in the book — a compilation of his best [...] - My Clean Break column for this Monday acknowledges Home Depot for selling the first sub-$20 LED lightbulb for a standard household light socket. It was only months ago — weeks, even — that the $40 pricepoint was being tossed around. These lower prices can’t come any faster. I respect the compact fluorescent bulb, I really [...] - Just had my first spin of a Mitsubishi i-MiEV today and quite enjoyed it. I’ve driven the plug-in Prius (retrofitted by Hymotion), the Tesla Roadster and a ways back a $1-million fuel cell Ford Focus, and have to say that being a person who lives in a big city and lives in a two-car household, [...] - The Ontario government directed the province’s power authority today to negotiate an agreement to purchase biomass power from Ontario Power Generation, a move that marks the beginning of a three-year coal-to-biomass conversion project at the Atikokan power station about 200 kilometres northwest of Thunder Bay. “Once converted, the plant is expected to generate 150 million [...] - Ontario’s solar market is boomin’ baby. California-based market research firm iSuppli came out with a report today that forecasts rapid growth of solar PV installations in Ontario, though warns of a bottleneck in production during the first half of 2011 as developers struggle to meet stricter local content requirements. In 2009 Ontari0 had 69 MW of [...] - ZENN’s third-quarter earnings aren’t looking good, and neither it seems is its relationship with EEStor. I can only speculate, of course, because the company is saying squat, but the language of the press release gives us a few hints: The company is “developing high-voltage drivetrain solutions that can best take advantage of the unique capabilities [...] - Last week I spent a few days in Halifax, Nova Scotia as a guest of Nova Scotia Power, which covered the cost of my trip. There I spoke with several N.S. Power executives, N.S. Premier Darrell Dexter, and toured a number of electricity generation sites — gas, tidal, wind. I had heard the province was [...] - Where do Toronto’s mayoral candidates stand on green government, green energy, green jobs, climate change and the role of municipalities? We’re about to find out on Aug. 31. I’ll be moderating a debate between the candidates at the National Club on 303 Bay St. between 6:30 and 10:00 p.m., an event put together by Toronto Greenhouse. [...]
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BusinessGreen.com Staff, BusinessGreen, Wednesday 8 September 2010 at 00:15:00
New indices to help investors track performance of green and ethical firms
MSCI yesterday became the latest investment advisory firm to launch a series of environmental indices designed to help investors assess the performance of green firms....
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James Murray, BusinessGreen, Wednesday 8 September 2010 at 00:15:00
Industry fearful that large number of solar and micro wind early adopters have not yet registered to enter feed-in tariff scheme
Over 4,500 pioneering early adopters of solar and other forms of micro-generation technology could be in danger of missing out on the government's new feed-in tariff incentive scheme....
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BusinessGreen.com Staff, BusinessGreen, Tuesday 7 September 2010 at 00:15:00
Coalition of insurance firms issue statement urging governments to support public-private initiatives designed to accelerate rollout of climate-related insurance policies
Over 100 of the world's leading insurance companies joined forces yesterday to urge world leaders to draw on the industry's expertise to shape climate adaptation policies for developing countries being...
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BusinessGreen.com staff, BusinessGreen, Tuesday 7 September 2010 at 00:15:00
South West RDA announces successful installation of pioneering marine-energy test device off the Cornish coast
After seven years in the making and a series of last-minute delays, the South West Regional Development Agency (RDA) has finally installed its pioneering Wave Hub device off the north...
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BusinessGreen.com staff, BusinessGreen, Tuesday 7 September 2010 at 00:15:00
Bidding process gets under way for right to run flagship energy efficiency fund
Plans to provide up to £50m in funding to energy efficiency projects across the capital will move a step closer to reality today when the London Development Agency (LDA) begins...
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BusinessGreen.com Staff, BusinessGreen, Tuesday 7 September 2010 at 16:50:00
Early bird rate for How Big Is Your Footprint? lecture available for one more week
BusinessGreen.com has today extended its special offer to readers for the upcoming How Big Is Your Footprint? Carbon and the Future of Business Management lecture evening by one more week....
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James Murray, BusinessGreen, Tuesday 7 September 2010 at 13:03:00
Australia's new government has the best chance in a generation of passing carbon legislation, but action on climate change is anything but a done deal
To use a suitably Australian idiom it would be wrong to piss on the chips of the country's Green Party just hours after it secured a powerful hold over the...
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BusinessGreen.com staff, BusinessGreen, Tuesday 7 September 2010 at 12:05:00
Think tank warns global oil supply could peak this year resulting in decades of political and economic upheaval
A leaked report prepared for the German government has warned that global oil supplies could peak as early as this year, triggering widespread market failures and a shift in the...
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BusinessGreen.com Staff, BusinessGreen, Tuesday 7 September 2010 at 11:34:00
Technology modeled on plant's self-repairing capability promises to extend the life of solar panels
For years scientists have managed to develop solar cells that are highly efficient in laboratory conditions, but quickly deteriorate when asked to cope with direct sunlight – which constitutes something...
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Trewin Restorick, BusinessGreen, Tuesday 7 September 2010 at 10:46:00
Trewin Restorick questions the wisdom of the "mind-blowingly complicated" CRC scheme
There are less than six weeks before organisations need to register for the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC). Almost 1,600 organisations have registered, which is about half the number now expected...
