As reported on http://renewableenergyworld.com
 
“More than 4,000 renewable energy professionals from 75 different countries gathered in Las Vegas, Nevada for the sixth annual Renewable Energy World North America conference and expo March 10-12. With more than 225 companies exhibiting, both the exhibit and attendance numbers reflected significant increases over a year ago. Next year’s numbers are again expected to increase. A total of over 5,000 attendees and 300 exhibitors are expected at the Renewable Energy World North America conference and expo in Austin, Texas, February 23-25, 2010.”

“Renewable Energy World North America is owned and managed by PennWell Corporation and is the largest all-renewable conference and exhibition in the world. Conference sessions covered issues related to wind, solar, biomass, hydroelectricity, geothermal and hydrogen technologies, projects and finance.”

 “Renewable Energy World North America has shown exceptional growth in recent years and 2009 was no exception,” said Richard Baker, senior vice president of power for PennWell. “Our association partners, corporate sponsors and growing number of exhibitors are instrumental in making this the premiere all-renewable event in the world. Our host utility, NV Energy, exceeded expectations when it came to their support and involvement.”

“Exhibitors also reported results that exceeded xpectations. “Following our successful launch to the utility industry at DistribuTech, we were excited to keep the momentum going with our debut presence at Renewable Energy World 2009 in Las Vegas,” said Therese Wells, Director of Marketing for Ice Energy. “The visibility and exposure we generated there among key influencers has been invaluable for us as we establish the importance of energy storage as a key enabling technology for the renewable industry. We are excited to be back again in 2010. From DistribuTech to PowerGen to Renewable Energy World, PennWell’s global energy conferences are a fundamental cornerstone of our event strategy.”

 “Renewable Energy World and Power-Gen are the premier power industry trade shows in the United States,” said Chris Huntington, Vice President of Business Development for SkyFuel. “For SkyFuel, these are the crucial venues in which to meet the customers, suppliers and developers with whom we hope to create a new paradigm in the power industry; one in which utility scale solar power is no longer a marginal alternative but a mainstream option.”

“The Keynote Session on March 10 featured Roberto Denis, Senior Vice President of Energy Supply for NV Energy. Following his remarks he was joined on stage by the executive directors of each of the leading renewable industry trade associations for a lively roundtable discussion on the economic stimulus, federal and state policy initiatives and technological breakthroughs. Roundtable participants included Denise Bode, CEO of the American Wind Energy Association; Douglas Durante, Executive Director of the Clean Fuels Development Coalition; Karl Gawell, Executive Director if the Geothermal Energy Association; Linda Church-Ciocci, Executive Director of the National Hydropower Association; Julia Hamm, Executive Director of the Solar Electric Power Association; and Rhone Resch, President & CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association. Edwin F. Feo, Partner in the law firm Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy LLP also took part.”

“Archived video coverage of the event is available by visiting Renewable Energy World.com, the event’s flagship media sponsor.”

“The 2010 event is scheduled for February 23-25 in Austin, Texas. For more information, visit the Renewable Energy World North America web site at http://www.renewableenergyworld-events.com.”

The largest business-to-business solar conference and expo in North America and the largest in the USA looks forward to seeing you at Solar Power International 2009. More than 800 exhibitors and over 25,000 attendees are expected at this premier event in Anaheim, California at the Anaheim Convention Center, October 27 – 29.

What makes this the premier solar event in North America? It attracts the widest range of professional attendees from all segments of the solar supply chain. It has grown from 1,100 to over 22,500 attendees in five years. There will be approximately 750 companies exhibiting. The money spent there is used to support the solar industry and grow US solar markets. The keynote address this year will be given by Robert Kennedy, Jr., named by Times Magazine as one of the “Heroes for The Planet” for helping restore the Hudson River.

Members of the general public wishing to visit the expo free of charge can stop in Wednesday evening October 26 from 5:30 to 8:30pm. For registration information, list of exhibitors, hotel accomodations, and workshop details visit www.http://www.solarpowerinternational.com.

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Richard Garber, assistant professor of architecture at the College of Architecture and Design at New Jersey Institute of Technology and his student Brian Novello, have put forward a proposal to utilize the tidal action of New York City rivers to produce power for the city. The scheme would, they say, use a network of modular floating docks to harness the energy.

Working at Garber’s firm GRO Architects over the winter break, the two along with Nicole Robertson and Justin Foster (NJSOA ’08) came up with the proposal and entered it in the 2009 Metropolis Magazine Next Generation Design Competition.

The docking stations would plug into the conventional piers of New York City. Eventually, the piers would be extended further into the river to optimize clean energy generation while increasing public green space and tidal pools for wildlife. The system would encourage energy awareness by the increased visibility of the connection between the water’s edge and the city’s interior.

The stations would alleviate the need for conventional power to light the city streets. Three vertical turbines fastened to the underside of modular floating dock units would harness river currents. Each module could generate up to 24 kilowatts of constant energy created by the bi-directional four mph current, supporting 350 LED streetlamps.

This is an important idea because it relates to the current work aimed at reclaiming access to New York City’s 578 miles of waterfront. The relationship of the river to the city, not simply its edges, is at the core of the proposal. What if the creation of a modular docking system to expand public access to the rivers and create recreational opportunities could actually produce energy by utilizing the flow of river currents? Energy produced could then be fed back to the city’s power grid through existing underground transmission lines to power urban infrastructure–in this case, streetlamps.

There is already precedent for turbines creating energy in the waters off New York City though the Roosevelt Island Tidal Energy project (RITE). However, this new scheme would generate a similar amount of energy while creating new public spaces and tidal pools through which expanded contact with river-based programs could occur.

In an article dated: Monday July 13, 2009
By GreenBiz Staff - GreenBiz Staff

This report from the nonprofit Environment California charts the growth of solar power installations in California, and ranks that state’s top cities for solar development.

From the executive summary of the report:
Solar power is a no-brainer energy resource for California. Cleaner than fossil fuels, safer than a nuclear power, and one of the most reliable sources of electricity, solar power is a critical part of California’s clean energy future.

At the beginning of 2009, California was home to approximately 51,000 solar roofs, totaling more than 500 megawatts of solar power capacity. California has seen tremendous growth in the amount of solar power installed since 1999 when just 500 rooftops hosted a solar system, as illustrated in the chart below.

If California’s solar market experiences a similar rate of growth over the coming ten years, approximately 45-50 percent of compound annual growth, the state will be on track to meet its million solar roofs goal by the start of 2017, as shown in the following chart. Assuming the industry is able to achieve greater economies of scale, due to increased experience from a growing market, the price of solar power should drop by half, creating “grid parity” for the solar photovoltaic market, meaning the cost of investing in a solar system is on par with the cost of purchasing retail electricity.

The vast majority of California’s solar electric systems are on single family homes, typically as a retrofit project to an existing home. However, the number of California businesses, farms, schools, and government buildings hosting solar photovoltaic systems is on the rise, as is the number of new housing developments incorporating solar power into the home during construction.

This report combines data from all the state’s solar photovoltaic rebate programs to determine which cities have the greatest amount of solar power. Data comes from the Public Utilities Commission’s California Solar Initiative and Self Generation Incentive Program, the California Energy Commission’s New Solar Homes Partnership and Emerging Renewables Program, and data from the state’s municipal utilities such as Sacramento Municipal Utility District and Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (See About the Data section at end of this report for more details on the numbers analyzed for this report).

An article dated 7/9/09 featured on http://www.businessgreen.com discusses a commitment by UPS to cut carbon emissions from its airline by an additional 20% more by year 2020. UPS aims to meet this goal through: investing in more fuel efficient aircraft, improving flight paths, and introducing bio-fuels.

UPS has designed a sustainability program whose first goal is to reduce aircraft emissions. Their CEO, Bob Stoffel, has acknowledged that their jet planes are the source of 53% of UPS’s carbon output. Their Sustainability Report – UPS’ Sustainability Report – gives information about their direct and indirect emissions. In this report they urge other transport and logistics firms to disclose their carbon output.

In similar news, Alaska Airlines has initiated a new project to cut emissions across its fleet by utilizing new continuous descent approaches. They deployed new technology and began testing the new landing processes last month at 23 US airports.

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An article on http://greenbiz.com dated June 30, 2009 — Why Counting Carbon Is A Key To Climate Change — tells about a new addition recently erected just outside of Madison Square Garden: an electronic billboard that flashes a real-time count of greenhouse gas (GHG) carbon emissions released into the atmosphere.

Did you know that one of the most promising sources of bio-fuel is from algae? An article written on June 22nd by Jeffrey Decker — Blooming Biofuel: How Algae Could Provide the Solution – and posted on www.renewableenergyworld.com details the exciting news. Algae is 20 times as productive as soy and corn, and there are already over 200 companies around the world researching over 100,000 strains of algae as an alternative fuel.

Algae are tiny plants that yield multiple advantages including releasing oxygen and cleaning water, absorbing CO2, nitrates and phosphates. Algae are also being engineered successfully to yield quality bio-fuel. Algae need a steady supply of CO2. By absorbing this gas they could help minimize CO2 emissions.

Seambiotic Ltd., an Israeli company is already cultivating algae using gas from coal-fired power plants. Their pilot plant turned on in 2005; it will expand to five hectares by year end.

Among the prominent investors here in the USA is Bill Gates and his Cascade Investment LLC who back the efforts of Sapphire Energy of San Diego. Sapphire’s goal is to produce 10,000 barrels in three to five years.

Another California company — Solazyme of San Francisco – has a target of selling diesel fuel by 2012 and could begin as early as next year. A report — All of a sudden… algae is everywhere — produced in October 2008 by Susan Watts describes the activity she was shown on a visit to Solazyme last year. The algae oil they were producing was already certified to match jet fuel.

There is already an algae trade group, Algal Biomass Association, to promote “algal fuels”. As of last year this group already held its second annual summit.

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Monday Marks World Commitment to Wind Energy

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On Monday, June 15, 2009 the first-ever Global Wind Day will be celebrated in 30 countries. Organized by the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC), the awareness campaign for the promotion of wind energy worldwide gives the public an opportunity to show its support for wind energy, celebrate wind power as a near-term solution to global climate change, and highlight jobs and other economic benefits that wind energy investment is bringing to local their communities.

“In the United States, Global Wind Day comes at a time when the nation is surging forward in wind and renewable energy development, but risks loosing this momentum and leaving tens of thousands of jobs on the cutting room floor if we do not adopt a strong renewable energy policy,” said Denise Bode, CEO of the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA). “America trails China and Europe in passing renewable energy policy commitments.  It’s time for a national renewable electricity standard (RES) here in the U.S. to seize this historic opportunity to create jobs, build up our renewable energy industry, and fight climate change.”

The day will be marked by events around the world. In the U.S., AWEA is asking those in the industry and the public at large to call on representatives in Congress to support a stronger national renewable portfolio standard (RPS).
 
AWEA is also organizing a visual petition. Wind energy supporters can submit a photo or a comment that shows how wind energy is making a difference today.

There will be events around the world, including tweet-ups, marches, wind farm open houses, public demonstrations, training events and much more. Click here to see a full list and find events near you:  http://globalwindday.org

RenewableEnergyWorld.com is marking the day by launching our brand-new wind energy focused newsletter. The twice-monthly newsletter will feature in-depth articles and commentary from industry experts on wind technology, policy and finance. It’s your complete source of information for all that’s happening in the wind industry.