Evolving Energy Tech

L.A.'s Coal Ban Leads To Another Abandoned Power Plant

greenbiz.com | Tilde Herrera, July 13, 2009 | Posted 08.14.2009 | Green


The Intermountain Power Agency (IPA) announced Thursday it has given up plans to build an additional coal-fired unit. Its biggest customer -- the city...

Exxon To Invest Millions To Make Fuel From Algae

nytimes.com | JAD MOUAWAD | Posted 08.14.2009 | Green


Exxon plans to announce an investment of $600 million in producing liquid transportation fuels from algae -- organisms in water that range from pond s...

Nebraska Gets First All Geothermal Neighborhood

energycurrent.com | Posted 08.13.2009 | Green


Lot sales are underway at The Bridges, a community near Lincoln that will be the first Nebraska subdivision to be completely heated and cooled by geot...

Energy Department To Award $3.3B For Smart Power Grids

Business First of Louisville: | Vandana Sinha | Posted 08.13.2009 | Green


The Department of Energy said it plans to unlock $3.3 billion in federal stimulus grants, of up to $200 million apiece, to companies and utilities to ...

Gore To Back Emissions Reduction

theage.com.au | Posted 08.13.2009 | Green


A fully costed map for how Australia could reduce greenhouse gas emissions "at emergency speed" will be developed with the backing of former US vice-p...

Crude Oil: Bridge To Our Renewable Energy Future

examiner.com | Posted 08.13.2009 | Green


President Obama should spend some time in his own back yard rubbing shoulders with the oil workers of Montana and North Dakota checking on the progres...

Biofuels Are A Long-Term Renewable Solution

politico.com | SEN. JOHN THUNE | | Posted 09.08.2009 | Green


As Congress, the administration and the private sector look for ways to reduce our consumption of imported oil, we should not overlook the most readil...

Stimulus Funds Go To Improving Energy In Texas

myhighplains.com | Posted 08.13.2009 | Green


More than 218-million-dollars in federal stimulus funds are being made available to Texas for public sector energy improvements....

DuPont, BP Receive Go Ahead On Biofuel Venture

The News Journal | Posted 09.08.2009 | Green


DuPont and BP said Thursday that European Union officials have approved a joint venture to develop and produce what they termed a new generation of bi...

Alaska Airlines Joins Boeing's Biofuel Group

Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle): | Posted 08.13.2009 | Green


Alaska Airlines has joined Boeing Co.'s Sustainable Aviation Fuel Users Group, which the aerospace giant formed to accelerate the commercialization of...

All Ships Near California's Coast Must Now Use Cleaner Fuel

treehugger.com | Posted 08.13.2009 | Green


A Californian regulation mandating that all ocean-going vessels within 24 miles of the state's coast must use cleaner burning low-sulfur diesel fuel i...

Obama Opposes Tariffs On Nations That Don't Limit Greenhouse Gas Emissions

treehugger.com | Posted 08.13.2009 | Green


President Obama commented to the Washington Post that he's opposed to one provision in the bill which would impose tariffs on goods produced in nation...

Clean Energy Debate Leads To Regional Divide

nytimes.com | MATTHEW L. WALD | Posted 08.13.2009 | Green


While most lawmakers accept that more renewable energy is needed on the nation's grid, the debate over the giant climate-change and energy bill now be...

British PM Calls For $100 Billion Global Green Fund

AFP | Posted 08.13.2009 | Green


British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Friday called for a global fund worth $100 billion a year to tackle climate change in the developing world, ahead ...

Stimulus Money May Finally Flow To Green Energy

forbes.com | Brian S. Wesbury and Robert Stein | Posted 08.13.2009 | Green


It's been a long time coming, but green energy business are about to get their promised boost from the economic stimulus package that President Obama ...

Stimulus Money Goes To Nissan, Ford, Tesla

ecogeek.org | Posted 08.13.2009 | Green


Both the big auto giants and the lightweight electric startups applied for as much of said money as possible, and the Department of Energy is moments ...

Fuel-Cell Toyota By 2015

AFP | Posted 08.13.2009 | Green


Toyota Motor, the world's top automaker, plans to roll out a fuel-cell car by 2015 in its push to stay ahead in the global race for green autos, vice ...

$1.49 For Gas From Hyundai

BusinessWeek | David Kiley | Posted 08.13.2009 | Green


On Tuesday, June 30, the Korean automaker is launching a summer promotion that guarantees buyers of its vehicles one year's worth of gas at $1.49 per ...

Utah Buildings Deemed Eco-Friendly, Energy-Efficient

Salt Lake Tribune | Posted 08.13.2009 | Green


A year after its opening, the building housing the Mark Miller Toyota-Scion dealership in downtown Salt Lake City has received a Gold LEED certificati...

GM Finally Goes Green

treehugger.com | Posted 08.13.2009 | Green


That's right, forget all about that smoggy past--the new, green GM is here to stay. It looks like the auto giant is about to undergo some serious rebr...

U.S. Pulp-Maker Creates New Biofuel

Reuters | Posted 09.08.2009 | Green


But along with its usual business of pulp-making, the century-old mill is doing something unprecedented: Developing technology to produce bio-butanol,...

Newly Uncovered Enzymes Turn Corn Plant Waste Into Biofuel

Ethiopian News | Posted 08.13.2009 | Green


Cellulose-loving fungi can cut biofuel costs by enabling existing corn ethanol plants to process cheaper, woody feedstocks such as corn stover....

Unknown Water Demands Of Biofuel Feedstocks

nytimes.com | KATIE HOWELL of Greenwire | Posted 08.13.2009 | Green


Extensive studies are needed to understand the water needs of biofuel production from cellulosic feedstocks or other next-generation sources, federal ...

From Rice Straw To Diesel Fuel

Sacramento Bee | Jim Downing | Posted 08.13.2009 | Green


A local nonprofit that has developed a method for turning rice straw and wood waste into diesel fuel has attracted some big business backers....

Green Gasoline Producer Tunes Its Product

mysanantonio.com | Posted 08.13.2009 | Green


The company, called Terrabon, is perfecting a renewable fuel it calls "green gasoline" that is nearly identical to petroleum gasoline but can be made ...