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A building with an energy all its own
Report on Business 11/11/08
Fritz
Lang likely never dreamed of this for his futuristic city in Metropolis:
Offices and retail centres that harness the earth, wind, sun - and even people
- to generate energy for their own needs, to share with adjacent buildings, or
to sell to the power grid.
It may
seem the stuff of a filmmaker's fantasy, but some architects believe buildings
that require zero energy from public utilities - and might double as power
plants in their own right - will become common over the next decade.
Obama plan could boost US solar industry
Ciol 11/11/08
President-elect Barack Obama's New Energy for
• A federal renewable portfolio standard (RPS) that
requires 10 percent of electricity consumed in the
• A $150 billion investment over 10 years in research, technology demonstration and commercial deployment of clean energy technology.
• Extension of production tax credits for five years to encourage renewable energy production.
• A cap-and-trade system of carbon credits to provide an incentive for businesses to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Worldwide Energy and Manufacturing USA Announces New Solar Module
Marketwatch 11/10/08
Worldwide Energy and Manufacturing USA, Inc., a U.S.-based
China engineering and manufacturing company specializing in photovoltaic module
technology and international contract manufacturing for products in the solar
energy, aerospace, wireless telecommunications, medical equipment and
automotive industries, today announced the establishment of a new solar module
production and R&D facility. Worldwide Energy and Manufacturing has leased
a 128,000-square-foot facility in
A ray of sunshine for solar energy
John Paul Morgan
was a cutting-edge engineer at JDS Uniphase Corp., back when the optical
telecom giant was a market titan and solar power was still perceived by many as
a backwoods technology for off-grid tree huggers.
Seven years later,
the high-tech whiz kid has become a solar hotshot. Morgan has developed a new
type of solar panel that, like many other systems on the market, concentrates
the sun's rays on to high-efficiency solar cells. The big difference is the
simplicity of his design and the lower-cost materials used to build it could soon
make power from the sun as affordable as electricity from fossil fuels.
"Solar City" proves allure of sun's energy in Japan
Yahoo 11/11/08
Solar panels glisten across
Three-quarters of
Panasonic to buy Sanyo, more deals may follow
Rueters 11/7/08
Panasonic Corp said it would acquire smaller rival Sanyo
Electric Co, creating
The acquisition, which one analyst estimated could cost about $8.8 billion, would fortify Panasonic's competitiveness in rechargeable batteries and solar power equipment as demand grows for greener energy sources.
Global investors urge action on climate change
Yahoo 11/11/08
Global institutional investors holding more than $6 trillion in assets pushed policymakers Tuesday to quickly hash out a binding agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions and promote clean technology. More than 130 big investors, including London Pensions Fund Authority, want countries to agree to reduce the climate- warming emissions by 50 percent to 80 percent by 2050.
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