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[The speakers] noted that production tax credits were set to expire at the end of 2012, and that without them, the wind turbine manufacturing and production industry, with an estimated 78,000 jobs nationwide, might be facing serious layoffs.

This is what the $100 million that NRG Energy is obligated by a legal settlement to invest in battery electric vehicle (BEV) charging infrastructure in California will buy for plug-in car owners:

Nissan and General Electric share their vision of the smart grid of the future in this Automotive News video.

The Chinese solar market will grow far faster than anyone expects, as Beijing grasps for ways to support battered domestic PV manufacturers, predicts Paolo Frankl, head of the renewable-energy unit at the International Energy Agency (IEA).

This is the only report on supercapacitors and supercabatteries with up to date ten year forecasts and analysis of market, emerging applications, technology, patent and profit trends and the manufacturers and researchers involved.

These countries' incumbent meter manufacturers want to own future smart meter markets, and governments often impose local manufacturing mandates.  Echelon's idea is to give regional meter manufacturers a tool to hook their smart meters to devices like solar panel and battery inverters, grid sensors, plug-in vehicle chargers and other grid devices, all over Echelon’s grid networking and software infrastructure. 

Main Street Power, Clean Power Finance, and a subsidiary of New York investment bank Morgan Stanley are partnering to finance as much as $300M in residential solar power leases in Arizona and California.

The report investigates key smart grid challenges and highlights leading projects from around the world.  It is based on research from current GSGF member markets in Australia, Canada, continental Europe, Great Britain, Ireland, South Korea, Japan and the U.S.

This "Lithium-air" approach shows enormous theoretical potential to slash the weight and cost of battery packs. In 2009, IBM took a very long-term bet to see if it could realize this theoretical promise. The resulting project, dubbed Battery 500, aims to produce batteries able to propel an EV 500 miles on a single charge, roughly matching the range of a tank of gas.

The Global Smart Grid Federation (GSGF), a collaboration among national and regional smart grid associations from around the world, announced the release of its inaugural report on the global state of smart grid.. The report investigates the key challenges facing deployment of smart grid as well as highlights leading projects from around the world. The report is based on extensive research from current GSGF member markets; Australia, Canada, Continental Europe, Great Britain, Ireland, Korea, Japan and the United States.

Raymond Orbach's energy campus goes beyond the engineering department. It harnesses the resources of many of the schools on the University of Texas at Austin campus to foster a diversified approach toward solving energy issues. The former Department of Energy undersecretary for science - the department's first chief scientist - is out to build the preeminent center of energy research and development.

"We found that if you used DC instead of AC and your building has fluorescent light, the cost is basically the same or slightly higher with DC," said a Carnegie Mellon researcher.  But if light emitting diodes (LEDs) were installed instead of fluorescent lamps, CMU researchers found a savings of $24,000 per year using DC instead of AC. If the LEDs were powered with solar PV power augmented with grid electricity, larger savings of $5,000 per year could be gained.

The report then goes into further detail on the European markets for smart meters, demand response, electric vehicles, distributed generation and energy storage. The report proceeds to explain the smart grid industry's dynamics in Europe, identifying the ...

The DoD's goal of deploying 3GW of renewable energy by 2025 is one of the largest commitments to clean energy in history. From the Air Force's recently announced project to install over $1B of distributed solar on bases and installations across the country, to the Army's new Energy Initiatives Task Force (EITF) program that plans to issue PPAs in 2012 for 2GW of power, the services are planning installations ranging from utility-scale to rooftop solar for base housing.

Infocast announced its Power Generation Asset Financing Summit at the Digital Sandbox in New York, NY from May 21-23, 2012. The Summit Key dealmakers and financiers will gather to explore the latest trends and opportunities, while providing the market intelligence that you will need to get the inside track on the market.

"The energy intensity of the U.S. economy, measured by primary energy use per dollar of gross domestic product, declines by 42% from 2010 to 2035" according to the DoE.  That is an extraordinary rise in the efficiency of energy use. The United States will use less fuel to create more wealth.  Clean 2011 energy invesments: US $50B, China $45.5B, Germany $30.6B.

Stoel Rives partner Aaron Courtney will speak about the New Army Corps Nationwide Permits for Renewable Energy Facilities during a one-hour expert analysis telebriefing on Wednesday, April 25.

Pike Research's report, "Virtual Power Plants", provides an in-depth assessment of the market opportunity for VPPs including a comprehensive examination of the four major market segments: demand response-based VPPs, supply-side VPPs, mixed asset VPPs, and wholesale auction VPPs. The report includes detailed market forecasts through 2017, with three growth scenarios for each segment.

The US House of Representatives' Appropriations Committee on Tuesday released its draft fiscal 2013 budget for the US Department of Energy, giving the agency $26.3 billion, a cut of $358 million below the current year's level and $1.8 billion below the President's request.  Reflecting differences in priorities between the President and the Republican majority in the House, the committee's draft budget significantly boosts DOE's funding for fossil energy research, and does not increase energy efficiency and renewable energy funding.