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By Tom Raftery on March 17, 2010
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The electricity grid may not need “baseload” generation sources like coal and nuclear to backup the variability of supply from renewables.
Jon Wellinghof is the Chairman of the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). FERC is an independent agency that amongst other things, regulates the interstate transmission of electricity, natural gas, and oil [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged baseload, coal, coal fired power, Electricity generation, ferc, Fossil fuel, Nuclear power, Renewable energy, renewables, solar, utilities, Wind power
By Tom Raftery on March 12, 2010
Here is this Friday’s Green Numbers round-up:
11 Siberian tigers starve to death at Chinese zoo
Eleven Siberian tigers died of starvation in north-eastern China’s Liaoning province after a cash-strapped zoo fed them only chicken bones, state media said Friday. The 11 tigers died over the past three months at the privately run Shenyang Forest Wild Animal [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged China, Cisco, energy efficiency ratings, European Union, free-range eggs, Packaging, pyrenees, Renewable energy, siberian tiger
By Tom Raftery on March 11, 2010
In this, the fifth of my Smart Grid Heavy Hitters’ interviews, I talk to the CEO of Tropos Networks, Tom Ayers. Tropos develop wireless broadband networks for Smart Grid applications and offer complete network management, as well as enhanced security features. Tropos is the only wireless broadband network provider with FIPS 140-2 certification.
Tom and I [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged public utility commission, Smart Grid Heavy Hitters, smart grid security, smart growth policies, standards, tom ayers, tropos networks, utility, Video
By Tom Raftery on March 11, 2010
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A perfect storm consisting of the EPA, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and investors is pressuring companies to come clean on their environmental risks and performance.
I wrote a post a couple of weeks ago about FaceBook’s decision to use a primarily coal-burning utility to power its new data center where I [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Carbon dioxide, climate change, Fossil fuel, Greenhouse gas, investors, pollution, Risk, SEC, Securities and Exchange Commission, shareholders
By Tom Raftery on March 5, 2010
HP Named No. 1 on Corporate Responsibility Magazine’s 100 Best Corporate Citizens List
HP today was ranked No. 1 on Corporate Responsibility Magazine’s (formerly known as CRO Magazine) 11th annual 100 Best Corporate Citizens List.
Climbing from fifth place in last year’s rankings, HP gained the No. 1 spot, as a result of its scores in seven [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged green numbers, hp, Porsche, Sustainability, Uncategorized
By Tom Raftery on February 26, 2010
Here is this Friday’s Green Numbers round-up:
Mitsubishi to build £100m UK wind turbine factory | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Government aim of making Britain a centre of green manufacturing win a major boost from plans that will create hundreds of jobs
tags: greennumbers, uk, wind, mitsubishi, wind turbine
Hydrogen taxi cabs to serve London by 2012 Olympics | [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged coal, Efficient energy use, Fuel cell, GreenNumbers, hydrogen, hydrogen taxi, mitsubishi, near threshold computing, pollution, Sierra Club, sustainable investments, uranium, uranium mining, Wind turbine, wisconsin
By Tom Raftery on February 25, 2010
This is the third of my Smart Grid Heavy Hitters’ interviews, and in it I talked to the CTO of Silver Springs Networks, Raj Vaswani.
It was a great interview – in it we talked about:
Raj’s definition and the benefits of a Smart Grid
The fact that, to-date Smart Grids are quite notional
How long it will be [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Energy, GreenMonkTV, home energy portals, raj Vaswani, silver springs networks, smart grid, Smart Grid Heavy Hitters, smart meters, Sustainability, v2g, vehicle to grid, Video
By Tom Raftery on February 23, 2010
Should FaceBook’s investors be worried that the site is sourcing energy for its new data center from primarily coal-fired power?
FaceBook is fourth largest web property (by unique visitor count) and well on its way to becoming third. It is valued in excess of $10 billion and its investors include Russian investment company DST, Accel [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Accel Partners, arsenic, bp, climate change, co2, coal, data center, Electricity generation, Facebook, Fossil fuel power plant, Greenhouse gas, Greylock Partners, investor, investor revolt, mercury, PacifiCorp, pollution, radiation, Risk, selenium, shell
By Tom Raftery on February 19, 2010
Do risk and compliance have a part to play in reducing pollution? EQ2 certainly thinks so.
Steve Burt, the founder and CEO of EQ2, is a former economist having worked at senior levels with Dun & Bradstreet and British Petroleum. His approach, which he calls Granular Resource Economics (GRE), enables companies to quickly see at a [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged As, co2, coal fired power, drax, Granular Resource Economics, Hg, kingsnorth, NOx, pollution, Se, SOx, Sustainability Economics, Sustainable Aviation
By Tom Raftery on February 19, 2010
Here is this Friday’s Green Numbers round-up:
World’s top firms cause $2.2tn of environmental damage, report estimates | Environment | The Guardian
Report for the UN into the activities of the world’s 3,000 biggest companies estimates one-third of profits would be lost if firms were forced to pay for use, loss and damage of environment
tags: greennumbers, [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged belgian chocolate, child labour, child slaves, employee engagement, environmental damage, fair trade, fairtrade, financially accountable, GreenNumbers, Oxfam, pollution, Sustainability
