Archive for the ‘Wind-Turbines’ Category
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
T. Boone Pickens, the proverbial man with a plan, says Obama made the right call by choosing Rahm Emanuel to be his chief of staff.Congressman Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) is a "BIG supporter" of shifting America's energy economy from oil to natural gas. Emanuel has apparently met with Boone on at ...
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Sunday, November 9th, 2008
New York's Attorney General, Andrew Cuomo, released the nation's first code of ethics for wind-energy companies last week. The code is an effort to resolve an investigation AG Cuomo began in July related to alleged improprieties in the actions of two wind-power companies in soliciting local support for large scale ...
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
T. Boone Pickens has delayed work on a state permit to build 170 miles of transmission lines carrying enough wind energy to power 300,000 homes, raising concerns that the much heralded Pickens plan may not pan out as planned.
Earlier this year, Pickens ordered nearly 670 turbines for the ...
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
Quieter than a whisper, the SWIFT Wind Turbine, the first rooftop wind turbine installed in the United States, was pioneered by Cascade Engineering. The first rooftop installation went live early today in Muskegon, Mich., providing businesses and homeowners in windy environments an effective solution to lower energy bills and reduce ...
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Monday, September 29th, 2008
T. Boone Pickens, the epic oilman turned hedge fund manager turned energy independence evangelists, has watched his hedge funds lose roughly $1 billion this year. Pickens has personally lost $270 million. The firm’s commodity fund, which started the year with $600 million, is down 84% through August, while its $2 ...
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Monday, September 29th, 2008
Two hedge funds have partnered in a project seeking to build a huge wind farm off Rhode Island that will provide 15% of that state’s power.
Deepwater Wind, which is owned by Ospraie Management, D.E. Shaw Group and First Wind, were chosen from seven groups that offered proposals to the Ocean ...
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Thursday, September 25th, 2008
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Small-scale wind power has attracted new attention as a promising microgeneration technology for reducing greenhouse gases. The technology includes any wind turbine that generates less than 50 kilowatts when operating at capacity.
In the past few years, multiple new small scale wind power products have entered commercial markets in the ...
Posted in Carbon, Climate-Change, Eco-Efficiency, Electricity, Finance, Private Equity, Research, Silicon Valley, Start-ups, Sustainability, Venture Capital, Wind-Power, Wind-Turbines | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
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As Congress braces for an intensely partisan battle over the future of offshore oil drilling, the U.S. Department of Interior is evaluating a clutch of new projects proposing to build massive offshore wind-power farms in precisely the same areas declared no-go zones for oil and gas drilling.
In 2005, Congress gave ...
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Monday, September 8th, 2008
Cape Farewell, Greenland: The Windiest Place in the World
Greenland is the world’s largest island, with an area of over 2 million square kilometers; however, much of the island is covered by an ice cap that can reach thicknesses of 3 kilometers. This photograph (taken by NASA) illustrates the southernmost tip ...
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