Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Utilities and Regulators Consider Biomass Power Plants

As U.S. electric utilities continue to wrestle with how to cost effectively cut CO2 emissions and meet their renewable electricity goals, biomass could be starting to gain popularity as a clean energy technology that can help power suppliers do just that.

Source: http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2011/08/seeing-the-forest-and-the-trees-utilities-and-regulators-consider-biomass-power-plants?cmpid=rss

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The Intelligy Energy Management System by Millennium Electronics

Intelligy Energy Management System

Preserving the energy sources is one of the biggest challenges for all the nations across the world. For this, we would have to reduce our energy consumption from personal to occupational level. We have limited energy sources and would have to use them with utmost caution. Millennium Electronics Pty. Ltd. has come up with a latest energy management system called Intelligy, which will serve the great purpose of reducing energy consumption.

Energy management system is one of the modern day technological innovations, which can help us in reducing our energy consumption and manage it efficiently. It is a system uploaded with computer-aided tools. It is used by electricity operators to monitor, manage, and optimize the performance of the generation and transmission system.

Intelligy helps you in having a complete control over your energy consumption. It helps in reducing energy consumption, which in turn cuts down your electricity bills and lessens the negative impacts on environment. Intelligy is a system, which facilitates evaluation, monitoring and controlling of the usage of power sources and various costs incurred on them. This system helps in controlling all the wireless appliances connected to it from one central position. Usage and consumption can be seen immediately - hourly, daily, or monthly. It helps in making right decisions about your energy consumption and cost involved with it.

Intelligy is a user-friendly system. It has a touch screen. Its graphical user interface is easy to read and understand which shows usage and consumption costs in pictorial form of all electronic equipments that are connected wirelessly to the system. Consumer can see all the information about consumption and use of electronic appliances from one position. The light ring around the display notifies the consumers about avoiding maximum load stage. It can be programmed to alert the consumer if it becomes overloaded. It is easy to install and use. It is Zigbee SEP certified and could help in making people aware about their energy consumption habits, thus bringing a positive change in their thinking towards environment.

Via: Designawards

Source: http://www.solarfeeds.com/ecofriend/17814-the-intelligy-energy-management-system-by-millennium-electronics

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Video: Rolls-Royce 102 EX Phantom Electric, Geneva Motor Show

An all-electric Rolls-Royce Phantom. Just think about it: If the engineers do their jobs properly, the occupants should sense absolutely no difference in the near-silent, creamy smooth surge of power that wafts them from estate to yacht, or factory to mansion. And now we have video, courtesy of Rolls-Royce itself, whose CEO Torsten Müller-Ötvös discusses [...]

Source: http://jordaneske.ws/video-rolls-royce-102-ex-phantom-electric-geneva-motor-show/

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Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Utilities and Regulators Consider Biomass Power Plants

As U.S. electric utilities continue to wrestle with how to cost effectively cut CO2 emissions and meet their renewable electricity goals, biomass could be starting to gain popularity as a clean energy technology that can help power suppliers do just that.

Source: http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2011/08/seeing-the-forest-and-the-trees-utilities-and-regulators-consider-biomass-power-plants?cmpid=rss

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NYSE Euronext: World's First Carbon-Neutral Exchange $NYX

NYSE Euronext (NYX) is the first global exchange operator to achieve carbon neutral status.

Building on its existing energy efficiency and conservation efforts, the company annonced today that it has purchased renewable-energy certificates and carbon offsets that together neutralize the remaining environmental impact of the company's global operations.

Revenue from the sale of renewable-energy certificates (RECs) and carbon offsets (COs) provides important economic support to projects involving renewable energy and greenhouse-gas-emission reduction projects. By financially rewarding these projects for their environmental benefits, RECs and COs help encourage the development of similar projects.

This year's purchase makes NYSE Euronext carbon-neutral for 2010. The RECs and COs, which are Green-e certified, are purchased retroactively; so that the company can measure how much energy was used and purchase the appropriate amount of certificates and offsets to match it.

The RECs, purchased from 3Degrees, match the company's electricity usage. Each REC represents the generation of one megawatt-hour of electricity from renewable resources such as wind, solar, geothermal, low-impact hydroelectric, or biomass.

The carbon offsets, also purchased from 3Degrees, represent one metric ton of carbon dioxide-equivalent greenhouse gas emissions reduced or avoided. All aspects of carbon emission at NYSE Euronext were taken into account, ranging from electricity usage and onsite generators, to vehicles and employee travel. The company says the project involved months of planning, assessment, measurement and verification.

NYSE Euronext's green power and carbon balancing commitment will help avoid an estimated 91,508 metric tons of CO2 greenhouse gas emissions.

Using calculations from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies Calculator, this amount is equivalent to the CO2 emissions generated from consuming or burning 212,809 barrels of oil, or the emissions from the use of electricity at 11,105 average homes, or the carbon sequestered annually by 19,511 acres of forest preserved from deforestation.

This initiative complements other energy efficiency and conservation efforts at NYSE Euronext. For example, earlier this year the company completed the installation of an array of solar electricity panels at its Basildon, England data center, which is the largest installation of its kind in the United Kingdom - capable of meeting up to 20% of the data center's current power requirements.

NYSE Euronext says it is actively considering similar initiatives for its U.S. locations. The company also was named last year to the Dow Jones Sustainability Index and the Carbon Disclosure Project's S&P 500 Leadership Index.

Original Article on SustainableBusiness.com

Source: http://www.solarfeeds.com/sustainable-businesscom/17805-nyse-euronext-worlds-first-carbon-neutral-exchange-nyx

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Brazil Soars in Clean Energy Rankings

There is an old joke that says Brazil is the country of the future ? and always will be. But with rapid economic growth, the government claiming that some 40 million people have been lifted out of poverty in the past decade and the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro on the horizon, it seems the joke is about to fall flat. Brazil's time has arrived and the country of sun, sea and samba is keen to showcase itself to the world as a positive example of how to exploit renewable energy sources as well as how to perform on the football pitch.

Source: http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2011/09/brazil-sets-the-pace-in-clean-energy?cmpid=rss

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