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Facebook hires Google’s former Green Energy Czar Bill Weihl, and increases its commitment to renewables

Facebook hires Google’s former Green Energy Czar Bill Weihl, and increases its commitment to renewables

By Tom Raftery on December 20, 2011

Google has had an impressive record in renewable energy. They invested over $850m dollars in renewable energy projects to do with geothermal, solar and wind energy. They entered into 20 year power purchase agreements with wind farm producers guaranteeing to buy their energy at an agreed price for twenty years giving the wind farms an […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged bill weihl, coal, datacenter, Energy, Facebook, google, green energy, renewables, unfriend coal

Friday Green Numbers round-up 06/18/2010

Friday Green Numbers round-up 06/18/2010

By Tom Raftery on June 18, 2010

And here is this week’s Green numbers: BP oil spill costs hit $1.6bn | Business The cost of BP’s clean-up operation in the Gulf of Mexico has now hit $1.6bn (£1.1bn), but the final cost of the huge oil spill remains unquantifiable. tags: oilspill, bp, cleanup, clean-up, Gulf of Mexico, greennumbers Money trumps security in […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged bluefin tuna, coal, GreenNumbers, gulf of mexico, joe barton, Natural gas, oil, oilspill, Renewable energy, subsidies, tony hayward

Friday Morning Green Numbers round-up 04/09/2010

Friday Morning Green Numbers round-up 04/09/2010

By Tom Raftery on April 9, 2010

Iowa, Texas tops [US] in wind power efforts Iowa and Texas lead the nation in wind energy efforts, according to the annual report released Thursday from the American Wind Energy Association. Iowa claims the title for the state with the largest percentage of electricity from wind energy. As of the end of 2009, over 14 […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged climate group, coal, doe, EcoFactor, electricity, exxon mobil, General Electric, google, GreenNumbers, massey energy, mining, smart thermostat, wind energy, Wind power

Friday Morning Green Numbers round-up 03/26/2010

Friday Morning Green Numbers round-up 03/26/2010

By Tom Raftery on March 26, 2010

Here is this Friday’s Green Numbers round-up: GE Announces Major European Offshore Wind Expansion with a Planned €340 Million Investment for Manufacturing, Engineering and Service Facilities in Four Countries GE today announced plans to invest approximately €340 million to develop or expand its wind turbine manufacturing, engineering and service facilities in four European countries—the United […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged 1e, Carbon footprint, coal, Corporate Responsibility Magazine, duke energy, energy star, environmental protection agency, ford, freedom of information, GreenNumbers, ibm, Los Angeles, offshore wind, smarter cities, water, Wind power

Is there really any need for baseload power?

Is there really any need for baseload power?

By Tom Raftery on March 17, 2010

Photo credit wonderferret 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 […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged baseload, coal, coal fired power, Electricity generation, ferc, Fossil fuel, Nuclear power, Renewable energy, renewables, solar, utilities, Wind power

Friday Morning Green Numbers round-up 02/26/2010

Friday Morning Green Numbers round-up 02/26/2010

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 […]

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

Should FaceBook’s investors be worried that the site is sourcing energy for its new data center from coal?

Should FaceBook’s investors be worried that the site is sourcing energy for its new data center from coal?

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

Special Delivery – by the Daily WTF

Special Delivery – by the Daily WTF

By Zoli Erdos on December 1, 2009

I’ve had The Daily WTF ever since discovering the SAP Laundry story there… it’s a hit or miss.  But today’s story is a real gem. “Okay, I’m here!” he angrily announced once he stepped foot in the lobby. “So let’s do this! What do I need to—” Brad stopped mid-sentence. His eyes were immediately drawn […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged coal, coding error, commodities, commodity trading, Daily WTF, Humor, virtual trading

Spain gets 53% of its energy from wind!

Spain gets 53% of its energy from wind!

By Tom Raftery on November 14, 2009

Ok, not all the time, but last weekend at 5:50am on Sunday morning (8th Nov) Spain set a new record, hitting 53.7% of its energy requirements being supplied by wind energy.
As you can see from the graph above, the amount of electricity being supplied by wind, the light green portion of the graph, doesn’t […]

Posted in Business | Tagged coal, Red Electrica de España, ree, renewables, wind energy, windfarms

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