Tag Archives: efficiency
The 10 Hottest Green Investment Industries
There are new innovations and ideas generated each day in the cleantech / green sectors. This article helps to separate the hype from the truly revolutionary breakthroughs. Here is a 2011 article from Research White Paper that reviews ten sectors garnering interest from investors. They asked 100 venture capital investors about what types of sub-sectors they [...]
CdTe PV Efficiency Record Goes Back to First Solar
Last month we reported on how General Electric quietly stole the cadmium telluride (CdTe) solar cell effficiency crown from First Solar (NASDAQ: FSLR) — with a solar cell clocking in at 18.3 percent. When I asked First Solar CTO Raffi Garabedian for a comment at the time, he was respectful, but said that it didn’t [...]
VC’s Focus on Energy Efficiency Companies
Venture capital firms that focus on cleantech are looking for the next big area to invest in, and they seem to have settled on smart grid, energy storage and other efficiency technologies. “We are going through a repositioning of cleantech,” Wal van Lierop, founder of Chrysalix Energy Venture Capital, told Bloomberg. “The big sectors – [...]
The Internet’s Carbon Footprint
Please consider the environment before not printing this page. That request asking you to kindly not print your last email might have the best of intentions for our environment, but it fails to take into account a major factor which influences the “sustainability” of your decision; the internet. Advice related to paper and the environment [...]
Brown (UPS) Goes Green in New Jersey
On Feb. 19 UPS said it is adding in more solar with two new 1.2 megawatt rooftop solar PV installations at its Parsippany and Secaucus locations in New Jersey. The former was completed last fall and the latter will be completed in Spring 2013. The shipping giant said it chose to go solar in New [...]
The Kingtec K25Z-4 Solar Air Conditioner
Kingtec Solar is proud to announce the availability of its 16000 BTU 18.8 E.E.R. Rated air conditioning unit that runs entirely on solar power. Charleston, South Carolina, October 4, 2012 —Driven by a passion to create a window air-conditioner that runs off solar power, Kingtec Solar’s Jamie Edens took inspiration from the DC-powered air-conditioners that cool long-haul [...]
The Future of Sustainable Business Practices
The move to alternative energy is a crucial one! The news that we will surpass 4 degrees in global temperature is dire news. How do you feel with a 4 degree temperature, that’s 102 degrees? Life cannot sustain that. We ALL live in a fairly narrow temperature band. As critical as removing carbon is, there [...]
Why Anyone Can Learn How to Design A Zero Net Energy Home
Last year the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association launched a year-round ‘Masters Series’ to extend the reach of popular Building Energy Conference. Marc Rosenbaum, one of the most popular presenters at the conference, taught a Zero Net Energy Homes course – I was asked to help as an administrator, and what I witnessed was the greatest [...]
Modern Building Design and Energy Efficiency
While architecture for many years was solely related to the appearance of a building, there have been many changes in recent years. Given the level of environmental awareness that we are all now expected to have, modern architecture is reflective of this. Today’s new buildings are greener and more energy efficient than ever before. We [...]