Jeremy Rifkin   “In the 21st century, hundreds of millions--and eventually billions--of human beings will transform their buildings into power plants to harvest renewable energies on site, store those energies in the form of hydrogen and share electricity, peer-to-peer, across local, regional, national and continental inter-grids that act much like the Internet. The open source sharing of energy, like open source sharing of information, will give rise to collaborative energy spaces--not unlike the collaborative social spaces that currently exist on the Internet.”
 
-- Author Jeremy Rifkin, The Empathic Civilization, Jan. 11, 2010

 
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  • February 2010
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  • 02.26.10 With SmartGridCity in Place, the Focus Shifts to Applications 
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  • 02.26.10 Bloom Energy fuel cell claim raises hype, questions
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  • 02.25.10 Sunetric Starts Construction on PV System for Kona Brewing
  • 02.25.10 Real Goods Solar Celebrates Completion of 417kW Solar Electric Installation  
  • 02.25.10 Blackstone’s Transmission Developers plans $3.8bn clean energy power line
  • 02.25.10 Texas Utility Will Help Homeowners Go Solar
  • 02.25.10 Should a Thin Film Manufacturer Integrate Downstream?
  • 02.25.10 Defining telcos role in remote energy management
  • 02.25.10 Video: Q&A With Bloom Energy’s Founder, Next Gen Fuel Cells and More
  • 02.25.10 Axion Power Awarded Grant To Develop Solar Power Storage System
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  • 02.25.10 Siemens acquires stake in ocean power market
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  • 02.25.10 Walmart’s Journey to Sustainability
  • 02.24.10 MetLife and John Hancock Finance 19-MW Solar Power Plant 
  • 02.24.10 Solar companies power up education at schools in San Diego
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  • 02.24.10 Bloom Energy Fuel Cell Launch at eBay
  • 02.24.10 Video: How Microsoft Will Make Energy Like the Internet
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  • 02.18.10 California Legislature Passes Bill to Raise Solar Net Metering Cap
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  • 02.18.10 Stimulus funds for clean energy largely unspent
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  • 02.17.10 NV Energy Signs Power Purchase Agreement for 50 MW Solar Project 
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  • 02.16.10 Evolution or Revolution In Solar Cell Technology? 
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  • 02.13.10 SunPower launches Web 2.0 tools for managing solar energy generation 
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  • 02.12.10 Advanced Energy Inverters Selected for San Francisco 5 MW Solar Project 
  • 02.12.10 HVDC: the Future of the Grid
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  • 02.12.10 Nissan to take Leaf reservations in April
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  • 02.11.10 SunPower to acquire SunRay Renewable Energy 
  • 02.11.10 Con Edison Wants to Incentivize 25MW of Rooftop Solar in NYC
  • 02.11.10 Tres Amigas HVDC Substation Project Under Criticism, CEO Responds
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  • 02.10.10 Financial Crisis Paves the Way for Chinese Solar Giants 
  • 02.10.10 Smart grid: A value proposition for industry
  • 02.10.10 After 40 years on the job, Joe Hebert reflects on covering energy and environment
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  • 02.09.10 Peterborough Utilities to Construct 10 MW Solar Farm
  • 02.09.10 NREL: Feed-in Tariffs Legal in US When Certain Conditions Met
  • 02.09.10 The Electric Taxi, Courtesy of Ford 
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  • 02.08.10 10 Million Solar Roofs and 10 Million Gallons of Solar Water Heating Act Introduced 
  • 02.08.10 America’s Largest Thin Film Solar Project is Up-and-Running in California
  • 02.08.10 Ausra Solar Gets Bought By Areva 
  • 02.08.10 The Super Bowl Gets Solar
  • 02.08.10 SunPower Names Key Equipment Finance as U.S. Equipment Finance Partner
  • 02.08.10 Any hope for meaningful U.S. climate policy? A somewhat positive view
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  • 02.08.10 Video: Inside Masdar City - Abu Dhabi’s ambitious green city is underway
  • 02.08.10 “Revenue-neutral”: The last hope for climate change legislation?
  • 02.07.10 NY Net Metering: The Fix Is In
  • 02.06.10 Earth, wind and wire: Going beyond solar panels
  • 02.05.10 Bright Future Seen for ‘Bite-Size’ Solar Power 
  • 02.05.10 Sharp powers up solar panel production in Memphis
  • 02.05.10 Crafting National Standards for Renewable Energy
  • 02.05.10 Renewable energy commitment could double jobs
  • 02.05.10 Lower Prices for U.S. Solar in 2010?
  • 02.05.10 Why green business is like teen sex MarcGunther.com
  • 02.05.10 Growing the Green Evolution EnergyBizInsider.com
  • 02.05.10 A chat with Sen. Bernie Sanders on his new 10 million solar roofs bill  
  • 02.05.10 FERC rules battery storage devices qualify as transmission facilities
  • 02.05.10 Ballard power systems to showcase hydrogen cell buses during Olympics
  • 02.04.10 A Boom in ‘Distributed’ Solar Projects 
  • 02.04.10 Rivermoor Energy Starts Construction on 240-kW Solar System in Boston
  • 02.04.10 Suntech exec sees excess solar supply coming to US
  • 02.04.10 10 Denver-area Wells Fargo branches install solar-power systems 
  • 02.04.10 SunEdison Activates First Phase of its 16MW North Carolina Solar Farm
  • 02.04.10 For Hawaii, big push to go green is natural
  • 02.04.10 Micro-inverters vs. Central Inverters: Is There a Clear Winner?  
  • 02.04.10 Global Wind Installations Boom, Up 31% in 2009
  • 02.04.10 New Feed in Tariff Report From NREL
  • 02.04.10 Obama Unveils Plans To Boost Biofuel Market 
  • 02.04.10 Billions to be spent on smart-grid cybersecurity
  • 02.04.10 Measuring the smart-grid effect
  • 02.04.10 San Diego Firm Builds Oceangoing Electric Vessel
  • 02.04.10 Wind power growth limited by radar conflicts
  • 02.03.10 Electricity 2.0: Smart grid will bring internet-like energy revolution
  • 02.03.10 Utilities seek long-term green deals 
  • 02.03.10 Classifying the Top Utility-Scale PV Developers in the United States
  • 02.03.10 TVA Selects SmartSynch For its Renewable Program
  • 02.03.10 Google Slowly Adding Users for Energy Tool PowerMeter
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  • 02.03.10 Report on Ultracapacitors: Major Advances on Tap
  • 02.03.10 Investment Dollars Flow to Green Energy Start-Ups
  • 02.02.10 600kW Roof Solar System to be Installed at Minneapolis Convention Center
  • 02.02.10 Siliken to Build PV Module Production Plant in Ontario
  • 02.02.10 GE Dedicates $45M Renewable Energy Global HQ in NY
  • 02.02.10 PV Powered Selected for 5 MW Solar Project in Oregon
  • 02.02.10 Large-scale distributed energy is here: Recurrent Energy signs 50MW PPA 
  • 02.02.10 Sacramento Solar Power Plant Expansion On Track 
  • 02.02.10 German FDP opposes solar incentive cuts
  • 02.02.10 Obama Visits MIT, Pushes Clean Energy 
  • 02.02.10 High-tech aerogels wrap homes with insulation
  • 02.02.10 The power of small changes MarcGunther.com
  • 02.02.10 A Comeback for Corn Ethanol?
  • 02.01.10 United Kingdom to Establish Feed in Tariffs 
  • 02.01.10 China’s Smart Grid Investments Growing 
  • 02.01.10 Why senators don’t see the clean energy boom
  • 02.01.10 Solyndra: 1.9 MW Project Installed, But Story Remains Fraught With Uncertainty
  • 02.01.10 Home 2.0, With Fuel Cells (video)
  • 02.01.10 NYC Finance Forum Turnout Shows Growing Interest in Geothermal Energy
  • 02.01.10 Digging into Obama’s 2011 budget on energy and the environment
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  • 02.01.10 REpower & RWE Innogy Reach 295-MW Offshore Wind Deal 
  • 02.01.10 Mitsubishi, Weyerhaeuser to Explore Strategic Biomass-to-Energy Venture
  • 02.01.10 Clean-Coal Power Plant Set for Texas
  • 02.01.10 The Age of the 800-kV HVDC
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