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Green Career Trends: Dow Makes Solar Roof Shingles, Lipton Tea Factory Now Zero-Landfill Waste, Largest Wind Farm in Texas
New Jersey Board of Public Utilities Green Jobs Training Program
The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities recently approved $900,000 to provide three grants of $300,000 each to enhance existing “green” jobs training programs currently being funded by the Department of Labor and Workforce Development.
To learn more click here to visit the website.Wind power on track for 20% share by 2030
(07/20/2009 1:14 PM EDT)
PORTLAND, Ore.—Wind power is on track for a 10-fold increase that would supply 20 percent of U.S. generated electricity by 2030, according to the annual Wind Power Report from the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) prepared by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
SolarEdge Is Planning a Revolution — PV Systems To Become More Efficient
GE just invested in them. Now, Guy Sella, founder and CEO of Israeli company SolarEdge, is planning a revolution. Don’t be alarmed though, this one isn’t dangerous. His goal is to transform the way photovoltaic systems are now operated, in terms of efficiency, safety and cost.
IBM and Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute Launch Smart Grid Framework
IBM and a group of leading utilities -- the Global Intelligent Utility Network Coalition -- today announced that they handed over stewardship of their Smart Grid Maturity Model to the Carnegie Mellon(R) Software Engineering Institute (SEI). As progressive utilities around the globe modernize power grids with digital technology, executives want to know that making the grid smarter is the right thing to do and they want to know how to do it.The Green Energy Career guide provides an overview of the career opportunities within the Renewable Energy industries.
Gleanings from the web and the world, condensed for convenience, illustrated for enlightenment, arranged for impact...LATEST NEW ENERGY JOB TRENDS – JOBS! (AND WHERE THEY ARE)
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December 21, 2009
After Copenhagen: Impct, Change and Implementation
A conversation with Nick Pennell and Rob Fowler
One clear result of the United Nations Climate Change conference in Copenhagen is a renewed call for corporations around the world to accelerate their efforts on carbon footprint reduction. In these highlights, excerpted from a video conversation held near the end of the two-week conference, Booz & Company Partner Nick Pennell (who coordinates the firm’s carbon activities) and Senior Associate Rob Fowler (a global expert in climate change and carbon trading) foresee a new wave of business activity...