Solar Microgrids in Tanzania: Maasai Stoves & Solar Project International Collaborative 81 Kirkland Street, Unit 2, Cambridge, MA … [Read more...]
Thrive Solar®
On Friday 11/14/14, Ranganayakulu Bodavula Ph D, Chairman and Managing Director of Thrive® Solar Energy Pvt Ltd (http://www.thriveenergy.co.in), spoke at Harvard’s Center for Population Studies … [Read more...]
Caribbean Solar Sailboat Project
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sailing-for-solar-bringing-workshops-to-caribbean-communities Help empower coastal Caribbean communities with a solar sailboat that will provide workshops and materials for solar electric modules, solar … [Read more...]
Solar Christmas Present
Wakawaka (http://us.waka-waka.com) makes a super efficient, sustainable, lightweight, sturdy and compact solar phone charger and lamp. It enables you to charge virtually any type of (smart)phone or small electronic device within just a few … [Read more...]
Net Zero and Beyond
Cambridge, MA has been debating a net zero energy and/or emissions standard (http://www.netzerocambridge.org) for new buildings over 25,000 square feet since the Spring of 2013, partially because of an ecodistrict plan with MIT and others … [Read more...]
Retiring NE’s Coal and Oil Electric Plants
The Restructuring Roundtable is a mostly monthly (it takes the summer months off) meeting of the energy sector in Boston that takes a morning to discuss energy issues in depth with the major players from all around NE. There is also much … [Read more...]
Overreliance on Gas, Offshore Wind Delay Burning New England
Natural gas has been pitched as a "bridge fuel" by those who don't want to transition New England's electricity supply from dirty fossil fuels like coal and oil to clean energy sources like solar and wind right away. But the toll on the … [Read more...]
2009 Energy Use in the USA
Energy consumption from 2008 to 2009 declined slightly, as did our efficiency: http://www.dailykos.com/story/... The estimated U.S. energy use in 2008 equaled 99.2 quadrillion BTUs ("quads"), down from 101.5 quadrillion BTUs in 2007.... … [Read more...]
Cape Wind political work not done yet (with poll)
Folks around here are plugged in enough to know about the Cape Wind project. What you may be in the dark about is the three public hearings coming up quickly. Renew your interest. Take charge of our future. Speak … [Read more...]
National Grid wants more money.
The cost of electricity and it's transmission is already way over the top. from wggb.com The largest electric utility in Massachusetts wants to use the extra $111 million in revenue to upgrade its electrical distribution system and … [Read more...]