geothermal
Greenbang’s a little confused this morning – confused by the words of Michael Bloomberg, New York’s Mayor. The fella gave a speech a couple of days ago to the National Clean Energy Summit. It sounded good. It went a bit like this: “Today, we’re taking a step that
texas
Greenbang doesn’t know if you’ve been watching a bit of the Olympics at the weekend – or if instead you have a life – but if like her, you’ve been cloistered away watching everything from ping pong to men’s weightlifting, the highlight of the weekend was the gold
starck
Let’s play a word association game (think Mallett’s Mallet but without the threat of violence from a berk with a rubber hammer). Cat (Greenbang imagines you’re thinking ‘cat’). Food (Greenbang guess you’re thinking ‘eat’). Greenbang says word (bet your response is ‘association’). And last one? Philippe
rural
Greenbang went to the country once. She wasn’t quite sure what all the fuss was about – sure, there’s scenery that would bring a tear to a glass eye and country pubs with open fires and salt-of-the-earth landlords but could you get a Ginsters pasty and a bottle of
energy
Like a student house and Ikea, or bananas and custard, or Boris Johnson and a blancmange made of razor blades, some things naturally go together. Today’s Romeo and Juliet are US utility Duke Energy and Catamount Energy Corporation, who were united in a $240 million buy. Duke’s acquisition
energy
The government has gone literally green crazy with its latest renewables plan – 15 percent renewables by 2020. Here’s the highlight of what the government wants to ahead with: * Extending and raising the level of the Renewables Obligation to encourage 30-35% of our electricity to come from renewable sources by
delaware
Things the US did before the UK: Ate Krispy Kreme donuts Put a man on the moon Played American football Things the UK did before the US: Played proper football Put up offshore wind farms Yep, while the UK coastline may have a handful of wind farms already up and
GE
The theory goes that smokers are a net benefit to society. Before Greenbang gets her pigtails pulled by anti-smoking lobbyists, she is talking on a purely economic basis: the money earned in tax is greater than the money the state pays out in smoking related diseases. Ladies and gentleman, Greenbang
savills
If you’d like the follow the herd, rather than go out and buy Coldplay’s album (in the name of all that’s good and right, don’t do that), but rather sell off your wind farms. Earlier this week, Savills divested itself of half its wind joint venture
koop
Savills, no relation to Jimmy or Row, better known for being a posh estate agent, pulled off a rather interesting deal last week. The company flogged off its half of the wind farm joint venture Infinergy to its partner in the venture, Koop Duurzame Energie. The sale of Infinergy, which
tower
Today’s guessing game of the day: where’s the largest fuel cell instillation in the world? With Nasa? Underwater? In Kuala Lumpur? The National Grid? Keeping Jeremy Clarkson’s ego powered up to brain imploding levels? Recycling the ‘Ken Livingstone for Mayor’ campaign badges? All good, but as Catchphrase’
mainstream
How do you follow up a massive success? If you’re the Crazy World of Arthur Brown, the simple answer is you don’t: you make Fire and then you go back and sit around for a bit, not bothering the top 40. Eddie O’Connor, the brains behind Airtricity
