Posts Tagged ‘energy efficiency’

Thursday, January 28, 2010: Policies to promote renewable energy and energy efficiency have been gaining momentum throughout the world, often justified by environmental and energy security concerns. This presentation first talks about energy efficiency options, then delves into the economic motivation for energy efficiency and renewable energy policies by articulating the classes of relevant behavioral failures and market failures. Such behavioral and market failures may vary intertemporally or atemporally; the temporal structure and the extent of the failures are the critical considerations in the development of energy policies. The talk discusses key policy instruments and assess the extent to which they are well-suited to correct for failures with different structures. http://eetd.lbl.gov/dls/lecture-01-28-10-sweeney.html

Duration : 1:3:1

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Technorati Tags: energy efficiency, Renewables

Susan McGinnis anchors this morning’s Clean Skies News Energy Report from Washington, D.C.
On the Program:
- China now leads the U.S. in spending on solar and wind for first time.- Senators Maria Cantwell and Susan Collins push cap and dividend plan over cap and trade.- Nuclear waste blue ribbon panel meets today amid concerns on where to put spent fuel from 21 new nuclear plant contracts signed during Bush administration.- Bill gives FERC authority to protect electric grid from cyber attacks.- Fannie and Freddie push back against energy efficiency loan plan.- Court rules against landowners in Marcellus Lease suit.- U.S. domestic crude production up for the first time in 20 years.- GE to spend $450 million to expand offshore wind in Europe.- UN report: deforestation rate down in Brazil and Indonesia.
www.cleanskies.com

Duration : 0:7:37

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Technorati Tags: cap and dividend, clean energy, Clean Skies News, cyber attack, electric grid, energy efficiency

President Obama touts his clean energy economy plans on his visit to OPOWER in Arlington. The three-year-old company creates software products that promote energy efficiency and works with utility companies to help customers save money and energy.

Duration : 0:7:57

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Technorati Tags: Barack Obama, Clean Skies News, clean-energy jobs, energy efficiency, job growth, OPower, politics

Mr. Kalland gives the Leaders Roundtable an overview of his work at the NC Solar Center, renewable energy and the connection to green jobs.

Steve Kalland is the Director of the North Carolina Solar Center and has over 12 years of experience in energy policy, particularly with renewable energy and energy efficiency. He currently directs the Solar Centers Policy Division and leads the efforts to develop new research and programmatic opportunities for the Center.

Duration : 0:9:47

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Technorati Tags: energy efficiency, Green Jobs, North Carolina Solar Center, renewable energy, Solar Power

(November 18, 2009) John Benner, Manager of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s Electronic Materials and Devices research group, discusses the factors and bottlenecks involved in scaling various photovoltaic technologies to national and international production scales.

Stanford University

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National Renewable Energy Laboratory

http://www.nrel.gov

Stanford Energy Seminar

http://energyseminar.stanford.edu

Stanford University Channel on YouTube
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Duration : 0:58:58

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Technorati Tags: climate change, economics, energy efficiency, energy policy, Environment, greenhouse gases, Photovoltaics, renewable energy, solar