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01/26/2012
01:36 PM
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Integrating Anaerobic Digestion Into Our Culture Part 1: Language, Visuals and Values
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 North America is at an inflection point in managing organic materials. Just as paper, metal and plastics were the darlings of the recycling industry a few decades ago, our society is defining a new relationship with organic materials — one that harnesses the full carbon, energy and nutrient potential of organics. In order to help shape that new relationship, industry leaders are cultivating North America's awareness and understanding of anaerobic digestion's features, benefits and potential role in society. This two-part article explores the ways the waste, energy and agricultural industries are integrating this technology into our culture.
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01/26/2012
08:37 AM
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Dark Clouds Threaten German Clean Energy Ambitions
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 During the fourteen years that I've lived in Switzerland, the Germans have been the world's staunchest supporters of green power and alternative energy. Their aggressive development of wind power was breathtaking, as was their warm embrace of photovoltaic power.
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01/25/2012
07:33 AM
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Smart Grid Initiatives Address Cyber Security, Renewable Energy Intermittency
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 Securitizing renewable energy networks from cyber-attacks is not complicated by their oft-cited operational headache of intermittency, but rather by their separation from a utility's control system, said smart grid executives at the Gridwise Global Forum in Washington, DC in early November. Though renewable intermittency adds to the challenge of stabilizing a grid, the forum revealed new evidence of real-world smart grid load shifting that continues to chip away at the tired argument that renewable energy cannot successfully integrate into a legacy grid.
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01/23/2012
08:03 AM
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Asia Report: China Has Strong Words Over U.S. Wind Trade Investigation
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 So far, the complaint by American wind tower manufacturers against their competition from Asia has mirrored the solar industry petition filed in October.
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