Most people don’t know that much of the developing world is still relying on kerosene lamps for light. Kerosene is very expensive and emits toxic fumes, causing millions of deaths every year 1.6 million women and children die every year of resulting respiratory diseases, according to one source. Now one company, a small spinout from [...]
enXcos success is the result of our extensive experience
enXco is committed – in design, development, construction, operations and management – to create the most efficient renewable energy projects possible.In the more than twenty years since enXco was established in 1987, our focus on renewable energy has made us an industry leader in wind project development, and a premier provider of operation and maintenance [...]
Energy Systems Network
An initiative of the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership focused on Indiana’s clean technology opportunity. Clean technologies, or ‘cleantech’ is the collection of industries that bring energy innovations to consumers – from putting hybrid and plug-in electric vehicles on our highways to building the ‘smart grid’ and other advances that make renewable energy a realistic option [...]
Conexus – Indiana
Manufacturing is evolving – it's high-tech, innovative, driven by explosive growth in productivity. In Indiana, we're on the cutting-edge of these trends. And here at the Crossroads of America, we know how to get our goods quickly and efficiently into the hands of customers across the nation and around the world. Now Indiana has another [...]
Why our war game on China’s Smart Grid is as much about geo-politics as it is about technology
This coming month we are running a public war game on The Battle for China’s Smart Grid. We have very quickly seen that this is more than a strategic fight of Western companies for a share of a China mega-infrastructure project. It will likely demonstrate how Western companies can succeed in a very fluid China market – where [...]
Yale Conference on Development Finance and Sustainable Energy
Growing out of the School’s 30 year tradition of exploring the complex relationships among the public, private and non-profit sectors, SOM’s Program on Social Enterprise has been exploring the intersections between development finance and sustainable energy, both within the US and in developing countries. In particular, we want to examine whether the intentional linking of [...]
Distributed Solar: A Powerful Vision – Recurrent Energy
Distributed Solar: A Powerful Vision Recurrent Energy is an independent power producer and a leading developer of distributed solar projects for utilities, government, and commercial customers.We develop, build, and operate distributed solar power systems—typically 2-20 MW each—marketing renewable electricity at competitive rates to customers in North America and Europe.Distributed-scale projects enjoy permitting and interconnection advantages [...]
China Vies to Be Leader in Electric Vehicles – NYTimes.com
TIANJIN, China — Chinese leaders have adopted a plan aimed at turning the country into one of the leading producers of hybrid and all-electric vehicles within three years, and making it the world leader in electric cars and buses after that.Enlarge This Image Doug Kanter for The New York TimesChinese leaders have adopted a plan [...]
Architect – Shigeru Ban – Reusing Materials in Construction
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A Farm on Every Floor – NYTimes.com
IF climate change and population growth progress at their current pace, in roughly 50 years farming as we know it will no longer exist. This means that the majority of people could soon be without enough food or water. But there is a solution that is surprisingly within reach: Move most farming into cities, and [...]