Ardour Capital’s 2009 Year-in-review, 2010 Look-ahead
Financial analysts look to the year past and the year ahead reporting on trends in the solar, wind, biofuel, energy storage and efficiency and geothermal sectors. They analyze the U.S. legislative landscape as well.
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Geothermal Industry Seeing New Investments
In October of 2008, Alexander Richter wasn’t sure he would have a job when he returned home to Iceland from a geothermal conference in Nevada. As director of global geothermal development at Glitnir Bank — one of Iceland’s three main banks that was nationalized that month — he was staring into a bleak and uncertain future. And so was the rest of the geothermal industry.
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Unique Applications of Building-Integrated Renewable Energy Systems
Thanks to outdated design, buildings consume close to 70 percent of all U.S. energy, so it’s not surprising that President Barack Obama’s stimulus package includes $65 billion in funding and tax credits for green energy and energy efficiency. But the technology choices for adopting building-integrated renewable energy (BIRE) can still be awe-inspiring: should architects focus on the U.S. subsidy of $5 billion for weatherization, $4.5 billion for transforming federal buildings into green buildings or the $3.6 billion for efficiency and other savings?
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Unique Applications of Building-Integrated Renewable Energy Systems