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Green Light Distrikt
Green Light Distrikt is about entrepreneurship focused on the cleantech sector. Edited by Chris Williams with frequent guest posts from friends, experts and industry insiders from clusters across the globe. Our goal is to provide a place where cleantech entrepreneurs in various clusters across the globe can learn from one another. Green Light Distrikt is creating the "Hitchikers Guide to Clentech" to provide a resource for cleantech entrepreneurs. Read more
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CleanTech Events
June 23rd, 2011
Is Solar PV Worth It?
TOPICS: CleanTech Events, Green Building, Local Events, NEW YORK, Renewable Energy, Resource Efficiency, Solar
“Oppositions: Pennies From Heaven?” event with Urban Green Council in New York City was a debate about whether solar PV was worth the premium cost compared to less capital-intensive strategies such as energy efficiency measures. The event felt like the judges had made up their minds before the defendants had a chance to testify – the event was hosted at the $1B Bank of America Tower, one of the greenest office buildings in the world, and yes one that lacks solar PV. But the most damning arguments were yet to come. Read past the break for the full story and join the Green Light Distrikt Facebook group for updates on new events, blog posts and more.
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June 21st, 2011
The Value of a Negawatt
TOPICS: CleanTech Events, Local Events, NEW YORK, Resource Efficiency, Resources
A few weeks ago a member of the Green Light Distrikt community, Sarah Jayanthi from Solar One, kindly invited me to a panel discuss on “The Value of a Negawatt.” Negawatt power “is a theoretical unit of power representing an amount of energy (measured in watts) saved. The energy saved is a direct result of energy conservation or increased efficiency” (Wikipedia). Read past the break for the full story and join the Green Light Distrikt Facebook group for updates on new events, blog posts and more.
May 25th, 2011
Energy Bar is Open (Boston) + Value of a Negawatt (NYC)
TOPICS: BOSTON, CleanTech Events, NEW YORK
There are two great events happening tomorrow in Boston and NYC.
In Boston, Green Light Distrikt will be hosting the inaugural of our new bi-monthly gathering, Energy Bar, in conjunction with Venture Cafe in Kendell Square.
In New York City, Clean Energy Connections along with NYC ACRE will be hosting the “Value of a Negawatt: Startups & The Energy Efficiency Boom”. Tickets can be on the Clean Energy Connections homepage.
More details on both events below.
April 18th, 2011
In Solar’s Coming of Age, What are the Next Opportunities?
TOPICS: CleanTech Events, Solar
At the recent SolarTech Leadership Summit, which took place March 29 and 30 in Santa Clara, CA, 200 industry thought leaders from California and around the country gathered to assess the greatest needs in the industry and suggest concrete actions to take in order to fill those gaps. These included topics from paperwork process standardization in permitting to better defining career paths to fill talent needs at growing companies to shifts on the utility level from transmission upgrades to demand response. How can entrants into the solar industry best position themselves to tackle these problems?
The theme of this year’s summit was Solar 3.0: A Path from Policy to Profitability. With the last steps in the California Solar Initiative (CSI), the longest-running solar incentive program in the nation, approaching, how to best transition to a unsubsidised industry and how to communicate lessons learned in California were hot topics. Markets in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic are rapidly growing and have developed their own policies and programs. Conversations with CSI program administrators revealed that utilities, policymakers, and program administrators have not clear collaborated across the country on fostering and integrating solar.
April 18th, 2011
A Tale of Shale: Drill Baby Drill or Too ‘Fracking’ Risky?
BOSTON -In 2008, when National Grid and NStar started to offer 50% or 100% wind energy as an alternative to natural gas as an electricity source, I was thrilled. The apartment renter in me has always struggled with the surprisingly few options that I have to reduce my dependence on polluting, foreign energy sources. But then something strange happened. Over the ensuing years, my electricity bills remained low while the wind offset fee grew threefold. On Saturday at the Tufts Energy Conference, I learned that part of the answer was tied to something called shale natural gas.
According to Stephen Leahy, Vice President of Policy & Analysis at the Northeast Gas Association, natural gas prices have been slashed in half over the past decade due to the “staggering” numbers of shale drilling sites and estimated 2-8 million cubic feet of natural gas per day that are extracted from each site. American. Plentiful. Lower emissions than other fossil fuels. According to Mr. Leahy and fellow panelist David Rosner, Associate Director of the National Commission on Energy Policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center, shale natural gas is one of the few good news energy stories over the past few years. Or is it?
