U.S. Secretary of Energy Visits PECO & Awards $200 Million in ...

Oct 29, 2009 ... PHILADELPHIA - (Business Wire) United States Secretary of Energy Dr. Steven Chu came to Philadelphia today to announce a $200 million stimulus award for PECO (NYSE: EXC). One of only six utilities in the country to receive major funding, the grant will help customers save more than $1.5 billion in energy costs and bring the equivalent of about 4,300 jobs to the Greater Philadelphia region. …

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PECO Issues 6 MW Solar RFP

Solar Industry

by SI Staff on Friday 09 October 2009 Philadelphia-based PECO has issued a request for proposals (RFP) to purchase 6 MW of solar power. ...

Viridity aided by stimulus - Philadelphia Business Journal:

Peco Energy Co.’s $200 million federal stimulus grant award last week will translate into $1.179 million for Viridity Energy as a project partner.

SRS Energy Expands Operations with Opening of New Manufacturing Plant

Earthtimes (press release) - London,UK

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- SRS Energy, a leading developer of solar roofing products, has announced the opening of a new manufacturing facility in Montgomery County, Pa. to support the production of its Sole Power Tile(TM) system, the first curved solar roofing tile designed to seamlessly integrate with Mission-style clay tile roofs.

New Report Identifies Ways to Fund Greening Programs in Philadelphia

Earthtimes (press release) - London,UK

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Philadelphia can help ensure a more prosperous future by investing in green infrastructure, according to a report released by the Pennsylvania Environmental Council. …

Pennsylvania NanoMaterials Commercialization Center Announces New ...

Thu Oct 29, 2009 5:35pm EDT … PITTSBURGH--(Business Wire)

The Pennsylvania NanoMaterials Commercialization Center has begun a new initiative for the development of new products and companies using advanced materials technologies within the energy industry. Recently, the Center won a $500,000 grant from Pennsylvania`s Ben Franklin Technology Development Authority to support the effort. …

Six Pittsburgh companies create the US Center for Energy Leadership

Pop City

It's official: Pittsburgh IS a national hub for energy.

Six Pittsburgh energy companies announced the founding of the United States Center for Energy Leadership (USCEL) to be based in Pittsburgh: Plextronics, Westinghouse, Allegheny Energy, EQT, CONSOL Energy and BPL Global.. ...

Pennsylvania Biodiesel Maker Gets $1.6 Mil Grant

Domestic Fuel

HERO BX picked up the $1,640,250 million grant from the Commonwealth Financing Authority and will use nearly $3.3 million of its own money to expand its operations from 45 million gallons to 55 million gallons a year: …

Federal funding will help Voith resume multi-million dollar project

HydroWorld

By Christina Kauffman, The York Dispatch, Pa. Nov. 5--Voith Hydro in West Manchester Township is expected to benefit from a round of federal funding announced Wednesday morning at the plant by Kristina Johnson, U.S. undersecretary of energy.

Under the American Recovery Reinvestment Act of 2009, the government is directing $30.6 million toward hydropower initiatives. The money is being matched with another $117 million in private money, for a total investment of about $148 million, Johnson said.

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Strong Clean Energy Policies Will Grow the Economy and Create 78000 New ...

PR Newswire (press release)

Pennsylvania Business Group Releases New Jobs Report The Day Before Senate Hearings Start PITTSBURGH, Oct. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- On the eve of U.S. Senate deliberations on clean energy and climate legislation, Pennsylvania Business Leaders for a Clean Energy Economy released a new economic analysis that finds the strongest federal policy could create up to 78,000 jobs in Pennsylvania, while increasing real household income by $1,092 and growing the state economy by $4.3 billion. The new study, co-released with E2, the national investor coalition Ceres and the Clean Economy Network, was conducted by the University of California in collaboration with University of Illinois and Yale University and provides an in-depth, state-by-state examination of the impacts of the three pillars of federal legislation: energy efficiency, renewable energy and limits on carbon pollution ...

Pennsylvania DEP releases Climate Change Action Plan

Pittsburgh Business Times - by Anya Litvak

A decade from now, Pennsylvania should reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent below 2000 levels, according to the Climate Change Action Plan released Friday by the Department of Environmental Protection.

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Pennsylvania Climate Change Action Plan: http://www.depweb.state.pa.us/energy/cwp/view.asp?q=539829

DOE Awards $151M for Early-Stage Green Tech - JOSIE GARTHWAITE

It’s not often that the Department of Energy gets to go far out on a limb with its investments. But that’s exactly the point of ARPA-E (Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy) — a program funded under the stimulus package to support moonshot technologies that might be too risky for other investors. Today the DOE has announced the first round of ARPA-E grants, awarding a total of $151 million for 37 projects. …

Source: http://earth2tech.com

Patenting Mother Nature: Thomson Reuters World IP Today Report ...

Reuters – USA PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- The IP Solutions business of Thomson Reuters, Legal, announced today the release of its most recent World IP Today research report: Alternative Energy Powers Up. This comprehensive patent study shows that wind technology has taken precedence in the alternative energy space recently, particularly spurred by high invention activity in Japan, but that solar power has stronger recent activity in China, and continues to have high R&D investment. The report also reveals that small companies are extremely active innovators and that patent protection is being sought heavily in China, Japan and the United States. …

Venture Capital Investment Increases in Q3 2009 Driven by Clean Technology Sector

Market Wire (press release) Oct 20, 2009

WASHINGTON, DC--(Marketwire - October 20, 2009) - Venture capitalists invested $4.8 billion in 637 deals in the third quarter of 2009, according to the MoneyTree™ Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), based on data provided by Thomson Reuters. Quarterly investment activity increased 17 percent in terms of dollars, but fell 3 percent in number of deals compared to the second quarter of 2009 when $4.1 billion was invested in 657 deals. The increase in dollars invested was driven by several large rounds in the Clean Technology sector, one of which is the ninth largest deal since 1995. …

States Invest More in Energy Efficiency

Wall Street Journal

Four states -- Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Delaware -- recently approved programs calling for utilities to set energy savings goals. ...

Study Bolsters a Push for More Hydropower

New York Times

"We need to use all the weapons in our arsenal and hydropower is certainly underutilized," said Pennsylvania Gov. Edward Rendell. ...

The Federal Energy Subsidy Scorecard: How Renewables Stack Up

by Matthew Slavin, PhD

In a speech at the United Nations and afterward at the G-20 summit meeting in September, President Obama called for elimination of government subsidies for greenhouse gas (GHG) ... continue

Source: Renewable Energy Weekly

on geothermal energy and energy efficiency.