Sentences with phrase «energy entrepreneurs»

Topics include being a green energy entrepreneur in this economy, jobs created by clean energy, financing green energy projects, and incentives for implementing a smart energy plan.

wPOWER aims to empower over 8,000 women clean energy entrepreneurs across East Africa, Nigeria and India.

Omane Frimpong, Managing Director Wilkins Engineering Limited Best Electrical and Renewable Energy Entrepreneur of the Year

In partnership with the Green Belt Movement (GBM), the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, CARE International, Solar Sister, Swayam Shikshan Prayog and WMI, wPOWER aims to empower over 8,000 women clean energy entrepreneurs across East Africa, Nigeria and India.

In the past two years, aided by a grant from the Small Business Administration, the network has helped a niche - group of energy entrepreneurs secure some $ 32 million in federal contracts and create an estimated 400 jobs.

NYSERDA announced the launch of a new website that provides early - stage clean energy entrepreneurs with individual, secure business assessments and resources to help them grow their companies.

Wind - energy Entrepreneur Pursues Electric Sports Car Back in May, Dale Vince, CEO of UK - based wind energy developer Ecotricity, released a little more information about his forthcoming electric sports car project, which he insisted was «not another

Empower Generation is making this a reality by empowering women already serving as household energy managers to become solar energy entrepreneurs.

A new, must read, report from energy entrepreneur and teacher Tony Seba lays out... Continue reading →

Collie could soon be home to a 20 megawatt solar farm and cryptocurrency «mining» operation, after the Southern Development Assessment Panel recommended approval for a project led by energy entrepreneur Ben Tan.

SmartestEnergy has its full press release with data on UK countries, regions and counties in today's Energy Entrepreneurs Report 2016 here.

Increasing the price of carbon - based fuels will further spur innovation, however, and create additional opportunities for energy entrepreneurs to offer their wares.

And interest isn't just coming from wealthy energy entrepreneurs anymore; in the last two months, a «significant» number of Wall Street investors have begun inquiring about the boutique venture.

A look at how the Defense Alliance in St. Paul, one of 10 economic clusters in an SBA pilot program, is nurturing energy entrepreneurs.

The group has used the money to proactively scout out high - tech energy entrepreneurs, help those entrepreneurs get business and network with other clusters outside the region, Laingen says.

In late 2010, four energy entrepreneurs pooled their resources for an affordable Boston - area warehouse space where they could build hardware prototypes.

Wind energy entrepreneur Justin Thompson earned 29 % as the Liberal candidate in the 2004 election, the highest of any of Mr. Anders challengers.

After I ran Daniel Yergin's reflection on the pivotal role played in the shale boom by George P. Mitchell, the Texas energy entrepreneur and philanthropist who died last Friday, Trembath and the leaders of Breakthrough, Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, sent a reaction focused on the silent partner in this energy revolution — the American taxpayer.

The meteorologist and energy entrepreneur Paul Douglas is keeping up his valuable effort to depoliticize the science pointing to a growing human influence on the climate.

Mr. Romm and many environmental campaigners and energy entrepreneurs say that markets, laws, public campaigns and leadership can prompt the technological transformation, and that government research money has mainly been a distraction and a delaying device promoted by industries or political operatives wedded to fossil fuels.

For instance, we can tap into our own local renewable energy entrepreneurs who can develop local energy sources and create jobs in our community.»

«Given the growth of solar over the last few years, getting to 10 percent of U.S. electricity from solar should happen far sooner than 2030,» SunEdison founder and clean energy entrepreneur Jigar Shah said in a statement released with the report.

In the United States, new energy entrepreneurs have mentioned the same self - interest motivation, as demonstrated recently at the Clean Energy Ministerial Stakeholder meeting (click here to view major U.S. stakeholders» presentations).

That's true, but after engaging SunFunder on this project, and working with off grid clean energy entrepreneurs demanding $ 500 million for their sector, we have a few lessons we think have big implications.

Only then can clean energy entrepreneurs make a real dent in providing sustainable power to Africa's communities.

Hosted by Jason Silva of National Geographic, Sam Champion making his first public appearance since his Weather Channel appointment, and global clean energy entrepreneur Christiana Wyly, the sold - out event will benefit Global Green USA's work to help the people, places and planet - notably itsSolar for Sandy resiliency initiative to provide back - up solar systems to communities that were hit hardest by Hurricane Sandy.

Or, Why Government and Business Are Locked in a Climate Showdown At a special session focused on energy and the environment at the 2010 Clinton Global Initiative, billionaire investor and clean energy entrepreneur Richard Branson joined Christiana

A case in point: a dispute between energy entrepreneur Adam Victor and the law firm DLA Piper over $ 675,000 in unpaid legal fees.

For a valuable discussion of what's possible on the ground now in accelerating electricity access in places without any options, watch the conversation I had in 2014 with Harish Hande, a renewable - energy entrepreneur in India, on the entrepreneur's role in solving energy poverty:

All the while, Puerto Ricans don't have the luxury of waiting for the grid of the future, so renewable energy entrepreneurs must compete against fossil fuel generators.

The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) today announced the launch of a new website that provides early - stage clean energy entrepreneurs with individual, secure business assessments and resources to help them grow their companies.

In partnership with the Green Belt Movement (GBM), the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, CARE International, Solar Sister, Swayam Shikshan Prayog and WMI, wPOWER aims to empower over 8,000 women clean energy entrepreneurs across East Africa, Nigeria and India.

Wind - energy Entrepreneur Pursues Electric Sports Car Back in May, Dale Vince, CEO of UK - based wind energy developer Ecotricity, released a little more information about his forthcoming electric sports car project, which he insisted was «not another Tesla», and only a few days ago he was musing as to whether the UK grid could handle all - electric cars.

Twenty of the world's leading off - grid clean energy entrepreneurs sent a letter this week to World Bank Group president Robert Zoellick requesting $ 500 million in financial commitments to help them deliver on the world's energy access goals.

DOE (9/12/12) reports: «The amount of electricity the United States generates from solar power has started to grow rapidly and is projected to reach 18,000 megawatt hours per day in 2013... A growing solar industry presents a tremendous economic opportunity for the United States, and that is why the Energy Department's SunShot Initiative supports America's best solar energy entrepreneurs and innovators.»

Bill Gates told an audience of energy entrepreneurs, scientists and investors at the ARPA - E energy conference on Tuesday that «It's crazy how little we're funding energy.»

She is currently a Founding Partner of a new social enterprise called Embark Energy that is focused on radically increasing the scale of energy access by empowering thousands of clean energy entrepreneurs in low - income countries.

After the boom and bust of cleantech in Silicon Valley over the past few years, energy entrepreneurs have struggled to find customers for energy efficiency and clean energy products.

The Centre will also work with its partners to assist Ontario's energy entrepreneurs and developers looking to deploy Ontario smart grid solutions globally through international partnerships.

Through its Monitoring and Evaluation team, the Hub identified 51 women and one male in various women groups in Kibra, to become clean energy entrepreneurs.

Now he's an energy entrepreneur.

Here's a teaser, focused on Parish's transition from young climate campaigner pressing treaty negotiators to change hard positions to a still - young clean - energy entrepreneur.

Not just in laboratories to have some great breakthrough on a fusion reactor, but also, as Harish Hande, this energy entrepreneur in India, has made a breakthrough with a financial model for how to go into a village and bring in enough solar power so they can run their sewing machines and get less poor.

A recurring complaint about the way the United States supports the clean energy industry is intermitency: A so - called federal production tax credit expires once a year and must be renewed, creating significant anxiety for clean energy entrepreneurs — even those headquartered in other countries.

March 31, 11:18 p.m. Updated below I encourage you to pop over to Shawn Otto's blog below and read «A Message from a Republican Meteorologist on Climate Change,» a guest post in which Paul Douglas, an experienced meteorologist, energy entrepreneur and founder of the Web site Weather Nation, explains that acknowledging evidence of a growing human influence on climate «doesn't make you a liberal.»

Within the next couple of years, Turkey, a recent ratifier of the Kyoto Protocol, will be required to reduce greenhouse gases under the next phase of the agreement, an obligation that will create opportunities for renewable - energy entrepreneurs.

Energy entrepreneurs in Tanzania and India say data on markets is crucial to making the decision of when to go where.

These platforms aggregate small «crowdsourced» amounts of funding into larger sums that directly finance clean energy entrepreneurs.

The project raised $ 15,000 to fund ReadySet Solar Kits from Fenix International to for 375 energy entrepreneurs in Uganda who will in turn power mobile phone charging and lighting for up to 19,000 households - as a microutility device, each ReadySet can power up to 50 phones in a community - while avoiding 12.3 tons of carbon dioxide.