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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

Green Car Congress

Although not part of the conferences formal structure, the themes were addressed in the presentations and panel discussions. As another panelist pointed out, “ The New York Times is well-equipped to write the article about how Stimulus Funds have been wasted ”. While at Goldman Sachs, Auerbach was part of a team that invested $1.5

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The vision is fuelled by the fear of climate change and the need to find green alternatives to dirty coal, unpopular nuclear power and unreliable gas imports from Russia. Instead, the focus over the coming years will apparently be on including the vehicle’s battery as part of a local home or office area network. The best part?

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Renewables That Even Coal-Based Utilities Can Love. The Three Prongs of the “Green&# Energy Stimulus Pa. And yes, buy cheap (night) sell high (day) and sell local (remember there are HUGE line losses in the common interstate grids- more so in daytime high power draw hours. ► January (13) What Goes Down, Must Go Up?

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

GE: The global stimulus bellwether FORTUNE 500 Current Issue Subscribe to Fortune (Fortune Magazine) -- Warren Buffett is famous for his rules of investing: When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is usually the reputation of the business that remains intact.

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The Greenius Solution To All California’s Problems: AB 920 + AB 811

Creative Greenius

is using federal stimulus money to kick-start their program and they’re going to be rolling out a large program countywide. And all that available cheap solar electricity is what’s going to drive the sales explosion of electric and plug-in vehicles in California just as they’re becoming available over the next three years.

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