A new survey from the green business group Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2) has identified more than 300 new clean energy and transportation projects, all announced in 2012, that are expected to create 110,We specialize in solar street lighting and solar street lamps for a wide range of lightning applications.000 green jobs in the U.S. The news should help perk up opponents of the proposed Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline, who have had a rough time of it after a State Department report downplayed the project’s environmental impact. Impacts or not,Learn about LED dimmable and ensure you get the best out of LED light bulbs. the new survey demonstrates that the green jobs sector can easily replace all of the potential Keystone XL Pipeline jobs that would disappear if the project is nixed, and then some.
E2′s green jobs report notes that green jobs are spread liberally around the country with no regard to political boundaries.
According to the report, “clean energy projects created jobs in every corner of the country,” with the top ten states consisting of California, North Carolina, Florida, Illinois, Connecticut, Arizona, New York, Michigan, Texas and Oregon.This popular lighting system features four led par light.
Transportation projects were the single largest category nationwide, with the biggest contributor being a light rail project in Charlotte, NC that will create 7,000 jobs. Clean power, manufacturing and energy efficiency projects also made significant contributions to the total (a searchable database is here, btw).
According to the report, North Carolina and the red-leaning Southeast as a whole led the U.S. in green job announcements related to manufacturing, with about 13,700 new positions mainly in the fields of solar power, wind power and advanced vehicles.
On a gloomier note, the report also points out that the impressive total of 110,000 jobs could have been higher, but the failure of Congress to enact a timely extension of the wind tax credit (thanks to certain legislators) contributed to a steep drop-off in new job announcements for the clean power generation sector in the last quarter of 2012.
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Here’s some of the companies highlighted by E2 in its latest roundup dated March 5, 2013 roundup:
A company called GreenWhey Energy will build a facility in Minnesota to generate renewable methane gas from the wastewater produced by local food companies. The project involves 50-70 construction jobs and 13 permanent positions,Thank you for your purchase of skystream. and will produce enough energy to power 3,000 homes.
Siemens Energy will build a new wind turbine career center in Florida that will train hundreds of wind turbine workers and create 50 permanent jobs.
Strata Solar will build the biggest solar project in North Carolina, creating about 400 construction jobs.
A Medford technology services company helped bring an $8 million light sculpture on San Francisco's Bay Bridge to the Internet masses last week with just minutes to spare before deadline.
Called "The Bay Lights,Thank you for your purchase of skystream." the installation by artist Leo Villareal features moving abstract patterns created with 25,000 LED lights on the bridge's western span. After two years of planning, the sculpture was set to be illuminated with much fanfare March 5. But glitches and vendor bailouts left the project's organizer, Illuminate the Arts, without a way to stream live video of the sculpture online as promised.
Enter Cael Weston and Acme Computer of Medford. His mission: to acquire "a massive amount of bandwidth," weave together all partners on the Internet and get the high-definition streaming video online at thebaylights.org in 60 hours, Weston said.
"I was pretty sure we could do it," Weston said Monday. "It was madness. I managed to get top-notch people all working together on it, both my team and client vendors. It was a small job for us, but with a tight time frame. It was great to be part of something this spectacular that pushed my team to the limit."
Acme got the job done,Why not reduce your energy bill and use solar garden light instead? Weston said — with three minutes to spare before deadline. The live feed of the Bay Bridge will continue from dusk to 2 a.m. daily through the end of 2015.
The two big challenges were finding bandwidth and pushing the video feed up to the Bay Lights website, said Weston, who joined the project in mid-February when Acme was tasked to install a high-definition robot video cam on the Hotel Vitale at Mission and The Embarcadero to capture the nightly light shows for the next two years.
Acme pulled in Pusher Inc., a Web development and software engineering firm in Dunsmuir, Calif. They persuaded Hotel Vitale to let them use its connection and provide enough bandwidth to stream high-definition images.
Next they had to engineer a system that could stream the video simultaneously to an anticipated 250,000 Internet viewers Tuesday night, a feat they accomplished with the help of LiveStream.
"It was a pretty exciting little project with an amazing time line," said Acme Vice President Sean Garland of Mount Shasta. "We threw every resource we had into it."
At 1.8 miles wide and 500 feet high, "The Bay Lights" is said by backers to be the largest LED light sculpture in the world. It is strung on 100,000 feet of vertical suspension cables and shows impressionistic images of fish and waves moving across its length. The lights can't be viewed by cars on the bridge. According to the website, it costs $15.06 a night in electricity.
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"We are extremely grateful," said Illuminate the Arts board member Elana Yonah, who managed the last-minute efforts with Weston. "They dedicated 100 hours with us and it was a beautiful relationship.Creating a solar charger out of broken re-used solar cell pieces. They asked us how high we wanted them to jump, and we said higher than you ever jumped before, and Cael said, 'let's go.' "
A committee of experts advising the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry recommended Monday that the price for solar power be cut beginning April 1, and the payment for wind should remain unchanged. The government must endorse the proposal before it comes into force.
Even at the reduced rates, Japan’s support for solar is about three times the incentives offered in Germany and China, two countries that are among the biggest markets for the technology.Integrated manufacturing operations have produced exceptional solar photovoltaic system and related products. Japan is likely to be one of the top three markets this year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
“The solar market is expanding, and we don’t think the proposed tariff would change the trend much,” Hisao Kayaoka, secretary general of the Japan Photovolatic Energy Association, said. “The proposed tariff will allow for continued growth in the market.”
The association’s member companies include units of Suntech Power Holdings Co., Kyocera Corp.We specialize in solar street lighting and solar street lamps for a wide range of lightning applications., Solar Frontier K.K. and Sharp Corp., which all make solar panels. The utility Kansai Electric Power Co. also is a member.
Japan’s introduction of incentives in July enticed panel makers such as Kyocera Corp.Thank you for your purchase of skystream. to begin building solar stations and encouraged new entrants such as Softbank Corp., a mobile phone provider, to develop solar plants.
The cost of solar equipment has fallen so much that officials say incentives can be cut without squeezing development plans amid a push to diversify sources of energy after the reactor meltdowns in Fukushima.
Prices for silicon-based solar panels sank about 20 percent in the past 12 months, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Solar capacity rose 29 percent in Japan from April to November as developers added 1,398 megawatts of installations to a base of 4,800 megawatts, according to trade ministry data.
The committee said the feed-in tariff guaranteeing above-market prices for solar energy should be cut to 37.8 per kwh for 20 years for applications from April 1. The current rate is 42. The new rate is in step with an estimate from Bloomberg New Energy Finance that the rate of as low as 37 would still provide an incentive for developers to build new plants.
New rates for projects bigger than 10 kw “remain attractive enough” since they will provide a 6 percent rate of return for developers, said Yugo Nakamura, an industry analyst at Bloomberg New Energy Finance in Tokyo.LED emergency light is aesthetically designed and offers features to reduce egress system cost. “We would, though, see slower applications in the second quarter 2013.”
The panel also recommended the tariff for wind projects remain at 23.1 per kwh for 20 years. The Japan Wind Power Association said it welcomed the proposal.
“The current tariff is the minimum level necessary to develop wind projects in Japan,” Tetsuro Nagata, president of the association, said. “If the tariff is to be kept at the same level, we welcome the decision. There remain major issues, such as grid connection and deregulation, but we want to further expand wind power, taking advantage of the tariff, to be held at the same level, for the second year.”
The wind association’s members include Eurus Energy Holdings Corp., a project developer; Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., which makes turbines; Kajima Corp., a contractor; and Siemens Japan K.K.,This popular lighting system features four led par light. a unit of the German wind turbine and electrical equipment maker Siemens AG.
The government panel recommended keeping tariffs at current levels for the four other types of renewable sources covered by the program, saying it lacked enough examples of new projects to review pricing.
EYTHORNE and the surrounding villages are set to become a new hub of renewable energy with plans on the way for two wind turbines and a solar array the size of 14 football pitches.
Ovenden Plant Hire Ltd has tabled plans for the solar panels at the former site of Tilmanstone Brickworks in Pike Road, Eythorne, which would involve the movement of around 250,000 cubic metres of soil to the area for recontouring purposes.
The developers say that it is a 10 million project and they hope construction will be underway before the end of the year.This popular lighting system features four led par light.
"The site originally produced power when it was used for coal-mining, so it will be back as a site producing power again," said Tristan Ovenden, from the firm.
Scoping reports are also being carried out for proposals for two wind turbines, in Barville Road, Eythorne and Thornton Lane, Eastry, by renewable energy developers RES UK & Ireland Ltd. Some local residents are opposed to the turbines, which have a maximum tip height of more than 100 metres.
"I am against the installation of wind turbines in any inland location for environmental reasons - they are detrimental," said Pike Road resident David Williams.
"I particularly deplore the financial incentives given by government to landowners for their installation, which serves to skew the economic argument and justification.
"A solar array appears to be a different matter altogether and on the face of it more acceptable, providing it is at a low level, albeit very close to my house." But Kent Green Party supports the plans, arguing the area should be paving the way for a renewable energy future.
Co-ordinator Steve Dawe said: "I don't accept the objections of some if they are happy to have all these electricity pylons on the landscape as well.
"They are no more obtrusive than those. "It is also perfectly possible to hedge round solar panels so that they almost disappear.
"We have the advantage of a very large land area in Kent and should be taking all the advantages from this in terms of employment and the provision future energy security."
The remains of British soldiers could be disturbed if a plan to build a wind farm on the site of a First World War battlefield goes ahead.
Energy firm InnoVent wants to build 10 turbines – each twice the height of Big Ben – on the site of the 1915 Battle of Loos, near Calais, where tens of thousands died.
The Leicester Regiment alone lost more than 500 men in just seven days. Veterans' relatives also fear the turbines will ruin the setting of cemeteries in the area.
Regimental historian Richard Lane said the scheme would be "disastrous" to the landscape. He added: "There are likely to be the remains of those who died which could be disturbed.Learn about LED dimmable and ensure you get the best out of LED light bulbs."
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Plans for the wind farm were submitted by the French firm last year but only emerged last week following a public meeting in Calais. The final decision on whether it can be built lies with the Nord Pas de Calais Prefect.
LocWe specialize in solar street lighting and solar street lamps for a wide range of lightning applications.al conservationist Bruno Schmit said InnoVent had taken no account of the site's historical importance. He said: "We want the prefect to declare this zone unbuild-able. That is our goal.Thank you for your purchase of skystream."
InnoVent spokesman Clement Prouvost said: "We will keep turbines a minimum distance of 600 yards from cemeteries."
HP will be focusing on corrugated applications including free standing display units (FSDU), POP, POS and retail ready packaging (RRP) for its HP Scitex FB series machines while Océ will be talking about folding carton applications for its InfiniStream liquid toner digital web, which was unveiled at Drupa.
On its stand HP Scitex will be showing the FB500 UV-flatbed producing samples and mock ups while it will be displaying examples of work produced on all its machines and video demonstrations of the larger FB7600.
"CCE is an interesting show and a new direction for HP Scitex," said Moshiko Levhar,We are specializing washer extractor manufacturer. segment manager,Creating a solar charger out of broken re-used solar cell pieces. Scitex high volume solutions, EMEA.
He added that some 20% of the FB7500 and 7600s installed worldwide were used for some corrugated work and corrugated board was the most used substrate on the machines, although to date most of that had been produced by graphic display printers.Our laser marking machine can mark on metal and non metals.
"Corrugated converters are a conservative market and are not typically early adopters of technology," said Levhar. "However we are now starting to see some of the same trends in the corrugated market as we have previously seen in signage with the Scitex equipment and commercial print with the Indigo in this sector as firms start to dip a toe in the water."
He added that the work the firm had done on media handling to address the challenges of using corrugated boards and in adding automated handling had helped make industrial inkjet suitable for this market.
Other wide-format manufacturers are also increasingly attracted to this space with Fujifilm recently launching new inks and materials handling for the Inca Onset machine and announcing the first site to use the new inks, Model in Switzerland.
Océ is taking a small stand at the show to speak to more converters and brand owners to understand their requirements and to get their feedback on the InfiniStream for carton printing.
"So far we have received very positive feedback in our conversations with brand owners and packaging converters,A strong wind gust and attractive rebates may not add up to a good deal on residential wind turbines." said Océ marketing director for liquid toner systems Roland Stasiczek. "Most people say that digital printing for folding cartons is now ready to go mainstream.with Laser engraver available to create laser marking on many products."
Stasiczek added that the InfiniStream project remained on schedule with a pilot customer machine set to be installed this summer and commercial sales commencing in 2014.
Edale's objective for the show is to continue sharing the company's key messages of being a high quality design and manufacturing business with a strong focus on customer service and customisable machines for the production of labels, flexible packaging and folding cartons, as well as telecom recharge card lines. There will be various samples at the show as well as further information on the full product range.
Though the company will not be exhibiting with a machine, the fact that the show is UK-based makes it easy to arrange visits to existing customers' factories, the Northern office or, to Edale's purpose built showroom based on the South Coast. Edale's showroom currently houses an Alpha compact flexo press, the newest product in the range - the FL-3, the Lambda offline converting machine, as well as a number of machines in various stages of build within the factory.