Topic: Energy Storage
FTC’s Regulation of Green Marketing Claims
Over the past several years, issues of climate change and sustainability have gained increasing prominence in the minds of the public; and, as a consequence, consumers have demanded greater access to “greener” products and services. [...]
Institutional Challenges and Opportunities: Decentralized and Integrated Water Resource Infrastructure
The failure of mainstream water and wastewater utilities to adopt decentralized technologies can be attributed to institutional and market barriers. The framework of policies and markets need to be altered and expanded to include: integrated [...]
Public Policy and Cleantech – Obstacle or Asset?
Alongside the development, commercialization, and entrance of clean technologies (i.e. cleantech) into mainstream North American markets, has been the North America investment community, which has made great strides to support cleantech innovations.
Environmental Performance Assessment of Companies: Applying Life Cycle Assessment at the Enterprise Level
Sustainability is rapidly increasing in emphasis among the world’s leading companies. There is increasing pressures on companies to understand and be able to communicate the impacts of their products and activities. This pressure comes internally-from [...]
Natural Gas – A Bridge and a Destination
Among energy sources, clean burning natural gas is uniquely positioned to serve not only as a low carbon bridge to a new clean and sustainable energy future but to also be a part of that [...]
Energy In A New Light – Transforming Corporate Energy Use into a Weapon of Strategy
In most industries, energy consumption has long been regarded as a fixed cost, an important but background cost of doing business. During the past several years a convergence of factors – the rising costs and [...]
Renewable Energy Technologies: a Veritable Tool for Women’s Empowerment in Niger Delta Communities
Poverty is generally considered as a major cause of food insecurity and poverty alleviation is essential in improving access to food. The Niger Delta of Nigeria, one of the world’s top oil producers, has been [...]
Impact of Biomass Based Distributed Generation on Electric Grid
Advances in technology and the push for alternative clean energy systems have created a new paradigm in the last ten to fifteen years. Small generating units based on alternative clean energy connected near the loads [...]