According to a news release from the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) in Golden, Colorado, researchers “have reported the first solar cell that produces a photocurrent that has an external quantum efficiency greater than 100 percent when photoexcited with photons from the high energy region of the solar spectrum.” What this means is that more [...]
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General Electric to Build Largest Solar Factory in US
October 15th, 2011 
Eric Wilson A recent news release from General Electric (GE) stated that the company will build the United States’ largest solar panel factory. GE estimates that it will create 450 jobs in Colorado and New York. According to the release, GE chose Aurora, Colorado (adjacent to Denver) “primarily because the location will allow for accelerated speed to [...]
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Tags: Colorado, Denver, GE, NREL, Photovoltaic, Solar Energy 
No Comments »New Town Builders to Construct Net Zero Home
June 13th, 2011 Eric Wilson Taking a page from the solar decathlon that runs annually in Washington DC, New Town Builders in Denver will complete their first net zero home in the Stapleton neighborhood later this year. As an example of what future homes (and buildings in general) can do, the net zero home will produce as much energy as [...]
IKEA’s Denver, CO Store to Use Geothermal Energy
September 30th, 2010 Eric Wilson Opening in the fall of 2011, the first Colorado based IKEA store, located in the southern suburb of Centennial, will employ geothermal heat pumps to provide heating and cooling to its newest location. The first of its kind for the big box retailer in the United States, the system will tap into the constant temperature [...]
Posted in Business, Eric Wilson, Local Energy/Food, Renewable Energy Tags: Colorado, Denver, EPA, Geothermal, Green Investments, IKEA, NREL, Wind Power No Comments »NPR Series on the Growth of LEED Certification
September 22nd, 2010 Eric Wilson Earlier this month NPR ran successive stories about the incredible growth in green building. Since the founding of the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) in 1993, certified green building started of slowly in terms of the number of projects that were reviewed under the standards known as LEED (Leadership in Environmental Design). Tuesday’s story, [...]
CityDesign + CityBuild 2010 Conference Opening Night Recap
September 16th, 2010 Eric Wilson Earlier this week I had the opportunity to attend the CITYDESIGN + CITYBUILD 2010 opening evening keynote. Arranged by Andrew Bermingham, CEO of Montreux Energy, the conference promoted itself as a roundtable discussion focused on world urban infrastructure. “CITYDESIGN + CITYBUILD 2010 is an interactive stakeholder dialogue among recognized thought-leaders from utilities, service providers, clean [...]
Posted in Business, Conferences, Economics, Energy Efficiency, Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, President Obama, Smart Grid, Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Transportation Tags: Coal, Denver, Department of Energy, Electricity Generation, LEED, Natural Gas, Net Zero Energy, NREL, Photovoltaic, Smart Infrastructure, Urban Planning No Comments »A Decade of Growth: Texas and Iowa Now Lead the Country in Wind Power
April 26th, 2010 Justin Manger Texas is now fairly well known as a big wind power state thanks to pro-wind incentives championed by then Governor Bush (details here) that have vaulted it to the state with the most installed wind capacity. Though stalled, T-Boone Pickens’ plan for wind farms is perhaps the most marketed part of the wind power story. [...]
National Renewable Energy Lab’s 22nd Industry Growth Forum
November 2nd, 2009 Eric Wilson Starting this week, on November 3-5 in Denver, Colorado, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) hosts their 22ndIndustry Growth Forum. This year’s Forum will highlight the investment and financing strategies that are driving the commercialization of quality renewable energy technologies. NREL’s Forum brings together the key players in the clean energy investment and entrepreneurial community. [...]
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