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Project and Location News
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Siemens to Open Wind Distribution Center in OK
Siemens Energy has announced plans to construct their largest wind power service distribution center in the US to date. The two facilities in Woodward, Oklahoma will total 64,000 sq. ft. Read the entire article. |
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Policy Update
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DOE Loan Guarantees on Hold: Projects Threatened
DOE's 1705 loan guarantee program is set to expire on Sept. 30, and current applications have just been placed on rigorous timing restrictions that are impossible for all current applicants to meet. Projects must have closed on the loan guarantee and begin construction by Sept. 30 to continue in the program. The head of the program has issued letters to multiple applicants, informing them that their projects are being placed on hold as a result. Read the entire article. |
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Oil-soaked Booms Are Now Chevy Volt Parts
In an initiative announced late last year, General Motors has recycled 227 miles of oil-soaked booms from the BP oil spill to make car parts for its flagship plug-in hybrid vehicle, the Chevrolet Volt. The booms, totalling 215,000 pounds, will make a production year's worth of baffles.
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Renewable Energy Venture Development Academy - IP Resort - Biloxi, MS - July 13, 2011
This course, developed and taught by Tony Jeff, Dr. Sumesh Arora, and Taimerica, provides a comprehensive set of tools and methodologies to screen, develop, or coach innovation-based renewable energy ventures. The participants will learn about the venture development process as you walk through the phases of the venture/project development and learn to identify risk in five key areas of the venture development and challenges and opportunities as they relate to the renewable energy markets
- Product/technical risk
- Market risk
- Finance risk
- Management risk
- Execution risk
Site requirements for Alternative Energy projects is also discussed. This course is open to economic developers: local, regional and those representing utility companies who are working with renewable energy companies to deploy such projects as well as to all entrepreneurs and project developers who are trying to implement renewable energy projects or starting new ventures in the rapidly changing market segment. All participants will receive comprehensive course materials from the workshop and will have the ability to consult with Dr. Sumesh Arora and Tony Jeff at no-charge for a period of six months after successful completion of the course.
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Aurora Set to Produce a Variety of Algae Products
Aurora Algae has based their corporate strategy on the properties of green algae, which they say has the potential to produce a wide range of food, pharma and fuel products. The particular strain on which Aurora focuses grows especially well in a hot, dry climate.
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NABCAP Continuing Ed Solar Programs Launched
Solar Energy International is launching a series of short solar training courses in multiple delivery models to serve the need for North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners (NABCEP) continuing education. The entire series will be offered through SEI's Online Campus and will be made available through live webinars and condensed, self-paced online courses.
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More Event News
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Recap: Southern BioProducts and Renewable Energy Conference
The 10th Annual Southern Bioproducts and Renewable Energy Conference was held from May 10th through 11th at the Beau Rivage Resort and Hotel in Biloxi, MS. The event, which was hosted by the Mississippi Biomass and Renewable Energy Council, included a variety of different speakers and presentations and was attended by over 100 people. Topics covered at the conference ranged from national security issues to regional and global economic impacts of renewable energy. Speakers included policy-makers, private sector representatives, economic developers, and academics. A pre-conference workshop on combined heating and power (CHP) was presented jointly by staff from Mississippi State University and North Carolina State University. Dr. Martha Saunders, President of the University of Southern Mississippi, discussed the university's sustainability initiative during her keynote address.
An important event for Strategic Biomass Solutions at this conference was the official unveiling of the First Annual Mississippi Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Report. This report has been complied to give concerned parties information regarding the status of renewable energy and energy efficiency in Mississippi. The report is aimed at policy-makers, entrepreneurs, economic developers, and the general public interested in renewable energy and energy efficiency, and can be accessed for free via the Strategic Biomass Solutions website.
A major highlight of each Southern Bioproducts and Renewable Energy Conference is the student poster competition. A wide range of research was presented this year, exhibiting the region's strength in research and development with respect to biomass and renewable energy. Students from Mississippi State University swept the competition this year, with first being taken by Adebola Coker (Engineering), Omkar Joshi (Forest Resources) taking second, and third place being awarded to Divya Reddy Parapati (Forest Resources). The conference was organized jointly by the Mississippi Technology Alliance - Strategic Biomass Solutions, Bagley College of Engineering at MSU, US DOE Southeast Clean Energy Application Center, and the 25x'25 initiative.
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