“Pain at the pump” is a common expression in the US news media. Filling up your vehicle is a chore and watching the meter rise is a helpless feeling. When I started working at NRG Systems, gasoline was under $1 a gallon. Those days aren’t coming back.
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. . . and what ever happened to common sense?!
Two weeks ago I returned from the wind industry’s big show, WINDPOWER 2012 in Atlanta.
A funny thing shows up when you look up the origins of the words cooperation and competition in the dictionary. The word cooperate comes from Latin and means 'work together'. The origin of the word compete, which is also Latin, is ‘seek together’.
A commuter boards the 116 Commuter bus in Hinesburg, Vermont.
When the lawyers and bankers get involved, you know you’re playing in a whole new ballgame. John Goglia is the technical lead on solar resource assessment for NRG SystemsAs Dave Simkins pointed out in a recent post, utility-scale solar is following a similar path as utility-scale wind.
It has become a sign of spring for me to travel to Europe for the Annual EWEA conference and GWEC board meeting. This year we met in Copenhagen, Denmark. Each year these European events are scheduled two to three months before North America’s largest industry gathering, AWEA’s WINDPOWER 2012.
An example of an ambitious home DIY project—Marc Chagall painting not for sale. When I do home projects, I sometimes make a plan. Other times (that would be most of the time), I just get into the project and figure it out as I go along.
Editor's note: Last week, Jan Blittersdorf was recognized by the White House as a Champion of Change for her work advancing new ideas that are leading the way to a clean energy future and an economy that’s built to last.
Every April as the ground thaws, the buds crack open, and the days grow longer, Earth Day arrives with its gentle reminder: “It’s the Planet, Stupid.
At NRG Systems, we care passionately about two things: getting more wind turbines on the ground to generate clean, renewable energy, and putting them in environmentally responsible places.