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Google’s Pumped Another $100 Million Into What Will be the World’s Largest Wind Farm

  Green issues are obviously close to Google’s heart, as they’ve followed up last July’s move into the renewable energy business with a $100 million investment in Shepherds Flat Wind Farm in Oregon, which you can see being worked on above.

It won’t actually be completed until 2012, says Google’s director of green business operations, Rick Needham, who wrote about the investment on their blog: “When completed in 2012 [the plant] will produce 845 MW of energy. This will be the first commercial wind farm in the U.S. to deploy, at scale, turbines that use permanent magnet generator.”

Needham added that the electricity from the world’s largest wind farm will be sold to Southern California Edison, and will produce enough energy for 235,000 homes. [Google Blog via CNET]

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IBM: Lets build a smarter planet 

Article covering: 

- Decision points may be closer than they appear

- Socio-industrial concerns

- From coal-powered to wind-powered cars

- Challenges

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The Battery 500 Project - IBM Social Media

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Who are you voting for? BusinessGreen Leaders Awards

The shortlist for each of the 10 categories highlights the genuine leaders in the emerging low carbon economy and will present our panel of esteemed judges with an extremely difficult task as they attempt to agree on the eventual winners. It includes a wide variety of firms and executives, ranging from innovative start ups to city blue chips, and sustainability managers to green entrepreneurs.

The winners will be announced on Thursday 7 July 2011 at the Merchant Taylor's Hall in London. Book your table today here.

Consultancy of the year

Greenstone Carbon Management

Business Builder

Carbon Clear

GXT Green

Emerald Knight

Greenshoot Ltd

BCM

PwC

Law firm of the year

Eversheds LLP

Cobbetts LLP

Mayer Brown

Simmons & Simmons LLP

SJ Berwin LLP

Taylor Wessing LLP

NGO of the year

ENWORKS

Foundation for IT Sustainability

MADE-BY 

Earthwatch

Global Action Plan

Sustainability Team of the year

Carbon Management Team, Yorkshire Ambulance Service

Archant Green Team, Archant

Sustainability Team, BAE Systems

Workplace Improvement team, E.ON UK

Sustainability Team, Newcastle University

Sustainability Team, RS Consulting

Young Sustainbility Executive of the year

Nicko Williamson, Climatecars

Clare Matheson, www.ukbusinessrecycling.com 

Toby Darbyshire, Engensa Ltd

Shahina Abdulla, Environmental Coordinator

Sustainability Executive of the year

Evelyn Moriarty, Arla Foods

Stephen Jackson, Nottingham Trent University

Dr Martyn Kenny, Tarmac

Maurice Patterson, Thomas Rotherham College

Small Business of the year

Delphis Eco

Climatecars

uShip Inc

Belu Water Ltd

Newlife Paints

Green Preference Service

Elektromotive

Woodland Burial Parks Group

Company of the year

Ecotricity

Stagecoach Group

InterfaceFLOR

1E

DNV

Sustainability Project of the year

Sponsored by:

SecondNature, Tesco

1E, HSBC

Wave Hub, DCA Public Relations

Merlin, Capgemini UK

Harlequin, British Sky Broadcasting Group

Eco Data Centre Project, Blue Chip Customer Engineering Ltd

Business Waste Recycling Project, Islington Chamber of Commerce

Nottingham City Homes, Nationwide Windows Limited

Leader of the year

Brian Souter, Stagecoach Group

Andrew Eagles, Sustainable Homes

Sumir Karayi, 1E

Karl Hick, Larkfleet Group

Dale Vince, Ecotricity

Peter Laybourn, International Synergies Ltd

Keith Johnston, ConnEVted Consulting

Rob Sauven, Vestas Technology

Love2scoot would like to wish the teams at Ecotricity & Elektromotive - lots and lots of luck! 

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North East to host more fast-charging points for electric vehicles

Elektromotive has been commissioned to install eight of the company's new Rapid Charge Elektrobays in northeast England as part of an initiative, led by the One North East regional development agency, to install more than 1,000 charging stations across the region within the next three years.  The first Rapid Charge Elektrobay has been installed at the Metro Centre, Gateshead. With a direct current of 50kW, the Rapid Charge Elektrobay can charge the battery of a compatible electric vehicle - such as a Nissan Leaf or Mitsubishi i-MiEV - to 80 per cent of its capacity in 20 minutes, compared to around seven hours if using a conventional domestic power supply.  Rapid charge technology is widely seen as crucial for encouraging more consumers to purchase and use electric vehicles.  One North East is on the lookout for more locations to install the other Rapid Charge Elektrobays. These locations should be easily accessible and ideally close to main roads and conurbations where they will be of most use to drivers wishing to recharge their vehicles. Any business or organisation located on or near the major trunk roads and spine roads in the North East are invited to put themselves forward. This infrastructure work is part of the Office for Low Emission Vehicles's 'Plugged-In Places' initiative  Although this is the first Rapid Charge Elektrobay in England, Elektromotive's Irish reseller, Carra, has already installed the same product in Dublin, and is bidding to support the plans of Electricity Supply Board's ecars division to deploy a network of rapid chargers across the country.  Source: Utility Week

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Is BMW really the only manufacturer working to design an electric car from scratch?

(via @guardianeco & @AutomotivePR)

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Japan earthquake stalls Nissan electric car production

VentureBeat (@VentureBeat) bit.ly/gwmKEA

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Japan to Build 10,000 EV Charging Station/Vending Machine Hybrids by 2012 

Japan is notorious for its fascination with vending machines — as of 2008, there were 5.5 million of them across the nation. And these aren’t merely the candy bar and soda variety, either — Japan has vending machines that sell live crabs, grow lettuce, arecovered in moss, and dispense smart cars. And by this time next year, it will have 10,000 vending machines that charge electric cars.

TreeHugger

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Last year Google received a unanimous approval by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to buy and sell electricity in the US. They also have a strategic partnership with GE  and a PowerMeter tool for SmartMeters, so this is a logical extension of their plans.

“Looks like Google is seriously diversifying now; after the recent announcement of their self-driving car project, the company is now dipping further into alternative energy by investing in a new wind farm power grid. Google is teaming up with Trans-Elect, Good Energies and Marubeni Corp. for the Atlantic Wind Connection transmission backbone that will be located off the East Coast of the United States and will be capable of producing 6,000 megawatts of power. The construction of the wind farm will begin in 2013.”

PSFK » Google’s Wind Farm

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Delighted to be asked to guest speak at this years Smarta Live event, giving my tips on no money marketing for business growth. 

Victoria Atherstone / Love2scoot 

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We're passionate about coining exceptionally innovative electric scooters for every day commuters. Love2scoot aim to change the face of urban commuting with substantial environmental benefits - while addressing the needs of today's urbanite consumer needs. 

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Prime Minister David Cameron Announces Big Society Bank Proposals - #ProjectMerlin

"The £200 million promised to the Big Society Bank from high street banks will be provided on a commercial lending basis, earning them profit."

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ELECTRIC car drivers will soon be able to charge up at a town centre car park.

Charging points have been installed in two bays at Chequer Mead car park, off De La Warr Road, East Grinstead.

Although they are yet to be switched on, Mid Sussex District Council hope motorists will be able to use the points by the end of the month.....