$3.4bn White House Trumpets Clean Energy Blitz, Obama-Biden-Al Gore
Post date: Oct 27, 2009 11:6:18 PM
Clean-energy Blitz Florida (1) Smart grid and smart meters - Obama
ARCADIA, Fla. -- The Obama administration launched a clean-energy blitz Tuesday,
with Vice President Joe Biden traveling to his home state of Delaware to open an
electric-automobile plant and President Barack Obama sweeping into this Central
Florida hamlet to unveil $3.4 billion in stimulus grants for advanced-electricity-grid projects. SLIDESHOW | miamiherald
Clean-energy Blitz Delaware (2) Electric car factory - Biden$528.7 million conditional loan for Fisker to produce Plug-in Hybrids in ex GM factory
online.wsj.com | Smart home Plug-in Demo | $11bn Market creation electric cars
DUBAI, Un projet pour produire de l'énergie solaire dans le désert lexpress.fr
"Un des plans à long terme envisagés est de lier cette région (les pays du Golfe)
à l'Afrique du Nord et à l'Europe par un réseau fournissant de l'énergie solaire
qui serait produite dans le désert", a déclaré le prix Nobel de la paix lors d'une
conférence à Dubaï.Il a précisé que "les nouvelles technologies permettent dorénavant
de transmettre l'énergie à distance". (Desertec launched by Germany)
Clean-energy Blitz Dubai (3) Desert Solar power for EU - Al GoreDUBAI, Al Gore proposes project to produce solar energy in the desert
Obama Names 'Smart Grid' Projects
The Obama administration on Tuesday named 100 utility projects that will share $3.4 billion in federal stimulus funding to speed deployment of advanced technology designed to cut energy use and make the electric-power grid more robust.
Touring a field of solar energy panels in west-central Florida, President Barack Obama urged greater use of several technologies, including installing "smart" electric meters in homes, automating utility substations and installing thousands of new digital transformers and grid sensors.
"There's something big happening in America in terms of creating a clean-energy economy,'' Mr. Obama said, although he added there is much more to be done. ++++++++++++++++++++++++
Among the winners are Baltimore Gas & Electric Co., a unit of Constellation Energy, which will get $200 million it can use in a $451 million program to install 1.1 million digital meters and 400,000 in-home control devices and thermostats. San Diego Gas & Electric Co. will get $28 million to improve communications with the 1.4 million advanced meters it already is installing, part of California's extensive meter upgrade that will be completed in 2012.
source: online.wsj.com