Energy Dimensions

The Nissan Americas team recently took steps to share best practices in energy management and sustainability during the first-ever Nissan Americas Energy and Sustainability summit in Franklin, Tenn.

WASHINGTON D.C. — The Institute for Energy Research announced today its full support for immediate development of the Keystone XL pipeline, and has placed on the organization’s website a ticker representing the money that President Obama’s delay will send overseas so long as Americans cannot access Canadian oil through the proposed pipeline. “At this point, [...]

 ATLANTA, Dec 07, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Renewvia Energy Corporation, a provider of solar power systems for owners of investment-grade commercial properties, announced today it has completed a 281 kilowatt (kW) solar power system at Casa Carranza, a Mesa, Ariz. apartment complex. The grid-connected photovoltaic solar electrical system is currently providing 25 percent of power [...]

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — November 1, 2011 — Heating the Midwest (HTM), a newly-formed biomass thermal advocacy group, today announced its official structure, mission and intent. The group represents industry, government, non-profit, university and tribal organizations that have a vested interest in growing awareness and usage of woody and agricultural biomass (i.e. pellets, wood, and agricultural [...]

Washington, D.C. (November 3, 2011) – The following is a statement from Linda Church Ciocci, Executive Director of the National Hydropower Association, on the introduction of H.R. 3307, the American Renewable Energy Tax Credit Extension Act: “Providing financial certainty to hydropower developers is exactly the type of policy the industry needs out of Washington during [...]

GENEVA, Switzerland, 27 October – Electrotechnology impacts every aspect of our daily lives through businesses, societies, the environment and our interaction with each other. However this impact has rarely been reflected upon by academic institutions. To stimulate the debate around this integral issue, IEC, which publishes global technical guidelines that allow millions of devices and [...]

Boulder, Colo., Nov. 14 – Researchers from Bangladesh, China, Korea and Iran have submitted abstracts for technical papers to be delivered at the World Renewable Energy Forum (WREF 2012), coming to Denver’s Colorado Convention Center, May 13 to 17. Abstracts have come in from Wisconsin, Oregon, Utah and Colorado, as well. Concepts covered by early [...]

Washington, DC – August 18, 2011 – The Association of Oil Pipe Lines (AOPL) announces the creation of pipeline safety performance improvement Leadership Teams created jointly with the American Petroleum Institute (API). The Leadership Teams supplement ongoing performance improvement processes, which have significantly reduced hazardous liquid pipeline accidents over the past decade. The first seven [...]

As utilities have tightened their belts over the years, one of the first casualties has been their preventive maintenance budget. Transmission lines and substations all over North America are running on borrowed time due to equipment that is aging …some believe the system is at risk of an increasing number of failures and blackouts. Many [...]

On March 17th, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) order RM09-18-001 reaffirmed their final rule issued in November that the potential for gaps in coverage of all facilities under the current definition of bulk electric system could compromise reliability, directing the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) to revise the definition to eliminate regional discretion, [...]