Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Craig Lewis at RightCycle touts REESA over CPUC feed-in tariff plan

Craig Lewis, Principal at RightCycle Enterprises, dissects the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) feed-in tariff staff proposal and sets out the case for Wholesale Distributed Generation (WDG) and the Renewable Energy and Economic Stimulus Act (REESA) of 2009, recorded from Menlo Park, California, on April 1, 2009

Monday, March 30, 2009

Dr. Hsueh will spend $629,653 to create cloned human embryos

an e-mail from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine reveals that Stanford researcher Dr. Aaron Hsueh's CIRM grant for "patient-specific cells with nuclear transfer" will cost $629,653, published on March 30, 2009

James Carlini on stimulus program and municipal infrastructure

James Carlini, columnist and principal at Carlini & Associates, comments on the need for a long-term perspective in the use of federal infrastructure funds for local use, emphasizing the need for, and competitive advantage derived from, digital infrastructure, recorded from East Dundee, Illinois, on March 30, 2009

Friday, March 27, 2009

Dr. Hsueh's human cloning project at Stanford explained in his absemce

an explanation of Dr. Aaron Hsueh's human cloning research grant #RS1-00404-1:  Patient-specific cells with nuclear transfer, now in the planning stage at Stanford University with funding from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), recorded in Studio City, California, on March 27, 2009

Ed Regan at GRU: keeping the cap, inviting IOU into the FIT game

Ed Regan, Assistant General Manager for Strategic Planning at the Gainesville Regional Utilities in Florida, says that GRU will stick with the 4MW annual FIT cap and that allowing investor-owned utilities to invest in FIT-based energy generation might encourage their support for FITs, recorded from Gainesville, Florida, on March 27, 2009

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

No Bailout for Utilities

a brief op-ed calling on the public to assert its interest in implementing feed-in tariffs in Florida and elsewhere against the entrenched obstructionism of utilities looking after their own welfare at the expense of the general welfare

Friday, March 20, 2009

Kathy Baylis at Sarasota EDC expects Florida to adopt a RED

Kathy Baylis, President and CEO of the Sarasota (Florida) Economic Development Corporation, talks about its endorsement of renewable energy dividends and her expectation that Florida will soon implement this policy statewide, recorded from Sarasota, Florida, on March 20, 2009