Kelly Rumble, Founder, CEO, and President of Rumble Energy in Toronto, predicts that the new feed-in tariff instituted by the Ontario Power Authority (OPA) assisted by the Province of Ontario's Green Energy Act (GEA) may lead to the deployment of "200,000 rooftop installations in two or three years," or less. Mr. Rumble spoke this afternoon with Etopia News and said that the new renewable energy law, drafted and administered by the OPA, has "expanded 1000%" the business his firm is doing in this space.
Rumble Energy, said its founder, "is a family firm based on integrity that's been in the renewable energy business for seven years." During the interview, Mr. Rumble explained the basics of the Green Energy Act and the feed-in tariff that it is using to expand renewable energy deployment in Canada's largest province.
The OPA establishes a MicroFIT program that pays developers Cnd$80.2 Canadian cents per kilowatt-hour for solar power electricity generated under 10 kW's either rooftop or ground-based. The procedure for getting a MicroFIT contract from the OPA, Mr. Rumble explained, is done completely online and takes between 30 and 60 days.
Rumble Energy is now aggregating leases of rooftop space, principally on commercial properties, with a view to building solar PV systems on the order of 300 kW in these locations. Rumble Energy will oversee the construction of these systems by local contractors, undertake to maintain them, and retain a minority interest in their ownership, majority ownership residing with outside investors.
For more information, or to contact Rumble Energy, go to: http://www.Rumble-energy.com.
Friday, January 29, 2010
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Tom Rand at MaRS previews the Green Energy Act Finance Forum
Tom Rand, Practice Lead, Cleantech and Physical Science Venture Group, MaRS, talks about the January
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Tom Morrow at SEMI makes the case for feed-in tariffs
Tom Morrow, VP, Global Expositions, Sales, and Marketing at the SEMI PV Group, talks about how feed-in tariffs are the optimal policy for encouraging the production of renewable energy from photovoltaics, recorded between San Jose and Los Angeles, California, on December 15, 2009.
Friday, November 13, 2009
Ted Ko at FIT Coalition discusses AB1106
Ted Ko, Associate Executive Director of the FIT Coaltion, talks about renewable energy-related legislation in California, focusing on AB1106, a bill to establish a German-style feed-in tariff for the Golden State, recorded from San Francisco, California, on November 13, 2009
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Tax Cannabis 2010 Initiative advocates make their case
Dale Clare, Executive Chancellor of Oaksterdam University, and Jeff Jones, Executive Director of the Patient ID Center, explain and argue for the ballot qualification and passage of the Tax Cannabis 2010 initiative, recorded in Los Angeles, California, on November 4, 2009, in this Etopia News interview conducted by reporter Marc Strassman
Monday, November 2, 2009
Internet Voting and Smart Initiatives Now
Since I tried, and failed, to win public support for Internet voting and Smart Initiatives between 1996 and 2000, several things have happened that might make re-visiting these efforts worthwhile.
The principle objection to Internet voting at the time was that it would open the electoral process up to massive fraud. But shortly after I terminated my efforts in this regard, George W. Bush became President of the U.S. through a blatantly fraudulent election, and then led the US into a morass of political, economic, and moral ruin. Just today, Hamid Karzai “won” an election in Afghanistan during which his side saw to it that one-third of the votes he “received” were fraudulent. Apparently, one doesn’t need Internet voting to allow fraud into the voting booth.
Another object was that letting those who could, and wanted to, vote over the Internet would disenfranchise those who didn’t want to or couldn’t. So many more people are online now, and those who aren’t can still vote by mail. Has anyone noticed how much of life has already migrated to smart phones? How universal and ubiquitous mobile computing has become? Why should people who already do almost every task of modern life online or on their smart phones not be able to exercise the franchise the same way?
Oregon has abolished on-site voting, collecting all its ballots by mail. A growing proportion of Californians and others vote by mail as well. Vote-by-mail is as subject to coercion or bribery as Internet voting but no one objects to it on those grounds.
Most telling of all is the unassailable fact that almost every activity is moving into cyberspace at an accelerating pace. Newspapers fail as Google News rises. Book stores fall into ruin as Kindles and Nooks take over that space. Music companies and now movie studios daily lament the vanishing of their business models and cash flow to legal and illegal online media sites. National postal services flounder in debt as business and personal paper mail becomes obsolete.
The world’s intellectual property, business affairs, and interpersonal communication increasingly reside as bits of data on cloud servers that streamline, universalize, and de-materialize the transfer of information between and among individuals and institutions. Why aren’t we allowed to govern ourselves the same way that we entertain and inform ourselves, and conduct almost every other aspect of our individual and collective lives and business? Why not Internet voting and Smart Initiatives now?
To read all or part of the 1,081-page online version of "Etopian Elections: Internet Voting, Smart Initiatives, and the Future of (Electronic) Democracy," go to:
http://www.etopiamedia.net/si/pages/si-ee-pdfs-5551212.html
The principle objection to Internet voting at the time was that it would open the electoral process up to massive fraud. But shortly after I terminated my efforts in this regard, George W. Bush became President of the U.S. through a blatantly fraudulent election, and then led the US into a morass of political, economic, and moral ruin. Just today, Hamid Karzai “won” an election in Afghanistan during which his side saw to it that one-third of the votes he “received” were fraudulent. Apparently, one doesn’t need Internet voting to allow fraud into the voting booth.
Another object was that letting those who could, and wanted to, vote over the Internet would disenfranchise those who didn’t want to or couldn’t. So many more people are online now, and those who aren’t can still vote by mail. Has anyone noticed how much of life has already migrated to smart phones? How universal and ubiquitous mobile computing has become? Why should people who already do almost every task of modern life online or on their smart phones not be able to exercise the franchise the same way?
Oregon has abolished on-site voting, collecting all its ballots by mail. A growing proportion of Californians and others vote by mail as well. Vote-by-mail is as subject to coercion or bribery as Internet voting but no one objects to it on those grounds.
Most telling of all is the unassailable fact that almost every activity is moving into cyberspace at an accelerating pace. Newspapers fail as Google News rises. Book stores fall into ruin as Kindles and Nooks take over that space. Music companies and now movie studios daily lament the vanishing of their business models and cash flow to legal and illegal online media sites. National postal services flounder in debt as business and personal paper mail becomes obsolete.
The world’s intellectual property, business affairs, and interpersonal communication increasingly reside as bits of data on cloud servers that streamline, universalize, and de-materialize the transfer of information between and among individuals and institutions. Why aren’t we allowed to govern ourselves the same way that we entertain and inform ourselves, and conduct almost every other aspect of our individual and collective lives and business? Why not Internet voting and Smart Initiatives now?
To read all or part of the 1,081-page online version of "Etopian Elections: Internet Voting, Smart Initiatives, and the Future of (Electronic) Democracy," go to:
http://www.etopiamedia.net/si/pages/si-ee-pdfs-5551212.html
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Bob Paine previews his EUEC workshop on emission controls
Bob Paine, Technical Director at Westford, MA-based AECOM, discusses existing and emerging EPA emission control standards and what's needed to comply with them, previewing a workshop he'll be giving with Bob Iwanchuk at the EUEC Conference in Phoenix, AZ, in February, 2010
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