http://bandriwsky.com Industrial Automation Control Systems and / or Renewable Energy Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:17:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en By KATIE FEHRENBACHER, GigaOm,  February 20, 2009 The most important provision in the stimulus package for promoting energy efficiency in the U.S. could be a piece of ambiguous language wrapped up in a section on state energy grants. A few sentences encourages states to consider a policy for utilities known ... http://bandriwsky.com/archives/152 A New Gang Comes to Los Angeles: Solar-Panel Installers By MIRIAM JORDAN – Wall Street Journal – Feb 14, 2009 LOS ANGELES -- When Albert Ortega was released from prison four months ago, he was determined to turn his life around. So he went green. Mr. Ortega sports tattoos of an Aztec ... http://bandriwsky.com/archives/139 By KARL RITTER, Associated Press Writer Karl Ritter, 2/4/2009 Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, left, and fellow coalition members Maud Olofsson, center, and … STOCKHOLM – The Swedish government agreed Thursday to scrap a three-decade ban on building new nuclear reactors, saying it needs to avoid producing more greenhouse gases.   Sweden is ... http://bandriwsky.com/archives/136 By John Sawyer and Michael Sawyer Buffalo News - 5/5/09 - Another Voice / Energy production In his recent speech about the economy, President Obama called for “new investments in renewable energy and technology that will create new jobs and new industries.” Here in Western New York, one example of this environmentally ... http://bandriwsky.com/archives/134 WASHINGTON (AP) 02/03/09 — Ford Motor Co. said Johnson Controls-Saft will supply the battery system for the automaker’s first production plug-in hybrid electric vehicle beginning in 2012.   The lithium-ion battery system being designed by Milwaukee-based Johnson Controls will include cells along with mechanical, electrical, electronic and thermal components.   Ford is ... http://bandriwsky.com/archives/132 By John Seewer - ASSOCIATED PRESS -Updated: 06/24/09 07:31 AM   PERRYSBURG, Ohio — A new government council will help auto industry workers transition to new manufacturing opportunities, including jobs in alternative energy, Vice President Biden said Tuesday.   Biden toured the northwestern Ohio headquarters of the Willard & Kelsey Solar Group, which plans ... http://bandriwsky.com/archives/129 By David Robinson – BUFFALO NEWS BUSINESS REPORTER - 6/11/09   National Grid plans to spend an additional $1 billion over the next five years to upgrade its electricity transmission system in upstate New York, the utility said Wednesday.   The improvements, which are in addition to another five-year $1.5 billion transmission system ... http://bandriwsky.com/archives/127 By Jennifer Liu -  Fox News - May 18, 2009   Scientists at the Mascoma Corporation — a Lebanon, N.H. company founded by two Dartmouth professors — have successfully demonstrated a new and more cost-effective way to produce biofuel from plant matter by reprogramming bacteria and yeast cells to digest the organic ... http://bandriwsky.com/archives/125 David R. Baker, San Francisco Chronicle Staff Writer - March 12, 2008   The alternative energy business is starting to make real money. Worldwide sales for companies specializing in biofuels, wind farms, solar panels and fuel cells grew 40 percent in 2007 to reach $77.3 billion, according to an annual report issued Tuesday ... http://bandriwsky.com/archives/121 Upon completion, Buffalo Recycling Enterprises LLC’s new 80,000 square-foot recycling plant will house 40 to 45 employees on two shifts. Bill Wippert/Buffalo News   By Jonathan D. Epstein – BUFFALO NEWS BUSINESS REPORTER- 5/04/09 Construction on a new recycling facility in South Buffalo is well underway and “moving forward,” with plans calling ... http://bandriwsky.com/archives/117