IBM DESIGNS EU-MALTA SMART GRID Now Playing: $100 million investment power and water metering Topic: Smart Grid
VALLETTA, MALTA The Maltese National Electricity and Water Utilities Enemalta Corporation (EMC) and Water Services Corporation (WSC) have selected IBM for a 70 million euro, five-year agreement to design and deliver a nationwide Smart Grid implementation.
Working with IBM, Enemalta will transform key utility processes through the implementation of an integrated utility business solution source: Reuters IBM
Obama visits Ghana, first African Smart Grid to cut power breaks Mood:
a-ok Now Playing: John Atta-Mills president of Ghana: Partnership for Change. Topic: Politics
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America's first black president to make this country his first stop in Sub-Saharan Africa reflects Ghana's political maturity. The democratic elections with high tension 3 rounds ended with Prof. Atta Mills victory.
Slave history to turn into Cleantech Obama's family to visit Cape Coast Castle, from where slaves were shipped across the Atlantic for nearly 300 years.
Smart grid At the same time starting 2009 Ghana, Africa's "californian" West-coast will implement Africa's first SMART GRID.
Power Breaks down 30% Cutting power breaks 30%. The African American headed Smart Grid will change the History of intermittent Electricity in Africa. The Grid is ready for later injections of Renewables like Wind and Solar. Atta Mills wants to increase Ghana's electric power from 1500 MW to 5000MW
Climate change Ghana most hit with droughts needs help to adaptation of Agriculture Food security
Lighting Africa Ghana hosted 2008 the Lighting Africa World bank market place competititon to replace for 250 million Subsaharan People Kerosene Lamps by Modern lighting off-grid 2030
CHINA'S EXIM BANK RISES AS ALTERNATIVE TO WORLD BANK For many African governments, China's state-operated Exim Bank, now the world's third largest credit agency, has become a compelling alternative to the World Bank, one that doesn't dwell on humanitarian concerns.
GE's Immelt says U.S. economy needs industrial renewal Now Playing: Production to replace consumer and Wall street index ?
General Electric Co Chief Executive Jeff Immelt said on Friday the United States needs to refocus its economy on manufacturing and exporting if it wishes to recover from a brutal recession.The world's largest economy can no longer count on consumer spending to drive demand, nor can it rely on Wall Street financial wizardry if it wants its population to continue to enjoy a high standard of living, the head of the largest U.S. conglomerate said.
"We should clear away any arrogance, false assumptions, or a sense that things will be 'OK' just because we are America," Immelt told the Detroit Economic Club. "Our competitive edge has slipped away and this has hit the middle class hard."The U.S. should work to have manufacturing represent about 20 percent of employment, more than double its current level, he said. Source: Reuters
$3.9 Billion in Smart Grid Grants US Now Playing: DOE Announces Guidelines for $3.9 Billion in Smart Grid Grants.
June 26, 2009 - $615 million for smart grid demonstration projects will help develop and implement smart grid technologies across the country. Source: Clean Edge News
The Economic Recovery Plan’s Bold Move To Repower America »
The Obama economic recovery plan makes a bold investment in the modernization of our electricity infrastructure, in order to transform an often-overwhelmed patchwork of balkanized regional networks into a national “smart grid” based on Internet-like technology. Without a smart grid, the goal of independence from fossil fuels is impossible to reach. Repower America, Al Gore’s campaign to have America use 100% renewable electricity in ten years, explains that a national smart grid “will save money, increase reliability and protect consumers from outages, and make possible a clean electricity system.”
Toyota must restart Mood:
bright Now Playing: New Toyota boss Akio Toyoda says he will cut his salary by 30 percent. Topic: Smart economy
Akio Toyoda to reinvent Toyota, product lines have to fit to regional customers. End of Worldcar ? Moving forward, the company's focus will be on products, rather than profits, he said READ MORE> CNN
French president Sarkozy goes Solar Now Playing: Nicolas Sarkozy plaide pour les Energies renouvelables Topic: Solarlife capital
Sarkozy sees it as collective error, France being nuclear Leader, can not ignore Renewable energy
Things are changing with european elections giving 16% to the French Greens With Leader Dany Cohn-Bendit the 68 Student revolution leader
"Nous avons tous commis une erreur collective", a-t-il dit. "La France, en tête de tous les pays sur l'énergie nucléaire, pensait ne pas avoir besoin des énergies renouvelables."
Le chef de l'Etat s'exprimait lors d'une table ronde organisée sur le campus scientifique de l'Université de Savoie sur le thème du développement des énergies renouvelables, en présence d'un millier de représentants des secteurs concernés. éco-entrepreneurs ?
FRENCH GREENS up EU-Elections Now Playing: Daniel Cohn-Bendit VERTS / GREENS Topic: Politics
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the Leader of the 68 Student revolution in Paris could repeat his success for radical change to Green for the European elections. He could build up a non-frustrated team to beat boaring french Socialists, not convincing for renewable energy and social change. Dany Cohn-Bendit and Sarkozy are the winners in the European elections,
Daniel Cohn-Bendit VERTS/GREENS et Nicolas Sarkozy UMP/REPUBLICANS sont les grands vainqueurs des élections européennes en France