France Greentech Minister Borloo says Renewables to create 600 000 green jobs
Now Playing: Renewables electricity - Green Building - Batiment intelligent

600 000 emplois d'ici 2020

France Borloo
Greentech Minister
to create 600 000
green Jobs 2020

Source: LeMonde

Barack Obama predicts 

5 million green jobs for U.S. 

Europe Renewable electricity leader Germany 20% 4000 MW Solar PV 16 000 MW Wind, next Spain http://tinyurl.com/l89maf 

France to create national Solar PV Industry ?
Mood:  accident prone
Now Playing: must compete with Germany, China, U.S.
Topic: Politics

In 2020 Solar electricity costs to reduce by 50%
France however has to speed up in Renewable energy
education for Green jobs, 25 years missing.
Production and materials costs and Pre-financing
orders a whole finance concept has to develop for
Solar France. No General Electric will prefinance
EDF. So France has to open it's market for new
players for fair solar energy trade, especially
for Germany, China, U.S.. If national restricton games
like "agreed installateur" for european homologated
products continue to protect the french market
from european and Int'l players, no progress in sight.
EDF the $100bn electricity provider did not and does
not understand Solar business. More it's looking to survive
with the $50bn burden dept from overaged nuclear
industry to replace. So new companies to create.

Source: Le Monde

France C.R.E resists Smartmeter Efficiency
Mood:  don't ask
Now Playing: wants tax or money for power saving service ?
Topic: Politics

France years behind in Smart Meter development applications compared to U.K., the experimental European, demands company Voltalis, a company that installs electricity management devices in homes and businesses and then manages their use, would have to, in effect, pay power producers for the power that it saves.

Note: Only the Royals in Paris make money, ordinary consumers obliged to pay for the power efficiency; French paradox to change...

 NewYorkTimes   |  Green Sheet

 

Biomass stove could convert sound into electricity
Now Playing: $50 Device in planning for Africa
Topic: Poverty

A stove that makes Electricity from Biomass for Cooking And Fridge ? 

British project, supported by Germans for Africa,
University of Nottingham are developing a linear
alternator that could turn sound energy into electricity.

http://www.cleantech.com/news/4731/biomass-stove-could-convert-sound-e

Operation Desertec, Germans to switch $500bn in Solar Electricity from Africa
Mood:  bright
Now Playing: Desertec grounds Nuclear 14th July 2009
Topic: Solarlife capital

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

Obama and Mills >

                               
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

Problem e-waste Ghana
Ghana US/EU dumpsite for old Computers/TV
Le Ghana : poubelle pour les "e-déchets"

Obama in Africa: Can US rival China's new clout?

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.

Link: Voice of America, shortwave broadcasting Ghana Event

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.”

source: WonkRoom/THINK PROGRESS

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