Archive for the ‘Alternative Energy’ Category

New Oil and Gas Technologies Leading the Way

Posted in Alternative Energy, Oil & Gas on Friday, February 17th, 2012. No comments yet
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Our regular Friday posts here on the blog feature the Emerson experts in alternative energy. Alan Novak, director of the alternative energy industry team, has an article just published in Forbes magazine. The article, The Tectonic Shift Of New Oil And Gas Technologies Has Only Just Begun, pulls together many of the ideas shared here [...]

Is Natural Gas the New Alternative Energy Source?

Posted in Alternative Energy on Friday, February 10th, 2012. No comments yet
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In today’s guest post, Emerson’s Douglas Morris of the alternative energy industry team, explores how the abundance of natural gas is generating discussions around the U.S. Renewable Fuel Standards and alternative energy-based processes. About a month ago, a bill was submitted to the US Congress to change the definition of a feedstock within the Renewable [...]

More Efficient, Wood-Based Biomass Energy Production

Posted in Alternative Energy, Boilers on Wednesday, February 8th, 2012. No comments yet
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Many power producers have goals to use renewable resources in their electrical energy mix—by either regulation or economic incentive. At the ARC Industry Forum this week in Orlando, Minnesota Power’s Luther Kemp presented the company’s plans to expand renewable sources of energy using wind and biomass to achieve 25% of their generating capacity by 2025 [...]

The Boom and Bust Cycle in Renewable Energy

Posted in Alternative Energy on Friday, February 3rd, 2012. No comments yet
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In today’s guest post, Emerson’s Alan Novak, director of the alternative energy industry team, explores the role of government policy in renewable energy’s boom and bust cycles. As Doug Morris mentioned last week, the renewable fuels market is facing uncertainty due to a lack of clarity in tax, funding and energy policy.A similar situation exists [...]

US Energy Policy: What Happened to Advanced Biofuels?

Posted in Alternative Energy, Regulatory Compliance on Friday, January 27th, 2012. One comment so far
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Emerson’s Douglas Morris of the alternative energy industry team highlights his impressions from this week’s U.S. State of the Union address as it applies to alternative energy: Being that it’s State of the Union time, I thought it would be curious to reflect on the status of the energy policy in the US. During President [...]

Control Architecture for Solar Photovoltaic Plants

Posted in Alternative Energy, Technologies on Friday, January 20th, 2012. One comment so far
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In today’s guest post, Emerson’s Jim Cushman, a member of the Power & Water Solutions business, looks at the process control architecture requirements for solar photovoltaic-based power generation. Early developers of solar photovoltaic (PV) did not consider the need to control the power generated from solar PV panels. In their minds, it was simply a [...]

Changes to the Ethanol Tax Structure

Posted in Alternative Energy on Friday, January 13th, 2012. No comments yet
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In today’s guest post, Emerson’s Douglas Morris of the alternative energy industry team shares his thoughts on the impact on recently expired US ethanol tariffs. This just in, there is a budget battle going on in Washington, DC. Okay, so the budget disagreements on the Hill are not news, but something once thought nearly impossible, [...]

Impact of Shale Gas on Coal Conversion Technologies

Posted in Alternative Energy, LNG on Friday, January 6th, 2012. No comments yet
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Emerson’s Alan Novak, leader of the Alternative Energy industry team, explores how the rapid increase in shale production has impacted coal conversion, liquefied natural gas (LNG), and Substitute Natural Gas (SNG) in today’s guest post. A few weeks ago, we looked at the impact of plentiful US shale gas on US manufacturing. It also has [...]

Solar Photovoltaic Growing Pains

Posted in Alternative Energy, Energy Management on Friday, December 16th, 2011. One comment so far
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In today’s guest post, Emerson’s Jim Cushman, a member of the Power & Water Solutions team, describes the challenges utilities and independent system operators (ISOs) face in regulating power on the grid with the increasing number of solar photovoltaic (PV) alternative energy-based systems being installed in commercial and residential properties. The solar photovoltaic market continues [...]

Plentiful Natural Gas—Impact on US Process Manufacturing

Posted in Alternative Energy, Oil & Gas on Friday, December 9th, 2011. No comments yet
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In today’s guest post, Emerson’s Alternative Energy industry group leader, Alan Novak, shares the opportunity that shale gas provides to the U.S. economy and the process manufacturing industries: A new energy source has emerged and is changing the shape of the manufacturing industry–shale gas.Shale gas, sometimes called “tight gas”, is natural gas that is trapped [...]

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