Freitag, 1. Juni 2012

crowdfunding crowdinvesting für erneubare energien


Sunnycrowd ist eine Crowdfunding plattform für erneubare energien und Solaranlagen in Deutschland und ermöglicht den Usern Geld zu verdienen und dabei die Natur zu schützen.


 
Das Startup Sunnycrowd ermöglicht eine neue Form der Finanzierung von erneubare energien und in Deutschland. Bei der Finanzierung wird Sunnycrowd auf Internet-Crowdfunding zurückgreifen.
Durch Sunnycrowd kann jeder helfen Solaranlagen und Solarprojekte zu finanzieren. Auch mit kleinen Summen kann man helfen die Welt nachhaltig zu verbessern und man verdient dabei Geld.

Sunnycrowd: Crowdfunding Crowdinvesting für erneubare energien!

 

Sunnycrowd ist crowdfunding und crowdinvesting für erneubare energien. Durch Sunnycrowd http://www.sunnycrowd.com  kann jeder in Erneuerbare Energien investieren. User können mit kleinen oder großen Beträgen Erneuerbare Energien Projekte unterstützen und damit Geld verdienen. Die Projekte sind unterteilt in Städte und Regionen in Deutschland, so kann man etwas Gutes für die Umwelt in seiner Region machen.

Die meisten Leute haben schlechte Erfahrungen mit intransparenten und/oder unverständlichen Finanzierungen oder Fonds gemacht. Den meisten Leuten fehlt Transparenz, die ihnen zeigt wie und wo ihr Geld „arbeitet“. Das bietet Sunnycrowd, denn bei Sunnycrowd investieren leute in fassbare Werte die verständlich und real sind. Sunnycrowd lässt die User die Projekte online und in Echtzeit verfolgen und kontrollieren.

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Sonntag, 27. Mai 2012

Solving the energy storage problem, Liquid Metal Battery Corp raises $15M with support from Bill Gates | VentureBeat

Liquid Metal Battery Corporation, which says it found the solution to storing energy from renewable sources, is getting a new charge in funding.

Led by cleantech investor Khosla Ventures, the battery tech company has raised $15 million in a second round of funding. LMBC has also attracted the attention of energy company Total and  investor Bill Gates, who returned for this second funding round.

The company is the brainchild of Dr. Donald Sadoway, an MIT professor who developed the battery technology to be low cost and easy to deploy.

“The way things stand today, electricity demand must be in constant balance with electricity supply,” Sadoway said in March during a Technology Entertainment and Design talk titled “The Missing Link to Renewable Energy.”

One big problem with renewable energy sources today is that there’s no good way to store power for when you actually need it (current battery technology hasn’t scaled well for this). LMBC’s liquid battery solves that problem, splitting energy demand from storage and allowing clean energy sources to have a hand in energy generation.

“With a giant battery, we’d be able to address the problem of intermittence that prevents wind and solar from contributing to the grid in the same way that coal and gas and nuclear do today,” Sadoway said.

One of the biggest advantages to the battery is that it can be added to existing systems, eliminating the need for further build outs. This, coupled with its flexibility, means that the system is cheap — a factor that has kept much of energy investment focused on established technologies.

“We need to think about the problem differently. We need to think big. We need to think cheap,” Sadoway said in the TED talk.

Freitag, 6. April 2012

How Renewable Electricity Generation in Germany Has Changed (Chart & Statistics)

 
I can’t remember where I ran across these — I think a reader shared them with me — but I started going through a bunch of old drafts of articles I wanted to write but never got to last night (Spring cleaning, I guess) and ran across them again. Basically, the image and tables below show how renewable electricity generation has changed over the years. Visit the German website I got all this from for more.

germany renewable electricity generation

As you can see, up until the late 1990s, the only renewable energy source for electricity generation that was at all significant was hydro power.

In the middle to late 1990s, wind power started growing and had grown to a significant share of the electricity supply by the early 2000s. In 2003, it surpassed hydro power for the #1 renewable energy source for electricity, and has held that position up until today.

Biomass has also grown a lot in the 2000s, and it passed up hydro in 2007.

Solar started growing later, but you can see that its big boom in 2010 and 2011 has resulted in it becoming a major player now, as well.

Of course, the chart also shows Germany’s significant renewable energy growth (in the electricity sector) overall.

For more details, here are tables to go with the image:

Interesting stuff. Let me know if more thoughts pop into your head from looking at this. And let me know if you have similar charts and stats for other countries that you think would be worth a share!

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About Zachary Shahan

If you couldn't guess, I spend most of my time on CleanTechnica and Planetsave. I'm the director/editor of both sites and am a little obsessed with them and the topics they cover. I'm also Publishing Services Manager at Important Media, which means that I do everything I can to support other Important Media writers, editors, and directors (as well as the network as a whole) in the good work they are engaged in. You can also find my work on Scientific American, Reuters, Change.org, most of the sites in the Important Media network, & many other places. For more, or to connect, go to: zacharyshahan.com

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Donnerstag, 5. April 2012

Europe-Solar.de News - [22. Febr 2012] Radikale Kürzung der EEG Tarife zum März oder A : Europe-Solar.de, Solarbörse & Grosshandel - Photovoltaik Anlagenplanung & Beratung

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Künftig soll es nur noch drei Förderklassen geben:
Kleine Dachanlagen bis 10 kWp: 19,5 Cent / kWh
Mittler und große Anlagen bis 1000 Kilowatt: 16,5 Cent / kWh
Großanlagen auf Dächern und Freiflächen bis 10 Megawatt: 13,5 Cent.

Je nach Anlagengröße bedeut dieses eine radikale Kürzung zwischen 20 und mehr als 30 Prozent.

Hinzu kommt eine Verstetigung der Degression. Um die bisherigen Jahresendrallyes vor jeder weiteren Kürzung zu verhindern, sollen die Vergütungssätze von Mai an monatlich um 0,15 Cent je Kilowattstunde gesenkt werden.
Ferner soll bei kleinen Anlagen nur noch maximal 85%, bei größeren 90% der Nennleistung der PV Anlage vergütet werden.

Schlussendlich fällt auch der Eigenverbrauchbonus weg, um die EEG-Umlage zu entlasten.

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Stern Review on the economics of climate change : Directgov - Newsroom

Moving to a low-carbon global economy

The second half of the Review examines the national and international policy challenges of moving to a low-carbon global economy.

Climate change is the greatest market failure the world has seen.  Three elements of policy are required for an effective response.

The first is carbon pricing, through taxation, emissions trading or regulation, so that people are faced with the full social costs of their actions. The aim should be to build a common global carbon price across countries and sectors.

The second is technology policy, to drive the development and deployment at scale of a range of low-carbon and high-efficiency products. And the third is action to remove barriers to energy efficiency, and to inform, educate and persuade individuals about what they can do to respond to climate change. Fostering a shared understanding of the nature of climate change, and its consequences, is critical in shaping behaviour, as well as in underpinning both national and international action.

Effective action requires a global policy response, guided by a common international understanding of the long-term goals for climate policy and strong frameworks for co-operation. Key elements of future international frameworks should include:

  • emissions trading
  • technology co-operation
  • action to reduce deforestation
  • adaption

Stern Review on the economics of climate change : Directgov - Newsroom

Impacts and risks from uncontrolled climate change

"There is still time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, if we act now and act internationally"

The first half of the Review focuses on the impacts and risks arising from uncontrolled climate change, and on the costs and opportunities associated with action to tackle it. A sound understanding of the economics of risk is critical here. The Review emphasises that economic models over timescales of centuries do not offer precise forecasts - but they are an important way to illustrate the scale of effects we might see.

The Review estimates that the dangers could be equivalent to 20 per cent of GDP or more.

In contrast, the costs of action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to avoid the worst impacts of climate change can be limited to around 1 per cent of global GDP each year.  People would pay a little more for carbon-intensive goods, but our economies could continue to grow strongly.

If we take no action to control emissions, each tonne of CO2 that we emit now is causing damage worth at least $85 - but these costs are not included when investors and consumers make decisions about how to spend their money.  Emerging schemes that allow people to trade reductions in CO2 have demonstrated that there are many opportunities to cut emissions for less than $25 a tonne.   In other words, reducing emissions will make us better off. According to one measure, the benefits over time of actions to shift the world onto a low-carbon path could be in the order of $2.5 trillion each year.

The shift to a low-carbon economy will also bring huge opportunities. Markets for low-carbon technologies will be worth at least $500bn, and perhaps much more, by 2050 if the world acts on the scale required.

Tackling climate change is the pro-growth strategy; ignoring it will ultimately undermine economic growth.