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From Bloomberg Business Week

Good news from Spain (who needs it, as does much of Southern Europe):

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Spain's grid hits 30% renewables... Thanks to a windy and wet winter, Spanish windmills and dams cranked out so much juice that renewables supplied more than 30% of the country’s power in the past year. With GDP of about $1,500 billion and a population of 41 million, Spain is on par with California. But by comparison the Golden State--though one of the greenest in the US--met 23.5% of its electricity demand with renewables in 2007. President Obama has pointed to Spain as a role model for the US to follow. He wants the nation to to hit 10% renewables by 2010 and 25% by 2025, up from about 8% today.

Congratulations to Spain on a great renewable performance.  We believe, despite the current setbacks and struggles, they are setting the stage for a bright future.

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Hydropower – good to know

The worldwide use of hydropower is constantly growing, and has increased by 5,2% in period between 2009 and 2010. At the end of 2010 global hydropower capacity accounted to a record 3,427 terawatt-hours, contributing to more than 16 percent of globally produced electricity.

The hydropower still has relatively low costs, in average around 3 to 5 U.S. cents per kilowatt-hour and it is also one of

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Japanese Solar Panel Owners Sold $1.2 Billion Worth of Surplus Power Back to Grid Last Year

This from EcoGeek:

"Japanese home and business owners with solar power installations sold 2,150 GWh of electricity back to their power utilities last year, a huge 50 percent increase over the amount sold back to the grid in 2010.  The sellers collectively made a nice $1.2 billion off their surplus electricity.

The Japanese government has a feed-in-tariff scheme that requires the utilities to purchase the extra power which was small beans compared to the average 884,000 GWh of electricity that those utilities sell to customers per year.

The government is set to introduce even more subsidies for domestic renewable energy power developers. The new scheme will include electricity from solar, wind, small hydroelectric, biomass and geothermal plants, but only solar panel owners with systems of 10 kW or less will still be able to sell their excess power."

We would love to see our neighborhood look like that.  How about you?

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Take a look at the new video we just posted...

On the perfect city car.  Amazing.

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