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1. Energyfolks get-together at Beppo's in SF Wednesday night
2. Energy and Development in China: Stanford students report back from their trip, Thursday eve
3. "Storing Wind: Transforming Wind Energy from Niche Market to Mainstream Energy Source" May 16
4. Stanford University Green Dorm Researchers awarded $75,000
5. Plug-In Hybrid Performance: Some of the data being collected (124 mpg)
6. California Clean Alternative Energy Initiative: 1.2 million voter signatures
7. China Climate Forum at UCBerkeley, May 23-24
8. New report on CA Clean Energy Funds for Utility-Scale Renewable Energy Projects
9. Start-ups Interested in Concentrating Solar for Photovoltaics
10. Internships with PG&E
11. Two Post-doc positions at IIASA
12. Two Jobs: Ecos Consulting
13. GRID Alternatives seeking part-time summer intern, affordable housing
14. Summer 2006 Internship Opportunity, NASA Ames
15. Job Opportunity: Energy Analysis Engineer, Itron
16. JOB: Supervisory Physical Scientist, Climate Program NOAA
17. Climate Campaign Coordinator for EDF
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1. Energyfolks get-together at Beppo's in SF Wednesday night
Come join a gathering of bay area people from our energyfolks list and others interested in renewable energy and energy efficiency. Come to meet up with old friends, meet interesting people and share ideas. I'll be there (gil) and it's always fun to meet new people and see old buddies.
For those who frequent public transportation, it is conveniently located within walking distance of both BART and CalTrain on Howard St between 4th and 5th streets. If you are driving the 5th & Mission garage is only a block away - and one of the cheapest in town!
Where: Bucca de Beppo's
Address: 855 Howard street, SF, CA 94103
Beppo's Phone number: 415.543.7673
Date: Wednesday, May 17
Time: 6:00ish for happy hour drinks
7:00 for dinner
Please let Aaron know if you can make it, so that he can make a reservation of the appropriate size.
ARR8@pge.com or 510-784-2102
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2. ENERGY AND DEVELOPMENT IN CHINA: REPORT BACK FROM THE FIELD
Thursday, May 18, 7:00pm
Tresidder Oak West
How is one of the fastest-growing nations in the world dealing with rising energy demand?
Come hear students share their first-hand experiences and impressions from an all-access energy field trip to China.
Highlights include: Green Building, Wind Energy, Coal Trends, Solar Panel Manufacturing, Solar Hot Water, Energy
Policy, Influence of NGOs, Air Pollution
For more information, please contact joshuahatch@stanford.edu
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3. "Storing Wind: Transforming Wind Energy from Niche Market to Mainstream Energy Source" Monday 12:15 Terman M-33
Dr. Jeffery Greenblatt from Environmental Defense. His interests are in wind and other energy and his research includes studying the costs and performances of a variety of real-world projects focused on low-carbon energy technologies. He will be giving a talk on May 16, 2006, at 12:15 in M-33. His talk is entitled, "Storing the Wind: Transforming Wind Energy from Niche Market to Mainstream Energy Source."
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4. Stanford University Green Dorm Researchers awarded $75,000
This past year, Stanford University's Lotus Living Laboratory has been an opportunity for student and faculty researchers to collaboratively develop green building technology, collaborative design processes, and building metering and feedback systems. Students presented the results of this effort from May 9-10 on the Mall in Washington DC. They competed with 40 other teams nationwide that had also received $10,000 from the Environmental Protection Agency for Phase I of the 2nd annual People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3) Student Design Competition (http://es.epa.gov/ncer/p3/index.html).
The Stanford group won $75,000 of Phase II P3 funding to continue supporting their research. The students also won the Green Globes award from the Green Building Initiative for "being the entry that showed the most potential for commercialization/expansion into the market place", which also includes a $1,000 cash prize. In particular, the judges were impressed by the goals of the project, which include building a green dorm at Stanford and developing a larger program that researches and educates about sustainable pathways for resource use and building development (http://greendorm.stanford.edu).
The Stanford students are excited that they will be able to continue and expand the scope of their research, and they had a great time networking with young people from the other teams.
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5. Plug-In Hybrid Performance: Some of the data being collected (124 mpg)
Felix Kramer, from CalCars, is providing a continuous and fascinating flow of actual driving data for his recently converted plug-in hybrid Prius with lithium batteries. Here's a recent one
May 11 report: 51 miles, mostly on highways at
50-65 mph, driving about 4 miles uphill to I-280
for 10 miles, back at congested highways speeds
on US-101, and later in the day another 20 miles on US101.
A half mile from home this afternoon, my
batteries were depleted. I drove 50.8 miles in
full or partial-electric mode, averaging 124.1
MPG plus 123 watt-hours/mile of electricity.
Here's the math, assuming $3 gasoline and the
national average electric rate of 8.5
cents/kiloWatt hour. (Off-peak can be 5 cents,
Texas windpower and Washington hydropower could be 2 cents):
Gasoline: 50.8/124.1 = 0.40935 gallons = $1.23
Electricity: 50.8 X 0.123= 6.24 kwh = $0.53
TOTAL = $1.76
What would that same 50.8 miles have cost in other cars?
In my old (unconverted) 48 MPG Prius, 1.0583 gallons = $3.175
In a 25 MPG non-hybrid, 2.032 gallons = $6.10
That's the dollars. As for the petroleum
displacement, note that I used 39% of the gas I'd
have used in a hybrid and 20% of the gas I'd have
used in a standard passenger car.
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6. California Clean Alternative Energy Initiative: 1.2 million voter signatures
May 12, 2006
The campaign today announced that it has submitted 1.18 million voter signatures - nearly double the number of signatures needed - to county registrar offices statewide to qualify for the November ballot.
The Clean Energy Initiative will fund a $4 billion effort to reduce California's dependence on gasoline and diesel by 25% over the next 10 years by making alternative fuel vehicles and alternative fuels more widely affordable and accessible to consumers.
The Initiative will help replace gas and diesel powered vehicles with cars and trucks that run on cleaner, cheaper fuels like ethanol, biodiesel and electricity, by rushing these technologies to the marketplace more quickly. It will also fund university research in renewable energy like wind and solar. California consumers will pay no costs for this program -- these investments will be funded by a modest assessment on the flow of oil pumped from wells in California. Oil companies already pay similar fees in every other major oil-producing state (including Alaska, Texas, Louisiana and New Mexico), except California. Experience in those states has shown that the assessment does not result in higher costs to consumers.
According to Dan Kammen, Distinguished Professor of Energy and Co-Director of the Berkeley Institute of the Environment, "The price of crude oil is set on the global market, so if California oil producers tried to pass the assessment on to consumers in the form of higher oil prices, refineries would simply buy from other sources." Kammen adds that, "California's Attorney General's analysis clearly states that the measure 'prohibits producers from passing tax on to consumers.' This principal is well-established in case law as well. In Exxon vs. The State of Alabama in 1983, the Supreme Court specifically upheld consumer protection provisions similar to the ones in this Initiative.
More information on the Clean Energy Initiative is available at www.yesoncleanenergy.org.
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7. China Climate Forum at UCBerkeley, May 23-24
May 23 - 24, 2006
8:30 a.m.-5:15 p.m
Wheeler Hall Auditorium
UC Berkeley Campus
The China-U.S. Climate Change Forum is being organized by the Berkeley China Initiative, which is forging closer ties between U.C. Berkeley and China by bringing together key experts on important international and bilateral issues. Growing concern over climate change makes this topic an obvious choice for the first of this series of annual events.
The Forum is co-sponsored by Peking University's College of Environmental Sciences and UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, International and Area Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies, Energy and Resources Group, and Berkeley Institute of the Environment. Financial sponsors include the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund, the Energy Foundation, and the Hewlett Foundation.
The program is free and open to the public.
Including a SPECIAL EVENT: Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore will make a presentation on climate change at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, May 23, at Zellerbach Auditorium. The event will require advance reservations. Details to be announced here soon.
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8. New report on CA Clean Energy Funds for Utility-Scale Renewable Energy Projects
Berkeley, California (May 4, 2006) - Since 1998, state clean energy
funds in the U.S. have committed nearly $400 million to 234
utility-scale renewable energy projects totaling 2,249 MW of capacity,
according to a report released today by the Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory (LBNL), in conjunction with the Clean Energy States Alliance
(CESA).
Of the 2,249 MW of new renewables capacity currently supported, 1,116 MW
have been built to date, leaving 1,133 MW still in the development
pipeline.
Wind power continues to be the most favored technology, having captured
more than 60% of total funding provided (at nearly $250 million), and
accounting for more than 80% of the total capacity supported (at 1,878
MW).
States are increasingly using new and innovative incentive structures to
support projects. While 78% of aggregate funding has been awarded
through real-time production payments (e.g., x¢/kWh over a y-year
period), a few states now offer variations on that theme. For example,
rather than pay for production over time as the project generates power,
several states have instead awarded an "advance production payment" as a
lump-sum at the inception of commercial operations. The lump sum is
secured by a letter of credit that declines over time as the project
generates power and thereby earns the incentive. Other states have made
advance purchases of a project's tradable renewable certificates (TRCs)
-- the state provides the funding at the start of commercial operations,
and in exchange receives TRCs over time.
Both approaches -- i.e., the lump-sum production incentive and the
advance purchase of TRCs -- provide capital early in the project's life,
when capital-intensive renewable energy projects most need it.
Other innovative incentive structures include providing 10-year price
insurance on a project's TRCs, either through an outright purchase, or
by creating price floors through the use of options and collars.
Finally, several states have experimented with the use of debt to
finance wind projects.
The report,
can be downloaded from http://eetd.lbl.gov/ea/ems/cases/LBNL-56422.pdf.
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9. Start-ups Interested in Concentrating Solar for Photovoltaics
CNET News.com (http://www.news.com/)
Start-ups focus on an old technique of concentrating sunlight to make more cost-efficient photovoltaic panels. Photos: Solar 'concentrators'
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10. Internships with PG&E
Four pretty interesting internships with PG&E are available. If you are interested, contact one of our old Stanford alums, Jonathon Livingston (JJL5@pge.com) with an email summarizing interest and a resume.
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11. Two Post-doc positions at IIASA
The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) has two postdoc positions opening up in Integrated modeling of environmental issues.
Deadline for application is August 15, 2006.
For details go to
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12. 2 Jobs: Ecos Consulting
Ecos Consulting is currently seeking to fill a Program Manager position in San Francisco, California. This
position will work closely in a matrix relationship with the Ecos research business line based in Durango,
Colorado.
As a member of the California Team, you will experience all the benefits of working for a small company
while having a broad impact on energy efficiency and sustainability by managing energy efficiency
programs for the California Energy Commission in Sacramento. You will be able to develop close working
relationships with colleagues while shaping the company's direction and your own future. This unique
blend available at Ecos creates a perfect environment for individuals who want to shape the future of
energy efficiency while growing their own skills and capabilities.
Ecos Consulting is currently seeking to fill a Program Manager position in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Role Description-
As a Program Manager you will be a role model and an ambassador for Ecos. You will frequently interact with outstanding clients. You will lead and develop a skilled team and position them for success by anticipating and delivering upon our client's needs. Ecos is intent upon operational excellence and you can be a guiding force toward that goal.
To learn more about Ecos, please visit our website at:
To apply for this position, please send your resume and cover letter to: jobs@ecosconsulting.com
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13. GRID Alternatives seeking part-time summer intern
GRID Alternatives is seeking a part-time summer intern for our Solar Affordable Housing Program, which provides free installation of solar electric systems to low-income communities throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Projects include:
- Assisting GRID Alternatives staff in planning and implementing solar electric installation projects for low-income homeowners and community facilities
- Helping secure solar rebates and PG&E interconnection agreements for our clients
- Assisting with our August "Solarthon" fundraising event in Oakland
- Helping update GRID Alternatives' database of volunteers and funders
- Representing the organization at environmental fairs and other events
- Conducting small research projects for use in our programs and fundraising activities
- Helping with day-to-day fundraising and administration tasks
Additional projects may potentially be available based on the intern's skills and interest. This is an unpaid, part-time summer internship (2-3 days/week), based in downtown San Francisco near the Powell Street BART station. Hours and schedule are flexible. The intern will have substantial opportunities for structured education and hands-on experience with solar electric installation.
GRID Alternatives (www.gridalternatives.org) is a non-profit organization that provides renewable energy and energy efficiency services to low-income families. Founded during the 2001 California energy crisis, we currently run two volunteer based programs in the San Francisco Bay Area: the Energy Efficiency Team Program and the Solar Affordable Housing Program.
Interested parties should email their resume to info@gridalternatives.org, along with any additional information you feel may be relevant about your skills, background, and why you are interested in this opportunity. Thanks!
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14. Summer 2006 Internship Opportunity, NASA Ames
Location: NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, CA
Posting Date: 4.26.2006
Supporting: NASA Ames Research Center's Environmental Services Division - Environmental Sustainability Program
Description:
The Pollution Prevention, Sustainability and Environmental Management System Team has an internship position available to support two projects.
1. EFR Follow-up - Following the March Environmental Functional Review (EFR) audit by NASA Headquarters, staff is working to address compliance and environmental impact reduction findings. This project will involve organizing and inputting findings data, tracking corrective actions and conducting trend analysis.
2. Sustainability Report - The second project will be to start developing a sustainability report for NASA Ames Research Center. This report will be modeled on the Sustainability Operations Preliminary Assessment for Marshall Space Center which outlines baseline information about several subject areas and details project opportunities to reduce the Center's environmental impact. Subject areas will include:
1. Building Systems
2. Energy Management
3. Transportation
4. Procurement
5. Solid and Hazardous Waste
6. Air
7. Water
8. Natural Resources
Each area will include the following sections:
… Operational Area Description
… Baseline Assessment
… Operational Goals
… Identification of Project
… Project Metrics
Minimum Requirements:
… Degree: Science, economics or policy degree with a concentration in environmental issues, or related field
… 3.0 or higher grade point average
… Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word
… Comfortable organizing large amounts of data
… Detail-oriented and conscientious
… U.S. citizen
Remuneration:
$10-12/hour, 40 hours/week, summer 2006 (start and end dates flexible)
To Apply
Please send resume and a writing sample to Justine Burt at jburt@mail.arc.nasa.gov by May 22nd.
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15. Job Opportunity: Energy Analysis Engineer
Itron's Consulting and Analysis division is seeking both junior and senior level engineers to provide engineering support to our diverse staff of analysts and economists in our San Diego and Oakland offices. The successful candidate will provide engineering and other analytical support for projects, assist in preparing reports and proposals, prepare and present papers at conferences, and may manage tasks on projects. Occasional client contact may be required. The ideal candidate will also be self-driven, detail-oriented, learn quickly, and be able to work equally well either independently or as part of a team. Experience and/or a strong interest in learning about building energy use assessment, computer modeling (e.g., eQuest/DOE2.2), building equipment and systems, and utility energy efficiency programs is essential.
A Bachelor Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, or Physics is preferred. Advanced degree, E.I.T. or P.E. license, and/or experience in the energy industry are beneficial. Potential candidates must be proficient with Microsoft Office software, including Excel and Access, and possess exceptional research and analytical skills. Excellent communication skills are required.
Compensation depends on experience and qualifications. Itron offers an exceptional benefits package. Resumes should be submitted by mail to Angela Nenn at Itron, Inc., 11236 El Camino Real, San Diego, CA 92130, or by e-mail to angela.nenn@itron.com.
Please specify job code ENG-BS.
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16. JOB: Supervisory Physical Scientist, Climate Program NOAA
Supervisory Physical Scientist, GS-1301- 15 or Supervisory Social Scientist, GS-101-15, Salary range: $107,521-139,774. The Climate Program of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is seeking an energetic individual with considerable experience in outcome-oriented, applied environmental research to lead a new division known as Climate Assessments and Services. The incumbent is responsible for managing a division that leads the effort to connect climate assessments, research and services to broader public interest goals associated with adapting to climate variability and change. The ideal candidate will have demonstrated themselves to be an innovator and initiator, will have experience working across public and private sector organizations, will have worked in the field of applied climate and environmental research or in a setting which required on-going interaction with the environmental research community, and will have a vision for the implementation of federal investments linking new climate-related interdisciplinary research with national needs for building adaptive capacity for climate variability and change. Excellent verbal and written communication skills are essential as is the ability to work in a team of senior program manager in support of agency goals and mission requirements. Ph.D. or equivalent experience required. Detailed job information and applicant instructions will be found at https://jobs1.quickhire.com/scripts/doc.exe under vacancy numbers OAR-HQ-2006-0092, 93, 94 and 96. Open to all U.S. Citizens. The U.S. Department of Commerce is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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17. Climate Campaign Coordinator for EDF
Environmental Defense: Our distinctive approach to environmental protection emphasizes a focus on scientific and economic disciplines and on the use of market mechanisms where applicable to reach well-crafted, durable solutions. The organization builds teams of scientists, lawyers, and economists to investigate the scientific causes of environmental problems as well as the market forces and government policies that encourage, subsidize, and prevent environmental damage. In the full range of environmental arenas (air, water, climate, soil, toxic chemicals, and wildlife), Environmental Defense seeks practical solutions, founded on science, that policy makers and industry can be urged to incorporate into practice, law, or regulation.
Overall Function: Environmental Defense is currently seeking an experienced Campaign Coordinator for our Sacramento project office. The successful candidate will coordinate our California Climate Initiative, including outreach and education on global warming and our work to pass AB 32 and other climate-related legislation. While the director of the California Climate Initiative will retain primary responsibility for developing the campaigns' overall strategy, the Campaign Coordinator will provide day-to-day coordination of campaign activities and ensure timely execution of tactical priorities. The Campaign Coordinator will report to the director of the California Climate Initiative.
Key Responsibilities:
· Work with project staff to oversee execution of campaign plans and assist in development of strategies and tactics to meet campaign goals.
· Advocate on policies advanced at the state legislature and state administrative agencies.
· Develop and track timelines, project milestones, budgets and work-plans.
· Manage campaign outreach activities.
· Oversee ongoing relationships with technical and policy consultants and make sure work is completed on time and in budget.
Qualifications/Requirements:
· Experience directing campaigns for candidates and/or initiatives, or demonstrated ability and experience with campaign-related skills (especially shaping and delivering messages, accumulating endorsements, developing and implementing strategy).
· Experience working on California environmental legislation and with state agencies in Sacramento.
· High-level communication skills, including proven ability to coordinate a team of professionals from differing professional backgrounds and strong inter-personal skills.
· Capacity to absorb, interpret, distill and disseminate new information on a real-time basis.
· Capability to adapt rapidly to shifting conditions.
· Knowledge of and commitment to protection of California's environment.
· Demonstrated ability to coordinate activities of interns, field operatives, consultants
· Experience working on climate and energy policy issues is a plus.
Terms of Employment: Salary commensurate with experience, and this position will be entitled to all benefits according to Environmental Defense policies and plan documents. This is a term position, beginning as soon as possible and extending through October and possibly beyond.
Please submit cover letter, resume and salary requirements to:
Cheryl Pickard
Environmental Defense
1875 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20009
Fax: (202) 387-1030
(May 2006)
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