Bagasse power generation projects provide a useful framework for evaluating several key aspects of theClean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol. On the positive side, our analysis, which draws inpart from a data set of 204 bagasse electricity generation projects at sugar mills, indicates that theseprojects provide Annex I country investors with a cost-effective means to achieve greenhouse gasemissions reductions. Our analysis also confirms that the marketplace for Clean Development

Improving energy efficiency in buildings is central to combating climate change, with more than a third of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions coming from the building sector. Over the past year, there has been a much stronger push from the federal level to fund energy efficiency programs as part of a national agenda to foster a clean energy economy that generates sustainable high-quality jobs and reduces our dependence on imported fossil fuels. Vital to this process is to develop innovative financing solutions that reach broadly across energy efficiency and low-carbon energy options.

Many biofuel standards, including California’s recently adopted Low Carbon Fuel Standard consider just one feedstock from one supplying country for the production of sugarcane ethanol; fresh mill-pressed cane juice from a Brazilian factory. While cane juice is the dominant feedstock for ethanol in most Brazilian factories, a large number of producers in Indonesia, India, the Caribbean, including a significant number in Brazil, manufacture most of their ethanol from molasses, a low-value co-product of raw sugar.

Energy is the biggest industry on the planet - come and find out its secrets!

Lunch Seminar: Renewable Energy and Native American Communities: Opportunities and Constraints. Brandon Glenn is a Master student of the Energy and Resources Group.

Wednesday, Noon-1:00 p.m., October 14.
323 Barrows Hall (ERG Reading Room)
University of California, Berkeley

This is part of the weekly RAEL lunch seminar series

The Rural Electrification Idea Lab meeting tomorrow at lunch is postponed to a date yet unknown! There will be no RAEL meeting tomorrow, Wednesday Nov 4th!!!

Originally scheduled:

Rural Electrifiction Lunch Seminar: Energy Assessment and HOMER Training

Wednesday, Noon-1:00 p.m., November 4.
323 Barrows Hall (ERG Reading Room)
University of California, Berkeley

This is part of the Rural Energy Idea Lab which meets every first Wednesday in a month

Lunch Seminar: SWITCH update

Wednesday, Noon-1:00 p.m., October 28.
323 Barrows Hall (ERG Reading Room)
University of California, Berkeley

This is part of the weekly RAEL lunch seminar series

The RAEL meeting this week will feature a presentation about the progress on the SWITCH project. Update follows.

In an interview by the San Francisco Business Times, RAEL- Professor Daniel Kammen urges policy makers to increase energy efficiency measures, investments into renewable energy and to start carbon pricing in order to meet the targets for greenhouse gas reduction. Feed-in tariffs for utility customers should be set as a priority. Furthermore, the promotion of renewable energy would create more jobs in comparison to the fossil fuel economy.