Many small streams will form a large river

Emergence of aggregators, acting as intermediaries that combine many distributed renewable sources of energy, enabling them to participate in national energy market, will represent a key condition to integrate green technologies in the future.  This model already exists, implicitly within the portfolio of large utility integrated companies.

This model has started to combine not only megawatt but also “negawatt” by aggregating different sources of flexibility on the demand side, and not only on the production side. Successful business models already have proven their short term viability in the US and now are introduced in Europe. They should reinvent themselves in the future to create added value for every participants of the very complex value chain.

I believe that this aggregation model could act a catalyzer of projects in the future low carbon city.

DaGong

If you want straightforward and relevant explanations of the reasons why rating agencies are downgrading the credit rating of the USA, please have a look at the note written by DaGong analysts, the Chinese rating agency. It’s crystal clear.

http://www.dagongcredit.com/dagongweb/english/pr/show.php?id=108&table=web_e_zxzx

Australasia plan to cut carbon emission

Australia is putting a price on carbon, and the prime minister, Julia Gillard, is selling it as a way to shit taxation and not raise new revenues. Thus some of the cash which the plan generates will pay for tax cuts that will offset increases in electricity bills. Governments in other places, are planning carbon pricing, such as South Korea and some Chinese provinces. They will watch very closely the Australian plan.

For The Economist subscribers:

http://www.economist.com/node/18959030