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Events for day: Monday 12 July 2010  | << Previous day Next day >> |
9:00am - 7:00pm Conference: “Feed in Tariffs: A Time for Real Action on Renewable Energy” Category : San Francisco Location : City Club, 155 Sansome Street, San Francisco Bay Area Conference To Discuss Feed-in Tariffs (FiT) as a Policy Option for Rapid Deployment of Renewable Energy in California Pacific Environment, the World Future Council, the Boell Foundation and others are hosting a one-day conference titled “Feed-in Tariffs: A Time for Real Action on Renewable Energy.” The event will discuss the rapid deployment of renewable energy in the U.S. using Feed-in Tariffs (FiT), a policy mechanism that has been successfully implemented in Europe and other areas of the world. Focusing mainly on California and the West Coast, industry experts from government, business, and the environmental field w ... Read more 6:00pm Shai Agassi to receive INFORUM's 21st Century Award Category : San Francisco Location : SF Club Office INFORUM and the Commonwealth Club give Shai Agassi the 21st Century Visionary Award for his worldchanging work on building a global electric car infrastructure. HSBC has just injected $350 million into Better Place, a company building a network of battery swap-and-charge stations that could greatly expand the range of all-electric vehicles. Japan, China and 100 companies in Israel are stepping into the Better Place network. Recently, Tesla's IPO was on-fire out of the gates and car makers have announced 150 electric car models by 2012. Influential investors seem to be betting on the electrification of vehicles. What infrastruc ... Read more |
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