Chronos Consulting has been involved in consulting and recruiting in the sustainable energy field for over a decade. We have been engaged by one of the world’s most dynamic renewable energy companies and has open positions in almost every nation in South and Central America. Here is one example:

Senior Sales Engineer Based: Mexico City.

The Company:

Chronos Consulting’s client is one of the biggest manufacturers and suppliers of technologically advanced products, installations and services in the technology for energy sustainability sector, generating electric energy of renewable origin, essentially based on the promotion and running of wind farms, the manufacture of wind turbines and the providing of advanced services to the technology for energy sustainability sector.

The role:

Reporting to the Area Sales Manager you will be responsible for: • Development and implementation of the sales strategy and objectives in the Mexican market. • Management of relationships with customers, identifying new business opportunities. • Work with marketing Department to drive development and delivery of new products and services to meet customers and improve customer satisfaction. • Contract elaboration, negotiation and implementation. • Internal coordination with Engineering and Services Department to ensure correct project and contract implementation.

The person:

You possess: • Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering. MBA preferred. • At least 5 years of proven experience in sales of industrial equipment, preferably wind turbine generators. • Ideal candidate will be self-starter, with strong planning and organizational skills, excellent communication skills, and strong problem solving mind. • Fluent in Spanish and English In exchange, the ideal candidate will get a permanent contract and receive an excellent retributive package, meanwhile he gets the opportunity to sign on with a solid, rapidly growing company where he will have the chance to build his professional career in an international environment.

Dr Simon Harding

www.chronosconsulting.com

www.coberongreen.com

Originally posted 2010-04-26 05:53:56. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

          

Congress gets it wrong on energy! Again
Congress seems intent to pass a regressive energy bill — despite the pleas of their constituents for releif at the pump. The truth is that, short of a moratorium on federal gas taxes, there is very little Congress can do to provide short-term releif at the pump but they could help ensure plentifiul supplies of oil and gas — and thus lower prices — in the future, but instead they seem intent to make our situation worse.
The National Petroleum Council recently released a report http://www.npc.org/7-18_Press_rls-post.pdf painting a fairly bleak picture for the world’s energy supply and demand equation. One way Congress could help would be to remove hurdles to domestic oil production on public lands like ANWR and on the OCS and from non-traditional sources like oil shale and coal to oil. Despite what industry proponents argue, these sources don’t need subsidies or a price floor to get going (but who doesn’t want guaranteed profit if they can get Congress to give it to them), but they do need the government to reduce hurdles to development on public lands — and more importantly, not make the situation worse with new legislative roadblocks or make the investment situation worse by rescinding reasonable standards for the depreciation of new equipment.
In light of high prices and declining domestic production, in the 2005 energy bill Congress sought to encourage new production by expediting the leasing of new oil and gas wells on public lands and off-shore by giving new funding and fast-track authority to the Bureau of Land Management and the Minerals Management Service, while reducing the bureaucratic paperwork requirements in order to ensure that proposals for new production were assessed, and contracts written, in a timely fashion – a statutory deadline for approval was built into the law. In addition, in order to encourage companies to build expensive, new platforms in high risk areas in the hurricane prone gulf of mexico, where dry wells are not uncommon, the government decided to treat oil and gas companies on the same par as renewable energy firms, allowing them to write off or accelerate the depreciation on capital equipment for new investments in production in the Gulf of Mexico.
The new Democratic Congress wants to take all that away. In order to increase revenues to the government to fund their green priorities – none of which will bring much energy online and so help consumers – they wish to end the accelerated depreciation, extend the time federal agencies have to consider new leases and increase the paperwork hurdles. Each of these steps will discourage or slow the development of new oil and gas projects and thus slow (or even halt in some cases) the delivery of new oil and gas resources to the marketplace – high prices will remain high or rise as we become even more dependent on foreign energy supplies. In addition, they want to impose higher fees on new production and, not allow energy companies unwilling to renegotiate leases drawn up under the Clinton Administration to bid on new leases.
When energy prices were low and new domestic production cost more than companies could make, the Clinton administration, in order to encourage continued exploration, wrote off-shore leases that that did not require companies to pay royalties. Now, when prices are high, the government wants to force companies to break their contract, and pay royalties on oil produced in the past. This does nothing to produce new oil, shows government to be an unreliable partner thus giving companies less assurance when dealing with the government that the deals written will be kept, and will likely keep well qualified companies from bidding on new leases. Under this deal, unless qualified companies accede to extortion, they will not be able to get new leases, which means there will be less competition and less production (or higher priced production). Only Congress could think this will help our energy situation. Worst of all, these policies will be most damaging to the poorest of the poor. They amount to a hidden tax on the most vulnerable among us. Families earning more than $50,000 per year spend just 4 percent of their income to cover all energy costs. By comparison, households earning between $10,000 and $25,000 per year spend 13 percent on their income on energy overall, and families earning below $10,000 per year spend as much as 29 percent of their incomes on energy. While the relatively wealthy can afford higher gas prices with little impact on their lifestyles – they will still take vacations, and don’t have to decide between food, medication and fuel – poorer households are beginning to make that trade-off every day. This bill will do nothing to reduce energy prices or produce more energy and it will impose unconscionable new costs on the poorest among us.

Originally posted 2010-04-26 10:13:57. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

          

Vegetable Oil as Fuel Pros and Cons of

Pros

1. Abundant – This oil is everywhere, especially if you include used cooking oil from restaurants. Even conversion kits, which allow you to convert this oil for use in a standard diesel engine, are easily obtained. Continue reading “Vegetable Oil as Fuel Pros and Cons of” »

          

This past few years saw rising interest expressed for renewable energy—the kind of energy that is abundant and free, being taken from natural resources like sunlight, water, rain, geothermal heat, wind, and tides. Because of concern over dwindling fuel supply and the increasing problem of global warming, numerous governments and organizations from all over the world are now looking for viable energy source options using these natural resources.

Countries like Denmark and Spain have already successfully harnessed wind power to supply a portion of their electric power. In London, a vast wind farm expected to become the largest in the world has already begun construction, a physical manifestation of the country’s efforts towards encouraging the renewable energy sector. Elsewhere in the United States are several wind farms established for power generation, such as those in Pampa, Texas and in Fond du Lac County in Wisconsin. In Wyoming, there is the Happy Jack Windpower Facility that already began its commercial operations in September 2008.

Another renewable energy source is also being used to generate power and for other practical purposes as well—solar power. In states filled with sunshine the whole year through, such as California and Nevada, solar thermal power plants are being constructed with the aim of supplying power to a large percentage of households. However, the largest photovoltaic plant in the world is found in Germany and is expected to become operational in 2009. Several communities in the United States are also implementing plans of purchasing and installing their own photovoltaic farms to supply renewable energy to its households.

Many places all over the world are also harnessing geothermal energy for power supply. In the United States, the latest projects of this kind have been initiated in Beaver County, Utah and in New Mexico. The former has a geothermal power plant called Thermo while the latter has just begun construction on the Lightning Dock Geothermal Power Plant.

Wave power is also being tapped as potential source of renewable source, with the opening of a large wave farm in Portugal in September 2008. This first of its kind facility is expected to generate more than 2 MW of electricity. In Oahu, Hawaii, the US Navy has funded and taken active participation in the development of a wave energy technology expected to generate about 1 MW of electricity.

And elsewhere in the world, car manufacturers, legislators, and private individuals have taken interest and commitment to reduce carbon dioxide emissions through the use of more energy efficient automobiles. Most of these vehicles are also capable of using the biofuel ethanol, which is certainly affordable and produces no pollutants into the atmosphere.

With most of the countries in the world and environmental organizations pushing for the use of renewable energy resources and for the development of supporting technologies, there is an expected trend of consumer preference toward renewable energy supply. Because of these, it is also expected that the renewable energy sector will continue to increase and expand with more investments from capitalists all over world. With these developments, the goals of reducing the world’s dependence of fossil fuels and enjoying cleaner environment are slowly reaching realization.

          

Go to http://www.sincerelysustainable.com/renewable-energy/worlds-first-zero-emission-hydrogen-power-plant-coming-to-new-mexico
And review the article about this hydrogen plant. DO you think this plant will work as a renewable energy application? What benefits might it bring to New Mexico? Will this plant help fullfill our renewable energy mandates? Do you see any bad points?

          

We are opening a manufacturing plant and we need to rise USD 7.5 million.

          

Renewable energy company to build in eastern Colorado
Renewable Energy Systems Americas Inc. (RES Americas), which develops and constructs renewable energy projects, executed a 20-year power purchase agreement with the Public Service Company of Colorado on March 29.

Read more on Parker Chronicle

          

Renewable energy is a source of power which is replenished naturally, such as solar, wind or biomass. In 2005, about 13% of global primary, or raw, energy comes from renewables, of which most is from traditional biomass like wood-burning.

Hydropower is the second largest renewable source, supplying 2-3%, while modern renewable technologies such as solar, wind, marine and geothermal collectively produce less than 1% of the total world energy demand.

Solar

Solar Photovoltaic (PV) systems convert radiation from the sun into electricity. PV will work in any weather so long as there is daylight – the greater the intensity of sunlight on the PV panels, the more electricity is generated. Research is ongoing in solar technology, and efficiency is expected to increase substantially (current PV is approximately 15% efficient) as developments such as solar thermal energy generation (STEG) are brought into the mainstream.

Despite our infamous weather, the average UK home could generate 50-60% of its electricity needs from PV panels installed on the house rooftop.

Wind

Wind turbines harness the power contained within a moving mass of air. The rotation of the blades causes the shaft of the turbine to rotate inside a generator, producing electricity. The greater the speed of the wind, the more power is produced and as wind speed increases with height, turbines are normally sited on a tall mast.

Biomass

Biomass is only considered renewable because it can be replaced at the same rate as which it is used (by growing trees for example). Biomass includes two main categories: woody (forest residues and energy crops like willow) and non-woody (animal waste and high energy crops like rapeseed).

Biofuels

Biofuels are derived from biomass and are used in vehicles as a blend with conventional fuel. Petrol vehicles can be modified to take a blend of 85% bioethanol and 15% petrol, while diesel vehicles generally accept 5% biodiesel and 95% mineral diesel. Some manufacturers, such as Volkswagen Germany, cover their diesel engines to run on 100% biodiesel.

It should be noted that 100% biodiesel engines are not carbon neutral – life cycle assessments show that first generation biofuels can save up to 60% carbon emissions, while second generation biofuels can save up to 80%.

Recently, biofuels have gained headlines in the form of disputes over land-use. Italy and Mexico have both seen that increased use of land for biofuels inevitably leads to lower crop-production, sparking protests over the price of pasta or corn flour.

The UK has set a target for biofuels under the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation, which requires 5% of all fuel sold by 2010 to come from renewable sources.