News about Solar, Wind and alternative green power technologies

Renewable Energy Outlook For Asia Pacific 2012

For Asia Pacific, the top six predictions for 2012 are: 1. Conventional Power Generation & T&D Infrastructure Development will be the strongest and largest source of revenue for power equipment industry. 2. There will be a 20 % growth in the renewable energy markets in 2012, in terms of total investments. 3. There will be [...]

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New Design of Wind Farm Can Yield Efficiency; Reinvent Traditional Wind Farms

Typical wisdom says that we have already reached the maximum efficiency per wind turbine. However, this restriction on wind energy efficiency might be based on the use of mature technology without re-invention. The California Institute of Technology research has re-invented some of the basic assumption that underlines the wind industry. They believe it is time [...]

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Clean Energy –The Largest Solar Farm in UK successfully strike Cash-back scheme

Tine mine is UK’s largest-scale solar power plant to derive governmental benefits from the so called ‘clean energy cash-back’ scheme. This upcoming solar farm is expected to produce 1.4 MW of electricity per annum, which will render it the largest solar farm in the UK. This new solar farm is the result of a joint [...]

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China Is Going Green, In The Next Five Year

On March 5, Premier Wen Jiabao has put more efforts in saving energy and cleaning the air as China, the top producer of greenhouse gases worldwide, refurbishes its economy over the coming five years. At the opening of the annual session of China’s Parliament (National People’s Congress), Wen stated in his speech that there will [...]

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Green Living in Vauban; Germany’s Eco-village

Eco-friendly products have successful hit the marketplace in the west. Organic food and green products have been expanding with two digit figures for the past 15 years, excluding 2009. In addition, automakers are providing new auto-solutions. Fully electric and gas-electric hybrid vehicles are stepping onto the road. This is good news for our plant. The [...]

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JDSU Launching Concentrated Photovoltaic Technology to Harness Solar Energy

New CVP Cell has been created to capture solar energy at a higher efficiency. JDSU recently announced the release of a new concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) cells with the potential to further harness sunlight within solar panels. The organisation is currently cooperating with large solar system integrators. They are aiming at installing CPV cells in solar [...]

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Cogentrix Energy Confirms Concentrating Photovoltaic Solar Power Facility Project in Colorado

A new solar power project is expected to become the world’s largest concentrating photovoltaic solar power facility. Recently, Cogentrix Energy LLC, which is a ruling electric power generation-projects-development company, revealed that they are joining in on a contract with the Public Service Company of Colorado (PSCo), Xcel Energy Company. They are going to establish a [...]

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In 2009 Renewable Energy Represented 62 Percent of The total Electricity Expansion in the European Union

In 2009, approximately 19.9 percent (608 TWh) of Europe’s Total Electricity consumption (3042TWh) was generated from alternative energy sources. Hydropower is the biggest contributor accounting for 11.6 percent and subsequently, wind (4.2 percent), biomass (3.5 percent) and solar (0.4 percent). The expansion of electricity capacity for 2009 was of a total of 27.5 GW. Renewable [...]

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Sunlight and Carbon dioxide Can Be Used To Generate Car Fuel

Innovative “photosynthesising” technology might soon be able to generate “petrol” for cars from sunlight and carbon dioxide. Fascinatingly, solar-powered reactors can be used to convert carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide. Besides, this reactor can also change water into both oxygen and hydrogen. These two elements (oxygen and hydrogen) can be processed to produce hydrocarbon fuels. [...]

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Utility Sized Solar Power Facilities Ramping Up Across The United States

The US Government’s Department Of The Interior is concentrating efforts to develop renewable power programs built on public land regulated by the Bureau of Land Management. One particular plan has them focusing on the use of enormous tracts of arid desert land to construct utility scale solar power plants. Just the sound of the name [...]

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