The announcement of the construction was approved after a second plan was submitted. The first plan was to construct a solar thermal plant of 440 MW, yet this was reduced to 392 MW. The lessening capacity of the solar thermal plant was suggested to decrease negative effects on tortoise and rare plants available in the region.

The latest proposal was delivered to California Energy Commission and Bureau of Land Management earlier this month (11th Feburary 2010)

All the loan guarantees are bonded to special environmental prerequisites. The companies obtaining federal loans for renewable energy technologies must make sure that all the standards are effectively met.

Ivanpah solar project is constituted of creating three different solar farms. They will all be using the sun energy to steam turbines that will thereafter generate electricty through so called CSP (concentrated Solar Power). It is estimated that around 140 000 households will be supplied with energy from the project. This will result in a cut in greenhouse emission by around 400, 000 tons a year.

Construction for this particular project is expected to commence after the second quarter of this year. The major utility buyers will be Pacific Gas and Electric. They will purchase two-thirds of the total supplied energy from Ivanpah project, whereas the other one-third will be bought by Southern California Edison.

This project will create employment for around 1,000 people for the construction part and thereafter around 86 full time jobs. The provider for these employments will be BrightSource and Bachtel Corporation.

The solar thermal plants will generate an estimate of $400 million in tax revenue over 30 years of operation.

According to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, California is the best and the most encompassing region for solar energy. It is already the largest provider of solar energy in the United States, and he is indubitably sure that other projects will be launched.

California has encouraged green ambitions enormously during the recent years. The growth of green technology is escalating; creating employment and providing reliable sources of energy.

BrightSource Energy – A Key Player In California

The California-based BrightSource Energy is the only company that has been considered as an innovator by the World Economic Forum in 2009. It has also showed its commitment towards renewable energy by raising a total of $160 million from various investors, enumerated below:

1. Google
2. Alternative Energy
3. British Petroleum
4. Chevron Technology
5. Ventures
6. StatoilHydro Venture
7. Black River
8. Venture Partners
9. Vintage Poing
10. Morgan Stanley
11. DBL Investors
12. Draper Fisher Jurvetson.

Source: Ecoseed

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It is delusionary to present nuclear energy as renewable sources of energy. However, it is used to blatantly deceive people that non-renewable initiative is good for the environment. These are just the type of business rhetoric making apparition these days. The difference between nuclear energy and renewable energy is that it is limited. Plutonium, uranium as well as other radioactive chemicals are restricted in supply. They are not replenished through a natural process.

When we speak about renewable energy, these are the types of energy that should be highlighted:

1. Tidal Energy

Tidal energy is harnessed through generators placed under-water. The so-called barrage generators or simply tidal stream generators has blades that rotated as dense water move swiftly. There is practically no impact on our ecosystem and the energy is more predictable than what both solar and wind energy are.

2. Wave Power

Wave power is similar to tidal wave in the sense that energy is harnessed from the ocean. However, wave energy generates electricity from the waves on the ocean surface. It does usually use buoy structure, which fluctuates based on waves and thereby creates a movement propelling a generator to produce electricity.

3. Solar Power

Solar power generates energy directly or indirectly from the sun. It uses photovoltaic (PV) solar panels or cells to collate heat and light from the sun. This source of energy is becoming more widely used thanks to technologic development, flexibility, ease to install and cost reduction.

4. Wind Power

Wind power uses the force of the wind. The wind propels gigantic blades to spin around, creating a mechanic movement that turns a turbine. The turbine is connected to an electricity generator, which transmits the energy to the local electricity grid.

5. Hydro power

Hydropower uses gravitational force of falling water to spin a turbine generator, which does thereby produce electricity. This is a widely used mechanism to produce electricity and it has practically no byproducts or waste. Yet, the hydropower plants can be highly complex and expensive to construct.

6. Geothermal Energy

Geothermal energy is harnessed both at small and large scale. In the past it was used by the ancient Romans. However, today geothermal energy plants are much more complex. Pipes are drilled into the core of the earth to make use of the heat and steaming water as a pressure force to spin a turbine generator.

7. Radiant Energy

Radiant energy is something seldom referred too. It is a type of energy that is omnipresent, it can practically do the same work as electricity but at a much lower cost. In Switzerland there are some models using radiant energy. An example is “Tesla’s magnifying transmitter”.

8. Biomass

Biomass refers to biological materials, usually dead plants and crops. From plants bio-fuel, bio-diesel and ethanol can be extracted. These are energy sources that could substitute oil used for the automobile industry and thereby reduce carbon dioxide emission.

Nuclear energy, compressed Natural gas and oil are all restricted in supply. They are thus not renewable sources of energy. Fossil fuel are limited in the sense that it has taken millions of years to be formed and it will take equally long to re-form these fossil fuels once depleted.

All non-renewable sources of energy have a detrimental impact on our ecosystem when exploited.

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In America alone, changes are seen at endless spheres. The federal government is boosting subsidies. It is also encouraging utility companies to encourage renewable sources of energy at individual basis by paying for surplus energy produced. Europe is engaging in immense energy project in various part of the world. These projects mostly range from focus on solar to wind.

The most enlightening aspect of renewable energy is that it is slowly dissimilating into the developing world. Rural areas being off the electric grid are now being supplied with renewable energy. Moreover, in some African districts, off-grid solar or wind energy is provided. Renewable energy is providing more than simply energy it is a steady strategy to overcome poverty as it helps to clean and provide fresh water to the deprived once.

Renewable energy is entering the mainstream of energy supply. Developed countries do no longer consider it as a quaint; it has become the new trend. The freedom that alternative sources of energy are providing is propagating at a viral pace. Just cast an eye to the past, alternative sources of energy from being practically unseen are now becoming more and more close to omnipresent.

Alternative Energy for the Future
1. Solar
2. Wind
3. Biomass
4. Nuclear Fission
5. Osmotic Energy
6. Fusion Energy
7. Magnetic Energy

There have been many important players in the birth of clean energy. This revolution of sophisticated innovation can be considered as disruptive technologies similarly, to how PC was for the typewriter industry. Yet, they remain compulsory for progress.

We can all see a much brighter future, as we leave fossil fuel slowly behind. The sense of urgency to protect the environment and deliver sustainable energy is apart from a business objective a dream for human kind.

Source: National Geographic

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The brilliant idea to stop using fossil fuel and swap to solar energy to produce snacks is active in Modesto, California factory with full capacity was launched July 2008. The total capacity is “14,7000 BTU per year”.

The company is promoting solar energy in its facilities at Modesto, where one of its eight establishments is found. The construction of the solar collectors is over four acres and the construction was conducted by America Assets for Frito-Lay. The whole project was confirmed as a green step by National Renewable Energy laboratory prior to launching of construction.

The solar collector uses concave mirrors which tract accurately the position of the sun during the day. Along the arrays of mirrors runs a black tube; this tube is enclosed with a second glass tube to prevent air penetration and maximize absorption capacity. In the black type water flows, and is heated to a dramatic heat of 45 degrees F.

The water that is heated through the solar heating system is used to produce steam. The steam is used to cook all the things required to produce the snack. It represents the core supply of the manufacturing process. Once all the water in the tube has been used, cooled water is used to refill the black tube and the process goes on like this.

The estimated thermal energy that the field produces is extensive. It is enough to fuel most of the operations in the factory. The solar energy makes it possible to produce 145, 000 bags of snacks per day.

According to SunChips the idea of using solar energy is natural as they produce SunChips branded snacks. Although solar energy is not used in all its factories, it is likely to be so in the near future. Moreover, producing snacks that is good for you should also enclose the planet.

Simple step by corporations such as SunChips can make a significant impact on the level of energy harnessed by clean energy sources.

Source: National Geography

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In the past coal mine was used to generate sufficient electricity to fuel factories. At that time, the sky was fogged with smoke. The bleak past is now being transcended as mines with coal energy are being left out and lakes and green-fields are again flourishing.

Solar energy is a dramatically clean source of energy, harnessed directly from the sun. There is no greenhouse gas emission, fire or side-pollution. Science is trying to perfection solar technology and produce special type of magnifying glass that would be able to drive a generator through extremely concentrated sun rays. However, for the moment sun power is most solar cells and some concentrated solar fields.

The setback of sun energy is that the system is expensive. To place a small-scale solar system at the roof of a house can cost as much as $ 15, 000. The technology is gradually becoming affordable. According to Daniel Shugar who is the president of PowerLight Corporation, solar energy is now making sense for business in terms of cost-efficiency and it will in the future make sense to everyone.

“Nanosolar” has already developed sophisticated technology which is relatively cheap and effective. The use of nanotechnology is not only making the system more effective but also cost-effective in terms of capacity. The use of more flexible systems can prove to be more than 50 times thinner than the actual systems “portrays a finer technology”.

Disruptive Technology

This could make it possible to generate a watt of energy for only half a dollar, yet now this can be seen as the quest for the Holy Grail. The fear of having too effective solar system could be that people would prefer to generate energy all by themselves. The utility companies would be unable to compete with such rates. There have been in history many disruptive technologies. The invention of the personal computer was disruptive to the typewriter industry and now solar technology might prove to become troublesome to the energy industry.

As technology has not yet brought effectiveness of solar energy to a low cost, price is still a concern. It is nonetheless not the only obstacles; darkness and clouds do also weaken solar reliability. Conservation of energy through batteries is slacking behind business and it isn’t certain that batteries system will improve dramatically in the few years to come.

Establishing solar energy to fuel a major part of world energy across Europe or America fields would daunt the landscape. Despite that, energy would be generated without pollution while the cost would be the beauty of the land fields.

Solar energy is gradually taking grandeur as a source of world energy. There are even projects of building gigantic concentration solar system in the MENA region. This would supply around 15 percent of energy required by Europe in 2050.

Source: National Geographic

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The project is already pinpointing on connecting turbines from north coast of Scotland to wave power generated from Belgian and Danish waves, Solar energy from the abundance of solar panels as well as hydro-electric dams in Norway’s fjords. Nine countries are grouping together forming this huge step in the North Sea for Clean Energy.

Sweden, Belgium, Luxembourg, Denmark, Germany, France, United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Ireland are planning to work together to make this a feasible project. Work is expected to launch within the decade. It will attribute to conquest the European 2020 goal of providing 20% of its energy from alternative sources of energy.

The network will cost around, 30 billion Euros and will have cables of thousands of kilometers placed undersea. This will make renewable energy finally a sustainable source of energy. The most fundamental setback of renewable energy has always been the unpredictability of weather. However, having energy generated from various regions in the European region through different sources will assure that energy will constantly be supplied. This will make it a sustainable and reliable energy source.

The super-grid will assure that energy is constant. Wind will always blow, if it isn’t in France, it will be in the United Kingdom. Moreover, similar to the sun and waves renewable energy will balance their supply through different climates in various regions.

Furthermore, going to Norway could add up an astronomical battery of 30GW. There are many hydroelectric power stations in Norway, which could store the clean energy in case of low demand. It could act as a battery in the super-grid network.

It is rare fact that many countries are already exploiting renewable energy at large scale, such as in the United Kingdom. Yet, Lord Hunt, Energy and Climate Change Minister in UK, considers that collective actions are vital in leveraging progress to further levels as they produce windfall gains.

Currently in Europe, offshore wind projects that are work-in-progress will produce 100GW, which accounts for 10 percent of the Europeans total demand. It is as much energy produced as 100 large coal-fired plant produces. The rise in wind energy will require additional focus on the European grid. Certainly, this topic is going to be addressed when the countries sum together.

Compared to contemporary sources of energy, renewable energy is widely decentralized. For instance, solar energy can be integrated into buildings, and this is another challenge that the North Sea super-grid must accommodate.

The hydro plants in Norway have a capacity of 30 large-scale coal-fired power stations. The surplus of power produced can be used to pump-up water in to the uphill creating a reservoir that can generate electricity whenever the demand increases again.

The benefit of offshore grids such as the super-grid allows trading of energy across borders. This will definitely make EU more competitive in energy management.

Even the European Commission has been evaluating potential grids in the North Sea. The plans are to be available in this year (2010). EU said that with the absence of the nine-country grid plan the project wouldn’t become a feasible reality.

The exact cost of the project is still uncertain. Based on studies carried out by Greenpeace in 2008, the cost of comparable projects for project in the 2025 was around 15 to 20 billion Euros. The whole project will give rise to more than 6000 Km of cables through-out the region. Moreover, EWEA conducted a study in 2009, and concluded that to integrate the 100 GW wind farm projects in progress the bill would increase to around 30 billion Euros.

Discussion is going to be undertaken this month. Legal, environmental, technical and planning aspects of the super-grid project will then be addressed. According to Hunt, the main objective is to establish a common vision.

The countries that are participating in this visionary action will be part of a team shaping the future. The super-grid project has both political and institutional support. The institute for energy (IE), is positively encouraging this collaborative step towards renewable energy. Moreover, Gordon Brown as well as Nicolas Sarkozy say that connecting with southern Europe’s renewable energy as well as other regions in the continent is optimizing the use of alternative sources of energy.

However, according to IE, if only 0.3 percent of the sun rays heating the desert of the Middle East and Sahara would be captured it would be enough to meet the whole Europeans’ demand for energy.

High voltage direct current cables will be used to transmit the energy in the super-grid. Eventually these cables are much more expensive than conventional cables in use. However, they are more effective as they maintain a higher concentration of energy transmission over long distances.

According to Hunt, the super-grid is a challenge today and previously a dream. Moreover, the 2020 target of supplying 20% energy from renewable sources is just the tip of the iceberg as the aim for 2050 is a total decarbonised electricity production system.

The North Sea super-grid can in the future extend to a much larger project such as the “Desertec Industry Initiative” (DII). It is a project of providing 15 percent of Europe’s electricity demand from the Mediterranean and deserts. This proposal for the project was published in November 2009, and has already many large companies backing it up.

The DII project is a $400 billion worth project focusing on concentrated solar powers (CSP). The technology has been around in the United State and in Spain for decades. The “uniqueness of this project is not the technology but the scale”. It is, if launched the biggest project ever proposed.

Source: Guardian

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The solution developed by Jon Bohmer is outstandingly simple but it represents a contributive solution to one of the hugest complications, climate change, and it is a solar power oven.

The creative solution uses two cardboard boxes. One box is placed in one another then acrylic cover is laid on the boxes to trap the sunrays inside. To maximize the capacity, the inner box must be painted black and on the outer layer, silver foil should be wrapped. The sunrays that are trapped inside the box are sufficient to boil water and even bake bread.

Environmental Contribution of the ‘Kyoto cooker

The solar power oven does also tackle deforestation in developing countries. An approximate of 3 billion people, living in rural areas cuts timber to cook food. This factor for global warming can be reduced with the use of the Kyoto cooker.

Moreover, millions of children die from consuming unhygienic water every year. The solar power oven allows water to be boiled and can thus save millions of lives.

Bohmer’s Voice

Bohmer went for a simple solution to tackle climate change. Yet, he was not the first one to propose the solar cooker. Sherry Cole and Barbara Kerr, two American women had developed the box in the 70s. Later on, they teamed together with other people to create a non-profit organization called Solar Cookers International.

Patrick Widner, the executive director said that original designs for the solar box cooker was present in a book called “Peace Corps” that was published in the 60s. Mr. Bohmer has been promoting the solar cooker in Kenya for 10 years and represents a significant contribution to the Solar Cookers Worldwide Network.

Bohmer is a Norwegian entrepreneur living in Kenya. He also had been indulged in finding a too complex solution while a simple solution was already feasible the Kyoto cooker.

Competition
The invention surpassed more than 300 other alternatives. This includes wheel covers that improve the fuel efficiency of trucks as well as apparatus able to convert organic materials as well as wood into charcoal.

The box is already in production in a factory, located in Nairobi, Kenya and around 2.5 million boxes can actually be produced per month. Moreover, an improved solution has been architectured by Bohmer, using recycled plastic making it as cheap and more durable the cardboard box.

As the solution is spreading through rural Africa, old women condemned to carry heavy loads of firewood can now relax. The cooking problem is hard to imagine in the West as everyone has access to electricity. Yet, facts are showing that half of the world’s population is still in precarious conditions, cooking food on fire.

Source:
1. CNN
2. Financial Times

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Developments are gradual yet big. Federal government offered a grant o $900, 000 to the Solar Buildings Research Network. This network is led by Andreas Athienitis, of Concordia’s Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department. Projects that are ahead are municipal building in Toronto and two houses in Quebec however the real substance is our School.

The school is actually in a stage of work-in-progress. It is about to become one of the highest building in the area. The top will have integrated design with solar panels synergized with the building. There will be panels covering a major part of the building. It is estimated that around 300 square meters of the building will consist of solar cells. The two floors at the top will be without windows.

Concordia Solar Building

All the panels are perforated and linked to both thermal and electric systems to provide light and heat. The energy generated will be used to provide heated air, power computers, lights and many others. The system set in place will require only a low degree of operation and maintenance cost, as there are no moving panels or parts.

Inter-connected System

The building will be connected to the local electricity system, Hydro-Quebec’s grid. Electricity is in such a way properly managed, during sunny days excess supply will be sold to the grid whereas on cloudy or rainy days electricity will be bought from the grid.

Moreover, solar projects as such a grand surface will establish the JMSB building as innovator in the field. Concordia will be marked as a very sophisticated and advanced Canadian University. Yet, this project will benefit students as potential project and work opportunities will be made available to check performance of the system.

The other projects, for instance the two houses will also be associated to educational opportunities for students. The solar system installed on the roof of the two houses will more precisely be monitored by seven students. They will be responsible to assure that maximum production capacity is reached by the energy system.

The progress made by the ‘Solar Building Research Network” is extensive considering that they have only been present since 2005. A sum of above $6 million has been gathered from Natural Science and Engineer Research Council. There are yet many other contributors such as Sustainable Energy Technologies, Conserval Engineering, Aluminerie Alouette, Day4Energy, Regulvar, the building owners, Sevag Pogharian Design, Concordia University and the City of Toronto which generated around $2 million.

John Molson School of Business building is certainly becoming a landmark. It will be a great motivator to spread similar investment to other parts in the country as well across the world. Renewable energy is becoming more and more connected to pervasive technology/smart design.

Source: Concordia Journal

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1. Main Owner – Phoenix Solar AG having 70 percent
2. Local Partner Silver Circle Overseas L.L.C. have 30 percent

The company will as prime market focus on developing solar project in Oman as well across the Gulf States. The methodology deployed will mainly focus on “turnkey” projects where both roof as well as ground photovoltaic systems will be built. These systems will be directly connected to the electric grid available or to act as stand-alone sources of energy.

Silver Circle Overseas

Since 2005, Silver Circle Overseas (SCO) has been operational in Oman. Its main sphere of business activities are in field of renewable energy and projects associated with tourism. Moreover, this company is from the Royal Family of Omen and already well established in the Gulf Region.

This association has already harnessed two photovoltaic projects in Oman and there are many more to be seen. A strategic entrance into a high-growth market such as the Gulf Region where solar is a strongly abundant commodity, success is certain.

The government of Oman has recently been paying attention to grab the shift in sources of energy from conventional to renewable. In 2007, a Danish company performed a research to calculate the potential of renewable energy in Oman and the finding was solidly positive. A gigantic potential for both sun and wind energy was considered the most compatible sources. Eventually, since 2007, the numbers of solar as well as wind projects have steadily been rising.

The internal structure of Phoenix Solar L.L.C will be headed by Klaus Friedl, managing Director who is a German of 42-year having worked in Oman since 2006 in renewable energies. Yet close cooperation is withheld with the head owners, Phoenix Solar Ag as well as SCO.

Chief Sales Officer of Phoenix Solar AG, Ulrich Reidenbach considered that Oman as well as the Gulf States are vital chances to grow. The conditions and atmosphere is ideal for photovoltaic energy. Yet, Silver Circle Overseas is highly proficient partner that is already well positioned. This will make the entrance phase to the new market much more manageable and successful.

Source:
1. Renewable Energy Focus
2. Press Release – Phoenix Solar

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The public sector isn’t a subsidy player, it is well in the game. At the governmental level, the legal framework is made more conducive for the private sector to invest. Many developed as well as developing countries are considering renewable energy as an indispensible solution and have already established or planning to pay their contribution to alternative energy.

ACS (Allianz Climate Solutions) is one of the major investors in renewable energy. They consider concrete actions should be initiated as early as possible. In a press release by Allianz Group, 3rd Nov, 2009, in association to “Report on Energy and Climate Policy in Europe” (RECIPE) it was concluded that immediate action is the most cost effective way to avert devastating effects of climate change. As countries are hesitating, anticipation-action will firmly rise thereby making it just the right time to act. Measures intended for after 2020, are estimated to be much higher and acute if actions remain at a stagnate level.

Another “press release by Allianz Group, 7th December, 2009,” announced various climate-friendly products in the field or asset management available for investors worldwide. This is an initiative making the company and its customers ecologically wise.

Clean Technology
Clean Technology is an all encompassing term used to enclose technologies that are sustainable and friendly for the environment. It ranges from low emission vehicles, energy efficiency measures, materials used, renewable sources of energy to an indefinite list of future technologies yet in laboratories.

The clean technology is a sector, which is in a growth stage. Conventional technology such as vehicles is being re-designed with renewable sources of energy. This market is growing at a daunting speed and employment as well as economic growth is some if its windfall benefits. An estimated growth of 100 percent is expected to year 2020, accounting for around 3.2 trillion Euros.

Allianz Climate Solutions have followed trends in the market and through expert knowledge are ascertaining that insurance products in the field of clean technology as well as renewable energy will pay-off.

The carbon market is also a growing one with worldwide critics form conservationists and environmentalists. This supports and boosts investment in clean technology. Corporations are not necessarily investing for the environment but the funds are at the moment distributed in that very field. This is what accounts for its upward statue.

Companies like Allianz Climate Solutions as well as some other groups are providing very lucrative investments solutions for the environment and a viable return.

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