News about Solar, Wind and alternative green power technologies

Plug-in electric hybrid Cars – Cost Efficient and Environmentally Friendly

New modern plug-in electric hybrid vehicles are similar to conventional cars such as Toyota Prius and Lexus. The only difference is the size of the batteries used in these modern cars. In addition, these batteries are more expensive. They have an advanced system which even allows re-charging to be done at a parking. This would [...]

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The dream to go Green: Aran Islanders try out Electric Cars

The Aran Islands have been selected for trying out the electric car. It is located off the west coast of Ireland and is thought to be ideal for such tests. Aran Islands were thought to be the perfect site for such testing as there is much wind. Also the relentless waves drum up the energy. [...]

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Price of Bio-Diesel Likely To Rise in India

Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) says that the government is likely going to increase the price of bio-diesel produced at Jatropha plant. This will help to boost the growth of the bio-diesel industry. A suggestion to increase the price of bio-diesel from Rs. 26.50 to Rs. 36 per litre was proposed to the Ministry of [...]

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Storage Technology: An Energy Management Device For Home Use

Clean Power Solution has introduced an energy management device. The technology helps to store energy to be used on the place instead of pushing excess production of clean energy to UK’s National Grid. It is called the EMMA device. It is a technology that regulates the electricity that can be produced through photovoltaic panels as [...]

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IPT – The World’s very First Wireless Electronic Car Charger Has Been Launched in UK

IPT (Induction Power Transfer), the world’s very first wireless electric car charging system has been recently launched in London. The IPT is commercially available. The brainchild of London start-up HaloIPT wants to electrify the England’s M25 motorway by making use of magnetic induction. Magnetic induction is a principle that has been discovered in the year [...]

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Green Cars in Progress as Companies like Mazda Invest in Research And Development

Reuters reported that Mazda Motor Corp, is investing a large portion of funds in R&D for the creation of hybrid cars. According to the Nikkei daily, their fiscal expenditure on environmentally friendly vehicles is expected to increase from 20 percent in 2010 to above 40 percent by 2015. The company has put aside 100 billion [...]

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Japan is Going for a Remote Network which Makes use of Electricity Generated from Renewable Energy Sources

Hitachi, Toyota, Japan Wind Development and Panasonic Electric Works recently started the Demonstration Project Intelligent Supply Network in Rokkasho (Japan). In accordance to the promoters, the power grid, which is remote, makes use of only renewable energy sources, will validate the feasibility of the technologies that assist in making more effective use of energy. The [...]

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Gaelectric Raises $18 Million to Reserve Transmission Capacity

Gaelectric, the renewable energy and energy storage group has raised a fund of $18 million to use like a deposit in order to book 960MW of transmission capacity for the development of wind energy in Montana, found in the United States. Gaelectric North America has made an announcement that the funds that have been raised [...]

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Global Fuel Cell Market on the Edge to Exceed $ 1 billion by 2014

Following a new study carried out by SBI Energy that indicates that the fuel cell technology is an emerging one and which could possibly reach over $1 billion by the year 2014, there has been a renewed interest on behalf of the renewable energy investors. According to the report, Fuel Cell Technologies, the market of [...]

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Green Buildings Conserve & Save Energy

Green buildings have existed for nearly thousands of years though no one would have named them so, until recently. The Romans used what we term passive solar methods to keep their buildings cool in the hot Italian sun. Regrettably, by the 20th century these rational and simple techniques were ignored. Heating spaces became so cheap [...]

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