News about Solar, Wind and alternative green power technologies

Is Solar Powered Data Centre in Apple’s Quest to Go Green?

Large giant tech companies are going towards solar energy. Apple is changing its North Caroline Centre to solar power from coal. In a recent study released by Greenpeace found that Apple ranked last in the field of being Green. The pool included large tech companies. But now they are slowly moving towards solar power by [...]

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Will Mars Be a Hub For Nuclear Energy Or Solar Power?

Opportunity and Spirit were the two last NASA Mars rovers sent to outer-space in 2003. They used solar energy as a source of energy. However, from Cape Canaveral, in November 2011 another rover has started its mission but with nuclear power. Spirit and Opportunity – Solar Powered Rovers Apparently, solar power and nuclear power have [...]

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Reviewing The Future Design Of Solar Technology

Solar technology is becoming more and more flat. This applies to household solar panels, industrial solar arrays in the desert; Solar panels are literally defined by its flat shape. Yet, solar panels do not need to be flat. In our natural world, practically nothing is flat and therefore why should solar panels continue to have [...]

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Renewable Energy Companies Struggling (Solar Companies)

Europe’s three largest renewable companies said that they are being badly hit by the fall in price caused by over-supply and insignificant government incentives. The same has been said by renewable companies in the United States and in China. Renewable energy companies around the globe have been hit by a mix of high inventories and [...]

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UN Report: Renewable Energy Can Provide 80 % of Global Energy Needs by 2050

According to a recent report from United Nations, renewable sources (wind, hydropower and solar) can power 80 percent of the global energy needs by 2050. However, the right policies need to be in placed to make this happen. Environmental group such as Greenpeace said that the findings were even underestimated due to strong opposition from [...]

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Hybrid Solar System Harnessing Thermal & Thermoelectric Power

A new approach to the use of sun energy was developed at MIT. Two researchers are trying to get both thermal and electric energy at the same time out of a hybrid thermoelectric system. The journal Solar Energy has recently published a paper signed by Evelyn Wang, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, and [...]

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The Solar Industry Might Struggle – Feed-in Tariff Being Cut

Are the subsidies cuts, levied by the government, out reduce the prospects of rapidly expanding solar companies such as Engensa – which is yet in its infant stage? The young owners of the company share with us insights into the model which they are working on, in a bid to keep Engensa up and running. [...]

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UK Wants To Produce Affordable Wave Energy

UK’s Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) desires to generate energy-using waves as a clean source of energy. It can also be exploited at a competitive price. Global giants Caterpillar, BP, E.ON, Rolls-Royce, Shell, EDF and the government of UK have joined hands in order to form ETI, which is a public-private alliance. ETI has generated a [...]

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The Green Economy Needed For Sustainability – Economic & Environmental

Oliver Letwin, the Minister of State for Policy, views Green Deal as a means to enable a future with low emission of carbon. He asserts that it is not only environmental reasons that make a greener economy a prerequisite in today’s society. Constantly rising utility bills, sparse financial conditions and wariness regarding the huge lack [...]

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One of EU’s leading Photovoltaic power Companies Is Buying Solar Technology from Emerson

Recently, one of EU’s largest solar-energy developers awarded a long-term contract to Emerson to provide power inverter technology. Emerson’s contract with Euro Projects, makes them the supplier of utility-scale inverters for two very large solar power plants situated in Villaperuccio in Sardinia, Italy. The power inverters provided by Emerson, converts DC current generated from solar [...]

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