News about Solar, Wind and alternative green power technologies

Obama’s Introduction of Clean Energy Slower than Expected

Recently (15th of June) related to BP oil spill, Obama did not address the issue of American’s addition to fossil fuels he rather emphasised on political damage control. We can say that Obama’s mythology or rather misinformation about America becoming a clean energy nation via solar, biomass and wind energy might take more than decades [...]

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Ways to Encourage Governmental Support for Solar Power

Those who are interested in solar power will certainly be looking for subsidies, grants, feed-in tariffs and other governmental support that bring the cost of installing solar power down. Homeowners are already benefiting from lucrative subsidies in some countries. This has been triggered through growing global pressures over the concern of limited fossil fuels. Consequently, [...]

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US Largest Wind Farm Will Be Worth $1.2 Billion

A total of 1.2 billion dollar has been readily secured by Terra-Gen Power, to construct the largest wind farm in the United States of America. This sum of money will be enough to supplement a total of 570 MW of new energy capacity to the Alta Wind Energy Center in Kern County, California. The total [...]

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Google Will Be Using Wind Power

In San Francisco, the Google Inc energy unit has decided to purchase wind power from NextEra Energy Inc, for the next two decades in order to provide electricity to its data centers. This deal was sealed within a quarter since the Giant Silicon Valley internet search company decided to invest a total of $38.8 million [...]

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Reports Available Online Renewable Record for 2009

Recently, reports have proven 2008 and 2009, to have been very shining years for renewable energy. It is for the first time ever, that alternative energy takes a twist towards a revolutionary progress despite low oil price and the financial crisis which have been luring in the corner. The fact is that, as economies have [...]

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Global Investment Trends in Green Energy Unveiled In Recent Reports (2010)

Investment in clean energy remains strong despite the tough recession. Renewable is constantly expanding in most countries. The past year, 2009, marked the subsequent second year in a row carrying a higher expansion capacity in renewable sources of energy like solar and wind in comparison to gas, coal and nuclear energy. This was published in [...]

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Floating Wind Turbines – Stable and Useful According To Researchers

Among the various types of renewable energy, wind energy is considered to be among the best ones. However, as the turbines increase in size, they also tend to get noisier, becoming more and more of an eyesore as well as needing increasingly bigger expanses of land. In such circumstances there is one solution; making use [...]

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Making the most of energy efficiency and alternative energy

Conventional energy sources like gas and oil will stay indispensable in order to meet the global demand in the anticipated future. However, taking into consideration the limited nature of these resources and their undesirable effect on the environment, there is presently a pressing and mounting need to reflect on the possibilities of how man can [...]

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An Environmental-Friendly Way to Charge Electric Car Batteries

In accordance to the April 2010 issue of ScienceDaily electromobility only makes sense if the car batteries are charged by making use of electricity that has been produced from renewable sources. However the supply of green electricity is not sufficient all the time. What can help in such situation is an intelligent charging station that [...]

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Geothermal and Solar Power Purchase Deals Approved By California

Two electricity purchase deals have been approved on Thursday by California’s public utilities regulator. The purchase deals is question were made between two utilities and geothermal and solar energy providers. The agreement made is for power purchase deals between CA Solar 10, L.L.C., a solar company and the Southern California Edison, as well as between [...]

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