Cheap LED Blub Edges Below $20 (The New York Times) A new marketing effort has been triggered by Home Depot to assure that households accept LED lighting. Early in August, retail giant launched the sale of light bulbs placed in their highly energy-efficient stall at amazingly cheap prices, below $20. Other stores are going to [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, August 15, 2010
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 [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, August 8, 2010
This article provides a few interesting facts related to sources of renewable energy like water, geothermal and bio-energy. The potential of renewable energy is phenomenal. Water (as a source of energy) There is a vast depository of water on the earth surface. Did you know? 1. Water is the most known sources of renewable energy, [...]
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According to the Spanish industry ministry, the current feed-in tariffs for photovoltaic installation might experience a cut of 45 percent. Plans to reduce solar photovoltaic installation were reported by the Spanish government. The announced plans are expected to slash support current installations. The Industry Ministry proposed a step-by-step slash in feed-in tariffs. A 45 percent [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 5, 2010
A team from the University of Southern California has created flexible transparent carbon atom films. According to the researchers who have produced them, these films have much potential for a novel kind of solar cells. Professor of electrical engineering, Chongwu Zhou, of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, wrote in a paper that has lately [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, August 1, 2010
Solar energy shining at the earth surface represents a thousands of times of the current world’s electricity. Solar power has a bright future but the technology that is going to rule is still a question. Is it going to be thermal solar power or photovoltaic solar technology? Although, solar power has an Olympian capacity it [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, July 31, 2010
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, [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 8, 2010
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 [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 7, 2010
President Barack Obama announced during the first weekend of July that New Financial schemes of almost $2 billion have been made available through the US recovery Act. Two large solar companies have been entrusted to make things happen. In Obama’s weekly address, he announced that US Department of Energy would disburse $1.45 billion of controlled [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 5, 2010
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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