News about Solar, Wind and alternative green power technologies

Solar Energy Systems Being Established in Michigan By Xtreme Power, Detroit Edison And Ford

Finally, electric vehicles can make their entrance to the automobile industry as Ford, Detroit Edison and Xtreme Power are joining together to construct Michigan’s hugest solar power generation systems as well as vehicle charging stations at Ford’s Assembly Plant in Wayne. In the Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant, Detroit Edison will be installing a 500 KW [...]

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Energy of the Future: Conservation + Renewable Energy

Green house emission has been the headlines for several years. In the heart of the news-lines lies the main catalyst for this alarming topic of global climate change, fossil fuel. Seemingly, our voracious demand for energy is spurring prices to new heights and CO2 even beyond accepted ecological parameters. Global energy consumption is currently approximately [...]

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Approval To begin Work At Italy’s Biggest Photovoltaic Panel Factory Obtained

After having set aside 49 million euros in terms of funding by the CIPE (Italian Joint Ministerial Committee for Economic Planning) last week, it is now the turn of Enel Green Power, Sharp and STMicroelectronics which have signed a binding commitment letter in favour of a project financing agreement that will be around million euros. [...]

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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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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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Germany Focusing on the Demise of Fossil Fuel by 2050

Germany can become the world’s first developed nation to end the dependency on Fossil Fuel. The Federal Environment Agency says that they might by year 2050 supply its entire electricity requirement through renewable sources. The renewable energy track record for Germany is already placing the country as a global leader in both exporting clean technology [...]

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A More Effective Way to Produce Solar-Grade Silicon

A Norwegian manufacturer, Elkem Solar, has through research and development been able to establish a more effective way to produce conventional silicon production. The company based in Kristiansand has achieved some of its set goals: 1. The Cost of silicon production has been decreased considerably in respect to typical production approaches. 2. The energy consumption [...]

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Renewable Business Park In the Pipeline

A zero-carbon sustainable business park is going to be constructed at Wheal Jane, near Truro, in Britain. The full support of the Environment Agency is also present. The plan to initiate the new business park was moved to a forward phase as the proposed wind turbine at Balbhu site was granted consent. According to Bernard [...]

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The Sandia National Laboratories Finds Out A New Way to Commercial Nuclear Fusion Power

It was a fortunate accident to find out this unanticipated blend of current amplification through flux compression with pulse sharpening by a plasma opening switch that occurs naturally. As a result of this discover at Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, the forecasts regarding low-cost energy by nuclear fusion got even brighter now. A group of researchers, [...]

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New Sources of Renewable Energy; One Being Cow Power

This year’s Congressional Energy and Energy Efficiency Expo Forum in Washington DC that was held in the end of May did early pinpoint on the controversy of Fossil Fuel. They were mainly referring to the oil spill in the Gulf region (BP oil Spill). Rep. Jay Inslee of Washington State conveyed the message by saying [...]

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