News about Solar, Wind and alternative green power technologies

Brazil: Iberdrola and Neoenergia Are Investing In Wind Energy

IBERDROLA, the globe leader in wind energy, and Brazilian consortium NEOENERGIA are signing ten loans for the sum of 300 million, with Banco Nacional do Desenvolvimento Economico y Social (BNDES) and with Banco do Brasil. Iberdrola and Neoenergia, for the umpteenth time, will finance 10 wind power farms in Brazil. Brazil has been one of [...]

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Green Tech The Future Of Tata Power

India’s largest private energy producer, Tata power, is going towards green technology. The company wants to generate 25 percent of all its power from clean energy sources, and is ready to invest in business partners already developing clean renewable energy. In a recent interview, The Executive Director of Tata Power, S. Ramakrishnan told DNA Money [...]

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Overview of Geothermal Energy

Geothermal energy is a form of energy that originates from the interior of the earth, actually the word geothermal means earth’s heat. The concentration of this energy increases as one goes deeper and closer to the crust that is the further one goes into the earth crust the higher is the temperature as compared to [...]

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Biomass A Strong Source Of Renewable Energy Since it is an organic material containing stored energy from the sun, biomass could provide a transition from fossil-fuel. A Bio-grass plantation: Burning of elephant grass leads to emission of less carbon than it is consumed meaning that it is a reliable, green and renewable. Photovoltaic panels and [...]

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Geothermal Energy Has Large Potential In The US But Growth Less Than Wind & Solar Energy

In America, one of the most-used sources of renewable energy is geothermal energy. But, during the last three years, it hasn’t been growing as much as solar and wind energy. The potential of geothermal energy is extensive in the Western States. From January to August 2011, the total electricity generated from geothermal energy in the [...]

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U.S Outlook for Renewable Energy Employment in 2011

In America the growth of the clean energy industry is expanding at a rampant pace. Green energy employments are being spurred across the nation. America’s unemployment figures are getting worse as the clock ticks by. In regions such as California the unemployment rate has reached 22 percent. Such grim figures haven’t been experienced since the [...]

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A New Geothermal Power Plant Has Been Established By Enel Green Power

In the Province of Siena Radicondoli 2 is expanding through the advent of Tuscan geothermal centre of Enel’s renewable generation company. Enel Green Power is constantly striving towards growth by setting up one of the world’s largest geothermal power plant. Radicondoli 2 is the latest geothermal power plant in the province of Siena. The additional [...]

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West Virginia Has More Geothermal Energy Available According to a Research Funded by Google

A projected funded by Google have found a vast geothermal repository beneath the surface of West Virginia. The source could provide with an amount of electricity energy tantamount to more than actual production levels. The study was conducted by Southern Methodist University with the help of a grant provided by Google’s benevolence of $481,500. The [...]

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Geothermal Energy Growing In The Philippines

Philippine is currently ranked as the world’s second-largest developer of geothermal energy. It is now going for a colossal expansion. A plan to provide contracts for another 19 geothermal power plants amounting to a total of US$2.5 billion (private investment) is soon to be launched. In the coming months, the Philippine’s government will be confirming [...]

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Renewables: Geothermal Energy & German’s Early Expansion

Germany is a key player in the emergence of renewable fuel sources. They did through the implementation of the Electricity feed laws establish a world record in 2006, where investment in German’s green industry rose to more than US$10 billion, including research and development as well as the erection of wind turbine, expansion of solar [...]

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