Honeywell has established a new business called LED Lighting Solutions, which provides a new line of high-efficiency industrial LED lighting fixtures in North America, expanding its portfolio of energy efficiency products and solutions. ...
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Mr. Musadik Malik, Special Advisor on Energy to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has asked the All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) to come up with innovative solutions to the energy crisis. During a meeting with APTMA ...
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Nova Scotia Power says its newest power plant—a biomass facility in Port Hawkesbury—has begun operations, producing both electricity and steam. "We are proud to be increasing our presence in the community of Port Hawkesbury. ...
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Toshiba Corp. says it has acquired a 76% interest in CyberGrid GmbH, an Austrian developer and provider of intelligent energy management solutions. Toshiba says it sees the development of its smart community business as a key strategy for ...
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Veolia Water is to design, build and operate Saudi Arabia's largest ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis desalination plant at the Sadara Petrochemical Complex in Jubail City. The new 178 000 m3 per day plant will supply the Sadara ...
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Using biomass for energy is an important part of the renewable energy mix, says the European Environment Agency (EEA); however, bioenergy production should follow European Union resource efficiency principles. "Bioenergy is an important ...
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Devices with wide-bandgap semiconductors will offer the greater competitive advantage in micro-inverters and small string inverters, reckons market analyst firm Lux Research. Wide-bandgap semiconductors – specifically, silicon ...
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Philips partnered with the Netherlands Football Association (KNVB) to propose a new solar-powered LED lighting concept, which will benefit at least 26 communities spread across Ghana. At the Accra stop of Philips’ pan-African Cape ...
July 4,2013-Manitoba Hydro will be seeking public input in planning a route for a new transmission line in southeastern Manitoba called the Manitoba-Minnesota Transmission Project.The public engagement process will help identify and refine ...
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July 4,2013-Ontario's clean energy economy continues to grow as the Ontario Power Authority(OPA)offers 951 new Small Feed-in Tariff(FIT)renewable energy contracts.These contracts represent 146.5MW of power,enough to power more than 21,000 ...
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The survey has been conducted by Germany's plastic trade association Industrievereinigung Kunststoffverpackungen (IK). In a statement, IK said: "Foreign enterprises are able to calculate with much lower energy costs: at times power costs ...
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In May of the current year, the aggregate gross profit of industrial enterprises in China's Shanxi Province amounted to RMB 5.37 billion ($869 million), up RMB 1.47 billion ($238 million) compared to April but lower than the average monthly ...
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The US government’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory has built flexible solar cells out of Corning’s Willow Glass. These new solar cells are strong enough that they could eventually replace roofing shingles, which would ...
Covering a roof or a facade with standard solar cells to generate electricity will change a building’s original appearance—and not always for the better (this idea to coat buildings with graphene kicks the problem up another ...
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Japan's Sharp Corp has used a concentrator triple-junction III-V compound semiconductor photovoltaic cell to achieve a solar energy conversion efficiency of 44.4%, exceeding the record of 43.5% for concentrating conversion efficiency set in ...
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