Forget cheap shoes.China is leaping up the technology ladder at a rate that has caught its competitors off guard,not least in renewable energy. The pace of the country's progress was on full display last week at an energy conference in ...
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Australian roofs now have a solar power generating capacity equivalent to half the Snowy Hydro scheme as consumers react to soaring power prices and sinking prices for photovoltaic(PV)panels. First solar farm opens in WA Some 858,000 ...
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In a new election cycle survey on clean energy,nine in 10 US adults agree that renewable energy sources,such as solar energy,should be a bigger part of America's energy supply in the future,according to a new Ipsos poll conducted on ...
One of the South West's greenest companies has won the 2012 region's Green Energy Installer of the Year Award. North Somerset-based Solarsense beat stiff competition to take the top award at a ceremony last night (20 Nov) hosted by the ...
Tags: Green Energy Installer, solar photovoltaic, solar thermal systems
China Sunergy Co., a specialized solar cell and module manufacturer, today announced that it has completed the transactions to procure its first two solar park projects in Cornwall. The two solar parks with a size of about 5 MW each are ...
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LED chip and lighting array maker Bridgelux Inc of Livermore, CA, USA says that EBV Elektronik, an Avnet company, has become a distributor for Bridgelux products in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The agreement relates to Bridgelux's ...
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Germany-based Siemens introduced an environmental portfolio in 2011 to help reduce gas emissions by 317 million tons. According to Peter Loscher, president and CEO of Siemens, climate change has been affecting people's lives and it is ...
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Over the course of the next ten years demand for electricity is going to far exceed the supply by three times. Steps Towards a Low Carbon Future discusses the solutions and technologies that will support the global revolution required and ...
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Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Ames Laboratory have discovered new ways of using a well-known polymer in organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs), which could eliminate the need for an increasingly problematic and ...
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The renewable energy industry is at a tipping point as the developed markets start to close the door on generous subsidy programs and emerging markets develop cost strategies to compete with fossil fuels, according toErnst & Young's latest ...
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November 30, 2012 - BC Hydro says it will provide $100,000 in funding over two years to the North East Native Advancing Society (NENAS) to support trades training under its North East Aboriginal Trades Training (NEATT) program. The NEATT ...
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CHS,a US-based energy,grains and foods company,has announced that it will be the exclusive off-take company for the urea fertilizer produced by the Summit Texas Clean Energy Project,a plant at Penwell,Texas. CHS will also be a minor ...
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The Government of British Columbia in Canada is partially funding an initiative to install 454 new electric vehicle (EV) charging stations across the state by the end of March 2013. The government has already approved 75% funding from 71 ...
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Dialight has secured LED lighting orders from a manufacturer of onshore drilling rigs and the operator of a solar-thermal power plant in the California desert. LED lighting manufacturer Dialight (LSE: DIA.L) has secured two major orders in ...
Tags: LED fixture, LED high bay, LED light fixtures, LED lighting, Dialight
With most of the cost of electricity for wind tied up in the initial capital investments made in the wind turbines themselves, GE says new technology advancements that reduce these costs could substantially lower the overall cost of wind ...
Tags: Wind Blades, blade design, Renewable Energy