China announced policies on Friday to ramp up support for renewable energy projects, in a bid to curb air pollution. The National Development and Reform Commission issued new subsidy standards for distributed solar power generation ...
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China's National Energy Administration has selected 18 initial demonstration zones for installing distributed PV systems during 2013-2015, with total installation reaching 1.823GWp, of which 749MWp will be completed in 2013, according to ...
At the Intersolar North America 2013 conference in San Francisco (9-11 July), concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) solar system maker Soitec of Bernin, France has announced that its subsidiary Soitec Solar Development LLC of Peabody, MA, USA ...
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Many homeowners who want clean, green energy will buy and install solar panels. However, a solar array can be prohibitively expensive. Moreover, solar panels are not an option for many renters, condo owners, homeowners in ...
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South West Water is set to reach for the sun again by installing more solar panels at its operational sites after breaking the million kilowatt-hour barrier in 2012. Over one million kilowatt hours of solar energy was generated to help ...
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While feed-in-tariffs are a well-established incentive scheme, which many homeowners have benefited from since they were introduced, the government's new Green Deal financing scheme is very much in its infancy. With feed-in tariff ...
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Manz AG of Reutlingen, Germany, which supplies integrated production lines for crystalline silicon solar cells and thin-film solar modules (as well as lines flat-panel displays), says it is demonstrating the standards of its CIGSfab ...
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Kia Motors America (KMA) has launched the revamped version of the 2013 Optima Hybrid in the US with enhanced features. The vehicle is equipped with a new electric traction motor that generates an output of 47hp, a hybrid starter ...
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The necessity of having nuclear power plants has been under debate recently in Taiwan. Taiwan-based solar wafer maker Gigastorage has suggested four ways that the government can take to address the country's energy issues: increase solar ...
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If LED lighting is fully adopted in Taiwan, the country can reduce its electricity consumption by 12.78%, an equivalent to the combined capacity of two of its existing nuclear power plants, according to industry observers. The observers ...
British sports car manufacturer McLaren Automotive is planning to unveil the new P1 hybrid supercar at the upcoming 2013 Geneva International Motor Show to be held in Switzerland during 07-17 March 2013. The new plug-in hybrid sports ...
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Andritz Hydro has received an order from Nalcor Energy to supply four 209 megawatt (MW) Kaplan turbines and four synchronous generators for the new Muskrat Falls hydropower plant in Labrador, Canada. Commissioning is scheduled for 2017. ...
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In 2012, Sichuan Province-based Pangang Xichang Steel & Vanadium Co., a subsidiary of Sichuan-based Chinese steel producer Pangang Group, produced 5.98 million mt of pig iron, 5.4 million mt of crude steel and 21,100 mt of vanadium ...
A Canadian consortium of renewable energy developers including Solexica Energy Corporation, JCM Capital and Radical Energy has signed a 20-year concession agreement with CONELEC, Ecuador’s National Electricity Board, for the purchase ...
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Suntech PV modules power Saudi Arabia’s largest solar system, a 3.5MW solar energy field in Riyadh, the company today announced. Saudi Aramco President and CEO Khalid A. Al-Falih inaugurated the King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and ...
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