Google has announced plans to continue its rollout of solar energy plants in the U.S. with an $80million investment for six new facilities; its second largest ?to date. So far, Google has committed over $1 billion to wind and solar power ...
Tags: Solar Power Plants, Solar Power, Energy
Wedmore's new renewable power plant built by a co-operative of local investors was completed in October. The team behind the £1.1 million project say the larger of two paddocks of solar panels has started feeding clean electricity ...
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Iberdrola begins advanced development at its Wild Meadows Wind Farm (New Hampshire) IBERDROLA, through its US subsidiary IBERDROLA RENEWABLES LLC, has begun advanced development of its 75.9 MW Wild Meadows wind farm project located on ...
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France is to use profits from nuclear power plants along with a new carbon tax to help fund growth in renewable power and energy efficiency, Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayraut said Saturday. In a speech in Paris marking the end of France's ...
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First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA, which makes thin-film photovoltaic modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe) as well as providing engineering, procurement & construction (EPC) services, has acquired a pipeline of US and Mexico ...
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Power generation and transmission firm Alstom and Soitec of Bernin, France, which makes engineered substrates - including silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers and III-V epiwafers - as well as concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) solar systems, ...
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French President Francois Hollande will not allow shale gas exploration during his presidency, he said on national television Sunday. France currently has a ban on shale gas exploration using hydraulic fracturing, the only current ...
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Rising energy costs are driving food and drink processors towards green solutions, with a 53% jump in the number of on-site renewable electricity projects in the sector last year, SmartestEnergy has claimed. The company, which claims to ...
A Senate Democrat from Delaware and a Republican in the House of Representatives from Texas Wednesday introduced bills to open tax-friendly corporate rules available to the oil and natural gas industry for decades to renewable power, energy ...
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GE's Power Conversion business has signed a turnkey contract with the Lindoe Offshore Renewables Centre (LORC)—a Danish centre for testing renewable energy technology—for the construction, commissioning and handover of what it ...
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Automatic reductions to support for solar PV were published by Ofgem. The Feed - in Tariff (FIT) scheme automatically lowers support by 3.5% after three quarters (nine months) even if little solar capacity has been installed. The new ...
Tags: Domestic Solar Degression, STA, Energy
Microsoft is building a data center next to a Wyoming landfill in order to use its methane gas to power the facility. Apple now uses a massive 100-acre solar energy farm to power its Maiden, N.C., data center. And Google has placed data ...
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An Office of Naval Research (ONR)-supported enterprise aims to bring changes to electric power and energy education at universities throughout the States, establishing first-time programs at some schools and bringing new courses and labs to ...
February 19, 2003 - An Office of Naval Research (ONR)-supported enterprise aims to bring changes to electric power and energy education at universities throughout the States, establishing first-time programs at some schools and bringing new ...
One in five Chinese LED lighting companies may fail this year as falling prices and oversupply batter an industry that Beijing bankrolled to try to build an energy-efficient future. About 4,000 companies in China are producing LEDs, or ...
Tags: LED lighting, LED lighting sector, LED