In the European Union, buildings account for 40 percent of total energy consumption. As a result, sustainable, energy-efficient architecture can make a vital contribution to environmental protection. Building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) ...
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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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Cogenra Solar, a provider of distributed solar cogeneration systems, has announced the installation of its solar cogeneration system at the Clover Stornetta Farms' dairy processing plant in Petaluma, California, in the US. According to ...
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According to Karvy Stock Broking, India's Gross Domestic Product growth for Q2 FY13 to drop to nearly 3 and a half year low of 5.1% which is mainly expected to be driven by sluggish growth in electricity generation and sharp drop in trade ...
Shanghai Daily reported that profits of Chinese industrial companies grew for a second month in October, indicating strengthening economic stabilization in the world's largest manufacturing base. National Bureau of Statistics said that ...
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The government has published details of its long-awaited Energy Bill, which is designed to keep lights on while driving emissions down. This will allow energy firms to charge households an extra £7.6 billion until 2020, with the ...
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Fuel oil consumption in power plants in Bangladesh will more than double to around 800,000 mt in the first half of 2013 from around 320,000 mt in H1 2012, a senior official at Bangladesh Power Development Board said Thursday. The ...
V. Sealing the Deal: Federal Standards In January 2012, a federal standard became effective that requires all light bulbs sold in the United States to be 28 percent more efficient than a normal incandescent light bulb, and to continue to ...
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This is the first in a three-part series of the behind-the-scenes story of the compact fluorescent lightbulbs (CFL). A Brighter Idea: The Untold Story of the CFL, originally featured in the October 2012 issue of Electricity Journal, is a ...
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The Usage of Briquetting plant has started rising in the various industries when these industries are affecting the environment by polluting it through the industrial wastage coming out from the various industries like agriculture,forestry ...
•GE technology included in all official London 2012 Olympic Games competition venues and commercial buildings totaling more than$100 million in sales •Infrastructure solutions provided in Torino 2006,Beijing 2008,Vancouver ...
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Agua Caliente CdTe PV project reaches 200MW milestone NRG Energy Inc of Princeton,NJ,USA,MidAmerican Solar of Phoenix,AZ(a subsidiary of MidAmerican Renewables LLC)and cadmium telluride(CdTe)thin-film photovoltaic module maker First ...
Seattle -- Prices for woody biomass in the US, whether sawmill by-products, forestresidues or urban wood waste, have been sliding for most of the past three years, but werestill higher late in 2011 in most regions than they were five years ...
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First Solar Inc of Tempe,AZ,USA,which makes thin-film photovoltaic(PV)modules based on cadmium telluride(CdTe)as well as providing engineering,procurement&construction(EPC)services,says that,as part of the Australian Government's Solar ...
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Caterpillar Inc. (CAT), the world’s largest maker of construction and mining equipment, said demand from the U. S. Coal-mining industry is slowing after a mild winter. Global demand for the company’s machinery is still at a ...