The French government wants to provide enough offshore wind capacity to power millions of homes
Glasgow-based offshore wind experts are bidding to break into the fast-growing market for French renewable energy.
Scottish Power parent company Iberdrola, which manages its offshore wind projects from a new centre in Scotland, is part of a consortium bidding to provide nearly 1 gigawatt of wind capacity in French waters. … Continue Reading
PNM says the new charge would allow it to bill customers closer to when charges are incurred rather than including recovery in rate cases.
The Public Service Co. of New Mexico has dedicated a 5-megawatt solar photovoltaic generating facility in Las Vegas, N.M.
The generating station includes about 78,000 solar panels on 50 acres north of the downtown area. … Continue Reading
CPV Renewable Energy Company closed on project financing of Keenan II in February 2010, with construction following, using 66 Siemens 2.3 MW wind turbines.
BRAINTREE, Mass., CPV Renewable Energy Company (CPV Renewable Energy) announced that it closed financing for the construction of its 165.6 MW Cimarron Wind Energy Project in Gray County, Kansas. The company began construction of the renewable energy facility in early December 2011 and expects that the Cimarron project will achieve commercial operation in November 2012. … Continue Reading
The fuel cell units aren’t cheap. One unit is $56,000 and costs an additional $5,000 to $20,000 to install.
An Oregon fuel cell manufacturer announced Tuesday it is expanding into central Europe with a contract to sell $85 million worth of fuel cell systems to an Austrian company.
ClearEdge Power Inc., in Hillsboro, said the contract will provide fuel cell systems that can generate 8.5 megawatts of power to Gussing Renewable Energy GmbH over the next three years. It’s the first phase of a plan to provide cells that will produce up to 50 megawatts of power by the year 2020 for use in homes, office complexes and other businesses. … Continue Reading
Refiners are required to blend motor fuel with cellulosic biofuel made from wood chips or the inedible parts of plants like corn cobs.
WASHINGTON — When the companies that supply motor fuel close the books on 2011, they will pay about $6.8 million in penalties to the Treasury because they failed to mix a special type of biofuel into their gasoline and diesel as required by law.
But there was none to be had. Outside a handful of laboratories and workshops, the ingredient, cellulosic biofuel, does not exist. … Continue Reading
Capable of storing 36 megawatt hours of power and taking up the area of a football field, the giant battery bank was built as a joint venture between solar and electric car company BYD and the State Grid Corporation of China.
2011 saw huge advances in solar, wind and other renewable energy sources, and these advancements will continue into 2012. In fact 2012 could be the year that renewable energy sources start to seriously compete with traditional fossil fuels, at least that is the hope in the battle to reduce carbon emissions and our dependence on dwindling oil stocks. However a major problem with renewable energy sources is that they can rarely provide consistent power levels, due to a myriad of factors outside of human control. … Continue Reading
Ethanol and other renewable energy sources continue to grow nationwide, according to a recent report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).
The new report revealed:
For the first nine months of 2011, renewable energy sources – biomass/biofuels, geothermal, solar, water and wind – provided 11.95 percent of domestic U.S. energy production. That compares to 10.85 percent for the same period in 2010 and 10.33 percent in 2009. … Continue Reading
CAIRO – Iran’s top nuclear official announced during the weekend that the country was on the verge of starting production at its second major uranium enrichment site, in a defiant declaration that its nuclear program would continue despite new international sanctions restricting its oil revenue. … Continue Reading
An energy policy for the United States has become like the weather: everyone talks about it, but no one ever does anything about it. This lack of consistent direction has created volatile, and recently, sharply negative returns to investors in the Alternative Energy space. With a lot of hot air being generated in the months …
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Despite the availability of clean and sustainable energy sources like solar, wind, hydropower, geothermal and biomass, many states depend on outdated and dirty energy sources. Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Missouri and Tennessee are among the most in need of an energy portfolio diversification. The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has identified solutions for these and other …
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Demand for solar PV energy in the U.S. continues to gain considerable traction. During 2011, installed PV capacity reached the 2 GW level, with 880 MW allocated to the commercial sector and 760 MW to the utility segment. However, this growth has not been realized without certain challenges. Indeed, often years of negotiation take place …
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When somebody mentions renewable energy, most of us think primarily of methods we can use for home production, namely wind turbines and solar panels. However, there are a number of alternative energy sources still waiting to break through into the public conscience. Airborne forms of wind power are arguably some of the most exciting amongst …
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Sustainable Energy and Renewable Energy are terms that are thrown around a lot these days, but what exactly do they mean, and how many countries are taking them seriously? The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates that in 2008, 10% of the world’s energy consumption was from renewable energy sources. EIA forecasts that by 2035, consumption …
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On August 31, SACE and the Sierra Club hosted the “Wind Works: For Jobs, for Georgians” rally on Tybee Island. The Tybee Pier and Pavilion, where the rally was held, proved to be a great spot for the event. We were able to reach out to about 300 people – substantially from the coastal community – …
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Since 2006 Bonded Logic, an Arizona-based cotton fiber insulation manufacturer, and Cotton Incorporated, an association of cotton manufacturers, growers and retailers, have teamed up to change the final resting place for approximately 200 tons of unwanted denim from the landfill to new homes in the United States, in the form of denim insulation. The “Cotton. …
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A new study of renewable energy’s technical potential finds that every state in the nation has the space and resource to generate clean energy. The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory produced the study, U.S. RE Technical Potential, which looks at available renewable resources in each state. It establishes an upper-boundary estimate of …
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