Utility Withdraws New Coal Financing, Following National Trend of Coal Losing Market Share to Clean Energy Atlanta, GA – In another strike against coal, a local utility near Atlanta voted late Tuesday to cancel funding for two proposed new coal-fired power plant projects. Over the past decade three coal plants have been proposed in Georgia. [...]
HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. Lime Energy Co. LIME -1.17% announced today that the Zemel Road Landfill Gas to Energy Facility has been named Project of the Year by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Landfill Methane Outreach Program (LMOP). The LMOP is a voluntary assistance program that helps to reduce methane emissions from landfills by encouraging the recovery [...]
CENTER VALLEY, Pa.TechPrecision Corporation, an industry leading manufacturer of precision, large-scale fabricated and machined metal components and systems with customers in the alternative energy, cleantech, medical, nuclear, defense, aerospace and other commercial industries, today announced that its Ranor subsidiary has received initial orders for first articles of Poly Silicon chambers from an existing customer for [...]
First, the bad news. Although Africa has vast fossil and renewable energy sources, only twenty percent of its population has direct access to electricity and in some rural areas, four out of five people are completely without power. According to the UN, over 600 million Africans currently do not have access to electric power. A [...]
WASHINGTON – Capping three years of efforts to develop renewable energy resources on public lands both onshore and offshore, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced approval of two utility-scale renewable energy projects—one wind and one solar—that, when built, will generate nearly 500 megawatts of power, or enough to power 150,000 homes, and create [...]
The Clean Energy Trust is reviewing more than 100 applications submitted for the 2012 Clean Energy Challenge business competition. The Challenge seeks the best business ideas in the Midwest with the potential to bring new clean energy technology to the marketplace. Applications closed this week for the second annual competition. Submissions for the $100,000 early-stage [...]
Offshore wind energy capacity in Europe is projected to increase 17-fold between 2010 and 2020, while newer renewable technologies such as concentrated solar power and wave/tidal power will also increase more than 11-fold according to projections. European countries are also expected to significantly boost solar photovoltaic power, onshore wind and other renewable technologies over the [...]
Beginning in December, residential electric customers served by Consumers Energy can submit applications to participate in the utility’s Experimental Advanced Renewable Program (EARP). This program allows electric customers to sell the output of customer-owned solar generating systems to Consumers Energy for a fixed price over a contract length of 15 years. Applications for this next phase of [...]
New events and features will highlight this year’s 24th annual Homestead Fair held on Thanksgiving weekend at Homestead Heritage Traditional Craft Village in central Texas. Along with the dozens of hand-on activities, exhibits, displays and demonstrations scheduled for this year’s Fair, the new events are expected to be popular additions. Mini Barn-Raising Activity for Kids [...]
Work is continuing on developing storage technologies for renewable energy generated electricity from sources such as solar and wind. Innovations in storage such as high-speed flywheel, pneumatic, hydrogen and pumped storage are offering competition to the classic chemical battery. E. ON set up in Brandenburg Falkenhagen, a pilot plant for the conversion of electricity from [...]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory are evaluating the feasibility of developing wind or solar power production on three previously contaminated sites in New York State. EPA Regional Administrator Judith A. Enck today visited the community near the former Bethlehem Steel plant in Lackawanna, one of [...]
First Solar, Inc. today announced cumulative production has reached 5 gigawatts (GW), or 66 million solar modules, capable of generating enough clean electricity to power approximately 2.5 million homes. The company began commercial production in 2002 and has since grown to become one of the world’s largest solar module manufacturers, with 36 production lines on [...]
On 30 May, in the aftermath of Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster, German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced that Germany would close all of its 18 nuclear power plants between 2015 and 2022, which produce about 28 percent of the country’s electricity. Eight have now been taken offline, and with the winter coming on Berlin is scrambling [...]
First Solar Thermal Power Plant in Southeast Asia is Fully Operational
Torresol Energy Launches Commercial Operations of Twin Solar Thermal Plants in Spain
Solar Alliance and SEIA Merge to Establish U.S. Solar policies at the State Level
Thai Deputy Prime Minister Yongyuth Wichaidit Pushes Start Button at First Solar Thermal Power Plant in Thailand
Thai Deputy Prime Minister Yongyuth Wichaidit pushes start button at first solar thermal power plant in Thailand built with Solarlite’s unique technology
New Concentrated Solar Thermal Technology Uses Considerably Resources than any Other CSP technology
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