Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) Assembly, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 15 January, 2012: I am pleased to be with you for this Assembly at the beginning of the International Year of Sustainable Energy for All. Abu Dhabi, home to IRENA and host of the [...]
Growing domestic energy consumption in the world’s largest oil exporter, Saudi Arabia, threatens its ability to adequately supply world markets, said a report from London-based think tank Chatham House. The report, posted on the Chatham House website Wednesday, said without significant policy changes, rising Saudi energy consumption could deprive the world of 2 million barrels [...]
The pieces and policies for potential conflict in the Persian Gulf are seemingly drawing inexorably together. Since 24 December the Iranian Navy has been holding its ten-day Velayat 90 naval exercises, covering an area in the Arabian Sea stretching from east of the Strait of Hormuz entrance to the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of [...]
Electro Power Systems SpA is officially launching in India ElectroSelf, the world’s first entirely self-recharging fuel cell system for backup power at India Telecom, New Delhi (stand in hall 14). A preview of ElectroSelf was presented in February 2010 at Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona and, after being successfully trialed in Europe, Americas and [...]
Renewable energy generates close to 2% of electricity in UK. In 2008, UK’s electricity generation totaled 389,650GWh, a decrease of 1.9% over 2007. During 2004–08, UK’s electricity generation decreased at CAGR of 0.3% mainly on account of financial crisis. At a national level, the ‘UK Renewable Energy Strategy’ (2009) suggests that the UK’s electricity generation [...]
Southern Energy Management crews installed 60 systems in 60 days. Seventy homes across South Carolina have been chosen to participate in a unique program that will bring solar thermal energy to more families in the Palmetto State.
EnviroMission Joins Renewable Energy Developers to Commend Arizona Commerce Authority Recommendations EnviroMission Limited has joined renewable energy developers, Power-One and Abengoa Solar Inc., to commend Arizona Governor, Jan Brewer, and the Arizona Commerce Authority for recommendations aimed at advancing the renewable energy industry in Arizona.
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Secretary of Energy Steven Chu have announced a comprehensive environmental analysis that has identified proposed Solar Energy Zones (SEZs) on public lands in six Western states most suitable for environmentally sound, utility-scale solar energy production (Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah).
The Renewable Energy Technology Conference & Exhibition, the world’s premier event for the renewable energy technology industry, announced today that The Renewable Technologies Corp. (RTC) and its parent, Camelot Technologies Group (CTG), have signed on to sponsor the 3rd Annual RETECH Conference & Exhibition to be held in Washington, DC, September 20-22, 2011.
SolarReserve, a U.S. developer of utility-scale solar power projects, has received a final decision from the California Energy Commission (CEC) for construction and operation of the Rice Solar Energy Project. This approval, the key state-level permit for the 150-megawatt solar power tower project, was achieved in the record time of less than 13 months from [...]
Project will be the largest photovoltaic solar field in the world when completed; Enhances NRG’s growing Arizona business NRG Energy, Inc. and First Solar, Inc. has announced that NRG, through its wholly owned subsidiary, NRG Solar, has agreed to acquire the 290-megawatt (MW) Agua Caliente solar project from First Solar. The project is scheduled to [...]
GE Energy Financial Services, has announced that it reached its multi-year target of building a $6 billion portfolio of renewable energy investments by the end of 2010, inspired by GE’s ecomagination initiative. GE Energy Financial Services – a major global investor in multiple energy generation and distribution projects and companies – said at the ACORE [...]
The Export-Import Bank of the U.S. (Ex-Im Bank) has joined seven other U.S. government agencies in launching a coordinated effort to promote renewable energy and energy-efficiency exports under a project called the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Export Initiative.
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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