A MAJOR new electricity link between Wales and Ireland has secured a
pounds 100m grant from the European Commission. The East West Interconnector is being built by Irish energy firm EirGrid to
enhance security of supply in the two countries by enabling movement of power
in both directions. It
The high demand in California for electricity from renewable energy is creating opportunities for developers to build projects along the Baja peninsula in Mexico and then export the electricity across the border into California. However, such projects face a series of practical and economic challenges.
Phaesun GmbH, along with its partner Ikratos Africa is building ten solar power plants in Koudougou Region in Burkina Faso. The installations, which are expected to be finished at the end of March will produce electricity for telecommunications plants. The systems are being built for Telecel Faso, which has up until now covered its network with diesel-powered telecommunications plants so far.
Weak alarm sounded in `nightmare’ scenario JOHN ROSENTHAL offers naive arguments in his Feb. 27 op-ed “A recurring
nuclear nightmare He condemns nuclear power generation, but fails to mention
that it provides more than 20 percent of our electricity. He criticizes nuclear
safety, but neglects
SunRay Renewable Energy announced on Tuesday that it has applied to
the Public Utilities Authority – Electricity for licenses to build seven medium-
sized solar fields on moshavim and kibbutzim. The company plans to erect 65 MW worth of photovoltaic (PV) solar panels and
is interested in the
New York, Feb. 26 — A team of Silicon Valley based technocrats, led
by an Indian, KR Sridhar launched an energy server on Tuesday, which they
claimed could convert air and virtually any other fuel source into clean
electricity. Among the customers already lined up to buy the ‘Bloom Box’ as it is
A secretive Silicon Valley startup working on a new way to
produce cleaner energy is taking the wraps off its product: a huge
box of fuel cells that it hopes will allow homes and businesses to
generate their own electricity. The technology from Bloom Energy, already used at major companies
such as
Feb.23, DENVER — An analysis of the potential renewable resources and transmission that would be required to provide a hypothetical 33 percent of the West’s annual electricity from areas identified as being suitable for large-scale renewable energy development was released today by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).
Washington, Feb. 24 — In a new study, scientists from the University
of Zaragoza have suggested that waste could generate up to 7 percent of
electricity in Spain. The researchers, from the University of Zaragoza (UNIZAR), calculated the
energy and economic potential of urban solid waste, sludge
February 23, 2010 – BrightSource Energy, an ACORE member, received a conditional $1.37 billion loan guarantee for a solar thermal power complex in the Mojave Desert that would ultimately produce nearly 400 megawatts of electricity. This project would almost double the existing generation capacity of solar thermal power in the U.S.
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