clean energy Articles
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Where is energy`s cell phone
Electric industry restructuring often gets criticized for failing to deliver the goods. It was supposed to not only drive down rates, but also spark innovative new technologies. After all, deregulation of the telecommunications industry gave us the cell phone. Where is energy’s nifty gadget?Initiated more than a decade ago, electric deregulation has produced no such consumer hit. But it has led ...
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Supporting clean energy
Probably you are enjoying the comfort that clean energy has brought for you. But does the comfort ever remind you of the guys fighting for clean energy, the so-called clean energy fighters? Or are you ever in favor of them? If the answers are "yes", then you are great. Clean energy fighters win many people's respect, though far from smoothly, for their devotion of time, efforts and creativity to ...
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AZUD is commited to the clean energy on its installations
The climatic change and the increase of the demand have made of the water and energy saving one of the main worldwide objectives. AZUD has joined this tendency not only working to maximize the saving of water, but also of ...
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Garden Island Microgrid (WA) Project
The Garden Island Microgrid is an integrated renewable microgrid project including a connection to Carnegie’s wave energy site directly offshore from the island. The 2 MW of solar and associated battery system provide clean, reliable energy to Australia’s largest naval base. Customer : Department of Defence Project Partners: Department of Defence, Western Power and the Australian ...
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The challenge of an EU-GCC clean energy network
The enhancement of EU-GCC cooperation on energy issues could be significantly facilitated from the establishment and operation of an EU GGC clean energy network (EU-GCC CLEANERGY.NET). CLEANERGY.NET would have to act as a catalyst and a coordinator for EU-GCC energy cooperation on different levels: research, technology and industry, but also on the level of energy policy, through dissemination of ...
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Plentiful energy and the Integral Fast Reactor story
The Integral Fast Reactor (IFR) was a concept that promised inexhaustible, clean, safe, proliferation-resistant energy, with waste that needed isolation for only hundreds of years rather than tens of thousands. The development of the IFR was abandoned by the US government in 1994, as it neared completion, because too many in the US Congress and Administration did not understand its potential to ...
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Clean energy investment reached records in 2010 thanks to Europe and China
Clean energy investment reached records in 2010, as asset managers are increasingly considering climate change risks in their ...
By Vital Energi
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Bioenergy 2015 Scheduled For June
DOE's Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) and the Clean Energy Research and Educational Foundation (CEREF) are co-hosting Bioenergy 2015: Opportunities in a Changing Energy Landscape, scheduled for June 23-24, 2015, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. This year's conference will focus on opportunities and challenges in our current highly dynamic energy ...
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Pioneering Technology to Unlock a Clean Energy Future
At Strada, our mission of unlocking the potential of geothermal energy through our technology is something that drives us every day. It’s always a great pleasure to meet other individuals that share our commitment and passion, and we were delighted and honoured to be able to catch up with Geothermal entrepreneurship champion, Dr Bob Metcalfe. As well as being the inventor of the ...
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Bringing Environmental and Sustainability Benefits to New Jersey Case Study
Serving the largest metropolitan area in the US – The New York metropolitan area includes New York City, Long Island, and the Mid and Lower Hudson Valley in the state of New York; the five largest cities in New Jersey: Newark, Jersey City, Paterson, Elizabeth, and Edison, and their vicinities; six of the seven largest cities in Connecticut: Bridgeport, New Haven, Stamford, Waterbury, ...
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Tracking clean energy progress
Each year, the IEA’s Tracking Clean Energy Progress (TCEP) report examines developments across a range of clean energy sectors and technologies. The TCEP uses benchmarks for 2025 as modelled in Energy Technology Perspectives 2017, as well as the milestones identified in the IEA Technology Roadmaps. Measuring against these benchmarks provides an assessment of whether technologies, energy ...
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Has the clean energy economy arrived?
We’ve seen many forecasts that show the clean energy industry boosting future US job growth. But a Pew Charitable Trust study indicates that green job creation isn’t just a thing of the future; it’s been emerging for several years.From 1998 and 2007, clean energy jobs increased by 9.1%, while total jobs grew by only 3.7% nationally, according to “The Clean Energy Economy.” ...
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DOE Announces Dates Of Bioenergy 2016: Mobilizing The Bioeconomy Through Innovation Conference
On March 7, 2016, DOE's BETO sent out a save the date for the upcoming Bioenergy 2016: Mobilizing the Bioeconomy through Innovation conference. The ninth annual conference is co-hosted by the Clean Energy Research & Education Foundation (CEREF) and will focus on future feedstock opportunities and technology innovations in pursuit of a stronger bioeconomy. The event will take place on July ...
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Making Clean Energy Affordable and Accessible
With racial discrepancies being brought to light in every area of American life, the clean energy industry needs to look inward at what it can do to improve its access and equity. For decades, communities of color and low-income areas have been treated as lesser in the energy sector. Currently, almost a third of U.S. households have trouble affording their energy bills, and ...
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Aloha Solar Case Study
Altus Power America acquired a Tier 3 Feed-In Tariff (FIT) project and needed to have it rapidly built to meet the deadline for the power purchase agreement’s guaranteed completion date. The project included upgrading a substation. REC Solar built the entire 5 MW (AC) system plus substation in 5 months. The energy from the project is being purchased by Hawaiian Electric Company (HECO) on a ...
By REC Solar
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The Battery Terminal, Episode 1 - Wind Power Energy Storage
Conducted by our technical services team, the podcast will cover various destinations in clean energy, market intelligence & all things SimpliPhi ...
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Clean energy, jobs and the real estate market
President Barack Obama wants to create five million new green jobs over the next decade. This is a big goal, but in line with what clean energy industry advocates see as possible. An upcoming international report provides some solid perspective on why green initiatives make for good job building opportunities. Scheduled for release next summer, “Greening Buildings and Communities: Costs and ...
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5 Achievements from Germany’s “Energiewende”
Germany is in the midst of an unprecedented clean energy revolution. Thanks to the “Energiewende,” a strategy to revamp the national energy system, Germany aims to reduce its overall energy consumption and move to 80 percent renewable energy by 2050. The country has already made considerable progress toward achieving this ambitious goal. In fact, other countries like the United ...
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Helping clean energy entrepreneurs turn on the lights in poor countries
A social entrepreneur invests the little working capital she has to bring solar electricity to a community that –like 1.2 billion people worldwide– lacks access to electricity. The community used to use dirty, expensive and choking kerosene for light to cook by and for children to learn by. The entrepreneur knows she can recoup her costs, because people are willing to pay for ...
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Replacing Natural Gas for Industry Case Study
Summary: Aries Clean Energy’s patented downdraft gasification systems were first deployed for Boral Brick in Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee to offset natural gas costs that were topping ...
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