renewable energy project Articles
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Cliffs farm wind turbine installation project – network connection and planning advice case study
Background F Culshaw. a diversified farm business at Cliffs Farm in Lancashire, sought advice from Envirolink Northwest about solving delays to its 2.25 MW wind turbine development on land at Cliffs Farm. Envirolink Northwest supported the client through contract negotiations with all parties concerned, and provided post planning consent advice. The advice given helped to achieve £50,000 ...
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Energy Utilities: Panorama 2023
Utilities are players with whom we all interact. We all contract energy for our businesses and homes, and at some point, we want to compare offers to see who offers the best service. Last week we looked at the annual energy management survey responses and discussed the current challenges and objectives of Energy Service Companies (ESCOs). We were glad to have gathered data from various Utilities ...
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A closer look at Energy Demand in the UK.
The consumption of energy in the UK and Europe has experienced a gradual decrease in recent years. Despite this positive trend, there are numerous daily activities that could be accomplished with reduced energy usage. In our previous publication, we delved into the sources of energy and electricity production systems. In this article, we shift our attention towards the electricity consumption ...
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Bull Creek Wind Project - Case Study
422,472 MWh: Low Emission Contribution 29MW: Generation Capacity 17: Turbines installed Bull Creek Wind Project, in western Alberta, represents the first of Windlab’s projects to reach operations in North America. The site was first identified by Windlab in 2007 and the land was quickly secured. Windlab sold the project to BluEarth Renewables in 2011, who then continued the ...
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Statoil backs wind storage; LG Chem eyes Australia growth
Battery maker LG Chem plans to expand its footprint in the Australian residential solar and battery storage market, the company announced on March 24, citing the “exponential traction” for its RESU6.4EX residential energy storage system in Australia and the “untapped opportunity” for solar energy storage in the country. LG Chem launched its lithium-ion 6.4 kWh RESU6.4EX ...
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Project ERIC - Case study
Moixa is leading a £1.2 million project that is showing how a local smart energy system can save a community money and allow it to generate more power from renewables. Project ERIC (Energy Resources for Integrated Communities) aims to tackle fuel poverty in Rose Hill, East Oxford, a social housing estate which is in the lower 10% of the UK’s most deprived communities. The project was ...
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South Africa innovates to support soaring renewables growth
South Africa's 2010 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) targeted 8.4 GW of wind and 8.4 GW solar capacity by 2030 and in 2011 the government launched its Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Program (REIPPPP) to accelerate development. The REIPPPP has thus far procured 3.4 GW of wind, 2.4 GW of PV and 400 MW of CSP capacity and has attracted 193 billion rand ($13 billion) of ...
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Mobilizing Climate Investment: The role of international climate finance in creating scaled-up, low-carbon energy
Between now and 2050, developing countries need an estimated $531 billion per year of additional investment in energy supply and demand technologies in order to limit global temperature rise to 2° C above pre-industrial levels. To achieve this scale of investment, developing country governments and custodians of international public finance will need to deploy limited public finance in ways ...
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South Africa innovates to support soaring renewables growth
Government and investors are working hard to increase the competitiveness of wind and solar projects in one of the world's fastest-growing renewable energy markets, official representatives said at the CSP Today South Africa 2016 conference on June 8. South Africa's 2010 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) targeted 8.4 GW of wind and 8.4 GW solar capacity by 2030 and in 2011 the government launched ...
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North of Scotland shines for Moray ‘super-solar’ site
A massive solar project in Moray which could provide enough electricity to power the whole of Elgin demonstrates that the north of Scotland is a prime location for this type of renewable energy solution. The ambitious energy project will use around 200,000 solar PV panels and will provide enough electricity for 21,000 homes. It is being planned by Elgin Energy at the former RAF airfield at ...
By AES Ltd
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Projects Thermoelectric Generators in a Geothermal Field - Case Study
This is an R&D project which will build and test a new field-scale thermoelectric generator (TEG) at our Bottle Rock Power geothermal facility near Cobb, California. TEGs produce electrical energy when a strong enough temperature difference exists across the generator (a phenomenon known as the Seebeck effect). This will be the first TEG developed specifically to generate electricity from a ...
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USDA revises renewable energy loan guarantees
On December 29, 2014, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) published the final rule for the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP). REAP is intended to help mainly businesses, as well as some state, local, and tribal governments develop solar, wind, and biomass projects. This new rule will change the requirements for those applying for funding from the grant and loan guarantees for ...
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CSP faces new California siting limits in DRECP
The publication of the Preferred Alternative draft of the much-awaited Desert Renewable Energy and Conservation Plan (DRECP) brings both hope and consternation to supporters of clean energy in California. DRECP would close approximately 20 million acres of a 22 million acre area of California desert lands to large-scale renewable energy development, while still allowing renewable development on ...
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WISEPOWER - Case Study
Objective: WISEPOWER was a European project aimed at increasing the social acceptance of wind energy as one of the key drivers for increasing the role played by renewables in the energy transition. To this end, the project focused on proposing measures to promote the participation of local communities in new projects, obtain greater support from public institutions and seek new and innovative ...
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Oceans of Energy
Technologies that harness the energy of moving water or temperature differentials in the oceans promise to deliver abundant carbon-free electricity. Long before humans got hooked on fossil fuels, we learned how to harness the power of water to do work. Rivers ran mills that ground flour, sawed logs or spun looms that transformed fibers into textiles. Later generations realized that moving water ...
By Ensia
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Clarke Energy on the Move with Lonsdale Power Station
Iberdrola Australia have appointed Clarke Energy as the main contractor to oversee and manage the relocation of a 120MW power station and associated plant from Lonsdale, in Adelaide’s south, to an industrial site in Bolivar (north of Adelaide) adjacent to SA Water’s wastewater treatment facility. The relocation of the power station to Bolivar will enable the gas turbines to be ...
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High wire act: electricity transmission infrastructure and its impact on the renewable energy market
Renewable energy (RE)—electricity from wind, solar, and other naturally renewing energy sources— has drawn increasing attention in the quest to reduce greenhouse gases on a scale commensurate with the dictates of climate science. Renewables have the potential to substitute for a significant proportion of the conventional fossil fuels prevalent in today’s electricity generation. ...
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Project Alamo 1 - San Antonio, Texas
Project Description: Alamo 1 represented the first stage of a 400 MWac solar PV project delivering clean, renewable energy to CPS Energy, the municipal utility for the City of San Antonio. This 39.2 MWac solar farm is made up of 167,680 modules on 2,260 single-axis and 1,932 dual-axis tracker rows. Commercial operation began in December 2013, serving approximately 9,150 homes. The ...
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Nominations for MENASOL Awards 2015 are now open
The Award Winning Middle East & North Africa Solar Conference & Expo is organizing for the first time the MENASOL Awards 2015 to celebrate CSP and PV companies in their effort to develop solar power in the region. The nominations will be assessed by a panellist of industry experts including: Dr. Rabia Ferroukhi, Head of Policy Unit Deputy Director – Knowledge, Policy and ...
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Project TREE - Transfer Renewable Energy Efficiency - Case Study
TREE stands for Transfer Renewable Energy & Efficiency. TREE is a German scholarship program. TREE facilitates know-how transfer and capacity building in renewable energies, energy efficiency and climate protection, for decision makers, high potentials and engineers from developing and emerging countries. The TREE project, started in 2008 and run by the Renewables Academy AG (RENAC), is ...
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