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Energy & Sustainable Development Magazine Articles
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The largest wind turbine in Sweden
Vattenfall, the Swedish energy company, started commercial operation of a wind turbine representing the very last technology developed by the manufacturer Vestas, at the Näsudden wind farm on Gotland island in the Baltic sea.
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New solar technology in Canada
ATS Automation Tooling Systems Inc., based in Cambridge in Ontario, has opened a new photovoltaic solar panels facility in Canada, using the Spheral SolarTM (SSP) technology, in large part developed in that country.
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Zinc batteries, back to sources
The alkaline primary battery is by far the most used electrochemical energy source in the world. But non rechargeable batteries are too expensive for many applications where rechargeable batteries are rather used. First came Ni-Cd batteries, ...
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Energy recovery from gas compressors
With the development of natural gas recompression plants, linked to the opening of the global gas market, which means increased exchanges and transportation between production and consumption areas, the number of energy recovery projects on this ...
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SunWize® solar generators
The electric utility that provides power to tribal Navajo land spreading across 64,000 km2 through parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah in the US has installed in May 2004, 64 individual power generation units for housing located on the reserve ...
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China awakes to clean transportation
In the following months and at least until the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008, Chinese roads and cities, particularly in Beijing and Shanghai, will be a choice testing ground for different types of clean individual and collective low-pollution ...
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Hydrogen engine cars
Alternate Energy Corporation, which develops hydrogen systems, has teamed up with the Canadian company Feel Good Cars Inc. (FGC) to produce a prototype hybrid vehicle using batteries and a hydrogen fueled engine. Alternate Energy will modify a ZENN ...
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Standards for hydrogen refueling stations
At the end of May 2004, International codes council (ICC) has approved several standards relating to hydrogen storage in refueling station. The ICC fire code now allows for liquid hydrogen storage in insulated underground tanks.
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Europe’s Largest Mine Gas Plant
GE Jenbacher has supplied 14 cogeneration systems to Europe’s largest coal mine gas plant, Fenne, which is owned by SaarEnergie and located in the district of Fenne near Saarbrücken, Germany, GE Energy announced at Hannover Messe 2004. ...
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Towards high efficiency solar cells with new material
While previous developed materials aimed at high efficiency used several junctions of indiumgallium- nitride (InGaN) with different proportions of indium and gallium side by side to cover a wider solar light spectrum, the newly developed solution ...
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Energy and the new European Union countries
On May 1st, ten new countries joined the European Union. As for other sectors, this necessarily results in a transformation of the European energy landscape. The interior markets of these new UE countries open to companies from the other countries ...
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Virtual Power Plant Ensures Optimum Energy Mix
For the management of its power plants, the utility company SaarEnergie is using a network control center from Siemens that simulates a virtual power plant. B ased in the German city of Saarbrücken, the utility company not only operates ...
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Fuel cell heating appliances field tests
The beginning of field tests with a new generation of fuel cell heating appliances (FCHAs) under the responsibility of Vaillant brings fuel cell technology for decentralized household energy supply into a new phase. The objective of testing ...
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Cartridge fuel cells for backup systems
ReliOn, the provider of high reliability fuel cell solutions for backup power applications, formerly known as Avista Labs, and havePOWER, LLC, a leading fuel cell integrator for the telecommunications industry, announced that the State of Ohio has ...
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Fuel cell backup power in Scotland
Plug Power Inc. has installed a GenCore® fuel cell product that is currently providing backup power to a remote cellular telecommunications tower in the United Kingdom. Plug Power is providing backup power to the remote cell tower in Elgin, ...
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A 21.5% efficiency silicon solar cell
SunPower Corp., a subsidiary of Cypress Semiconductor Corp., announced that its A-300 silicon solar cell had been measured at 21.5 percent efficiency by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colorado. SunPower’s A-300 solar ...
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Hydrogen production on Utsira
The hydrogen plant on Utsira has started producing electricity. This means that the 10 households in the island community west of Karmøy are one step closer to becoming a selfsufficient hydrogen society. From the summer, 10 of the households ...