clean energy project Articles
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Hawaii Public Radio - Military Working to Improve Energy Efficiency and Resiliency
With energy resiliency emerging as a priority, the military has been looking to modernize its infrastructure, particularly as we experience energy supply challenges amid global tensions. The Conversation spoke with Executive Vice President Nicole Bulgarino of Ameresco, a contractor that just signed a $102 million clean energy project with the military. Bulgarino talked about the ...
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Sauk Trail Hills Renewable Natural Gas
Location: Sauk Trail Hills Landfill Canton, MI Partners: Republic Services Clean Energy/ Clean Energy Renewable Fuels Contact: William Held, Senior Director Republic Services (480) 627-7123 wheld@republicservices.com Feedstock: Landfill biogas Vehicles Fueled: TBD Maximum Annual Fuel Production: 6 million diesel gallon equivalents Payback Period: N/A ...
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Tarawa solar ybrid farm Republic of Kiribati, Central pacific island
Production: 500 kWp of photovoltaic production with Vergnet’s Hybrid Wizard® Total power: 500 kWp Commissioned: September 2015 Operations and Maintenance: Vergnet SA Solar Hybrid Solutions and Cost Savings for Tarawa The projects form part of the UAE’s support for economic and social development of Pacific island nations, while also showcasing the ...
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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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COVID-19 Stimulus Package: Where Does the Solar Industry Fit In?
On March 27, 2020, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act—also known as the CARES Act—was signed into law. This $2 trillion stimulus package is the largest emergency aid passed in U.S. history, and though there are indirect benefits for the solar industry, it’s not enough. COVID-19’s Impact on the Solar Industry Due to the coronavirus, the solar industry ...
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Zayed Sustainability Prize Oceania Finalist – Tension Woods College Case Study
The Zayed Sustainability Prize is the UAE’s pioneering global award in sustainability recognising the achievements of those who are driving impactful, innovative and inspiring sustainability solutions across five distinct categories: Health, Food, Energy, Water and Global High Schools. A number of Australian and New Zealand schools have become Oceania finalists and winners in the Global ...
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Africa’s green energy challenge: Mega projects, off-grid or somewhere in between?
South of the Sahara, getting electricity to 620 million people may require an all-of-the-above strategy. A 310-megawatt wind farm sprouting up in a remote, barren landscape near Lake Turkana in northern Kenya has the clean energy world buzzing — and for good reason. Africa’s largest wind farm, with 365 towering turbines, is creating more than 500 stable jobs in an impoverished area ...
By Ensia
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How solar is transforming an old mining town
You hike over the crest of the hill and there it is: 96 sun-tracking solar masts, each with 42 solar modules — 4,032 modules in all — perched on the side of a hill with the beautiful Rocky Mountains in the background. It’s called the SunMine project and it’s all part of the reinvention of Kimberley, B.C., from mining town to a clean tech, tourism town of the future. ...
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It’s time to invest in clean energy in Africa
Private-sector investment in electricity is sitting on the sidelines in Africa. Here’s how we can change that. The math for Africa’s clean energy future is adding up. Solar lamps are spreading like fireflies across Ghana. A first-of-its-kind solar farm in Rwanda is providing electricity for 15,000 rural homes. Utility-scale solar and wind projects are being built in Morocco and ...
By Ensia
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Things You Need To Know If You Wanna Buy a Solar PV System
As solar photovoltaic systems become more affordable, many consumers have begun to consider installing solar panels on their roof or surrounding property. A solar PV system can be a great investment for a home or business owner, but there are many important factors to consider. First, are you able to put solar panels on your home or property? Not only do you need suitable sun exposure, but you ...
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Insurers Have Huge Role As Clean Energy Investors
Conversations about climate change and the insurance industry usually focus on catastrophic storms and their damaging financial ripples for insurance providers. Given skyrocketing extreme-weather losses in recent years, it’s surely a legitimate issue that should be making insurers re-think their business models. But insurers have another important role on the climate issue, which is how to ...
By Ceres
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Expanding master limited partnerships has broad appeal, but still faces long odds
Legislation allowing renewable energy companies to organize as master limited partnerships appears to have something a wide range of interests can support, but despite its bipartisan backing, it cannot seem to gain traction in Congress. For years, MLPs have been popular in the energy industry for their tax benefits and access to cheap capital. The nation's first MLP was Houston-based oil and ...
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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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Energy efficiency: Big deals and new ideas
The economic premise behind energy efficiency – that it’s cheaper to save a unit of energy than to make one – has caught on in the US. Energy efficiency spending is up, and our energy use is declining, measured both per capita and per dollar of gross domestic product, according to government figures. So it is not surprising to see the year begin with several energy ...
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Winning projects at clean energy awards benefit women
The winning projects of this year's Ashden Awards for sustainable energy, which were announced last month (30 May), have particular benefits for women, organisers say. The projects demonstrate how improved access to clean energy can make women's routine tasks less onerous, and provide women with better opportunities, according to Ashden's communications officer, Carla Jones. The international ...
By SciDev.Net
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Clean energy for all: strategies for expanding access in the developing world
Accessing reliable energy is one of the greatest obstacles the developing world faces. Globally, about 1.3 billion people go without electricity, while 2.7 billion lack modern energy services. Providing these populations with energy is difficult—ensuring that generation occurs in environmentally sustainable and cost-effective ways makes the task significantly more challenging. Expanding ...
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On clean energy, time to follow where Google, GE, Buffett lead
Google is backing it. So is Warren Buffett, America’s most-watched investor. GE, one of the world’s biggest manufacturers, is too. Each of these corporate icons is placing big bets and hundreds of millions of dollars on a future powered by wind and solar power. Apple just joined them, announcing plans to power its main U.S. data center in Maiden, North Carolina, entirely with ...
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Basin Electric - wind and waste heat
Location: Waste Heat Recovery projects in Culbertson, MT and Garvin, MN – Wind Projects Located in South Dakota and North Dakota Project Start Dates: 2009 – 2011 Element Markets is helping Chevrolet meet its CO2 reduction goal, and simultaneously helping a large Midwest power cooperative earn revenues needed to support its clean energy projects. This win-win arrangement came about ...
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Heat recovery and energy efficiency, improves profitability and reduces CO footprint
Using latest technology in combustion of oil and gas can provide significant savings in overall energy consumption. Modern oxygen control that compensates changes in ambient temperature and fuel qualities can increase energy efficiency up to 3%. By adding the usage of hot combustion air another 2-3% can be saved. Modern burner technology without mechanical linkage, operating with accurate ...
By Oilon Oy
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Landfill Gas to Renewable Natural Gas Project Goes Ahead in Michigan
Greenlane Biogas, a subsidiary of the Flotech Group of companies (founded in 1986), is pleased to confirm that it recently has received an order to build two 'Totara+' landfill gas upgrading systems to process 3200 scfm (approximately 5150 Nm3/hr) of gas to be injected into a local natural gas pipeline near Detroit Michigan. Greenlane Biogas, a developer and supplier of proprietary water ...
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