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Challenger Hydraulics is part of a group of companies, one of which specialises in the manufacture of waste recycling equipment to minimise landfill and environmental impact. As a result the directors of the company are constantly looking at ways of reducing their environmental impact in line with the general ethos of the Challenger Group. This has driven us to installing a 37kW solar panel ...
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648 solar panels on the roof of Albers Alligator
The official opening of our solar panel system took place recently in the presence of Alderman Lara de Brito. In cooperation with Atama Solar Energy BV and Qing Sustainable, 648 solar panels were placed on the roof, which will generate 160,000 kWh on an annual basis. In other words, the energy requirement of approximately 50 ...
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United Renewable Energy Completes First Community Solar Project with National Grid in New York
United Renewable Energy LLC has completed construction of the first Community Solar Project interconnected to National Grid in New York state. The project is located in Northern New York, in the Hamlet of Somerville, on approximately three acres of underused pasture land. The solar photovoltaic modules peak output is 241 Kilowatts DC, yielding a peak of 165 kilowatts AC returned to the power ...
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Catching the Nordic Sun
Believe it or not, but the sun occasionally shines also over northern Europe. OPSIS has utilized this by installing solar panels on the roofs of its buildings in Furulund. A first step was taken already in 2015, resulting in 750 m2 of panels. With the completion of a new logistics building and the new house intended as laboratory and production facility for OPSIS LiquidLINE, and also utilizing ...
By OPSIS AB
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LO3 Energy and eMotorWerks Join Forces for Energy Blockchain Trial
by Johnathon de Villier, Navigant Research (reprinted with permission)Late in 2018, transactive energy startup LO3 Energy and Enel X subsidiary eMotorWerks announced a groundbreaking collaboration that seeks to bring owners of EVs and residential solar systems together in a peer-to-peer trading and grid balancing marketplace. Both companies are relatively well known in the energy blockchain ...
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Viridian Solar Announces New EV Charging Product
Viridian Solar has announced details of its new electric vehicle (EV) charger, Clearline EV. The first product to emerge from the collaboration between Viridian Solar and EO Charging is a compact 7kW wall mounted socketed charging unit that comes with built-in solar power matching functionality. Clearline EV will be available from January 2023. With new building regulations Part L and Part S ...
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Tesla officially acquires SolarCity
After shareholders voted to approve a merger between Tesla Motors and SolarCity by a wide margin, Tesla announced this week it has officially closed the SolarCity acquisition. The company announced the merger with a brief statement on Monday. “We’re pleased to announce that Tesla’s acquisition of SolarCity closed this morning,” the statement said. The merger positions ...
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Dutch winner of Proud of my Purok competition announced!
The Hague. The Energy Cooperative Anneville from Ulvenhout (the Netherlands) won 10.000 EUR to make their neighbourhood school more sustainable by installing solar panels and educating students on renewable energy. The competition was organised as part of the “Proud of my Purok” initiative to improve the resilience to disasters of neighbourhoods in the Philippines. Today the winner ...
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Mitrex Launches "Solar Brick" to Transform Bbuildings into Energy-Generating Power Plants
Mitrex, a Canadian solar technology manufacturer, is launching Solar Brick—a solar-integrated facade solution designed for use as brick wall cladding that transforms a building into a renewable power plant. Mitrex Solar Brick facades boast up to 330W per panel while recreating a traditional masonry brick look, a staple of buildings in North America. Mitrex's newest project features an ...
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Any colour you like as long as it is from AES Solar
AES Solar are delighted to have recently launched a service to custom build solar thermal panels from our Endurance range. Not only can the shape be altered to accommodate difficult roof areas, the frame can be any colour you like. This opens up all sorts of possibilities for architects, designers and specifiers. Taking our standard sizes and designs, these can be altered to meet specific ...
By AES Ltd
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IKEA to Power-up Solar Energy Panels at Tejon, CA Distribution Center May 11
IKEA: WHAT: IKEA – the world’s leading home furnishings retailer, its solar installation partner REC Solar, Tejon Ranch and community leaders will officially ‘flip a switch’ to officially turn on the solar energy system installed atop the Swedish company’s Tejon distribution center in Kern ...
By REC Solar
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Making Canada a better place together - today, tomorrow and for the next 150
In this year in which we celebrate the 150th anniversary of Canadian confederation, Bullfrog is proud to reflect on what the bullfrogpowered community has accomplished together throughout the years. Made up of thousands of homes and businesses across Canada who are choosing green power, the bullfrogpowered community is working together to create a future powered by renewable energy. Through ...
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ABB collaborates with universities to harvest energy from the sun
ABB is the leading partner for solar power generation and can deliver the know-how, products and systems for large, efficient power plants as well as small, efficient buildings. In Solar Decathlon 2009, the competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy to create the most energy efficient house, ABB Germany has provided expertise and specific ABB intelligent building components for ...
By ABB
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A Bright Future for Solar Panels
The future of solar panels is looking even brighter. New research by Cambridge University scientists has led to the development of a more efficient solar cell. Currently, solar cells capture part of the sun's light. Much of the energy of the absorbed light is lost as heat, meaning a maximum of 34% of the sunlight is converted to electrical power. However, Cambridge scientists have made a ...
By Centrica
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Bullfrog Power partners with the Northern Village of Green Lake on community centre solar installation
A community centre in the Northern Village of Green Lake (Green Lake), located 300 km north of Saskatoon, has a new solar installation thanks in part to a partnership between Bullfrog Power, Canada’s leading green energy provider, and Green Lake. “This project has been a wonderful opportunity for our municipality and our community members to be exposed to the positive impact of ...
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Sunflare Debuts Universal Metal Roof Solar Solution
For the first time ever, a solar system has been created to be able to install solar panels on any metal roof type. Sunflare introduces LiteMount, the only lightweight module that seamlessly integrates with every existing metal roof attachment system at Solar Power International 2019 in Booth 2543 in Salt Lake City, Utah next week. This lightweight solar system is less than 1-lb per square foot ...
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‘Smart’ carbon positive energy house
Experts from the Welsh School of Architecture have designed and built the UK's first purpose-built, low-cost energy smart house, capable of exporting more energy to the national electricity grid than it uses. The house, designed by Professor Phil Jones and his team based at the Welsh School of Architecture, has been built as a prototype to meet tough new targets for zero carbon housing set by UK ...
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What Are Schools Doing to Go Green?
In many ways, schools are a natural fit for solar power They tend to require electricity only during the day, when the sun is shining, and they often have ample space on their roofs and grounds for solar panels. More than 5,500 schools across the country have installed solar power arrays to help power their buildings, the Solar Energy Industries Association said in a report last year. That' s ...
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$46 Billion Renewable Energy Market by 2008
The renewable energy market worldwide will nearly double in size from its 2005 levels by 2008 according to Renewable Energy World Markets, a newly released report from the McIlvaine Company. A market of $27 billion in 2005 is forecast to reach $46 billion by 2008. The leading segment will continue to be wind energy followed by solar and in third place biomass. Many advantages ...
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District energy seen as tool in energy transition
Elizabeth Dunbar reports in Minnesota Public News on the host role played by District Energy St. Paul in the 107th Annual Conference of the International District Energy Association (IDEA). The steam powered turbine at District Energy in St. Paul generates up to 37 megawatts of electricity a day, spinning at 100 revolutions per second. Evan Frost | MPR News District energy experts were in St. ...
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