Renewable Energy Articles

Like many countries around the world, Germany is in the middle of an ambitious energy transition, aiming to generate 80% of its power from renewable sources by 2050. One steppingstone on that journey is a huge yellow structure rising more than 60 feet from the slate-gray waters of the North Sea some 80 kilometers off the country’s ...

Nov. 18, 2020

By GE Renewable Energy

The following is a case study of a tomato processing plant located in Woodland, California. The facility produces canned tomato products. The steam boiler plant provides steam for process loads. The boiler plant contains five high-pressure steam boilers. Our case study is the retrofit for Boiler #6, Trane-Murray, water-tube boiler of 150,000 lb. per hour rated capacity (capacity is limited to ...

Nov. 21, 2020

By Benz Air Engineering Co. Inc

A little over a year ago, the Haliade-X offshore wind turbine set an important record when a working prototype of the machine, located at the Port of Rotterdam, became the first wind turbine to produce 288 megawatt-hours of energy within 24 hours. That may have been enough to power 30,000 households in that area but it wasn’t enough for the Haliade-X, which just bested the feat. In October ...

Nov. 12, 2020

By GE Renewable Energy

At 107 meters from end to end, the blade for the Haliade-X wind turbine - the world’s most powerful offshore wind turbine in operation - is longer than a football field, and possibly one of the single biggest machine components ever built. Now the GE Renewable Energy engineers who designed the massive part have one more thing to feel good about: The blade has just received its component ...

Nov. 12, 2020

By GE Renewable Energy

The Challenge: One of the biggest challenges in using lithography in high-volume semiconductor fabrication is photomask defectivity. A global supplier to the semiconductor and photomask making industries asked Air Innovations to create an environmental control unit (ECU) that could service — on demand — any of its nanomachining mask repair tool systems. Extremely tight tolerance was ...

Nov. 10, 2020

By Air Innovations

The UDDGP project is the first geothermal power plant in the UK. It is funded by a mixture of public and private funds to include the European Regional Development Fund, Cornwall Council and Thrive Renewables plc. The aim of the project is to produce power and heat from the hot granite rocks beneath Cornwall at the United Downs Industrial Site near Redruth. Two deep, directional wells have ...

Nov. 5, 2020

By Geothermal Engineering Ltd

World’s First Zero Carbon Superstore achieves BREEAM Excellent rating Tesco – Zero Carbon Stores – Nationwide. In 2007 Tesco engaged Fleetsolve to help them fulfil their pledge of becoming a “Zero Carbon Business by ...

Nov. 4, 2020

By Fleetsolve

The Greenest Public Building in Britain achieves BREEAM Outstanding rating Local Authority. This ambitious local authority aspired to build the most sustainable public building in the UK. With increasing costs of heat, power and rent across multiple premises the council has streamlined its operation to serve the community from one local civic ...

Nov. 4, 2020

By Fleetsolve

The green economy world has never stopped, in spite of the difficulties, even in the year of the pandemic. Confirmation arrives from Ecomondo and Key Energy, the Italian Exhibition Group expos dedicated, respectively, to the recovery of material and sustainable development and to renewable energies, which will run from tomorrow, Tuesday 3rd November, until Sunday 15th November on the IEG digital ...

Nov. 2, 2020

By Italian Exhibition Group S.p.A.

There’s what most ordinary people call troubleshooting. And then there’s what Sanjeev Kumar calls troubleshooting. In May, in the midst of India’s countrywide lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Kumar, a field service leader for GE Renewable Energy’s Grid Solutions Services unit in India, and his team got a distress call from the Haryana Power Generation Corporation ...

Nov. 2, 2020

By GE Renewable Energy

From the bench scale results, data programming, and techno-economic analysis, T2C-Energy designed and modeled a portable demonstration unit to de-risk and open a pathway for commercialization. The EPC bid for this contract was awarded to Xytel Corporation. The unit is a turn-key design, capable of converting 25 scfm of crude biogas into 75 gallons of renewable, drop-in diesel transportation ...

Oct. 31, 2020

By T2C-Energy LLC.

Rent-A-Port Energy’s Management’s experience in pioneer offshore wind farms Rent-A-Port Green Energy’s management was the driving force behind the pioneering “far shore” wind farm C-Power. This was the first time ever that wind turbines were installed so far offshore (30 km) and in such great depths of water (30 m). The first phase, comprising six 5 MW wind ...

Oct. 30, 2020

By Rent-A-Port Green Energy n.v.

Green-field Pumped Hydro Storage Plant Project in Belgium Rent-A-Port Green Energy working in association with other private and public partners develops a 150 MW greenfield pumped storage project in Belgium. The project aims to set a new benchmark for the flexibility of pumped hydro storage, and uses mid-scale variable speed asynchronous pump-turbines in conjunction with batteries. It ...

Oct. 30, 2020

By Rent-A-Port Green Energy n.v.

INVIZION made history recently as the first blockchain company to be presented at the United Nations Global Compact, a global event organized by the United Nations General Assembly on 22 September 2020. INVIZION, a technology company that aims to address the global waste problem through their revolutionary waste tracking blockchain-based solutions, has announced that it is conducting a second ...

Oct. 28, 2020

By CETS Technologies, Inc.

Special to The Digest In the United States, efforts to replace fossil fuels with biofuels are gaining momentum, supported by growing public awareness, government programs and emerging waste-to-fuel technologies. The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) analysis of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) projected that several types of biofuels, such as biodiesel, could yield lower ...

Oct. 20, 2020

By Downey Ridge Environmental Company (Greasezilla)

In September, the European Commission in Brussels proposed an ambitious new goal for renewable energy in the region: a 55% reduction in greenhouses gases by 2030 (compared to 1990 levels) to put Europe on track toward climate neutrality by 2050. To get there, EU countries are going to have to accelerate their efforts around renewable energy. Much of that will be in the form of solar panels and ...

Oct. 19, 2020

By GE Renewable Energy

Two crystal-clear blue lakes in the Swiss canton of Valais, Lac d’Emosson and Lac du Vieux Emosson, look at first glance like any number of local glacier-fed tarns, surrounded by mountains and crystalline air blowing down the slopes of nearby Mont Blanc. But first impressions can be misleading: The twin bodies of water are central components of Nant de Drance, one of the world’s most ...

Oct. 5, 2020

By GE Renewable Energy

We’ve often heard that for companies to lessen carbon footprint and become environmentally friendly, they must go online or put their papers and process in the “cloud”. But that’s not really the case, as storing files in the cloud also translates to renting a physical space where those data will be stored and accessed when needed. These places are called data centers. They ...

Oct. 1, 2020

By AKCP

When the English playwright Thomas Heywood used the phrase “as common as coals from Newcastle” - pointing out something that was just plain ordinary - his London audience knew exactly what he was talking about, even in the early 1600s. For centuries, the abundance of coal around Newcastle-upon-Tyne in northeast England not only helped shape English idioms, but it also fueled the ...

Sep. 28, 2020

By GE Renewable Energy

Synthetic fuels produced from electricity, or e-fuels, will play an important role in reducing CO2 emissions from long-distance truck transport, aviation and shipping. For long-distance freight transport and shipping, synthetic methanol, diesel and LNG (Liquified Natural Gas) are the most attractive options; for deep-sea shipping, synthetic ammonia is also an important option. For aviation, only ...

Sep. 24, 2020

By DMT Environmental Technology BV