Renewable Energy Articles

Lazio 01 - ZE-50-ULH - Heat Recovery from Processes and Engines - Case Study

Plant: 1 x ZE-50-ULH Low-Temperature Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) Module, nominal output 50 kWe Nominal output: 50 KWe Application: Heat recovery from processes (pyrolitic gasification) and engines (syngas-fueled genset) Location: Province of Rome, Lazio, Italy Manager: Private italian firm The firm who commissioned this plant is the manager of a large cinema multiplex and related mall ...

Jan. 22, 2021

By Zuccato Energia Srl

Germany 02 - ZE-40-ULH - Heat Recovery from Engines (Biogas) - Case Study

Plant: 1 x ZE-40-ULH Low-Temperature Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) Module, nominal output 40 kWe Nominal output: 40 kWe Application: Heat recovery from engines (MAN genset fueled by biogas) Location: Lower Saxony, Germany Manager: Private German firm This plant is located in a German village in Lower Saxony not far from Bremen. Its function is to optimize the efficiency of a ...

Jan. 22, 2021

By Zuccato Energia Srl

Tunisia 01 - ZE-60-DSG - Hybrid (Solar Concentrator Panels + Biogas-Fueled Gas Boiler) - Case Study

Plant: ORC ZE-60-DSG (custom) - one Module Nominal output: 60kWE Application: Didactic hybrid plant (solar concentrator panels + biogas-fueled gas boiler) Location: Outskirts of Tunis (Tunisia) Manager: State Educational Entity This plant – our first in Africa – is located in the region of Tunis, the capital of Tunisia. It is an experimental hybrid plant, built in collaboration ...

Jan. 22, 2021

By Zuccato Energia Srl

Korea 01 - ZE-40-ULH - Heavy Fuel Diesel Gensets - Case Study

Plant: 1 x customized ZE-40-ULH LT-ORC module, nominal output 30kWE, peak output 40kWE, max η= 9% Nominal output: 40kWE Application: Heat recovery from engines (Heavy fuel diesel gensets) Location: Yellow Sea, off the shores of South Korea Manager: Private Korean Firm This plant – our first installation in the Far East – is located in the main hamlet of a small island located ...

Jan. 22, 2021

By Zuccato Energia Srl

Umbria 01 - 2 x ZE-100-LT - Power Generation with a Boiler Burning Biomass - Case Study

Plant: 2 x ZE-100-LT Low-Temperature Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) Module, nominal output 100 kWe each Nominal output: 100 kWe Application: Power generation in combination with a boiler burning biomass (pruning residues) Location: Province of Perugia, Umbria, Italy Manager: Private Italian firm The client who commissioned us this plant is a large holiday farm located in the Umbria countryside ...

Jan. 22, 2021

By Zuccato Energia Srl

Air Source Heat Pump Installation in Neath, Port Talbot - Case Study

Aberdulais Falls in the Neath Valley, South Wales is an important industrial heritage site owned and run by the National Trust. For over 400 years these falls provided the energy to drive the wheels of industry, from the manufacture of copper in 1584 to the later tinplate works. A recent major refurbishment of the water wheel gave scope for implementing the latest hydraulic technology to improve ...

Jan. 21, 2021

By WDS Green Energy Ltd

Air Source Heat Pump Installation in Oxfordshire - Case Study

The owners of this elegant mansion set in the heart of Oxfordshire needed a new heating system for their three hundred year old heat-hungry building. Set in elegant grounds with its own woodland and manicured lawns the house was in need of complete renovation which included a stylish glassed orangery. This ‘off the beaten track’ grade II listed building was being heated by wood fires ...

Jan. 21, 2021

By WDS Green Energy Ltd

Ground Source Heat Pump Installation in Leominster, Herefordshire- Case Study

This large domestic property in the tiny hamlet of Bircher was dependent upon oil for its heating and costs were rising year after year. The owners decided to investigate the options for reducing the costs of keeping their house warm especially after a particularly cold, and expensive, winter ...

Jan. 21, 2021

By WDS Green Energy Ltd

Ocean Wind: GE Finalizes a Deal to Supply Powerful Haliade-X Turbines to New Jersey Offshore Wind Farm

In the fall of 2019, the Danish company Ørsted announced plans to build two wind farms off the U.S. East Coast that would use GE Renewable Energy’s Haliade-X platform — the world’s most powerful offshore wind turbine in operation. This week GE Renewable Energy said that it has finalized supply and service contracts for one of those projects: Ocean Wind, which will be ...

Jan. 18, 2021

By GE Renewable Energy

Solar MEMS at the service of renewable energy

Our environment needs to be protected and technology can make huge contributions in many sectors, such as renewable energy, in the fight against climate change and global warming. At Solar MEMS we have applied all the know-how accumulated through years of experience in the aerospace sector and focused it on the technology of solar sensors for terrestrial purposes. What is more, we have been able ...

Jan. 18, 2021

By Solar MEMS Technologies S.L.

The Big Picture: This GE Tech is Worth a Thousand Words and then Some

GE Reports spilled a lot of digital ink this year describing some of the company’s biggest achievements, but some ideas are so noteworthy that they benefit from a visual component too: say, the world’s most powerful commercial jet engine. Or the most powerful offshore wind turbine in operation. Here are some of the graphics we created to go along with our articles. (Click on the ...

Jan. 14, 2021

By GE Renewable Energy

This Milestone will blow you away: GE Wind Platform just logged 20 GW of installed capacity around the world

Last November, more than 8,000 GE Renewable Energy onshore wind turbines standing in 23 states in the United States and 10 different countries quietly took the power industry by storm. The 2 megawatt (MW) onshore wind platform blew through a major milestone by logging a combined 20 gigawatts (GW) of installed capacity worldwide since its debut in late 2015. That’s the equivalent of ...

Jan. 14, 2021

By GE Renewable Energy

Cost-effective, far-sighted and global

From biogas boom to internationalisation and the ‘Flex’ cap: EnviTec Biogas has experienced the ups and downs of the biogas sector for 18 years now. The only constant on this rollercoaster ride of ever-changing laws and market conditions has been the company itself. With its extensive portfolio and an early grasp of the bigger picture, this biogas all-rounder has repeatedly been an ...

Jan. 13, 2021

By EnviTec Biogas AG

Powering On: How Gas Turbine Technology can bring Korea closer to a lower Carbon Future

South Korea has set a serious goal for itself: achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. The goal has been laid out in the government’s Green New Deal, a sweeping and ambitious plan launched earlier this year. The country seeks to invest $61 billion in various technology initiatives to create hundreds of thousands of jobs and reduce the country’s carbon footprint. As part of this plan, the ...

Jan. 12, 2021

By GE Renewable Energy

A partnership with Volvo – Creating a mainstream dual fuel truck - Case Study

Through to 2014, Volvo released the Volvo FM MethaneDiesel, a 13 litre, 460HP truck capable of running on a combination of diesel and liquid natural gas. This was the culmination of a five-year development agreement with Volvo Powertrain incorporating Clean Air Power’s DualFuel™ technology to deliver a commercially available truck running on natural gas or biogas and capable of ...

Jan. 9, 2021

By Clean Air Power Inc

World’s Fastest Compressed Natural Gas Car - Case Study

Fueled by Clean Air Power gas injectors, the Lessman Streamliner proved to be the world’s fastest natural gas vehicle when it hit an official speed of 370 mph at the Bonneville Salt Flat in September 2018. Lessman is motivated to demonstrate the performance of green fuel technology with the new goal of 400mph set as the target for 2021. With an official timed speed by the Southern ...

Jan. 9, 2021

By Clean Air Power Inc

Rotary Boiler Technology: Paving a new way for the combustion of solid wastes

We’re the UK’s sole distributor of Sugimat’s Waste-to-Energy (WtE) boilers, and the latest technology – the Horizon+ rotary boiler – is capable of handling any type of biomass and most fuels, particularly problematic solid waste fuels such as RDF and SRF. Our MD, Simon Webb, recently spoke to The Energy Industry Times about the global Waste-to-Energy (WtE) ...

Jan. 8, 2021

By Tidy Planet Limited

Plain Energy: Huge New Mexico Wind Project will be Capable of Powering the Equivalent of 590,000 Homes

Pretty soon the bristly grasses of the high plains won’t be the only thing catching the wind in central New Mexico: Western Spirit Wind, an installation built by the southwestern utility Pattern Energy, is set to deliver more than 1,050 megawatts of renewable energy from four separate wind farms. The Western Spirit Wind project is scheduled to be the largest wind installation in the state, ...

Jan. 7, 2021

By GE Renewable Energy

Year in Review: Around the World, GE Employees Rose to Meet the Challenge of COVID-19

The coronavirus pandemic was first and foremost a healthcare crisis, but it touched every corner of the world and every sector of the economy - and drew millions of people together in the effort to turn the tide. Across GE, factories ramped up to manufacture ventilators and patient monitors needed in clinical settings to treat patients suffering from COVID-19; technicians found themselves driving ...

Jan. 6, 2021

By GE Renewable Energy

Friends In High Places: Meet The Haliade-X 14 MW

In 2019, the Haliade-X 12 MW prototype in Rotterdam raised the bar for wind energy (see top image). It set a world record for generating enough energy in one day to power 30,000 Dutch households. The prototype is performing so well that the machines are now rated even higher - at 13 MW. GE has received the first commercial order for 190 of the machines. They will power the first two phases of the ...

Jan. 4, 2021

By GE Renewable Energy

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