wind and solar system News
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Visit Marlec at METS 2016
METS is the world’s largest marine equipment trade show, which has been bringing the marine industry together for decades. Visit Marlec at stand 03.231 and discover our highly recomended wind turbines, solar panels and unique systems that are popular world wide. Please feel free to visit our stand and speak to Teresa or David who are highly experienced within the industry and ...
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Invitation to the Global Ministerial Conference on System Integration of Renewables
1 October 2019 Berlin, Germany Wind and solar energy are rapidly transforming power systems worldwide. How big is the opportunity for countries to reshape their energy mix? How should they go about doing it? To address these critical questions, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy and the International Energy Agency are holding a Global Ministerial Conference on ...
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Invitation to the Global Ministerial Conference on System Integration of Renewables
Wind and solar energy are rapidly transforming power systems worldwide. How big is the opportunity for countries to reshape their energy mix? How should they go about doing it? To address these critical questions, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy and the International Energy Agency are holding a Global Ministerial Conference on System Integration of Renewables in ...
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IEA: Global renewable energy growing faster than expected
The world will generate more renewable energy than previously expected in the next five years, with renewables surpassing coal for the first time last year, according to a new report by the International Energy Agency (IEA). About 28 percent of the world’s electricity will come from renewable sources by 2021, the agency said. That is a 3 percent increase from a previous forecast, which ...
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EcofinConcept supports private investor with the purchase of an existing Enercon wind turbine
EcofinConcept GmbH – the specialist for renewable energy projects – has supported a German private investor in the transaction and supplementing its wind turbine portfolio with another existing Enercon wind turbine. The wind power plant with a nominal output of 800 kW, a hub height of 73 m and a rotor diameter of 53 m is located at a location near an autobahn in Lower Saxony and has ...
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Geothermal Heat Mining Promises Abundant, Cheap Energy
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts - Mining the heat that resides as stored energy in the Earth's hard rock crust beneath the United States could supply a substantial portion of the electricity the country will need in the future, probably at competitive prices and with minimal environmental impact, new research shows. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, the study is the first in 30 years to take ...
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WWEA and Intersolar Europe will team up and co-host the World Small Wind Conference
The World Wind Energy Association WWEA and Intersolar Europe are pleased to invite the small and medium wind stakeholders as well as the solar PV and energy storage industry to participate in the World Small Wind Conference WSWC2017, taking place in Munich/Germany on 1 and 2 June 2017, in parallel with the Intersolar Europe exhibition 2017 (31 May – 2 June, 2017). The main theme of the ...
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Advanticsys M2M monitoring solutions enhance Kliux Energies self-consumption installations
Kliux Energies has selected ADVANTICSYS remote monitoring technology to manage their renewable-energy generation facilities. Two Spanish technology companies joining their strengths in the quest for a quality product in the energy market. Kliux Energies is a Spanish company with a global presence in distributed energy solutions and energy generated at site of use, tailor-made to the ...
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DOE Announces New Projects to Modernize America’s Electric Grid
Today, U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz announced up to $220 million in new funding for a consortium of DOE national laboratories and partners to support critical research and development over the next three years to help modernize our nation's electrical power grid. The secretary also announced the release of DOE's comprehensive new Grid Modernization Multi-Year Program Plan ...
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NREL study shows power grid can accommodate large increase in wind and solar generation
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) today released an initial study assessing the operational impacts and economics of increased contributions from wind and solar energy producers on the power grid. The Western Wind and Solar Integration Study examines the benefits and challenges of integrating enough wind and solar energy capacity into the grid to produce 35 percent of its ...
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DNV GL Introduces Power Cybernetics
New software-driven power electronics, which are quickly becoming the norm in the electricity system, are currently not always adequately tested by the electricity industry. This leads to an increased risk of failures in the power network, according to a new position paper from global technical consultancy DNV GL. The company calls on the industry to develop new technical standards and testing ...
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Any country can reach high shares of wind, solar power cost-effectively, study shows
Wind power and solar photovoltaics (PV) are crucial to meeting future energy needs while decarbonising the power sector. Deployment of both technologies has expanded rapidly in recent years - one of the few bright spots in an otherwise-bleak picture of clean energy progress - and IEA scenarios indicate that this trend will continue for decades. However, the inherent variability of wind power and ...
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TEP Plans Clean Energy Expansion, Carbon Reduction
Tucson Electric Power (TEP) plans to provide more than 70 percent of its power from wind and solar resources as part of a cleaner energy portfolio that will reduce carbon emissions 80 percent by 2035. TEP's 2020 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP), filed last week with the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC), outlines the company's energy portfolio over the next 15 years. It calls for a dramatic ...
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Connexion Debuts Clean Energy Solutions at the 2011 ComEd Energy Expo
The Energy Efficiency Expo returned to the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center last week for its 2nd year bringing together some 1,000 decision-makers from ComEd's largest business customers - senior management, chief engineers, energy managers, facility managers, and plant managers - all looking for energy efficiency solutions for their organizations. As the sole Platinum Sponsor of this ...
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Capstone C600 Signature Series Microturbine to Power Chinese Smart Microgrid
CHATSWORTH, Calif., Aug. 08, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Capstone Turbine Corporation (www.capstoneturbine.com) (Nasdaq:CPST), the world's leading clean technology manufacturer of microturbine energy systems, announced today that it received an order for a C600 Signature Series microturbine for a microgrid project in Beijing, China. Capstone’s distributor, Beijing Haohai Power, secured the ...
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Marine Exchange of Southern California Goes Green
The Port of Los Angeles and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, joined by representatives from trade and maritime industry, environmental organizations and the harbor community today launched a new era of clean energy for the Marine Exchange of Southern California. The group gathered at the top of Angels Gate Park for a dedication ceremony to mark completion of the Renewable Energy Project – a ...
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IEG: renewable energy numbers from Key Energy
The amount of electricity produced from renewable sources in 2017 was 103.4 TWh, about 3.5 TWh less than in 2016. The demand share of electric renewable energies was 32.4%, while this figure was 34% in 2016. The cause was the considerable decrease in hydroelectricity production: in 2017, hydroelectricity covered a mere 11.7% of the national demand while, in 2014, it represented 19.2%. It now ...
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IEG: Ecomondo and Key Energy, two top events together in new approaches for the circular economy and renewable energies
On the one hand, a huge boost for packaging, textile-fashion, building and automotive production chains. On the other, focus on renewable energies with considerable attention to wind, solar and energy storage systems. The two Italian Exhibition Group Shows include the Circular Smart City project Circular economy on the one hand and renewable energy development on the other: the enormous ongoing ...
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MHI Begins Test Operation of Large-Scale Wind Power Generation System Adopting a Hydraulic Drive Train
- A World's First, at Yokohama Dockyard & Machinery Works - Tokyo, Jan 24, 2013 - (JCN Newswire) - In December Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) commenced test operation at its Yokohama Dockyard & Machinery Works of a large-scale wind power generation system that adopts a hydraulic drive train in place of the earlier gear-driven system. The test operation is a part of the project ...
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Major Growth of Clean Energy Limited the Rise in Global Emissions in 2023
Global energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions rose less strongly in 2023 than the year before even as total energy demand growth accelerated, new IEA analysis shows, with continued expansion of solar PV, wind, nuclear power and electric cars helping the world avoid greater use of fossil fuels. Without clean energy technologies, the global increase in CO2 emissions in the last five years ...
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