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Texas 161 MW Spinning Spur Wind Project Starts Supplying Electricity

EDF Renewable Energy, formerly enXco, today announced that the 161 megawatt Spinning Spur Wind Project, located in Oldham County, Texas approximately 30 miles west of Amarillo, is operational and supplying electricity to the regional transmission grid.

21 Dec 2012

New Enzyme Shows Promise to Engineer Plants for Improved Biofuel Production

Plants engineered to have increased levels of beta-1,4-galactan may enhance biofuel production

21 Dec 2012

Commencement of Research Project on Sustainable Polymers from Algae

EU research project on algae-based polymers kicks off: SPLASH - Sustainable Polymers from Algae Sugars and Hydrocarbons

21 Dec 2012

U.S. DOE Awards NC State $9 Million Grant to Reduce Cost of Home Solar Energy Systems

A new grant to North Carolina State University and several partners could make installing rooftop solar energy systems much less expensive and time consuming.

20 Dec 2012

McPhy Individualizes Opel HydroGen4 Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle

McPhy Energy, leading supplier of solid state hydrogen storage solutions, is now driving emission free. Based on a B2B partnership model with Opel, McPhy has individualized an Opel HydroGen4 fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV) with its unique design and operates it in Berlin. This is part of a sponsorship program where Opel provides car and technology support and the B2B partner creates visibility and operates the vehicle.

20 Dec 2012

imec and Kuwait University Enter Research Collaboration for Novel Silicon Solar Cell Technologies

World-leading nanotechnology research centre imec (Belgium) and Kuwait University signed a long term collaboration agreement for research and development on innovative silicon solar cell technologies. The agreement has been signed on Wednesday December 19, 2012, in Kuwait City during a ceremony in the presence of the Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Deputy-Prime Minister, Didier Reynders, and Kuwait University President, Prof. Abdullatif Al-Bader, and Director General of Kuwait Foundation for Advancement of Sciences, Dr. Adnan Shihab-Eldin.

From IMEC 20 Dec 2012

EPSRC Awards Substantial Fellowship Grants for Green Engineering Research

Four leading academics from the universities of Exeter, Sheffield, Bristol and Cambridge have been awarded substantial fellowship grants, totalling £2.38 million; it was announced today by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).

20 Dec 2012

Ways to Improve Waste Collection and Recycling Policies

From 12 to 14 December, nearly a hundred European experts gathered in Athens to discuss how local and regional authorities can improve their waste collection and recycling policies. This meeting aimed at sharing the expertise of the R4R project partners with Greek municipalities and regions. It also allowed to present the project's first results related to the local instruments helping to reach high recycling performances.

20 Dec 2012

California’s Electricity Infrastructure at Risk of Climate Change

If you think it’s been unusually hot lately, just wait—by the end of the century, temperatures in California are expected to rise significantly. What that means for human health, agriculture, water supply and a range of other spheres is being studied by experts, but what it will mean for our electricity system had not been examined until now, in an analysis by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) researchers.

19 Dec 2012

Stanford Professor Recommends Using U.S. Natural Gas Riches at Home

With the advent of the "shale gas revolution," the United States has undergone a full-scale natural gas boom. Driven by fracking and horizontal drilling, the United States will likely overtake Russia as the world's largest producer of natural gas by 2015, according to the International Energy Agency.

19 Dec 2012

Plant, Animal Species Shift Geographic Ranges Due to Climate Change

Plant and animal species are shifting their geographic ranges and the timing of their life events – such as flowering, laying eggs or migrating – at faster rates than researchers documented just a few years ago, according to a technical report on biodiversity and ecosystems used as scientific input for the 2013 Third National Climate Assessment.

19 Dec 2012

AREVA Offshore Wind Technology Chosen for Iberdrola’s Wikinger Project

World-leading renewables operator, Iberdrola, has once again selected AREVA’s offshore wind technology for the Wikinger project, to be developed 35 kilometers off the German Baltic Sea coast.

19 Dec 2012

Wilsons Fuel Joins Alliance AutoGas Network

Alliance AutoGas welcomes new Canadian partner Wilsons Fuel Company Ltd. to the expanding international clean vehicle fueling and conversion network. Wilsons brings the Alliance complete program to Atlantic Canada, including Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland & Labrador, helping more Canadian fleets than ever run on affordable propane autogas.

19 Dec 2012

Commercial Operations Begin at 105 MW Palouse Wind project in Eastern Washington

First Wind, an independent U.S.-based wind energy company, and Avista today announced that construction of the Palouse Wind project has been completed and commercial operations have begun. Located in Eastern Washington, the 105 megawatt (MW) First Wind project will be included in Avista’s diverse resource portfolio and will have the capacity to generate enough renewable wind energy to power the equivalent of approximately 30,000 of Avista’s customers’ homes.

19 Dec 2012

Fraunhofer CSE to Receive DOE Funding for Effort to Make Solar Energy Cost-Competitive

The Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems (CSE) has been selected to receive project funding from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) SunShot Initiative, a collaborative national effort to make solar energy cost-competitive with other forms of energy by the end of the decade.

18 Dec 2012