The bio-fuels industry’s growth would reach $ 1 trillion in the future and it has brought agriculture into the spotlight, but according to the Food Secure Canada (FSC) officials, this progress would not reduce climate change impacts or produce food for the people.
The previous Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s last task was the inauguration of six small-scale hydro plants in Goias, a Central State, to boost the development of the interior regions of the nation.
According to a State Agency, the Alaska Energy Authority, the state would be engaged in the pursuit of developing a 600 MW hydro project on the Susitna River, to the North of Anchorage.
Spectrolab, a wholly owned subsidiary of Boeing (NYSE:BA), has started the mass production of its newest terrestrial solar cell, the C3MJ+. With an average conversion efficiency of 39.2 percent, C3MJ+ will be the industry’s highest-efficient cell. These (updated triple-junction) devices have an average conversion efficiency of 39.2% at a 500-sun concentration.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
28 Nov 2010
Ecotricity a green energy company has won planning permission to build a solar park adjacent to one of its wind farms in Lincolnshire, thus becoming the latest player to enter the UK solar power market.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
28 Nov 2010
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has contracted a joint venture accord with NTPC, an Indian power generating company, and Kyushu Electric Power Company, a private sector company from Japan, to build and manage 500 MW clean energy projects in India during the ensuing three years.
The government of Kenya has announced its plans to use geothermal as a major power source. The country intends to meet 50% of its energy requirement from geothermal sources by 2018. Currently Kenya relies on hydro power, which has become unpredictable due to erratic and scanty annual rainfall.
Solyndra, a producer of cylindrical photovoltaic (PV) systems utilized in rooftop applications of industrial and commercial companies, declared that it has contracted a multi-year sales accord with Sika Services, a roofing materials producing company.
Greens Holdings, a known heat transfer products manufacturing company, has declared that its newly constructed wind turbine towers production facility in Tonglia will start its productions in 2010.
International Quality and Productivity Centre (IQPC), which conducted a survey on the ideal location for wind power development, declared that nearly 38.46% of the respondents, selected South Africa and around 23.08% responders chose Egypt as their preferred location.
ET Solar, a solar PV system turnkey solution providing and products manufacturing company based at Nanjing, China, declared that it has entered into an annual accord with PM Service, a Florence, Italy-based PV products supplying and consulting company to provide solar modules.
Day4 Energy, worldwide supplier of solar PV products and solutions declared, that it has contracted an accord with Neo Solar Power Corporation (NSP), a PV cell manufacturing company based in Hsinchu, Taiwan, to buy high productive solar PV cells during 2011.
China Ming Yang Wind Power Group, a wind turbine manufacturing company in China, declared that it has contracted a cooperation intention accord with an independent power producing company (IPP) based in China for supplying wind turbines for an offshore wind project.
ECOfuels, a Honeydew, Johannesburg-based renewable energy company, has launched its biomass energy using gasification plant. The 120 kW plant is a pilot model demonstration plant, and the electric power is run through a resistor.
ABB declared that it has invested in Pentalum Technologies, an Israel-based company, engaged in formulating a sophisticated wind sensing expertise, meant for controlling and optimizing the functions of wind turbines and wind farms.