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Rio Tinto Uses Clean Renewable Energy for Aluminium Production

Rio Tinto Alcan has announced a £45 (US$90) million investment in the modernisation of its Lochaber plant, in Scotland. The modernisation project will see new hydroelectric turbo-generators installed to power the smelter, ensuring the increased use of clean renewable energy for aluminium production at the plant. The modernisation project is set to begin in 2009 and should be completed by 2012.

30 Jan 2008

Horizon Wind Energy Signs Supply Agreement

Horizon Wind Energy LLC, a leading wind project developer, has signed wind turbine supply and service agreements with GE Energy for future U.S. projects.

30 Jan 2008

Externally Generated Energy can be Better Stored and Transferred

An increasing number of private individuals supply their excess energy, from external energy sources (windmills and solar cells), to the electricity grid and only take energy from the grid when necessary.

30 Jan 2008

Honeywell Helps Schools With Green Renewable Energy

Honeywell today announced that Poway Unified School District in San Diego, Calif. has awarded the company a solar project that is expected to save the district more than $1 million in energy costs over the next 20 years. Under the agreement, Honeywell will install solar arrays at four of the district's schools and sell the electricity the panels produce to the district.

30 Jan 2008

Carbon Offset Provider Supports Businesses Going Green

While the William J. Clinton Presidential Center has earned a reputation as the gold standard in environmentally friendly design, the Little Rock, Ark., structure has added a new designation -- the Platinum rating for its LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environment Design) certification, thanks in part to its agreement with Green Mountain Energy Company's BeGreen division.

30 Jan 2008

First International Conference on the Liquefaction of Coal

World CTL 2008, the first international conference on the liquefaction of coal, will take place in Paris on 3 and 4 April 2008.

29 Jan 2008

Ocean Surface Current and Climate Change

Ocean surface currents have long been the focus of research due to the role they play in weather, climate and transportation of pollutants, yet essential aspects of these currents remain unknown.

29 Jan 2008

Micro-Organisms as Climate Engineers

We might think we control the climate but unless we harness the powers of our microbial co-habitants on this planet we might be fighting a losing battle, according to an article in the February 2008 issue of Microbiology Today.

29 Jan 2008

Company Receives Orders for Wind Turbine Core Electrical Components

American Superconductor Corporation, a leading energy technologies company, today announced that it has received more than $3 million in orders for its wind turbine core electrical components and systems from two AMSC Windtec customers.

29 Jan 2008

PV Technology Sets to Become Fastest Growing Energy Sources in France

Photovoltaic (PV) technology is set to become one of France's fastest growing energy sources over the next decade, as dramatic increases in world oil prices radically shift the balance in favour of renewable energy sources.

29 Jan 2008

The CRT Rule

Recycled televisions and computer monitors, known as CRTs, often end up in another country as unusable and broken.

29 Jan 2008

Podcast on Biofuels Now Available

The UK parliament has produced its first ever podcast which can be heard on www.parliament.uk/podcasts.

29 Jan 2008

Dye and Nanoparticles Generate Electricity from Sunlight

Members of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE are traveling to Tokyo with bulky luggage these days. Their destination is Nanotech 2008, the world's largest trade fair for nanotechnology. Their solar module, which they will be presenting in the BMBF marketing campaign "Nanotech Germany", is the size and shape of a door: two meters high and sixty centimeters wide.

29 Jan 2008

Rice Receives $100K to Operate an Energy-Efficient Fully Solar-Powered Home

Rice University was selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) as one of 20 university-led teams to compete in the fourth Solar Decathlon, which will be held on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., in the fall of 2009.

29 Jan 2008

LED Collection Offers Energy-Saving and Environmentally-Friendly Alternatives

New products introduced by Progress Lighting this year feature a variety of indoor and outdoor collections, as well as additions to the EVERLUME LED (light emitting diode) residential lighting line.

29 Jan 2008