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In Focus: Off Grid Solar Power Billboard Lighting
The biggest challenge associated with lighting the scores of billboards located along remote stretches of highways and byways throughout the US is the accessibility of AC power. When AC power is not readily available or too costly to access, SEPCO’s ultra reliable grid-free solar power systems—combined with energy efficient, high performance LED flood light fixtures [...]
The Solar Rooftop Boom in NYC
Things move fast in the city that never sleeps and solar’s been keeping pace. By the end of 2012, the amount of rooftop solar photovoltaic installations in New York City had boomed to 14 megawatts from 5.5 megawatts at the end of 2011—an increase of 8.5 megawatts in a year. That’s according to recent data [...]
Shams 1 Power Plant Ready for Primetime
The launch of the Shams 1 power plant is big news in clean energy, and a major hallmark on the Middle East’s path towards energy diversification. Electricity from the power plant is competitively sold at market price to the grid, and is projected to reduce CO2 emissions 175,000 tons/year – the equivalent to planting 1.5 [...]
Pay-As-You-Go Solar in India
India-based Simpa Networks is using a pay-as-you-go method to make solar energy affordable to people living in rural areas in that country. After making a small down payment for a high quality solar home system, customers pre-pay based on actual energy use through their cell phone. Each small payment contributes to the final purchase price. The Asian Development Bank announced it would make a $2 [...]
In Focus: Super Cities
A metropolis is a large densely populated urban area that has a significant economic, political and cultural function to its inhabiting country or region. A city’s population has to exceed 1 million inhabitants to even be considered a metropolis in today’s context. Another term has been coined to describe cities with super densely populated urban [...]
In India, Solar Refrigerators Are Saving Food
When it comes to food wastage, India has a unique problem. There problem doesn’t like in over consumption, but rather, the inability for food to last long enough to be prepared—the government estimates that 30 to 40 percent of food spoils. And while refrigeration seems like the obvious answer to problem, farmers in India have [...]
Energy Growth and Consumption: 2013 and Beyond
Energy growth in 2013 will be tightly coupled to economic growth and that will remain true for at least a decade. Supply fades as a factor while getting the correct fuel portfolio balance will be a key to quality of life worldwide for the foreseeable future. We have once again returned to a world where [...]
The Best Green Architecture on Earth
Green architecture, otherwise known as sustainable architecture or green building, is a form of eco-friendly construction whereby a property is built with the natural environment in mind. This may incorporate the use of alternative energy sources, recyclable materials, green roofing, waste reduction and other factors into the construction. Green architecture is a growing sector and [...]
In Focus: Solar From Space
We shall draw solar energy from space, says association of Indian scientists WHILE FESTIVE rabies is coursing through the veins of the world’s Christian nations, the Indian Science Congress Association has gathered to find solutions to pressing matters such as energy. The ISCA event is dedicated to progressive thought, and is attended by science junkets [...]