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Thailand’s Largest Silicon PV Plant
Earlier this year, Suntech supplied solar panels to the largest silicon photovoltaic power plant in Southeast Asia. Thailand is known for its sunny beaches and warm hospitality, and its solar energy industry is now drawing attention as well. The ‘Sunny Bangchak’ solar plant, which went operational this year, is a 44-megawatt project located in Bang [...]
BrightSource, Alstom Win Israei Solar Thermal Plant Project
Megalim Solar Power Ltd. (“Megalim”) – a special purpose company formed by BrightSource Energy and Alstom – was informed today by Israel’s inter-ministerial Tender Committee that it won the bid for the construction of a 121 megawatt solar thermal power plant. The 121 megawatt BrightSource-Alstom Megalim plant, one of three projects selected under Israel’s Ashalim [...]
Maryland’s Largest Solar Plant Announces December Completion
First Solar entered into a leasing agreement with the state of Maryland in order to construct the state’s largest solar power plant. Located on 160 acres near the Maryland Correctional Institution in Hagerstown, the 20MW project will include over 300,000 solar panels. Maryland has an aggressive renewable portfolio standard (RPS) that requires the state to generate [...]
Trusting Nuclear Energy after Fukushima
The world’s nuclear industry is still reeling from Japan’s Fukushima accident 18 months ago. With a tarnished reputation and world politicians promising voters they’ll pull out of nuclear energy altogether, the industry is on a PR blitz to save its image. According to Reuters, senior executives say the nuclear industry must redefine itself to regain [...]
U.S Now Has Largest PV Plant
Yesterday (July 17) Agua Calienete, a solar photovoltaic farm being built in Yuma, County Ariz., became the world’s largest operational photovoltaic power plant when it reached 200 megawatts (MWs) of AC installed and operational power. And it’s not completed yet. The project is slated for completion in 2014, at which time it will provide 290 [...]
China and India Don’t Have Enough Water to Cool Future Coal Plants
China and India are already bumping against their resource limits – they don’t have enough water to cool all the coal-fired power plants they want to build. “They have not introduced a water constraint on their model and assume the water is there. So my view is that they actually will not be able to [...]
World’s First Hybrid Solar-Geothermal Plant Comes to Nevada
Both solar and geothermal forms of energy complement each other as both these sources of clean energy are available in abundance. When solar energy cannot be tapped effectively, like on a cloudy day geothermal energy can act as a great partner. Geothermal power is a flexible source of energy which can support the intermittent needs [...]
$1B Carbon Capture Plant Comes to Norway
Norway opened a $1 billion carbon capture and storage plant, Technology Centre Mongstad, the largest in the world. The project, a joint venture between the Norwegian government and oil companies Statoil, Shell and Sasol, has had cost over-runs and delays since it was announced in 2006 for a 2010 launch. Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg calls [...]
Why GE isn’t ‘Friending’ Nuclear Power
As the whole world is fixated on the debate about on using and not using nuclear power for energy generation, the anti-nuclear protesters have got a new powerful argument about nuclear energy being not economically feasible. General Electric which is among the world’s top 3 suppliers of nuclear energy equipment along with Toshiba and Areva, [...]