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U.S Army Announces $7B in Renewable Energy Projects
The U.S. Army has just launched the first in a series of renewable energy contracts that will eventually total $7 billion by the end of this year, using power purchase agreements along with a standard procurement tool that is expected to crush any obstacles that are put in its path. That includes the notorious budget [...]
In Focus: Futuristic Green Energies
The Time Lists has released its ‘Top 20 Green Tech Ideas’, and what a list it is. At Decipher CM, we’ve picked our Top 5 favourite futuristic green energies to share with the new breed of technological hippies out there. 1. Biofuels One of the ‘green industries’ best kept secrets is biofuels. This includes products [...]
Solar Traffic Lights Come to Durban, South Africa
The municipality of eThekwini in Durban, South Africa, has greenlighted a new project of solar powered traffic lights. Funded by the state-owned power utility Eskom and implemented by ZRW Mechanika and Saint Gobain Solar, the project uses CIS solar modules to power lights at four intersections. Each system features 16 panels and each panels has [...]
An Interactive Map of Clean Energy Sources
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory has just launched a website with an application designed to map the US potential energy sources called RE Atlas. Dan Getman, the lead developer for the project calls RE Atlas “an excellent tool for policymakers, planners, energy developers, and others who need to better understand the renewable resources available in [...]
New Report Highlights Urgency to Find Renewable Sources of Energy
RE: The only way is up Oil reserves will be depleted by 2041 if current consumptionremain as they are now, that is, 85.22 million barrels a day, yearlygrowth of 1.3 per cent, a new study says. But there won’t be enough clean, non-fossil fuels available for massconsumption before 2140, the report warns, leaving a gap [...]
China Investing $2 Billion in Waste-to-Energy Sources
China has reached an agreement to install 1,400 waste-to-energy systemsacross China, totaling a $2 billion dollar investment. The agreement was reached between Washington-based D4 Energy Group and Global Partners United. The D4 Energy devolatization system, which will be installed across China, takes carbon-based feedstock, such as municipal solid waste, tires and biomass, and converts into [...]
Power generation in India from renewable energy sources
A capacity of about 5,531 MW grid-interactive power generation fromvarious renewable energy sources has been installed up to 31.1.2010against a target of 12,300 MW for 11th Five Year Plan. Givingthis information in a reply in the Lok Sabha last Friday, the Ministerfor New and Renewable Energy, Dr. Farooq Abdullah said that the detailsof such capacity [...]
BioSolar Files Patent Application For PV Cell Backing
California-based BioSolar, a developer of bio-based materials fromrenewable plant sources, has filed a patent for a new type ofphotovoltaic (PV) cell backing. The company’s BioBacksheet-A is a three-layer laminate filmconsisting of a 100% recyclable aluminum foil center core sandwichedbetween two outer layers of bio-based polymer films. Backsheets are the bottom layers of PV cells, used [...]
Global PV power market to resume growth in 2011
Photovoltaic technology has a very straightforward value proposition:it converts sunlight to electricity. Its advantages are simple tounderstand: sunshine is free, and the conversion process yields cleanenergy, with no harmful emissions or byproducts. Solar cellsare long-lasting and non-polluting, typically operating for 25 yearsbefore being recycled. Photovoltaic systems have no moving parts, whichmeans maintenance is minimal as [...]