Wednesday, 3 June 2015

The disruptive power of batteries

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businessspectator Jun 03 2015 I have just spent the weekend driving the remarkable Tesla Model S. A week ago I caught up with the video of...
Monday, 25 May 2015

Rebirth for region's renewables after RET deal

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Canberra Times May 23, 2015 Developers believe dormant wind farm projects, valued at a combined $1 billion across the capital region, wer...
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Friday, 9 May 2014

Taking a break…

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The reason for this blog was to promote renewable energy at a local level and to provide up-to-date information on developments in all thing...
Thursday, 12 December 2013

Waubra wind farm: locals petition to save town's name

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www.thecourier.com.au 5 Nov 2013 A GROUP of Waubra residents say they don't want the debate about wind turbines and health to end. B...

Cutting energy costs with technology trials

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www.itnews.com.au 4 Nov 2013 Telstra is working on a new way to feed solar power into its telephone exchanges, one of several initiativ...

Saudi Arabia, Emirates lead charge on Mideast solar power

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www.upi.com 1 Nov 2013 ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, two of the world's...

Wal-Mart now draws more solar power than 38 US States

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www.bloomberg.com 25 Oct 2013 In the race for commercial solar power , Wal-Mart is killing it. The company now has almost twice as much ...

Waubra disease a furphy

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www.weeklytimesnow.com.au 24 Oct 2013 Waubra disease does not exist. In my view it is a name dreamt up by the Australian Landscape Guar...
Monday, 9 December 2013

Wave energy turbine on the way

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www.borderwatch.com.au 21 Oct 2013 THE countdown to the arrival of the world's first 1 MW wave energy converter off the coast of Po...

Avaco hikes conversion efficiency by 30 percent in CIGS solar cells

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www.compoundsemiconductor.net 20 Oct 2013 The company's new ALD process system can provide a solution for buffer layer optimisation i...

Wind turbines are quieter than a heartbeat, acoustical experts find

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thinkprogress.org 24 Sep 2013 One complaint voiced by wind turbine opponents is that the turbines create too much noise — even noise bel...
Thursday, 21 November 2013

Wind turbines are quieter than a heartheat, acoustical experts find

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thinkprogress.org 24 Sep 2013 One complaint voiced by wind turbine opponents is that the turbines create too much noise--even noise belo...

Michigan's new tourist attraction? Like them or not, wind turbines

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www.freep.com 20 Oct 2013 DELAWARE TOWNSHIP, MICH.--Whether they are beautiful or a blight on the landscape is beside the point. Michig...

GE wants to power up older wind turbines

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www.elp.com 18 Oct 2013 Earlier this year, General Electric Co ( GE ) launched a package of technologies and services to improve output ...
Tuesday, 12 November 2013

America’s first floating wind turbine – the future of offshore power generation?

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techandinnovationdaily.com 3 Oct 2013 Sitting in the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Maine, is a unique feat of technology. At first gla...
Friday, 18 October 2013

Italian energy firm to accelerate wind investment

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www.businessspectator.com.au 15 Oct 2013 Italian energy group ERG plans to invest in wind power in Brazil and Europe, accelerating its ...

Collector Wind Farm project recommended to go ahead

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www.smh.com.au 11 Oct 2013 The NSW Department of Planning released their final report on the $350 million project to the north of the ACT...

Wind-farm at a standstill

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www.tenterfieldstar.com.au 16 Oct 2013 PROGRESS on a wind farm at Bungulla has stunted with testing still ongoing nearly four years aft...
Wednesday, 16 October 2013

Gamesa signs agreement with Iberdrola to supply wind turbines for Penascal expansion project

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wind.energy-business-review.com 10 Oct 2013 Gamesa Corp and Iberdrola Renewables have signed a supply agreement for the 202 MW Baffin ...

Archimede Solar Energy supplies the 4th release of molten salt receiving tubes for Archimede ISCC

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www.csp-world.com 10 Oct 2013 Italian CSP receiver tubes manufacturer Archimede Solar Energy ( ASE ), has supplied the 4th release of M...
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Tuesday, 15 October 2013

IFA confirms significant wind farm uptake

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www.agriland.ie 9 Oct 2013 The Irish Farmers Association ( IFA ) has secured the best possible wind farm development negotiations for f...
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Solar power stored at Arizona plant

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www.upi.com 9 Oct 2013 PHOENIX, Oct. 9 (UPI)--Spanish energy company Abengoa said Wednesday its Solana solar plant in Arizona produced e...
Friday, 11 October 2013

Tata Power arm to buy wind farm in Gujarat

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www.thehindu.com 8 Oct 2013 Tata Power , on Tuesday, said that it would acquire a 39.2 MW wind farm in Gujarat in a move that would sca...

Turkey's first nuclear power plant likely to be delayed

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www.chicagotribune.com 8 Oct 2013 ANKARA ( Reuters )-Turkey's first nuclear power plant is likely to be delayed by at least a year, ...
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Albertans losing no sleep over wind power

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www.theglobeandmail.com 8 Oct 2013 Controversy that has marked Ontario's rapid growth in wind power has been largely absent in Alber...
Thursday, 10 October 2013

JGC to Build Second Solar Power Plant in Japan for $102 Million

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www.bloomberg.com 1 Oct 2013 JGC Corp . (1963), a Japanese constructor of industrial facilities, said it will build a 31 MW solar power ...

Solar power from giant mirrors flows into California's grid

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www.forbes.com 24 Sep 2013 BrightSource Energy's massive solar farm in a remote corner of California delivered its first flow of po...

ABB Australia to supply equipment for Perth wave energy project

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hydro.energy-business-review.com 19 Sep 2013 ABB Australia has won a contract from Carnegie Corporation Wave Energy for the onshore pla...
Wednesday, 9 October 2013

Planning body dismisses anti-wind claims

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www.weeklytimesnow.com.au 10 Sep 2013 NSW Planning Assessment Commissions have given plans for the Bodangora wind farm in Dubbo, NSW, th...

Oceanlinx moves closer to wave energy go-ahead

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www.businessspectator.com.au 11 Sep 2013 Oceanlinx Ltd has applied for South Australia's first generation licence using wave energy ...

Solar energy could help South Australia break away from oil and coal

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www.hydrogenfuelnews.com 6 Sep 2013 Wind and solar energy are gaining ground in Australia The Australian Energy Market Operator has iss...
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Sunday, 15 September 2013

Nuclear power’s renaissance in reverse

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www.mareeg.com 9 May 2013 PARIS-Last June, Yukiya Amano, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ), declar...

Alstom signs 27MW Brazilian wind turbine deal

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www.windpowermonthly.com 5 Sep 2013 BRAZIL: Alstom has signed a EUR 25 million contract with Enerplan, a subsidiary of Brazilian power c...

CLP Holdings says talks discontinued in China nuclear plant bid

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www.bloomberg.com 4 Sep 2013 Talks have been discontinued for Hong Kong electricity producer CLP Group Ltd. (2) to buy a 4.8 billion ¥ (...

Shedding new light on the 'electron highways' of organic solar cells

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phys.org 2 Sep 2013 (Phys.org)--Sunlight absorbed by organic solar cells must first navigate a nanoscale gauntlet before becoming useable...