Archive for August, 2009

MHI’s wind power generation business starts in Bulgaria

MHI’s wind power generation business starts in Bulgaria
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has commenced business in generating electric power by wind turbines in Bulgaria, and selling it locally, through Kaliakra Wind Power AD (KWP), a joint venture established locally with the Bulgarian engineering firm inos Ltd.
The wind farm, Bulgaria’s first, has already been built by [...]

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Meridian Energy gets into solar, acquiring Cleantech America

State-owned energy giant acquires California-based utility-scale photovoltaic solar developer as it looks to bring solar to New Zealand.
Wellington, New Zealand-based Meridian Energy said it has acquired San Francisco-based Cleantech America, which develops utility-scale photovoltaic solar farms.
New Zealand’s largest electricity generator said the move is expected to allow the company it grow its U.S battery manufactures [...]

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Africa’s biggest wind farm coming up in Kenya

Some of the African regions are so hot that unless you’re are accustomed to that climate it is not possible for your to survive. Extreme temperatures also generate extreme winds and perhaps this is the reason wind farms have great potential in Africa. Some 365 giant wind  Toshiba PA3451U-1BRS turbines will be installed in desert around [...]

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Who Will Be the Winners in Global Solar Market?

NEW YORK — Despite a well-publicized oversupply of products and excess manufacturing capacity for solar photovoltaic equipment and components, some solar power industry watchers are still predicting further robust growth in production capacity as improving Inspiron 1520 battery. But financial analysts fear numerous makers may fail over the next few years.
Record demand for solar equipment [...]

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HP Adds B-P Battery Tech to Most Consumer Laptops

Boston-Power’s agreement with Hewlett-Packard has borne fruit, as the top PC supplier agreed to sell B-P’s three-year Sonata lithium-ion batteries in conjunction with 70 percent of its consumer notebook PC line.
Fortunately for B-P, HP left the form factor of its notebook batteries  as Thinkpad X31 battery, thinkpad x30 battery, Thinkpad t20 battery, Thinkpad T42 battery relatively [...]

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Atlantic Wind and Solar Inc. Establishes East Coast Office in Canada’s Windiest Province

 
Atlantic Wind and Solar Inc. Establishes East Coast Office in Canada’s Windiest Province
MIAMI, FL–(Marketwire – August 5, 2009) – Atlantic Wind and Solar Inc. (PINKSHEETS: AWSL) is pleased to announce the opening of an office in Newfoundland to provide the Company with an immediate presence on the East Coast, where strong prevailing winds represent extraordinary [...]

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More Efficient Palladium Fuel Cell Catalysts

This age is known as electronic age. It seems impossible to run life without electronic goods. They are part and parcel of our personal and professional life. We use many small devices in our everyday life. And each small device needs power. Now devices are becoming smaller with each passing day hence scientists are finding [...]

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Energy Dashboards in the Wild

Energy Monitoring
The more I dig into this material, the more I find people and companies that are developing ideas on energy managment. Living in Norway and looking into this field has some disadvantages: Awareness to energy consumption and systems to increase awareness are almost non existing. Utilities stopped charging  laptop battery for over use and [...]

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