Posts Tagged ‘energy’

Obama Gives $2.3B In Tax Credits to Solar & Wind Energy

Obama announced last week that the United States compensation in 2.3 billion U.S. dollars restoring the manufacture of advanced energy tax credit 100 million U.S. dollars. 10083 of projects in 43 states will receive funding to help create, through advanced clean Sony VGP-BPS9 VGP-BPS9/B energy technologies, including solar, wind and efficiency and energy management technology, [...]

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Vestas from Spain and 48 MW of wind turbine orders

According to Bloomberg News December 28, German solar panel manufacturer in the January 13 hearing on the ministerial level would recommend solar power subsidy reduction  vgp bps2c , Handelsblatt reported, citing industry sources did not identify.
Solar panel manufacturers will be proposed to speed up the pace of cuts, from the beginning in 2011 Inspiron E1505 battery [...]

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U.S. will use more green energy sources

U.S. will use more green energy sources
The United States over the next 25 years, the annual consumption of solar power will be increased by 14% or more, according to the Energy Department’s latest forecast. Wind power will increase by 5.4% per year for laptop battery , solar thermal electric power increased by 3.6%, while the largest annual [...]

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Clever Bearing and Planetary Drive Carries Greater Load

Uncontrollable and highly variable wind forces adversely affect the performance and reliability of planetary gears inside wind-turbine power transmissions. A couple developments from The Timken Co., Canton, Ohio, can lower maintenance on rolling elements and carry greater load in a planetary gearset. In the first, the Integrated Flexpin Bearing (IFB) equalizes gear loads, reduces internal [...]

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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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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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New Study Sheds Light On The Growing US Wind Power Market

For the fourth consecutive year, the U.S. was home to the fastest-growing wind power market in the world in 2008, according to a report released by the U.S. Department of Energy and prepared by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).  Specifically, U.S. wind power capacity additions increased by 60 percent in 2008, representing a $16 [...]

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Winds of change

The U.S. can greatly boost clean wind power for 2 cents a day. Now all we need is a president who won’t blow the chance.

May 17, 2008 | A stunning new report just issued by the Bush administration finds that for under 2 cents a day per household, Americans could get 300 gigawatts of wind [...]

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Solar energy in world 01

Solar energy in world 01
A long time, people have been working hard on the use of solar energy. Received by our planet of the solar energy, only the surface of the Sun issued all about energy, the energy equivalent of the world’s total energy requirements of the 3-4 million-fold, is inexhaustible, and the non [...]

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