Vestas order for largest Oz wind project
Australia’s largest wind power project will be one of the first wind farms to use the new 3MW V112 wind turbines made by manufacturing giant Vestas, through a contract with its key customers and the project’s developers AGL Energy and Meridian.
Click here for full storyurbine manufacturers Siemens and Vestas have received major orders for wind turbines for developments in the US, Canada and Australia.
Click here for full storyAUSTRALIA could switch completely to renewable energy within a decade by building a dozen vast, new solar power stations and about 6500 wind turbines, according to a major new study.
Click here for full storyAGL Energy Ltd. said Thursday that its joint venture with Meridian Energy Ltd. of New Zealand plans to build a one billion Australian dollar (US$898.8 million) wind farm in Victoria state by early 2013, as Australian policy measures designed to stimulate renewable-energy investment start to bear fruit.
Click here for full storyMore new info on the potential of biochar to help combat climate change: A study in the journal Nature Communications shows that up to 12% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions caused by humans could be offset by producing biochar. What's more, the study calculates that's more than would be offset by producing energy from the same amount of biomass.
Click here for full storyOne of the best sources of green technology information and their impact on climate change is the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC). According to the NRDC “geothermal energy, which taps into reservoirs of steam and hot water beneath the earth's surface, is among the least explored sources of renewable energy in the United States.
Click here for full storyChina has recently surpassed the United States to become the world's biggest energy consumer, according to new data from the International Energy Agency. The IEA reported that China consumed 2.252 billion tons of energy equivalents last year - nearly 4% more than the United States.
Click here for full storyFive years ago, when 17% of Portugal’s energy came from renewable energy – about like California now – the government made a bold decision to aim for 45% during the next five years – by 2010.
Click here for full storyA Swiss inventor who last year circumnavigated the globe in a solar taxi says four teams will follow in his tire tracks next week.
Click here for full storyWHEN Monica Oliphant started studying her electricity bills 37 years ago the threat of climate change barely cast a shadow over the environment.
Click here for full storyOn August 10, announces the wealth newspaper of second quarter for 2010 fiscal years on the brilliant solar energy of Australia. Brilliant Australia’s solar energy production is 311MW in the second quarter, the chain rate increases by 14%.
Click here for full storyA new roadmap for the future of the Australian automotive industry predicts the country could become a global player in EV development.
Click here for full storyAGL Energy Ltd. may spend A$10 billion ($9 billion) building renewable power production capacity by 2020 as Australia pursues a target of sourcing one- fifth of its electricity from alternative sources. “We need to build around another 5,000 megawatts of renewable” capacity, Michael Fraser, managing director of Australia’s largest electricity retailer, said in an interview in Melbourne. “Our customer base will underpin that.” Some 33 percent of AGL’s power generation portfolio is from renewable sources, including wind, solar, and landfill gas, he said.
Click here for full storyAustralia never managed to get its emissions trading scheme (or CPRS) off the ground, even though our smaller trans-Tasman neighbour New Zealand did. Now both major parties in Australia are being attacked for a lack of strong (or any!) policies on climate change, it would seem alternative ideas are needed. So Graham Readfearn for ABC Environment has scanned the globe for climate policies and come up with ten of the best.
Click here for full storyMeridian Energy has partnered with Australian power giant AGL to build a A$1 billion ($1.12 billion) wind farm in Victoria, Australia.
Meridian claims the 420 megawatt 140 turbine Macarthur wind farm in southwest Victoria will be the biggest in the southern hemisphere.It comes after Meridian bought the 70 MW wind farm in South Australia for A$191 million in May.
Click here for full storyIn strict adherence to guidelines released by the Department of Energy, the United States Postal Service gets on a fast track to reach the goal for energy reduction. Green roofs, green buildings and an optimally efficient management system of energy consumption form part of the energy-reduction strategy.
Click here for full storyBloomberg is reporting that China will invest 5 trillion yuan (nearly $740 billion) over the next 10 years into renewable energy projects.
Click here for full storyThe new advancements in grid technologies as well as the quest for cleaner, longer-lasting alternatives to fossil fuels are driving technological advances for the smart grid. The ongoing challenge of integrating and balancing intermittent renewable energy sources including load leveling, back-up power, grid regulation, and line efficiencies, have created the need for innovation in energy storage.
Click here for full storyIn an interview with "Globes", former Pennsylvania governor Tom Ridge says, "The socioeconomic and environmental needs of the 21st century require innovation and energy independence, which can be found in renewable energy. This is one of the important transitions that we can undertake from the industrial era to the green era."
Click here for full storyWork on a comprehensive Senate energy bill may have ground to a halt for the summer, but that hasn’t stopped Massachusetts Senator John Kerry putting forward another set of proposals for clean energy.
Click here for full storySiemens Canada Ltd. (SI: News ) said Tuesday that Siemens, builder and trading company Samsung C&T Corp. and Pattern Energy have come to agreement for the supply of up to 600 MW of Siemens wind turbines to serve the Ontario renewables market and Siemens will build Ontario's first blade factory as part of a plan to meet Samsung, and Pattern Energy's demand
Click here for full storyThe Australian Greens party has promised A$5bn ($4.6m) worth of loan guarantees for renewable energy developments of 100MW or more at a single site, deepening the country’s drive to become 100% reliant on clean energy sources.
Click here for full storyChief Minister Paul Henderson says a major Japanese technology company is coming to the Northern Territory to investigate potential renewable energy projects.
Click here for full storyFive years ago, the leaders of this sun-scorched, wind-swept nation made a bet: To reduce Portugal’s dependence on imported fossil fuels, they embarked on an array of ambitious renewable energy projects — primarily harnessing the country’s wind and hydropower, but also its sunlight and ocean waves.
Click here for full storyOur political leaders are facing firmly inward at a time when a multiplicity of problems require a global solution.
Click here for full storyThe policy agenda on climate change of the two major parties is dominated by two disturbing trends. The Coalition has become more resolute in its refusal to consider a carbon price and the ALP has outsourced policy leadership to consensus builders within a citizen's assembly.
Click here for full storyFewer Australians believe that humans are responsible for climate change, but despite this, the market for environmentally friendly products such as LED bulbs is growing and manufacturers are releasing increasingly innovative and eco-friendly products.
Click here for full storyThere’s been a lot of talk lately about energy efficiency. There have been various manifestations of new meter programs around our states and, most recently, federal proposals for “energy efficiency certificates” as a new program to drive behaviours to reduce electricity demand.
Click here for full storyMAJOR industry players have warned that uncertainty over greenhouse gas reduction policy is undermining long-term wholesale supplies.
Click here for full storyThe European Investment Bank (EIB) is lending EUR 65 million to Transelectrica SA to support its medium-term investment programme, which involves modernising and retro-fitting seven high-voltage substations in Romania’s power transmission grid
Click here for full storyEver since Don Quixote tilted at wind mills, warfare and renewable energy have had a rough relationship. It's tough to erect wind turbines or solar panels when the enemy keeps blowing things up.
Click here for full storySecretary Steven Chu announced today that the Department of Energy is extending the application deadline for the July 2009 energy efficiency, renewable energy and advanced transmission and distribution technologies solicitation.
Click here for full storySuntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. (NYSE: STP), the world's leading producer of crystalline silicon solar panels, has been selected to supply 34.5MW of solar panels for the first phase of the largest solar power plant in Thailand and Southeast Asia.
Click here for full storyKenyan conservation groups are opposing the biofuels project of an Italian businessman, saying the proposal to produce energy from jatropha may cause environmental damage.
Click here for full storyDenmark is a windy place. Windy enough to provide 20 percent of the country’s power generation from both onshore and offshore wind farms. As growth in wind power continues, the problem of large-scale energy storage from wind becomes an increasing challenge.
Click here for full storyGermany is expecting to get 20 percent of its total energy consumption from renewable sources by 2020 -- which would double its current share within 10 years.
Click here for full storyWE all know both Labor and the Coalition have jettisoned plans to implement an emissions trading scheme to tame climate change. But Australia is not alone in failing to put a price on carbon. Global warming fatigue is setting in all over the world.
Click here for full storyA poll has found climate change is a big issue in voters' minds, as Labor hastily reassesses its climate policy before election day.
Click here for full storyAustralia is pushing for an ambitious global climate deal at a summit in Germany - an outcome that would increase pressure to sort out domestic climate policy.
Click here for full storyInternational Green Energy Expo Korea 2010 was chosen as the venue where SunPods SP-300 was first displayed. This is the first factory built-to-order solar-powered integrated electric-vehicle charging station – ready for powering up immediately. This ready-to-use solar power platform from SunPods is called EV Plug-N-Go.
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