A recently released report from Frost & Sullivan for the European Inverter Market for Renewable Energy Systems, finds that the market earned revenues of €654.4 ($1,004) million in 2007 and estimates they will reach €3,105 ($4,763.7) million in 2014.
According to the report, Spain, backed by solid growth in its solar energy industry, moves to the [...]
Founded in 2003 and headquartered in South San Francisco, California, Solazyme is a biotechnology company focused on synthetic biology for the renewable bioproduction of fuels, industrial oleochemicals, and health and wellness ingredients from marine microbes....
OXFORD UNIVERSITY CENTRE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT, Environmental Change Institute in association with Exeter CollegeGrade 8: Salary £34,793 - £41,545 paApplications are invited for a researcher in Renewable Energy to work in the Lower Carbon Futures programme of the Environmental Change Institute. The FPL Group Fellow will manage and deliver a research programme in renewable energy with a focus on th
REN21 is a global policy network that serves as a discussion catalyst for international leadership on renewable energy. They promote policy development for the rapid expansion of renewable energies in developing and industrialised economies. REN21 connects governments, international institutions, non-governmental...
The Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) is an active, global partnership that works with governments, businesses, industry, financiers and civil society to reduce the barriers within policy, regulatory and financial structures that bar and limit the up take...
The Renewable Energy Trust seeks to maximize environmental and economic benefits for the Commonwealth’s citizens by pioneering and promoting clean energy technologies and fostering the emergence of sustainable markets for electricity generated from renewable sources. The Trust provides financial assistance to individuals and businesses for solar panels and wind turbines at their homes and facil
Windpower 2008 is coming up. We will be traveling to Houston to attend the Spanish pavilion at the trade show from June 1st through the 4th. We will be exhibiting along with six companies from Spain, covering the whole spectrum of products and services for the wind industry, from wind forecasting to fasteners to converters [...]
Houston, Texas - May 16, 2008 - Planning to run the world on renewable power sources within three years, the energy resources development firm of Gladstone & McKinney announced today that this firm is competing for the Saltire Prize.2 Vote(s)
When I criticised Barack Obama's support of "Clean Coal" in West Virginia (read HERE), many attacked me by saying, "We have all this coal, what are we supposed to do?" To which I said, "Ignore it."
I argued that although coal currently makes up 50% of our energy mix, we could dramatically lower that level by investing in renewable energy sources rather than coal band
Solar Garden Lights are becoming of age; their application is almost through puberty. Solar Powered Garden Lighting is reaching maturity. And no wonder first of all they are a sign of environmental awareness, and secondly solar lights are very convenient. In the old days we were struggling with the wiring in our garden, and especially grid connected systems in an outdoor environment are an accide
Prime Minister Gordon Brown last night suffered his biggest Commons rebellion since taking over as prime minister when 35 Labour MPs - half the government's majority - voted against the government in favour of an amendment to the energy bill that would have encouraged the take up of renewable...
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The Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI) is a new research and development organization that harnesses advanced knowledge in biology, the physical sciences, engineering, and environmental and social sciences to devise viable solutions to global energy challenges and reduce the impact of...
Global Investment in Renewable Energy Reaches $100 Billion According to UN Report
WASHINGTON, May 5, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — High oil prices and an array
of government incentives are leading to soaring rates of investment in renewable
energy, according to the United Nations’ annual “Global Trends in Sustainable
Energy Investment” report.
The UN report calculates global investment capital flows [...]
Renewable energy best practices to provide guidance and inspire others in the travel and tourism industry Tourism, the world’s largest industry, has a powerful impact on, and is greatly impacted by, the ecological health of its destinations across the globe. One of tourism’s largest economic and environmental costs is the massive amount of energy required for the transportation of travelers and maintenance of facilities like hotels and attractions. Thus, many businesses are eager to minimize their consumption of non-renewable energy, but are often uncertain on how to make it happen due to the technological complexity and rapid rate of innovation in field of renewable energy. The Renewable Energy in Tourism Initiative (RETI) has recently developed a set of Best Practices in Renewa
Foreign Affairs, Florida’s 1st Smart Dealership’s Current Electric Car Portfolio Includes ZAP and Other Electric Vehicles. www.RenewableEnergyStocks.com, a leading investor news and research portal for the renewable energy sector within Investorideas.com, presents Driving Green, an in-depth interview with Jonathan Ortiz of Foreign Affairs Auto, a dealership established in 1982 that carries a blend of cars ranging from luxury cars to green vehicles. As owner of Foreign Affairs Auto, Florida’s 1st Smart Dealership, Mr. Ortiz provides first-hand perspective of the changing demographics he sees at his dealership of the typical green car enthusiast, and advises new dealers contemplating carrying green autos what it takes to make it a success.
When asked how his interest in g
Established in 2002, EarthToys.com is an online eMagazine and web library for the alternative energy industry. They provide an open and unbiased platform where new ideas, systems and solutions can be expressed, shared and cataloged for use by readers....
Here is some good news for the renewable energy development providers.The World Bank's Chinese Renewable Energy Development Project has backed the use of PV in rural China. The project design is based on a market-driven approach to renewables, which undertakes the following:Focus on promoting commercial or near-commercial applications;Combines international advances in technology with proven Chinese low-cost production capabilities;Taps the large potential demand by lowering costs and improving products, system reliability, and consumer services.The project aims to foster development of a sustainable market for PV technologies capable of supplying electricity in an environmentally sustainable way. This provides modern energy to dispersed rural households and institutions. To achieve this,
PAWTUCKET, R.I.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Recognizing the increasing importance of renewable energy sources around the world, MONOPOLY announces that it will feature “Wind Energy” and “Solar Energy” as the utilities in the upcoming MONOPOLY Here & Now: The World Edition game. The new utilities will replace the “Water Works” and “Electric Company” spaces that traditionally appear on the MONOPOLY game board.“When creating this first-ever worldwide MONOPOLY game board, we reviewed all elements of the game to ensure that it reflects today’s global perspective. This included the utility property spaces,” said Phil Jackson, Group Executive, Hasbro Games. “In a nod to the efforts of countries worldwide to increase the effectiveness and availability of renewable energy sources,
Costa Rica is a country rich with renewable energy. In fact, it gets about 99% of all its electrical energy from clean sources, and it's aiming to be the first country to become carbon neutral (more about that below). Some of Costa Rica's energy sources include geothermal energy, the burning of sugarcane waste and other biomass, solar and wind energy. However, the largest source of energy is hydroelectricity its hydroelectric dams provide more than 82% of the country's electricity. But the electric needs of Costa Rica are increasing, and the government now wants to build new dams that would displace indigenous villages and flood valuable habitats. Local environmental groups are opposing the construction of new hydroelectric dams. Also, Costa Rica's efforts to minimize its own c
RD Energy Solutions (RDES) is a renewable energy consultancy and project development company based in Scotland. They offer a complete service for the design, supply, installation, commissioning and operation of green energy technology to the public and private sectors....
RenewableEnergyWorld.com was started in 1998 by a group of Renewable Energy professionals who wanted their work to relate to their passion for renewable energy. With this passion and the desire to create a long term sustainable business, they have created...
Renewable Energy Group has withdrawn its application to come public via an IPO. You can probably guess the culprit: "....current market conditions do not...
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Greenjobs was launched in 2004 to focus specifically on all aspects of employment in renewable energy worldwide. Greenjobs is staffed and supported by people with a long experience in the field of renewable energy (RE). Their goal is to become...
It will be almost couple of years since my last trip to Hannover, Germany. Germany was really nice place to visit, clean and also reminded me a bit place when I used to live when I was a kid. Everything looked so clean, nice farm lands and beautiful architecture in places like Munster or Olsenburg, and lot of people on the bikes. Autobahn was fun, in some sections there was no speed limit and since it was still summer time, lot of bikers passed us, at the no speed limit zone of course. The interesting part of the whole trip was how environmentally friendly Germans are and two things being, self cleaning toilets and windmill farms or technically called wind turbines. I will leave self cleaning toilets for another day - I actually took a video of the whole mechanism, lol. However, the fascin
Great news that the big IT companies are taking the environment seriously.
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ENN: Google plans renewable energy push
/sci-tech/article/25967 By Eric Auchard SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc. said on Tuesday the Web services and online advertising group plans to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in coming years to promote a new push to encourage
Cool looking toy car operates on hydrogen. You add water to the tanks in back of the car and it combines it with oxygen to produce hydrogen. The car also has some cool blue led lights from inside the cockpit.
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Learn the power of sustainable energy with this kit. If it can be done with a model kit, it can be done with real housing. With this kit you can do over 70 experiments by building 20 projects.
Seems like a cool gift for adults or for an adult to learn with your young teen or 12 year old.
The kit includes windmill, greenhouse and desalination system. The energy taught includes solar heat and light energy, wind power, and electrochemical and plant energy. You will be able to build an electric train, solar cooker, solar hot water tank, electric motor, sail car and more…
It comes with a 96 page illustrated experiment book.
Power House: Sustainable Living in the 21st Century Science Kit
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BiomassThis one has actually been around for quite some time - remember wood? Our forests have taken a bit of a bashing but there is actually a little more to biomass than that. Biomass has a growing following as one of the great hopes as a sustainable energy source. High energy crops grown specifically to be used as fuel are being developed. Brazil, famously, has, for some time, been squeezing energy from sugar-cane, and scientists are beginning to consider agricultural and and even animal waste products as possible fuel sources (e.g. some zoos worldwide are using "animal by-products" to keep there electricity on). But it also means we need to face the "great recycler" by contemplating the reuse of our solid waste coming from paper, food and everyday wastes, plastics, wood, glass and tyres. In our rural areas or our factory farms it meanslivestock waste and in our cities it means repurposing of sewage. Even such past burners of fossil fuel such as Russia has woken up to biomass(1). Th
This renewable energy kit will amaze you or your kids. Even adults can learn from the power of renewable energy. This kit teaches the power of the sun, wind and other green technologies. There is enough for 70 experiments and you can build over 20 devices.
Power House Experiments in Future Technics$118 at Amazon.
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National Express Group has signed a contract to use renewable energy supplied by E.ON UK as part of the bus company's drive to become a low carbon business. The E.ON-supplied electricity will be used across the group's 300 sites, including stations, maintenance facilities and offices. It will also provide electricity for the Midland Metro in the West Midlands, National Express said. "Moving to green electricity is part of our strategy to make National Express Group a low carbon business; we now have the first emission free light rail system in the UK and are looking at ways to apply this to our electric trains which include c2c, 'one' railway and the new East Coast franchise," Richard Bowker, National Express' chief executive said in a statement.Via:Thomson FinancialNational Express Group,EON,renewable energy,Richard Bowker,UK,energyblogFound this post useful? Consider subscribing to Sustainable Affairs Feed/RSS.SI NECESITAS UN AMPLIO CONTENIDO SOBRE ASUNTOS ENERGETICOS: www.Bajae
German reinsurer Munich Re has developed an insurance cover that will boost renewable energy projects in India by guaranteeing polluters in developed countries carbon credits from their investments in renewable energy projects in developing countries such as India.The insurance cover — the Kyto Multirisk policy — is expected to lead to more investments into renewable energy in countries such as India. Under the Kyoto Protocol, there is a facility, where polluting companies, instead of improving their carbon dioxide output, invest in renewable energy projects. In return for their investments, the polluting companies receive emission credits."The Kyoto policy goes beyond the traditional cover. If it is a solar plant or wind energy, we are guaranteeing a minimum level of electricity generation. We are also covering at providing political risks," said Ludger Arnoldussen, member of the board of management, Munich Re.He added that companies are willing to invest in such projects because
German reinsurer Munich Re has developed an insurance cover that will boost renewable energy projects in India by guaranteeing polluters in developed countries carbon credits from their investments in renewable energy projects in developing countries such as India.The insurance cover — the Kyto Multirisk policy — is expected to lead to more investments into renewable energy in countries such as India. Under the Kyoto Protocol, there is a facility, where polluting companies, instead of improving their carbon dioxide output, invest in renewable energy projects. In return for their investments, the polluting companies receive emission credits."The Kyoto policy goes beyond the traditional cover. If it is a solar plant or wind energy, we are guaranteeing a minimum level of electricity generation. We are also covering at providing political risks," said Ludger Arnoldussen, member of the board of management, Munich Re.He added that companies are willing to invest in such projects because
The issue was raised by the government as it applied to the European Union (EU) for special conservation status for three estuaries - the Severn, Dee and Humber.Joan Ruddock, biodiversity minister, said: "In submitting these sites the government has demonstrated its commitment to the protection and restoration of the UK's richly diverse, and internationally important, wildlife habitats. "We will work towards ensuring that our environmental protection agenda and our aim to develop renewable sources of power are complementary."
Via Environmental Law & Policy Center: This has been a good week for supporters of renewable energies in Illinois. Gov. Rod Blagojevich, D-Ill., signed into law a renewable energy standard that will require Illinois utilities to supply 2% of their power from renewable energy sources by 2008, 10% by 2015 and 25% by 2025. An accompanying energy efficiency portfolio standard requires utilities to reduce overall electric usage by 0.2% of demand in 2008 and 2.0% by 2015.
Wind power is expected to play a major role in new renewable energy generation in the state as utilities work toward meeting the new requirements, according to the governor’s office. Illinois is the hub for many transmission lines, making connecting new wind projects to the electricity grid more affordable than in other states, the governor’s office adds.
“The legislation will spark a surge in wind power construction and economic development in Illinois,” says Howard A. Learner, executive directo
The Wall Street Journal reflected recently on how some of Spain’s biggest renewable-energy companies have been planting their flag in the U.S., with big deals by utility Iberdrola, energy conglomerate Acciona, and wind turbine maker Gamesa.
On the wind side, Acciona announced last month it has acquired exclusive rights to develop 1300MW worth of wind assets in the states of Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin, USA. The development will take place through an acquisition of projects from EcoEnergy, LLC, an alternative energy solutions developer. Acciona expects to install approximately 150MW or more in 2008 from this pipeline. It will be supplying its own wind turbines for each of these development projects from its new US production facility in Iowa.
As a another proof it has been busy this summer, Acciona also announced another deal, this time in solar power. It secured $266 million in financing from Spanish and Portuguese banks for its Solar One project in Nevada, the world’s third-
The energy consequential from resources that are regenerative of for all the realistic functions cannot be diminished, could be defined as the renewable energy. Hence, the sources of renewable energy are essentially diverse from relic fuels, and do not produce as many green house gases and other pollutants as [...]
As part of its ongoing growth in renewable energy and developing technologies, Progress Energy Florida (PEF) has signed a long-term contract to purchase electricity generated by what will be the largest waste-wood biomass plant in the nation. In the past year, Progress Energy has signed contracts to add more than 200 megawatts of renewable energy to its system. Biomass Gas & Electric, based in Atlanta, Ga., plans to build a power plant in north Florida that will use waste wood products -- such as yard trimmings, tree bark and wood knots from paper mills -- to create electricity. It will generate about 75 megawatts. The plant is expected to avoid the need to burn nearly 5 million tons of coal over the 20-year life of the contract. The plant will use gasification to create electricity. Projected commercial operation is expected to begin in 2011. It would be BG&E's third biomass power plant. "We have a long history of supporting innovative technologies and promoting cost-effectiv
Germany just made an ambitious announcement that it aims to have 45% of all its energy come from renewable sources. They are looking at a variety of options, including solar, wind and geo-thermal energy in order to meet this goal.
The EU as a whole agreed to a goal of 20% renewable energy sources by 2020. Germany is definitely hauling out the big guns by declaring it will top this!
Germany also hopes that this move will increase employment and help the German economy. There are now over 214,000 jobs in the renewable energy sector and thousands more are expected to come up as Germany looks to accomplish this green goal.
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There was a comment in today's PD article on Ohio's plan to restructure energy costs as well as trying to prevent spikes in charges and provide incentives for renewable energy sources. The comment was made by State Rep. Jim McGregor: "...our only choices in Ohio are to lead in energy or experience a second rust belt period where we become an economic backwater because we missed the opportunity." The 'missed opportunities' seem to take two roads. One, missing out on a chance to be the state that brings in renewable energy companies. Secondly, missing the chance to require our existing utilities to provide a certain percentage of their energy in renewable form. Of course I like the idea but I need to ferret out people with experience to tell me what is possible here in Ohio. The article quotes people who say Ohio is not the Rocky Mountains so wind energy is not super feasible and Ohio is not.....well you can fill in the blanks and let's just say some people do not agree. I don't k
Wow, this e-store based in London, Ontario has some crazy number of renewable energy products including the big as& solar panel shown above. They even got solar pool heaters, water recyclers, and lots of other cool renewable energy products. Definitely a must see if you are thinking about or need those types of products.
Thanks Dave for the tip! (thru Keetsa.com)
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Ministry's official Rafig Aliyev said the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of Azerbaijan signed a grant agreement for a US$900,000 technical assistance project to assess the potential and options for renewable energy development in the country.The project, supported by the Government of Finland, developed an action plan to boost renewable energy development and design pilot
In a moment when the big news were that the European Union leaders agreed that a fifth of its energy by 2020 will come from renewable sources, a piece from BBC News on Friday talked about a place where right now, almost 70% of its energy comes from the wind and sun. (Watch a clip with the story by clicking here)
It is the region of Navarra, in Northeastern Spain, better known in the US for the “running of the bulls” in Pamplona, made famous by Hemingway.
Being poor in energy resources, it bet heavily on renewable energy in the eighties.
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Now (…), this tiny region is capable of generating more electricity from renewable sources than big EU countries like France or Poland.
This strategy has worked well, as this industry has become one of the largest in the region and, in the process, it has created a lot of jobs (4,000 in the last decade).
Image courtesy of Acciona Energia
Some 1,100 windmills are dotted
Inspired by a great conversation on another post, here are some facts about the role federal subsidies play in tilting the market away from renewable energy technologies. » original news (via the hugg.com)
President Bush Discusses Energy at Renewable Energy Conference, FULL STREAMING VIDEO, St. Louis Convention Center, St. Louis, Missouri, 12:29 P.M. CDT, In Focus: Energy THE PRESIDENT: Thanks for the warm welcome. I appreciate the chance to come and speak to the Renewable Energy Conference. I hope you're excited about being here, because I sure am.This is -- it's exciting to be with -- (applause.)
NewWind Energyreports about a New York coffee provider, Monkey Joe Roasting Company (my kind of coffee provider - single bean micro-roasting- yum!) that has achieved their goal of utilizing 100% renewable energy.
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In his article, "Micro wind power with a Savonius rotor" Lance Turner tells the tale of how he came to design and build a vertical axis wind turbine generator out of storm water pipe, a long shaft and a windshield wiper motor to open the gate to his home. I ...
In his article, "Micro wind power with a Savonius rotor" Lance Turner tells the tale of how he came to design and build a vertical axis wind turbine generator out of storm water pipe, a long shaft and a windshield wiper motor to open the gate to his home. I ...
Solar powered lights in Beijing parks are great, but something is wrong with this picture!
While the finger-pointers in the West may look scornfully upon China as the biggest threat to global warming, despite that fact that many of China's emissions are a direct result of offshoring by said finger-pointing countries ...
In new growth markets particularly, where mobile networks are expanding into rural areas, advanced infrastructure such as a power grid is not always reliable or readily available and base station sites need to run autonomously. A sustainable alternative is to use renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power.
April 24, 2008 Ecologically responsible tourism is becoming big business around the world, particularly with young backpackers who wish to see the glory of nature without contributing to its destruction. The same concept is now starting to trickle through to resort and leisure tourism - such as this block of ...
