Demand for solar residential systems is at an all time high. In 2013, residential solar photovoltaic (PV) installations are expected to grow by 40 percent due to lower pricing and alternative solar financing options, according to the U.S. Solar Market Insight: Year-in-Review 2012 rese...
Panasonic Eco Solutions Canada has been awarded a contract to design and build photovoltaic systems totaling 500 kW for two municipal structures in Clinton, Ontario. Panasonic says the installations for the Central Huron REACH Center and Central Huron Community Complex will use more t...
The Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC) has found that energy saving measures installed in houses could increase property values, on average, by about 14 percent with the increases rising to 38 percent in some parts of England. An average home in the country could increase it...
Marine landlord the Crown Estate yesterday published its first report on all UK offshore wind farms that are operational or nearing construction. The report reveals that there are currently 20 fully operational offshore windfarms with a combined generating capacity of 3.3W. There is a...
The technology could be a real "game changer", says the company, enabling developers to install more powerful turbines with increasingly longer blades without incurring the excessive additional cost it requires for strengthening the turbine structure. “We see that the wind turbine man...
Tata Power said its total generation from solar had hit 49.83 MW and 796 MW from wind projects by 31 March, 2013 generation through clean sources in India such as hydro, wind and solar today stands at 873MW. The company said it has a total operational capacity of more than 28MW, inclu...
As more and more solar is installed and some countries, like Germany, are seeing consumers get an increasing amount of their electricity from intermittent sources, grid storage and batteries are sure to be hot topics at this year’s Intersolar Europe in Munich. Tobias Rothacher, senior...
Alion Energy has officially transformed from its origins in thin-film manufacturing, to now offering a way to significantly streamline utility-scale solar plant construction, using robots. The company originally was started in 2008 with the idea to develop new thin-film solar panel te...
Posted by Leanan on June 19, 2013 - 9:22am U.S. Considers Exporting More Oil for First Time Since ’70s The U.S. oil boom is moving Congress closer than it has been in more than three decades to easing the ban on exporting crude imposed after the Arab embargo. Advances such as hydrauli...
Small wind turbines (SWTs) less than 50 kW are playing a growing role in electricity generation, and are now being deployed in domestic, commercial and agricultural scenarios. The World Wind Energy Association (WWEA) predicts that the global SWT market will increase from 95 MW in 2011...
