BELMONT, Western Australia,, Feb 18, 2009 /PRNewswire via COMTEX News Network/ — 305-Kilowatt System at Crowne Plaza Hotel in Alice Springs Expected to Provide 40 to 80 Percent of Hotel’s Power Requirements BELMONT, Western Australia, Feb. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — SunPower Corp. (Nasdaq: SPWRA, SPWRB), a manufacturer of high-efficiency, solar cells, solar panels, and solar [...]

ARLINGTON, WA – February 16, 2009 – OutBack Power Systems, Inc., a manufacturer of reliable and durable power electronics products for renewable energy applications worldwide, welcomed Ray Barbee to its growing team of recognized industry veterans. Mr. Barbee will draw upon his more than 25 years of electrical and electronics industry experience with 18 years [...]

  Erlangen/Hanover, Germany, February 19, 2009 Siemens and E.ON Kraftwerke are to build a pilot CO2 capture plant at the E.ON power plant Staudinger in Grosskrotzenburg near Hanau. The two companies are thus pushing further ahead with the development of a process geared toward climate-compatible power generation. A lab-proven process is to be employed under [...]

Initiative to reduce fuel utilization, carbon emissions at windfarms Pune: Suzlon Energy Limited, the world’s fifth largest and India’s leading wind turbine manufacturer, has established the first wind farm site to utilize solar energy to power site operations in Adwadi, Nasik. As most wind farms are located in remote and often underdeveloped regions, small back-up [...]

Definitions of Solar Radiation on the Web: radiation from the sun wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn Sunlight, in the broad sense, is the total frequency spectrum of electromagnetic radiation given off by the Sun. On Earth, sunlight is filtered through the Earth’s atmosphere, and solar radiation is obvious as daylight when the Sun is above the horizon. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Radiation All [...]

General Rated power 5.000 kW Cut-in wind speed 4 m/s Rated wind speed 12 m/s Cut-out wind speed 25 m/s Design life time 20 years Type class IEC 1a / GL-TK 1 offshore Gearbox Type step-planetary gear, helical Rated power 5.540 kW Rated torque 3.575 kNm Ratio 1:9,92 Rotor Rotor diameter 116 m Number of [...]

Rotor The rotor blades are characterized by exceptionally high stiffness and low weight due to the employment of carbon fiber girders. The aerodynamics of the rotor blades were designed towards yield performance and provide low noise emission. Three independent electrical blade pitch systems guarantee a highly dynamic blade angle adjustment and maximum safety in case [...]