Installation required no upfront costs and will meet an estimated 62% of the facility’s power needs   MaderaMayor Gary Svanda and city council members, along with REC Solar, a leading solar electric system provider in the United States, and SunEdison, a leading worldwide solar energy services provider and subsidiary of MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc. (NYSE: [...]

A 20 megawatt wind farm in Scotland is the first Green GECCO project Further joint ventures are being planned Investment of about a billion euros planned until 2020 Green GECCO GmbH & Co. KG has recently signed a contract to take over the Scottish onshore wind farm An Suidhe. The wind farm, which has an [...]

  Demonstrating Energy Efficient Transportation And Swiss Engineering Excellence around the World in 80 Days Oerlikon Solar, the world’s leading supplier of thin film silicon photovoltaic (PV) production equipment, is the main sponsor of the Oerlikon Solar Racing Team participating in the Zero Emissions Race with its Zerotracer electric vehicle. The Zero Emissions Race promotes [...]

Taken as a whole, energy sources with low or no carbon emissions could easily cover the global energy supply in 2050. This is the main conclusion of Risø Energy Report 9. The challenge for a sustainable global energy system with low carbon emissions will be to use this potential in the energy system the best [...]

Statkraft is participating in an international joint venture to develop new technological solutions for offshore wind energy. A competition to ease access to offshore wind farms has now been announced. The goal is to cut major costs during challenging offshore operations. Statkraft is participating in an international joint venture to develop new technological solutions for [...]

Energy companies ScottishPower Renewables and E.ON have recently announced (on Wednesday 3rd November) that they have joined forces to trial two Pelamis wave power machines off Orkney. The first of the devices is currently being trialled at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney, having been launched by E.ON in May. The second machine, [...]

Dyesol Limited and Umicore AG & Co. KG have signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) and entered negotiations to establish a business alliance covering the development, production and marketing of high quality, industrial scale Ruthenium-based dyes, as well as other potentially relevant metal-based chemicals, for the global dye solar cell (DSC) market. This is the [...]