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Root
3 Feb 2012 | 5:45 pm
Kazakhstan has posted another year of record uranium production as it furthers its diversification into value-added nuclear fuel products.
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Energy Efficiency News - RenewableEnergyWorld.com
3 Feb 2012 | 5:41 pm
NewScientist’s January 28 issue is likely to unsettle clean energy advocates — but it is worth the read.
The cover article, “Power paradox: Clean might not be green forever,” posits that even renewable energy can warm the planet, and eventually[…]
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Renewable Energy News - RenewableEnergyWorld.com
3 Feb 2012 | 5:36 pm
It's easy to think about modules as singular units of power output, but the reality is that they are a collection of diverse components, each with influence over the end system's total cost and performance. For DuPont, its focus is[…]
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Power Technology-Updates
3 Feb 2012 | 5:30 pm
Gemasolar, inaugurated in October 2011, is the world's first commercial-scale plant to use solar technology comprising of the central tower receiver, a heliostat field and a molten-salt heat storage system.
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Solar Energy News - RenewableEnergyWorld.com
3 Feb 2012 | 3:30 pm
The Obama Administration's $60 billion Loan Guarantee Program (LGP) for renewable energy is considered a failure because of Solyndra, Beacon Power, and potential 2012 bankruptcies. What is not well known is that 75 percent of the program's deployed funds went[…]
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Renewable Energy News - RenewableEnergyWorld.com
3 Feb 2012 | 3:01 pm
In a series of deals the investor-owned utility says is good for consumers' wallets, American Electric Power subsidiary Southwestern Electric Power Co. (SWEPCO) recently signed long-term power purchase agreements for a total of 358.65 MW of capacity from wind projects[…]
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Power Technology-Updates
3 Feb 2012 | 1:00 am
UK-based firm Ricardo has signed an engineering services contract with industrial gearing solutions provider David Brown for an offshore wind turbine project.
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Solar Energy News - RenewableEnergyWorld.com
2 Feb 2012 | 11:03 pm
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Solar Energy News - RenewableEnergyWorld.com
2 Feb 2012 | 9:23 pm
Miasolé says it has created a 17.3 percent "champion" thin-film copper-indium-gallium-selenide (CIGS) solar photovoltaic device, results obtained in its own labs and not (yet) independently verified.
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Wind Power News - RenewableEnergyWorld.com
2 Feb 2012 | 8:11 pm
Today the Obama administration moved forward with plans to develop the enormous offshore wind energy resources along the Mid-Atlantic coast, using a "Smart for the Start" approach designed to expedite the siting process while incorporating strong environmental protections.
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Root
2 Feb 2012 | 5:48 pm
The first of four steam generators for the second phase of the Novovoronezh nuclear power plant in Russia has been transported to the construction site by rail.
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Root
2 Feb 2012 | 5:30 pm
A severe accident at a US nuclear power plant would not be likely to cause any immediate deaths, while the risks of fatal cancers caused by such an accident would be millions of times lower than the general risks of[…]
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Hydropower News - RenewableEnergyWorld.com
2 Feb 2012 | 3:37 pm
Renewable energy in the United States is at a crossroads. With several federal tax grants set to expire by the end of 2012, utilities are trying to decide if the falling prices of solar and wind technology makes renewable energy[…]
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Wind Power News - RenewableEnergyWorld.com
2 Feb 2012 | 3:00 pm
Wind energy is becoming one of the most widely used sources of renewable energy. In fact, according to the American Wind Energy Association, the wind energy industry has added more than 35 percent of all the new power generating capacity[…]
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Geothermal Energy News - RenewableEnergyWorld.com
1 Feb 2012 | 6:05 pm
Twenty years ago, international leaders descended on Brazil to lay the groundwork for what would eventually become the Kyoto Protocol. This summer, a 20-member United Nations panel will once again head to Rio de Janeiro with an even more ambitious[…]
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Geothermal Energy News - RenewableEnergyWorld.com
1 Feb 2012 | 5:51 pm
Due to growing urbanization and resulting environmental threats, China has invested nearly US$50 billion annually into its renewable energy sector since 2009. China's five-year investment in environmental protection is on track to reach 3.1 trillion yuan (US$454 billion). By 2015,[…]
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Bioenergy News - RenewableEnergyWorld.com
1 Feb 2012 | 3:47 pm
Nine years from now, in early 2022, the U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard will have reached its intended target, 36 billion gallons of biofuel blended into the U.S. domestic auto and truck fuel supply.
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Green Power News - RenewableEnergyWorld.com
31 Jan 2012 | 6:07 pm
Earlier this month, I attended EUCI’s Utilizing Clean Power Development Conference in Philadelphia. The conference attracted a variety of large institutions (hospitals, municipalities, universities, etc.), developers, and financers to discuss the opportunity and challenges surrounding deployment of on-site renewable energy.[…]
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Hydropower News - RenewableEnergyWorld.com
31 Jan 2012 | 3:35 pm
In recent years, run-of-the-river hydropower projects have emerged as a viable, low-impact alternative to existing large-scale projects. Run-of-the-river facilities use conventional hydropower technology to produce electricity by diverting river flow through turbines that spin generators - before returning water back[…]
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Green Power News - RenewableEnergyWorld.com
30 Jan 2012 | 7:13 pm
A big energy-related disaster doesn't just leave horrible marks on people's lives; it also can propel better and quicker policy and technology adoption. Kyocera on Monday said it plans to start selling a system that pairs solar panels with lithium-ion[…]
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Geothermal Energy News - RenewableEnergyWorld.com
30 Jan 2012 | 2:43 pm
Solar players on both sides of the Pacific have been warily anticipating the Feb. 13 deadline when the Department of Commerce was set to announce whether it would impose duties on solar cells and modules coming in from China.
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Energy Efficiency News - RenewableEnergyWorld.com
27 Jan 2012 | 3:00 pm
Energy efficiency in the U.S. is much light and little heat — literally. Government policy pays a great deal of attention to saving electricity, but focuses little on the thermal energy we waste.
“Policy is electricity-centric in the U.S. Unless[…]
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Energy Efficiency News - RenewableEnergyWorld.com
25 Jan 2012 | 3:57 pm
I have a new favorite word — aggregation. At the risk of sounding like a reporter, I'm going to summarize a pre-holiday news story you might have missed but need to know about.
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Energy Efficiency News - RenewableEnergyWorld.com
25 Jan 2012 | 3:33 pm
Securitizing renewable energy networks from cyber-attacks is not complicated by their oft-cited operational headache of intermittency, but rather by their separation from a utility's control system, said smart grid executives at the Gridwise Global Forum in Washington, DC in early[…]
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Green Power News - RenewableEnergyWorld.com
24 Jan 2012 | 3:00 pm
Kevin Frank was named chief executive officer and president of Voith Hydro Inc. in November 2010. Frank discusses technology, policy and the factors driving the hydropower market.
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Green Power News - RenewableEnergyWorld.com
16 Jan 2012 | 4:42 pm
If there was one key takeaway from the most recent RenewableEnergyWorld.com and Solar Power-gen webcast it was that the year ahead will be difficult for large-scale solar power development due to poor access to capital, an uncertain policy landscape, the[…]
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Hydrogen - Fuel Cells News - RenewableEnergyWorld.com
10 Jan 2012 | 12:36 pm
Building transmission to accommodate utility-scale renewable energy generation in the U.S. is seen as essential by much of the renewable energy industry. But can it be justified? Doing so will necessarily involve constructing some of the longest stretches of wire[…]
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Ocean Energy News - RenewableEnergyWorld.com
29 Dec 2011 | 3:00 pm
Developers, manufacturers, investors and other renewable energy industry stakeholders need to know where the next big market is going to be so that they can adjust their business decisions accordingly.
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Hydrogen - Fuel Cells News - RenewableEnergyWorld.com
12 Dec 2011 | 4:36 pm
I wasn’t able to attend the [frustrating] climate change talks in Durban, South Africa this year, although I would have loved to. South Africa is an incredible place to visit.
I say the talks are frustrating because they always seem[…]
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