Researchers from Murdoch University in Western Australia are hoping to use three-dimensional modelling of urban wind flows to improve the design and efficiency of small wind turbines located in the city […]
With the National Football League season officially underway, yet another team has scored a renewable energy touchdown. This time it’s the Minnesota Vikings, and this one’s big […]
America is at a turning point toward harnessing 52 GW of generation capacity, 300,000 jobs, and $200 billion in economic activity from offshore wind. […]
The Plains and Eastern Clean Line wind power transmission line in Oklahoma was approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Wednesday to start acquiring customers for its potential 7,000 MW of clean energy. This line will be approximately 800 miles in length and is a high-voltage direct current transmission … [continued]
Last week, I published a post on the point that the retail price of electricity in Germany has risen at the same time that whole electricity prices have dropped. Basically, it utility profit margins in Germany have just gone up, and renewable energy has been used as a scapegoat for rising consumer energy prices.
One of our readers actually dropped a tremendously useful link in the comments, a link which included the graph below […]
Speaking to AFP on the sidelines of a conference in Marrakesh, Deputy Energy Minister Mohammed Zniber said that his country is “very confident” of finding the investment necessary to build massive solar plants in its southern desert regions.
“Our target is that in 2020, 42 percent of our power supply will come from renewable energy, including 14 percent from solar,” he said […]
Wind power has great potential as a form of renewable energy, but in order to really efficiently produce it, turbines need to be optimally positioned and dimensioned. A newly designed 200-meter high wind measuring mast that delivers precise data will be able to help with that, by very accurately forecasting energy yields […]
There are endless ways to reduce waste. One way to reduce waste is to reduce wasted land usage, and the EPA has launched a map of California to address exactly that. The EPA’s online map, called Renewable Energy Siting Tool, highlights areas prime for large- and small-scale renewable energy … [continued]
Germany’s electric grid recently set a personal record with a downtime of only 15.31 minutes in 2011, that’s significantly lower than the already impressive 17.44 minutes of downtime that occurred during the time period from 2006 the 2010. This basically crushes the common myth that renewable energy hurts grid reliability — it actually seems to have the opposite effect. […]
The Chinese government is forcing the hand of utilities companies to support wind energy while also improving and expanding the electricity grid. China has announced that, by the end of the year, utilities have to buy between five and fifteen percent of their energy from wind farms. Percentages of … [continued]
