Originally published on Ecopreneurist Many of us are remarkably laid back about the lighting we use to light our work and living spaces, and we let our illumination needs get met with whatever fixtures and bulbs are already there. It’s rather silly when you think about it, as just about any … [continued]
In South Africa, the Kalkbult solar power plant has gone online three months ahead of schedule. It is South Africa’s first utility-scale photovoltaic solar power plant. It has an electricity generation capacity of 75 MW and consists of 312,000 solar panels. 600 construction jobs were created by the project, 16% … [continued]
The average cost for tier 1 solar photovoltaic manufacturers is expected to fall 6% during 2014, continuing the downward trend set in place since 2008, bringing the overall cost to a record low of $0.20 per watt, according to the latest research from NPD Solarbuzz published in their Polysilicon and Wafer … [continued]
Originally published on The Lenz Blog German Watch has published the 2014 “Climate Change Performance Index”, and Germany’s overall score is “moderate”. Thanks to this tweet by Volker Quaschning for the link. The index has several categories: Emissions (30 percent of points), emission reductions (30 percent), efficiency (10 percent), renewable energy (10 percent), … [continued]
South Carolina has just cemented its reputation as a wind power force to be reckoned with, thanks to a massive new state-of-the-art wind turbine testing center in Charleston that officially opened yesterday. The aptly named Large Wind Turbine Drivetrain Testing Facility is the biggest in the US and it will … [continued]
Show up at the next city council meeting in your area regarding the improvement of bike lanes. Better yet, show up with pictures of these Lego-like bike lanes! Or get some of the building blocks themselves and pop them together in front of the non-committal committee. These innovative bike lanes … [continued]
Siemens has been awarded the contract to provide 97 wind turbines for the Gode Wind 1 and Gode Wind 2 projects to be installed off the North Sea island of Juist. The turbines each rate at 6 MW and, upon completion, the two wind farms will reach a capacity of … [continued]
Music is energy, creative vibrations that enrich and create more energy vibrations. We all know this experientially and intuitively. Science and music are intrinsically related. Still, each fresh encounter with the study of music and metronomes is quite appealing. A new exploration actually shows how music positively affects solar panels. … [continued]
Originally published on RenewEconomy Poland, the host of the climate change negotiations, is going to extreme lengths to protect its coal-fired electricity industry — making sudden changes to renewable energy support schemes, and even going so far as erecting a form of electronic barrier to keep renewable energy from neighbouring … [continued]
Originally published on Ecopreneurist. There are plenty of plug-n-play options using renewable energy to provide offgrid power, but most of them rely on solar or thermoelectric energy, which may not always be the most appropriate choice, depending on the location and situation. For those living or recreating next to flowing water, there’s now … [continued]
