Floating Solar Power Plants To Hitch A Ride With Offshore Wind Farms
Plans are in the works to co-locate undulating carpet-like floating solar platforms with offshore wind farms in the North Sea, and beyond.
Plans are in the works to co-locate undulating carpet-like floating solar platforms with offshore wind farms in the North Sea, and beyond.
Wake-up time for marine energy is finally here, in the form of new devices that harvest the natural motion of waves, tides, and currents.
DONG Energy has been awarded the concession to build the 700 MW Borssele 1 and 2 Offshore Wind Farms off the coast of the Netherlands. DONG Energy announced on Monday that the Netherlands’ Minister of Economic Affairs had awarded the company the concession to build the Borssele 1 and 2 Offshore Wind … [continued]
Originally published on The Conversation by Arthur Petersen A Dutch district court has ordered the Netherlands to cut greenhouse gas emissions to 25% lower than 1990 levels by 2020. This is several percentage points deeper than the 17% reduction the country had been envisaging. While such a ruling may seem … [continued]
A coalition of 900 Dutch citizens has taken the government of the Netherlands to court over its inaction with regard to cutting greenhouse gas emissions and addressing climate change. This represents (arguably) the first time ever that a national government has been taken to court over existing human rights with … [continued]
Google has signed a long-term power purchase agreement with NextEra Energy Resources to acquire the energy generated by California’s Altamont Pass wind farm to power its North Bayshore campus in Mountain View. The power purchase agreement (PPA) is not the first time Google is entering into agreements for clean energy, … [continued]
The 2013 World Solar Challenge has a winner! After travelling 3,000 kilometers across the dry heart of Australia using only the power of the sun, the Nuna 7, designed and built by the Nulon Solar Team from the Delft Universty of Technology in the Netherlands, was the first to cross … [continued]
A new Dutch book written by ‘the climate-lawyer’ Roger H.J. Cox has sparked a lawsuit being filed against the Dutch government, claiming that the Netherlands is under a legal obligation to reduce its CO2 emissions by as much as 40% by 2020 and up to 95% by 2050. The … [continued]
Now here’s an innovation that might make me consider moving back to New York City: air-purifying concrete. The small Dutch town of Hengelo is testing out the concrete paving stones, which contain a titanium-dioxide based additive that binds to nitrogen particles emitted by car exhaust and turns them into harmless … [continued]