Renewable energy means harvesting electricity (and sometimes heat) from natural resources — the wind, sunlight, flowing water, or the heat of the Earth below its surface. All these sources are free and will last almost forever. Yeah, we hear the nattering nabobs of negativism in the audience. “Someday the sun … [continued]
The Orkney Islands off the northern tip of Scotland are a test bed for renewable energy generation and management strategies that could benefit the rest of the UK and other nations.
Earth-sheltered homes are homes built using soil or substrate of some kind as external thermal mass to provide insulation, and various climate control properties. To put that in plain language, earth-sheltered homes use dirt, rock, and vegetation to protect the home from the elements.
Scottish-based subsea technology company EC-OG has announced its ocean current energy conversion system, the Subsea Power Hub, was switched on for the first time this month at a test site in northern Scotland, and is fully operational and performing in line with expectations.
A 1 MW tidal stream turbine installed off the Orkney Islands in Scotland at the European Marine Energy Centre surpassed 1 GWh of electricity generated earlier this month, going a long way to proving that tidal energy, if not all marine energy sources, is worth the trouble. The site’s developer, Alstom, … [continued]
Atlantis Resources Limited, owner of development rights to the Pentland Firth, has awarded Zurich-based ABB the contract to install tidal power conversion and grid connection systems for the four-turbine, 6-megawatt demonstration phase of the MeyGen tidal stream project. ABB is the world’s premier maker of power grids and a well-known multinational engineering company. … [continued]
