The extended tax credits will prove a great present for thousands of workers in the renewable energy industry. President Obama signed legislation on Friday extending key tax credits supporting renewable energy projects and biofuel use.

The two countries' interest in cooperation is quite natural. The Czech Republic is preparing a lucrative tender for the completion of the nuclear power plant Temelin, near the Austrian border, in which the US firm Westinghouse has expressed interest. Westinghouse has a Japanese owner but its seat and operations are in the USA. The project is worth several hundred billion crowns. Besides Westinghouse, the other bidders are Czech-Russian consortium of Skoda JS Atomstroyexport and France's Areva.

Theo tin tức từ tờ CTK, Bộ trưởng công thương và công nghiệp Czech Martin Kocourek và đối tác phía Mỹ, ông Gary Locke vừa kí tuyên bố hợp tác song phương về năng lượng nguyên tử trong lĩnh vực khoa học và thương mại tạiWashington. Mối quan tâm của cả hai nước với sự hợp tác lần này khá dễ hiểu. Cộng hòa Czech đang chuẩn bị cho gói thầu dự án hoàn thành nhà máy năng lượng nguyên tử Temelin, gần biên giới Bỉ trị giá vài trăm tỉ crown.

Korea is set to build 14 nuclear power plants by the year 2024 in an attempt to lessen its reliance on petroleum for electricity. At a public hearing in Seoul on Tuesday the Korean government announced a long-term plan for energy which calls for an increase in the portion generated through nuclear plants and renewable sources.

Theo Trung tâm Tiết kiệm năng lượng TPHCM (EEC-HCMC), từ năm 2002 đến năm 2010, có tổng số 164 tòa nhà được kiểm toán năng lượng, gồm các loại hình như khách sạn, bệnh viện, trường học, trung tâm thương mại, văn phòng, căn hộ... Kết quả, ở tất cả các công trình, năng lượng dành cho điều hòa không khí chiếm tỉ lệ cao nhất, ở các tòa nhà công sở là 75,9%; khách sạn là 74,83%; trung tâm thương mại là 58%.

Drying biosolids to approximately 75 percent solids, beyond the 15 to 20 percent solids typical at wastewater treatment plants, was recognized as the best way to create a workable, pathogen-free biosolid that could be used as cover at the Toland Road Landfill in Santa Paula, with potential future use as fertilizer or fuel. A biosolids drying system was developed to meet the long-term disposal needs of Ventura County in an economical, environmentally responsible manner.

A sprawling international collaboration between scientists at government and university laboratories has resulted in a breakthrough discovery that could lead to more efficient ways of generating electricity from waste heat. The phenomenon, called the thermoelectric effect, can be applied to car exhaust, factory emissions, and other operations to capture the large amount of human-manufactured energy that is currently lost to the atmosphere.

A statement from the department on Saturday said that IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano was in the country from Dec. 8 to Dec. 11, where he met senior officials from Philippine government agencies involved in the implementation of technical cooperation projects in various nuclear applications.

Innovative green transport systems such as electric tricycles, hybrid jeepneys and electric bicycles have the potential to lessen pollution caused by conventional transportation and the dependency on fossil fuels, according to Senator Edgardo J. Angara.

According to Director of Institute of Atomic Energy, Mr. Vuong Huu Tan, currently, the location of the center is located in the research and proposal. All the work is at the starting point. For the 3 locations of Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and Da Lat, in most meetings and conferences, scientists proposed to build the center near Hanoi. According to scientists, this location will satify all conditions, especially to take full advantage of human resources available in Vietnam Atomic Energy Institute.

Unit 1 with the capacity of 400MW of Son La Hydropower Plant has been successfully connected to the National Electricity System at 12h45’on December 17th, 2010. Son La hydropower plant, with the installed capacity of 2400 MW, including six units, each unit with the capacity of 400MW, is the second ladder on Da River, after Lai Chau hydropower plant started on December 22th and above Hoa Binh hydropower plant.

On December 15th, in Hanoi, the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) held a ceremony reviewing the energy efficiency program in the 2006-2010 period and the implementation of Directive No. 19/2005/CT-TTg on energy conservation in production and consumption . After 5 years of nationwide deployment, with the coordination between the MOIT and the People's Committees of provinces and cities under the Central Government, the program has obtained encouraging achievements.

The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, December 6, 2010 that a “framework agreement” has been signed between French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The agreement will allow French state-owned Areva, to sell nuclear reactors to India’s Maharashtra state complete with nuclear fuel for 25 years.

Research by energy management specialist AlertMe, which monitored an office of 50 staff over two weekends, found that leaving just one desktop PC and monitor on standby for the extended 10-day Christmas period emits 4kg of CO2 - 200 times more than 100 fairy lights.

This is the second time that VMC has bagged the coveted award for which civic bodies from across the country compete. In 2008, VMC had won the award for the first time. It was also the first time that the awards were instituted making the civic body the first recipient of the award.

Dịch vụ thông tin gió cộng đồng của Second Wind sẽ sử dụng Triton trong vòng từ 3 đến 12 tháng để tiến hành đo gió, sau đó thống kê các số liệu cùng với những nguồn thông tin gió sẵn có khác để đưa ra Bản báo cáo thông tin gió. Bản báo cáo sẽ bao gồm những ước định và yếu tố công suất dự kiến của tuabin.

The Tesla Roadster uses a battery called “18650,” originally designed for laptop computers. The car doesn’t use 10, or a hundred, but 6,831 of them, enough to dispatch a 56 kWh power onto the Roadster’s electric motors and wheels. This power is enough to take you from 0 to 60 mph in about 3.5 seconds (depending on the car’s version).

Officials with the Robins Air Force Base Energy Office are conducting feasibility on the use of plasma arc technology, which offers environmentally safe measures for waste disposal. "The process can take nearly any material and convert it to energy," said Judith Middlebrooks, an engineer with the Energy Office. "It uses extremely high temperatures to turn products into mostly hydrogen and carbon monoxide. Plastics are really great, but most any organic compound will work."

Sustainable World Capital (SWC) là một Tập đoàn tài chính xuyên quốc gia, với hoạt động chủ yếu là tập trung vào việc gây quỹ đầu tư cũng như hỗ trợ các doanh nghiệp nghiên cứu và phát triển công nghệ sạch (cleantech). Tổ chức này mới đây đã đưa ra đánh giá và liệt kê danh sách “những quốc gia phát triển công nghệ sạch hàng đầu trên thế giới”.

Statistics from the Ethiopian Ministry of Mines and Energy (MoME) indicate that the country spends about Ethiopian Birr 10 billion (US$800 million) annually to import petroleum products for domestic consumption. The figure, according to the MoME represents more than 90 percent of Ethiopia’s earnings from foreign trade each year. Were the country to tap some of its renewable energy potential, the energy independence it would achieve as a result, would be a boon to the economy.