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Harvesting power from the wind and the sun is nothing new. We've seen flying wind turbines and solar power plants that aim to provide clean renewable energy.
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The British project planner Sustainable Renewable Technologies (SRT, Bilston Glen, UK) has been nominated for the Solar Power Portal Award for a solar photovoltaic (PV) system installed on a pyramid-shaped office building.
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Wind can be an unpredictable and unstable source of power, and high in the sky where it is more stable, it's difficult to exploit.
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Citing the nation's renewable energy solicitations, Frost & Sullivan (Mountain View, California, U.S.) forecasts that renewable energy will grow from 1% of South Africa's energy supply in 2012 to 12% in 2020.
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Less than three years after the disaster at a nuclear power plant in Fukushima, a hotly-anticipated floating offshore wind turbine began operating 20 kilometres from the damaged site on Monday.
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India's Union Government has approved the establishment of a new central center for solar energy research and development and related activities.
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The UK's Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) expects renewable energy to increase to meet over 37% of the nation's electricity demand by 2022, in its latest annual energy and emissions projections.
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VTT Technological Research Centre of Finland (VTT) coordinates a new European project, which focuses on studying anaerobic digestion (AD) of organic waste and developing its control.
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Using new silicon carbide (SiC) diodes, Siemens and its research partners have succeeded in increasing the power of frequency converters by almost ten percent.
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The “New Light” project in Hoa Binh Province is proceeding smoothly, along with other projects to improve local roads, clinics, and the sports and cultural center as part of the National New Rural Area Construction Program.
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True or false: solar and wind power are freely available and clean, and thus should always be stored when they generate more energy than the grid can use?
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State University of New York’s (SUNY) Cortland campus has recently taken action to use 100% renewable energy.
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Renewable energy provided over 14% of America’s electric power in the first half of 2013, according to the US Government.
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Australian company Zeo has developed and patented a glue-free process that creates a strong, versatile new building material out of just cellulose and water.
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Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania have demonstrated a new mechanism for extracting energy from light
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North Carolina State University researchers have come up with a new technique for improving the connections between stacked solar cells,
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A team of researchers from North Carolina State University developed self-healing solar cells, which reinvigorate themselves as their performance decreases with time in a very effective, cheap and environmentally friendly manner.
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On September 5th, 2013, in Hanoi, General Department of Energy (GDoE) – Ministry of Industry and Trade held a workshop to announce the new financing mechanism about lending schemes of renewable energy development projects (REDP).
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Everyone knows energy storage is the key to unlocking renewable energy’s full potential, right? Well, not always, says new research from Stanford University.
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Renewable energy becoming more cost-competitive with fossil fuels isn’t news – as technology improves and more clean power generation comes online, electricity without emissions gets cheaper.