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Russia has said it was ready to provide Indonesia with assistance to build its own nuclear power plant. Russian Ambassador to Indonesia Alexander Ivanov said in a press conference Tuesday that the possibility of building a nuclear plant in Indonesia was one of many issues Russia was willing to discuss in the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) later this year.
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Environmentalists have long complained that so long as diesel or gasoline remains relatively inexpensive, there is little incentive to come up with alternative, greener energies for transportation. But the price of oil and gasoline isn't the only reason to go green. The United States Navy says they are making a tactical decision to find cleaner alternatives. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus says that by 2012, the military branch plans to demonstrate a carrier strike group that uses alternative fuels.
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Asia leads the growth in global wind power, which grew 35.8 GW in 2010 bringing total global capacity to 194.4 GW – up 22.5% from 2009, the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) says. Wind power installations in 2010 represented investments worth €47.3 billion, but the global wind power market was nonetheless down for the first time in 20 years. New installations fell 7% compared to 2009, mainly due to a disappointing year in the US, as well as a slowdown in Europe.
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Loại pin này sử dụng tế bào nhiên liệu sạch tiên tiến cho hiệu quả chuyển hóa hydro thành điện năng cao. PowerTrekk có thích thước nhỏ gọn có thể bỏ túi với vỏ bọc không thấm nước có thể chịu được va đập mạnh. Giải pháp pin di động mà nhà sản xuất đưa ra đó là hai trong một. Ngoài khả năng tạo điện tức thời PowerTrekk vẫn được tích hợp thêm một pin thông thường cho phép hoạt động độc lập hoặc đóng vai trò là pin tích điện.
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People were skeptical when the idea was first floated about a year ago, says Nick Getzen, spokesman for The Jobs Project, which is trying to create renewable energy job opportunities in West Virginia and Kentucky. In the southern coalfields, he says, people have only ever gotten electricity one way – from coal-fired power plants.
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The site allows homeowners and property developers to work out the optimum size of any solar power system they wish to install, and provides users with links to local installers. The site is designed to encourage more uptake of renewable energy in the region and to fuel job growth, according to DRCOG executive director, Jennifer Schaufele.
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The director of the Energy Intensive Users Group, Jeremy Nicholson has said that failure of wind how has very profound implications. This comes after new figures have shown that during the recent cold period, wind power produced less than two percent of the nation’s electricity. He says that because of this, the government will encourage companies to build back up stations in case of further failures.
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Havana Energy Ltd – part of the Esencia Group of companies - has teamed up with Zerus SA, a company linked to the Ministry of Sugar, to develop a pilot 30MW power plant at Ciro Redondo Sugar Mill, about 400km from Havana, and as a second stage four further power plants. The business will be developed in a joint venture company.
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Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) Group yesterday officially started construction on the second turbine of Song Tranh 2 hydropower plant with designed capacity of 95MW.
The Song Tranh 2 hydropower plant project has been conducted by EVN Group as the main investor. It's the second hydropower plant to be built on Vu Gia-Thu Bon river system. It is expected that the hydropower plant will produce annual electricity output of 679.6 million KWh to join the national grid.
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Researchers at the University of Leeds are developing a roasting process that would transform raw biomass from a bulky , water-saturated material into an energy-rich powder that is perfect for burning in coal-fired power plants. Called torrefaction, it is a relatively low-temperature process similar to that used in roasting coffee beans. If the researchers can overcome a few stumbling blocks, the process could lead to a new burst of coal-to-biomass power plant conversions, and consequently to lower greenhouse gas emissions.
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Both the private sector and government in Korea have increased spending on clean energy and green technology development in the past few years. Korea’s Ministry of Knowledge Economy has worked with private firms to find new improvements in battery technology, photovoltaics, geothermal power generation, and biofuels. And this year, the Korea government expects to inject 1 trillion won (US$900 million) into current and next generation clean energy sources.
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This is the finding of a recent US study that was compiled by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Department of Energy, the University of Maryland and NASA, which introduced a new assessment method to analyze interactions between solar thermal and electrical systems. The aim is to overcome one of the greatest difficulties of economic models that were used up to now for the energy evaluation of solar power, which practically did not take into account the source’s natural variability compared to network loads.
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Trong năm 2010 các nhà máy điện của Tổng công ty đều hoạt động ổn định, an toàn và hiệu quả, sản lượng điện thương mại tăng cao, cụ thể: Tổng sản lượng điện thương mại thực hiện năm 2010 là 12,685 tỷ kWh, vượt 25% so với kế hoạch Tập đoàn giao (10,15 tỷ kWh) và tăng 49% so với kế hoạch năm 2009 (8,541 tỷ kWh), trong đó Nhà máy điện Cà Mau 1&2 đạt 9,186 tỷ kWh hoàn thành 121% kế hoạch; nhà máy điện Nhơn Trạch 1 đạt 3,499 tỷ kWh hoàn thành 137% kế hoạch năm.
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The Indian state of Gujarat has approved Asia’s first commercial-scale tidal power project in the Gulf of Kutch. The 50 MW tidal current power plant will be developed by UK company Atlantis Resources Corporation in partnership with Gujarat Power Corporation, with construction starting as early as 2011.
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Bang Guijarat, Ấn Độ đã thông qua dự án năng lượng thủy triều với quy mô thương mại đầu tiên ở Châu Á. Dự án này được tiến hành ở vịnh Gulf of Kutch. Nhà máy năng lượng thủy triều công suất 50MW sẽ được xây dựng bởi liên doanh giữa tập đoàn Atlantis Resources Corporation (Anh quốc) và tập đoàn Gujarat Power Corporation (Ấn Độ). Dự kiến nhà máy sẽ khởi công vào đầu năm 2011.
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Chief minister Narendra Modi on Thursday formally launched work on the 500 MW solar power park, Asia's largest such project, at Charanka village in Patan district, and expressed confidence that the park would bring a lot of benefits for the local populace and the area.
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Hai công ty Toshiba và Tokyo Electric Power sẽ trình lên chính phủ Nhật Bản kế hoạch xây một trong những trạm năng lượng mặt trời lớn nhất thế giới ở Bulgaria.
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Scientists with USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) have found that barley grain can be used to produce ethanol, and the leftover byproducts-barley straw, hulls , and dried distillers grains (DDGS)-can be used to produce an energy-rich oil called bio-oil. The bio-oil could then be used either for transportation fuels or for producing heat and power needed for the grain-to-ethanol conversion. ARS is USDA's principal intramural scientific research agency, and these results support the USDA priority of developing new sources of bioenergy.
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Wind power rose by 18.5 per cent in 2010 and now meets 16 per cent of demand. Luis Atienza, managing director of Spain's electricity grid, predicted that "within three years wind power will overtake nuclear as an electricity source". At its peak, on November 9, wind power met 43 per cent of demand.
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Siemens Healthcare is developing a solar power solution, which would support the medical imaging equipments including MRI, CT, ultrasound scanning and X-ray systems. The company said this would largely help the centres located at the rural parts of the country, where power shortage is high.