An increasing number of private individuals supply their excess energy, from external energy sources (windmills and solar cells), to the electricity grid and only take energy from the grid when necessary.
Honeywell today announced that Poway Unified School District in San Diego, Calif. has awarded the company a solar project that is expected to save the district more than $1 million in energy costs over the next 20 years. Under the agreement, Honeywell will install solar arrays at four of the district's schools and sell the electricity the panels produce to the district.
Photovoltaic (PV) technology is set to become one of France's fastest growing energy sources over the next decade, as dramatic increases in world oil prices radically shift the balance in favour of renewable energy sources.
Members of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE are traveling to Tokyo with bulky luggage these days. Their destination is Nanotech 2008, the world's largest trade fair for nanotechnology. Their solar module, which they will be presenting in the BMBF marketing campaign "Nanotech Germany", is the size and shape of a door: two meters high and sixty centimeters wide.
Rice University was selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) as one of 20 university-led teams to compete in the fourth Solar Decathlon, which will be held on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., in the fall of 2009.
Intel Corporation said today it will purchase more than 1.3 billion kilowatt hours a year of renewable energy certificates as part of a multi-faceted approach to reduce its impact on the environment, making Intel the single-largest corporate purchaser of green power in the United States, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Here’s something residents of cloudy Northern Europe should appreciate: a way of using rain to generate power.
Global Solar Energy (GSE), the premier manufacturer of Copper Indium Gallium diSelenide (CIGS) thin-film solar products, today announced it is the first in the CIGS thin-film market to achieve an average of 10-percent solar cell efficiency on a flexible/lightweight substrate over several production runs.
In response to EPA’s nationwide challenge issued in December 2006, 53 Fortune 500 corporations are now collectively purchasing more than six billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) of green power annually.
The first of six properties designed to show case state-of-the-art energy efficient housing will be officially opened on Wednesday January 30 2008 at The University of Nottingham.
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