The US-based solar electricity company SunEdison has officially inaugurated Europe's largest single-site solar farm, producing enough clean-energy to power around 17,000 homes within nine months of acquiring permission from the Italian government.
The biggest star of all will illuminate the stages of the Sydney Theatre Company. An array of 1,906 solar panels on the roof of the Wharf on Sydney Harbour were switched on by the company's artistic director actress Cate Blanchett and her husband Andrew Upton this week.
In yet another attempt to harness solar power for sea travel, Swiss engineer Raphael Domjan has designed the world's largest solar powered boat.
RWE Innogy, and RAG Montan Immobilien announced that they have planned to convert a waste heap into a plant to produce power, by combining wind energy and pumped storage. Both the companies have entered into a letter of intent, under which they will focus on the technical and economic feasibility of combining water and wind as energy supply.
The renewable energy activity plan in Estonia through the year 2020 has been approved by its government. As a result, the contribution of renewable energy to the total power consumption in the country will increase by 25%.
A $32.4 Geothermal heating plant is to be installed at the University of Missouri’s campus. The university’s Board of Curators has given approval for the project and for the issue of 30 year bonds for financing the project.
Himachal Pradesh’ Nathpa Jhakri Project, which is the nation’s largest hydroelectric project, has surpassed the 6000MU power generation target. It is now generating 178 MU in excess of the target to be achieved as per the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) offered by the Power Ministry.
The previous Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s last task was the inauguration of six small-scale hydro plants in Goias, a Central State, to boost the development of the interior regions of the nation.
According to a State Agency, the Alaska Energy Authority, the state would be engaged in the pursuit of developing a 600 MW hydro project on the Susitna River, to the North of Anchorage.
Spectrolab, a wholly owned subsidiary of Boeing (NYSE:BA), has started the mass production of its newest terrestrial solar cell, the C3MJ+. With an average conversion efficiency of 39.2 percent, C3MJ+ will be the industry’s highest-efficient cell. These (updated triple-junction) devices have an average conversion efficiency of 39.2% at a 500-sun concentration.
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