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National Power and Drinking Water Office Selects Abengoa for €23 Million Electricity Transmission Project in Morocco

Abengoa, the company that applies innovative technology solutions for sustainability in the energy and environment sectors, has been selected by the National Power and Drinking Water Office (ONEE) for a new electricity transmission project in Morocco.

24 Nov 2014

Lockheed Martin, Concord Blue to Build Clean Energy Power Generation Facility in Germany

Lockheed Martin and teammate Concord Blue announced a new contract to build a power generation facility that will provide a new, clean energy source to meet the needs of 5,000 homes and businesses in Herten, Germany.

21 Nov 2014

Industrial Civilization May Begin Descent Toward Energy Resource-Limited Future in this Century

Some time this century, the era of cheap and abundant energy will end, and Western industrial civilization will likely begin a long, slow descent toward a resource-limited future characterized by "involuntary simplicity."

21 Nov 2014

UEA Researchers Make Progress in Enhancing Generation of Clean Energy from Bacteria

Researchers from the University of East Anglia (UEA) are a step closer to enhancing the generation of clean energy from bacteria.

21 Nov 2014

TU Wien Implements Innovative 'Energy-Plus' Office Building

The 'Plus-Energie-Bürohochhaus' (Energy-plus office tower) is the first office tower in the world to be able to claim to feed more energy into the power grid than is required to operate AND use the building. Innovation Minister Alois Stöger opened the building on the TU's Getreidemarkt campus on 6 November 2014.

20 Nov 2014

UCLA Methanol Processing Method Could Reduce Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Lower Production Costs

Researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have developed a more efficient way to turn methanol into useful chemicals, such as liquid fuels, and that would also reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

17 Nov 2014

Self-Sustaining Microgrid Energy Islands

When Department of Energy and Oak Ridge National Laboratory researcher Yan Xu talks about “islanding,” or isolating, from the grid, she’s discussing a fundamental benefit of microgrids—small systems powered by renewables and energy storage devices. The benefit is that microgrids can disconnect from larger utility grids and continue to provide power locally.

7 Nov 2014

aQysta Named Europe’s Most Innovative Clean-Tech Venture

Climate-KIC, the EU’s main climate innovation initiative, has announced that Dutch start-up aQysta has been named Europe’s most innovative clean-tech venture by a jury of esteemed entrepreneurs, financiers and business people in its Europe-wide Venture Competition.

4 Nov 2014

Sandia Labs Begins Characterization of TransPower’s Large Grid Energy Storage System

Sandia National Laboratories has begun lab-based characterization of TransPower’s GridSaver, the largest grid energy storage system analyzed at Sandia’s Energy Storage Test Pad in Albuquerque, N.M.

27 Oct 2014

DTE Biomass Energy Completes 9.6MW Landfill Gas-to-Energy Project in Mt. Gilead

DTE Biomass Energy today celebrated the completion of its 9.6-megawatt landfill gas-to-energy project at the Uwharrie Environmental Landfill in Mt. Gilead.

25 Oct 2014