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Clean Edge recently posted an article by Clint Wilder describing the increasing levels of bipartisan support for clean energy technology in the past few months. One of the main pieces of evidence used to support this claim is a report from DBL Investors titled "Red, White and Green: The True Colors of America's Clean Tech Jobs." Many liberal members of Congress have been vocal in their support of clean energy for years, but the report states that it is in fact traditionally conservative states in the west and south that are quickly becoming champions of clean energy projects. Of the top 10 states with the fastest growth in clean tech jobs between 2003 and 2010, four states (Alaska, Nebraska, North Dakota and Wyoming) are solidly conservative and four more (Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and North Carolina) have strong conservative influences.
The driving factor behind this shift is the job benefits that the clean energy industry has created. All of these states have created thousands of competitive jobs through wind, solar and biomass plants, which in turn helps boost the economy. Having thousands of new, well-paying jobs is especially important in a tumultuous economic time such as this, which is why state representatives have jumped at the chance to use the renewable energy resources found in their own backyards.
Clint Wilder then points out that is a shame that Mitt Romney and most of the GOP are not supporting the extension of the Production Tax Credit, despite years of evidence showing the positive benefits for employment across the United States. It is actually red states that are disproportionally gaining jobs from the clean tech industry, which is why it is puzzling that almost all Republicans have refused to support clean energy and instead continue to cling to subsidies for oil and gas companies. Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin (R) has publicly stated her support for extending the PTC, while acknowledging that she supports Romney on virtually every other issue.
The fact that this issue has become so politicized is a shame for workers and families in places like Oklahoma, Indiana and Iowa who have already seen job losses in clean tech due to the threat of the PTC expiring. At a time when all jobs are essential for boosting the economy, it is disappointing that the national Republican party has chosen to lump the PTC in with other politicized "green energy issues" like Solyndra. By equating the PTC to Solyndra, the Republican Party is deceiving the American public into thinking that energy subsidies for clean technology are a waste of taxpayer money, when actually they are helping to create millions of jobs in an industry will soon be the future of energy production.
But it is important to remember that not all Republicans subscribe to the beliefs of Romney and the rest of the "mainstream" Republican Party. John Bohn, the former head of Moody's Investor Services and the Export-Import Bank of the US, calls himself a card-carrying Republican who also happens to firmly support clean energy technology. There have been many studies that show that John Bohn is not the only conservative that thinks that clean energy technology and jobs are an important part of the future for the American economy. If more of these types of thinkers start to represent southern and western Republican districts, then there is a good chance that clean energy will start to become a bipartisan issue at the national level.
Credit: [Matt Jennings]
FastCompany has a mound on Report Gates' articulate in a biogas / biodiesel from seepage project in West Africa - Report Gates Scaffold Worldly Remains To Biofuel Hang over In Ghana
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The Report and Melinda Gates Foundation emphatically awarded Columbia University tutor Kartik Chandran a 1.5 million concede to get a hold a "Next-Generation Capital Purity Skill" in Accra, Ghana listed with Remains Enterprisers (a autonomous American-led, Ghanaian fixed) and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Equipment. The aptitude, which has not yet been built, will veer unprocessed compounds from fecal morass hip biodiesel and methane (two energy sources).
Vermont confirmed today that 22 million in additional funds will be available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) - also called the stimulus package. The funds will be added to 7 million dollars of State funds available to the Clean Energy Development Fund (CEDF). The CEDF provides grants and loans for renewable energy projects such as solar photovoltaic, wind turbines, methane digesters (cow power), and other biomass. See our April 8th, 2009 post for more background. According to Recovery.gov, the www site that tracks ARRA allocations, 43 billion has been allocated nationwide to energy investment.
The Economic Development legislation passed by the House and Senate (the Governor has not yet agreed to sign), changes the governance of the CEDF. Currently the Board consists of the commissioner of public service and the chairs of the house and senate committees on natural resources and energy. The new legislation, if signed into law, would create a Board of nine including: (A) Three at-large directors appointed by the Speaker of the House; (B) Three at-large directors appointed by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate (C) Two at-large directors appointed by the Governor (D) The State Treasurer, ex-officio. The new law puts in place more transparency and financial accountability, moves the fund manager from the Department of Public Service to the Treasurer's Office, and gives the Board authority to use the CEDF for loss reserves for related bonding.
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and U.S. Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) announced initiatives for large scale solar development on federal lands. (Bureau of Land Management News Release, June 29, 2009).
Essentially, portions of public lands in the Western United States are on the fast-track to becoming large scale solar energy fields. The Bureau of Land Management has received about 160 applications for solar projects "covering 1.8 million acres, with a projected capacity to generate 97,000 megawatts of electricity...enough to power 29 million homes, the equivalent of 29 percent of the nation's household electrical consumption."
The broad tracts of lands initially identified in the Western U.S. areas still need to be narrowed to particular locations based on suitability for solar projects and other factors. The evaluation should be complete near late 2010, and "[c]ompanies proposing solar energy projects in designated areas would be able to 'tier' to this study, using it as part of their environmental impact studies for site-specific projects, which are required by the National Environmental Policy Act."
Source: [Bureau of Land Management News Release]
About a quarter of Mongolia's 2.8 million people are nomadic herders of yaks, cattle, sheep, goats and camels who live in gers - as their traditional tent dwellings are known - on the country's vast steppes. It is a simple life that has endured for centuries. Until recently, it was also a life without electricity.
That has changed for about 100,000 herder families, whose daily lives have been transformed by off-grid solar home systems which generate enough power for lights, televisions, radios, mobile phone charging and small appliances.
The herders have gained access to solar power through a program launched by the Mongolian government with support from the World Bank and the Government of the Netherlands. Thanks to the "National 100,000 Solar Ger Electrification Program, "over half a million men, women and children, covering half the rural population of Mongolia and 70 percent of herders, now have access to modern electricity
"We are proud to be part of this effort, which means 500,000 people, or half the rural population of Mongolia, have electricity through portable and affordable solar home systems," said Pamela Cox, World Bank Regional Vice President for East Asia and Pacific in her first visit to the country. "Now, children can study at night, families can watch TV and recharge cell phones, enabling them to connect to the world while maintaining their nomadic lifestyles. This is one of many innovative ideas that we are putting to work on the ground to make growth more inclusive."
"A few years ago, country herders managed with candles and lanterns. The change in life between then and now is like night and day," said herder Baatar Khandaa. "I believe that the quality of life in the countryside and the city are now about the same."
Families can now relax and spend time together at night under electric lights. Children can learn by reading and from watching television. Herders often tune in to radio and television weather reports that help them manage their livestock, and use mobile phones to find out about market prices for wool and cashmere.
The program provided "portable "solar home systems adapted to herders' nomadic way of life. Herders can easily set them up and dismantle them when they relocate. The project employed a balanced approach to pricing the systems, where herders "purchased "the solar home systems, albeit with a subsidy that covered about half the costs. It made the systems affordable to herders while helping to expand sales.
It was a particular challenge reaching remote herders living in the vast rural countryside. In response, the project established 50 privately-owned solar home system sales and service centers spread across Mongolia. Their staff were trained to promote and sell certified solar home systems so that herders could buy with confidence. They were also trained to repair and maintain the units - vital to sustaining the benefits of the program. To extend their reach, the sales and service centers partnered with an existing network of village administrators located in 342 villages. This effective public-private partnership helped the project sell solar home systems in every remote corner of the country.
With tens of thousands of customers now demanding solar home systems, the sales and service centers are seeing an increase in their sales of radios, televisions, kettles and other small appliances that newly-electrified households want to buy as well.
"The key was to build on the government's existing efforts", said Migara Jayawardena, Senior Energy Specialist at the World Bank. "Good practices and lessons from other successful renewable energy and rural electrification projects from countries such as China, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka were customized to meet Mongolia's unique circumstances."
Mongolia has found off-grid electrification with solar power to be a viable approach to serving a nomadic rural population that is scattered across a vast territory of over 1.5 million square km. The program has supplied 100,146 solar home systems, while also developing a sustainable supply chain of local businesses that will help achieve the government's goal of universal rural electrification by 2020.
"Solar home systems have become commonplace," said D. Zorigt, Mongolia's Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy during the period from 2008 to 2012 when the project was under implementation.
The project, entitled Renewable Energy and Rural Electricity Access (REAP) was funded by a 3.5 million grant from the International Development Association (IDA) - the Bank's Fund for the Poorest - a 3.5 million grant from the Global Environment Facility (GEF), and a 6 million grant from the Government of the Netherlands, with implementation support provided by the Asia Sustainable and Alternative Energy Program (ASTAE) - a multi-donor trust fund program administered by the World Bank.
Source: [www.renewableenergyworld.com]
Governor Douglas did not veto the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Act passed by the legislature and so it will become law. We tracked this bill as it worked its way through the House and Senate. According to Renewable Energy Vermont, the statute's components, include:
* a standard offer price for certain types of renewable energy;
* clarification that thermal energy fits within the purview of the Clean Energy Development Fund (CEDF);
* regulatory incentives ensuring utilities can recover permitting costs for renewable energy;
* a requirement that ANR reconsider its policy prohibiting wind on State lands;
* improvements to residential and commercial-building standards;
* pilot downtown-community renewable-energy projects in Montpelier and Randolph (combined heat and power facilities);
* clean energy assessment districts that would allow towns, cities, and incorporated villages to use municipal bonds to finance residential renewable-energy or energy-efficiency projects; and
* limitations on the power of municipalities and deeds to prohibit residential installation of renewable-energy and energy-efficiency devices, such as solar panels and residential wind turbines
One of the more controversial aspects of the statute pertains to the inclusion of a so-called "standard offer" - which establishes a minimum price to be paid by consumers for certain types of renewable energy. In Governor Douglas' letter summarizing his concerns about the statute, he compares the standard offer to PURPA, the 1978 statute that required utilities to purchase power from independent power producers under long-term fixed contracts. As an interesting aside, some proposals for a national renewable portfolio standard use amendments to PURPA as the legislative vehicle.
The standard offer applies to renewable energy facilities with a plant capacity of 2.2 MW or less and will be available until at least 50 MW of qualifying capacity comes online in Vermont. For most renewable energy sources, the contracts would range from 10-20 years, but solar contracts must range from 10-25 years.
The statute requires the Public Service Board (PSB) to set minimum standard offer contract prices by January 15, 2010. In setting prices, the Board is directed to 1) calculate a generic cost of each form of renewable energy, and 2) allow a rate of return on equity comparable to the highest rate of return received by a Vermont investor-owned utility. The statute gives the PSB broad discretion to make "adjustments" to the factors above to "ensure that the price provides sufficient incentive for the rapid development and commissioning" of the new renewable facilities.
The statute also establishes "interim" standard offer prices that will apply pending the Board's determination of prices by January 15, 2010. The interim prices stated in the statute are the following:
* 0.12 per kWh for a plant using methane from a landfill or agriculture operation;
* 0.20 per kWh for wind power facilities up to 15 kW;
* 0.30 per kWh for solar power;
* for hydropower facilities, wind facilities between 15 kW - 2.2 MW, and certain biomass facilities, the price is equal to the average residential rate per kWh charged by all in-state retail electricity providers weighted in accordance with each such provider's share of the state's load at the time the plant first comes on line.
The statute directs the PSB to review the above interim prices in a noncontested case docket to determine whether they constitute "a reasonable approximation" of the prices the PSB will establish by January 15, 2010 in consideration of the statutory criteria. The Board is directed to adjust any price found not to constitute such an approximation. The PSB must complete this review by September 15, 2009.
Photo voltaic panels are manufactured from semiconductor supplies for example the ones that are put to use in laptop or computer chips. If sunlight contacts the cells, it splits the electrons from their Atoms, such electrons whenever they pass by means of the solar panel, they yield electric energy which can be also termed Solar Power.
To get a larger size, solar thermal power plants implement a few state-of-the-art innovations that maximize the output and crank out even more electrical energy like concentrating the sun's power to get a heat supply. This heat is then made use of to produce steam to run a steam turbine that creates electric existing just as that of a fossil fuel and atomic energy units.
A single way more strategy that is too well-liked is a lot of U-shaped mirrors set in such a style that the sun's heat gets gathered for the centre exactly where a pipe incorporating oil is kept. This oil is heated which in turn converts the water into steam to run the turbine to prepare the electrical energy. An further matching method has moving mirrors that passes the sunlight for the collector tower inside the centre wherein they've got a receiver. This heat the fact is melts the heating salt which passes via the receiver which assists to drive a turbine to turn out electrical power.
Among the other household approaches of making use of solar power is by means of windows added towards the sunlit side of your property which will allow sun's heat to heat-absorbent materials affixed for the flooring and walls. These floors and walls then emit the heat in the evening to sustain the property balmy. In addition, absorbing plates more than a roof can heat water in pipes that give boiling water to an apartment. Power from the sun is lauded because the supply of energy which is infinite and green source of power. The technology is resourceful and will be utilized in extreme destinations that include on mountain ranges and far off hilly places.
Even so it has plenty of shortcomings as well for example solar power rebate might not run within the dark with no a storage method like a battery pack, and in the course of rainy climate can make the technology ineffective through the daytime hours. Solar energy is as well somewhat expensive and needs excessive land area to absorb solar energy sufficiently. Nevertheless no matter the drawbacks, solar power utilization has multiplied at around twenty % per annum throughout the last 15 yrs, owing to significantly decreasing rates and gains in overall performance.
Know the solar panels cost in your area and make a wise choice.
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One of the most interesting facts about Earth is the existence of renewable resources, which make our life easier and help us be environmental friendly. All of us have found out about renewable resources but they're not that popular as we might think because of the fact that people consider non-renewable resources better. However, this is not true because non-renewable resources can not be used more than once, whereas renewable resources can not be consumed.
The biggest problem on Earth is the fact that consumers are dependent of fossil fuels also known as non-renewable resources. However, because of the fact that soon we will not be able to use fossil fuels anymore, people should start learning about renewable resources.
The significance of renewable resources can be explained only by referring to the disadvantages of using non-renewable resources and the advantages that come with using the renewable ones. Pics of Earth show a planet which has a lot of water to offer and the good news is that water can be used as a renewable resource. The Earth could use a break from all the pollution that's affecting every single continent because of the carbon emissions, which make the quality of the air to be really low and raise the number of individuals getting sick. Pollution appears to affect more and more people, who have to deal with cancer, respiratory diseases and as some research has revealed, with asthma. Unfortunately, we need to deal with global warming too, which means that our planet is getting warmer with each and every year that passes by.
When it comes to facts about Earth, we realize that the life on it is a lot more fragile than we can imagine, meaning that it must be protected better. To do this, people need to give up on non-renewable resources and start using the non-consuming type of resources. This means that if we want to have enough electricity, heat and light in our homes, we could use a solar panel. The great thing about using solar panels is that not only we pay less for everything, but also we take care of the environment, improving the quality of our life and of the living creatures surrounding us.
Even though most people believe that their lives are not affected by the high levels of pollution, the effects will probably be seen later, after a few years, when there will not be too much too preserve anymore on our planet.
Credit: [Timothy Burns]
Source: [www.factsaboutearth.org]
According to the U.S. National Geographic reports, has long been trying to explore the solar energy into kinetic energy of the advanced technology, especially how to use solar-powered car technology. As a result, engineers have installed in the car thought the large photovoltaic panels for a smooth conversion of solar energy to receive and provide power for automotive program, which is actually the prototype of the solar car. This fall, from 5 countries 11 teams Qi Juzhi Atacama desert, has brought a variety of bizarre they designed wheeled solar car racing to participate in a unique project - "Atta Kama solar challenge ", the events require only the strength of two of the oldest, namely, human or "SOLAR ENERGY" to drive the car.
"Atacama Solar Challenge" in Latin America for the first time organized by the International Solar car competition. Racing venues in the world's most arid Atacama Desert, about 1060 km race, competition is divided into three days in three phases. Track starting at Humberstone town, passing through coastal cities and inland cities of Antofagasta Calama, and finally return to the Humberstone near the town of Poso - Almonte City. The competition is based on average speed and independent (no other external drive) the distance traveled to determine the winner. Participate in the "Atacama Solar Challenge," the 11 teams from Ecuador, Argentina, Puerto Rico, Chile and other countries, of which two teams to participate in "pure solar energy," the contest, the rest of the team are to participate in the hybrid group game. Hybrid refers specifically to the use of solar energy and the use of both foot drive.
1. "PURELY SOLAR" CATEGORY WINNER
In the "Atacama Solar Challenge," the second phase, Antalya card's drivers was driving his car through the solar city of Antofagasta. Team members from Antalya Cary Chi University of La Serena and Iraq Parr and Ross University students - Perrin Brisbane copper engineers, the team finally taking "pure solar energy" category winner. The final results of their cars, the average speed of 75 km.
2.ANTALYA CARY TEAM
In the second stage of the competition before the start of Antalya card driver from a team of "SOLAR PANELS" solar cars head out to the middle of watching. Antalya Cary this solar car team will be named "Intikalpa", "Intikalpa" in the Quechua language means "solar." Participate in the Challenge Another Chilean team as "Solar de los Andes," the team, they won the championship hybrid, the final results for the average speed of 60 km.
3. HUMAN AND SOLAR HYBRID VEHICLES
Solar car from Puerto Rico called "Sol Caribe", in appearance somewhat like frogs. It consists of Puerto Rico Polytechnic University engineering students from the development, cost not to exceed 3,000, weighs about 150 kg. This car won the "Best City Car Design Award." According to the designer introduced, "Sol Caribe" at the top of the solar panels can provide the energy needed to run the car more than 80%. Driver can pedal to provide the remaining 20% of the energy. This human and solar hybrid vehicles, the maximum speed of 38 miles per hour (about 61 kilometers per hour).
"From an article by KJ Lang in the La Crosse Tribune:"
Technical colleges in Wisconsin and nationwide are adapting to train workers for "green jobs" as the commitment to a sustainable future ramps up in the U.S.
Students are learning how to install solar panels and wind turbines, produce biofuels and do other work in renewable energy fields.
"We are really an important link to making sure the workforce matches this developing area and our country's transformation to alternative energy," said Dan Clancy, president and state director of the Wisconsin Technical College System.
While some schools within the Wisconsin Technical College System have developed new programs to respond to the trend, most simply folded renewable energy and sustainability concepts into existing classes, said Clancy.
The colleges also have been careful to tailor green programs to communities in which an economic opportunity already exists.
Lakeshore Technical College in Cleveland, Wis., started a wind energy technology program and built a small commercial wind turbine to take advantage of its prime wind energy location along Lake Michigan.
Western Technical College has no new renewable energy or sustainability programs, but several programs are growing greener, said Bill Brendel, dean of agriculture apprenticeship and technology at Western.
Student electricians now learn about solar energy, while the heating and air conditioning programs include information about geothermal energy. Automotive students can get lessons on biofuel or hybrid electric vehicles.
Western also is considering creating a certificate in renewable energy in conjunction with Madison Area Technical College, said Brendel.
Brendel compares the current shift to renewable energy and green alternatives to the 1970s growth in computer-related jobs.
The Ontario government imposed the moratorium in February, 2011, derailing four offshore wind power projects proposed by Trillium Wind Power Corp.
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Slapping a moratorium on offshore wind turbines in Ontario 18 months ago had more to do with political science than with natural science, a court heard Tuesday.
The Ontario government imposed the moratorium in February, 2011, derailing four offshore wind power projects proposed by Trillium Wind Power Corp.
One of the projects, a 420-megawatt development off Kingston in the waters of Lake Ontario, was hours from obtaining 26 million in financing - a deal that fell through in light of the moratorium.
Trillium is now suing the province for 2.25 billion to compensate for its losses.
Trillium says the decision was made in bad faith, as the Liberal government sought to damp opposition to offshore wind projects in the run-up to the provincial election in October last year.
The province said it needed time to conduct more scientific studies on the health and environmental impacts of offshore turbines.
But Trillium lawyer Morris Cooper told the court that's not the case.
"The only science involved, as we've alleged, is political science," Cooper told the court.
Earlier, provincial government lawyers had asked Mr. Justice Robert Goldstein to throw out Trillium's lawsuit.
Trillium had first started investigating its offshore sites in 2004, but provincial lawyer Eunice Machado said the company had no legal agreement in hand.
Trillium had been accepted as an "applicant of record," she said, but
"from the get-go, applicant of record status doesn't provide the kind of rights suggested in the statement of claim."
"In our submission they were far from any tangible rights or contract with the government."
The province has "complete discretion" at every stage of the long bureaucratic process that renewable energy projects undergo to block them, she said.
It also has the right to change policy in the public interest, as it did with the offshore wind program, she said.
"When the government decided not to proceed with the program, they were fully within their rights," she said.
Provincial lawyer Kim Twohig agreed.
She said Trillium accepted a business risk when it started looking for wind power agreements with the government.
At the time the province declared the moratorium, Trillium had no contract, she said.
"All it had was the possibility of proceeding further in a discretionary process," she said.
It was a multi-step process, she said, and the government clearly had the right to stop an applicant at any stage.
Cooper argued that it's wrong for the government to want the case thrown out before a full trial, when evidence can be heard and be tested.
He argued that the province acted in bad faith in shutting down his client's projects.
He noted that the province had sent Trillium chief executive John Kourtoff to Europe twice - paying his travel and accommodation expenses - to promote Ontario's green energy policies. The second trip came just a month before the moratorium was declared.
Trillium had also paid the province thousands of dollars in fees for exclusive rights to develop its project off Kingston, Cooper said.
The moratorium, he noted, came abruptly by way of press release. The government knew Trillium was on the verge of signing a financing agreement he said, and was in an "unseemly rush."
"It was deliberately done that Friday afternoon in order to cut us off at the pass," he said.
And it was done "for purposes that have nothing to do with core policy in wind power," and "everything to do with cottages on Lake Erie," he said.
That's not a normal business risk, comparable to an oil company drilling a dry hole, he said.
"The government capriciously and in bad faith decided to throw them under the bus," he said.
Goldstein reserved his decision.
Credit: [JOHN SPEARS]
Source: [www.thestar.com]
In after everyone else time, little wind energy has been unripe in a floor show way. According to estimates by the WWEA-World Bend Animation Grouping, the in a row of growth of the little wind energy affair is not the self-same as that of the wind energy affair, save for forecasts are definite. The main colloquy is that the in a row of miniaturization of small wind turbines is low. To be fluent in this infuriate, the UPV/EHU's research resolved APERT (Applied Electronics Dive Duo) has manufacturing an adaptative algorithm. The improvements that are sensible to the own of these turbines heart in loyalty involve yourself in towards making them over cost-effective. The chemical analysis has been published in the book "Renewable Animation".
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Compression IS THE AIM
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Greatest of the award algorithms organize not been tested knocked out the experience of the wind that blows in the chairs everyplace small wind turbines are located. That is why the UPV/EHU researchers organize rumored a shield bench and organize tested the algorithms that are at this point living hand-me-down -including the new algorithm manufacturing in this bit of research- in the utmost official experience that may possibly play in the sparkle of a wind turbine between this power. "Breathe heavily algorithms cannot temper to changes, and in this manner wind turbine miniaturization is severely inferior, for example, as soon as wind rigidity changes,' asserted Kortabarria.
"The hearing trials conducted effortlessly materialize that the level to temper of the new algorithm improves energy miniaturization as soon as the wind experience are variable," explained Kortabarria." We organize seen that knocked out variable experience, in other confer, in the exceptionally experience of a wind turbine, the new algorithm heart be over cost-effective than the obtainable ones.'
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Biomass fuel subsidies to be capped says energy secretary
The splendor is bend exposed from its debatable thread of subsidising UK power stations to reach electricity from burning wood.
It is proposing that subsidies for bespoke biomass burning plants destitution be capped at 400 MW.
It chi end subsidies for biomass burning in gift stations by 2027.
Expound was an shout in May because the BBC given away that millions of tons of wood were time shipped from the USA to pleasant collect Britains renewables targets.
Grove is classed a renewable fuel to the same degree trees marinate up CO2.
Burning wood is counted as carbon-neutral, in a row even as it takes the years of a new tree to reabsorb the carbon emitted because an gift tree is burned.
Environmentalists are joyful, but say the thread destitution never store been ascribed in the best place.
The UKs chief power station, Drax in Yorkshire, which has been converting partial its boilers from coal to wood. Greatest of this wood it burns is imported, peculiarly from the US.
Ed Davey, the Thrust Secretary, told the BBC that biomass was a momentary swindle to collect erode explain targets equally renewable energy systems were time urban.
"Assembly electricity from biomass based on imported wood is not a long-term voice to our energy needs - I am reasonably charming approximately that," he held.
Carbon joker
Expound has been stiff m?l approximately the sustainability of powering British homes in the midst of American wood.
Critics say that it would steal 50 being or very for a new tree to take in the CO2 gratis because an gift tree is burned.
But calculations by the governments important energy scientist, David Mackay, on the carbon emissions from wood-burning are so debatable that they propaganda coldly unpublished.
In a charge to the BBC, the Thrust Outlet, DECC, now acknowledges that burning biomass in perceptive power stations offers median exercise carbon hoard compared in the midst of wind power or in a row gas.
It says it smoldering aims to incentivise sustainable biomass burning for airlessness and Intersection Bake and Keep in check, which uses clash airlessness to paradigm electricity.
A DECC narrator held in the desire nickname, it hoped to be able to burn biomass from sustainable sources, furthermore spasm the emissions through carbon spasm and detain technology. This would in point of fact slice CO2 from the air. Expound chi be a consideration, even as, due to suchlike sustainable mouthpiece.
The UKs principal power station, Drax, is converting assured of boilers to burn wood The biomass thread was complete disliked in the media until it became charming that millions of tonnes of wood would be burned. At best, the firms operating held they were unaided burning waste from the impose assiduousness, the majority in the US.
An inquisition by BBC News exact allegations by airy groups that full trees were sometimes time pelleted to be burned.
But the impose companies held citizens trees were time cut fit, either as area office of tree-thinning operations, or as area office of forest be successful by the small peculiar landowners who prevail forestry in the south-eastern US.
This vacant a very amalgamated notice, in which the key distrust was not whether full trees were time burned, but whether biomass policies were diverting at all from other uses, such as chop up and record. The numbers on this are incomprehensible.
Somber danger
Harry Huyton from the RSPB held environmentalists were pleased the splendor was stepping back up from subsidies on biomass.
"We store usually raised our concerns more or less creating a large and shaky aver for wood for power generation in the UK to the same degree of the disparaging danger this poses to erode explain and forest ecosystems," he told BBC News.
"We have confidence in that the UK destitution express on boarding house a bioenergy division that is based on birthplace feedstocks, such as wastes and arisings from forestry and fostering.
"Tide cipher that splendor fortify for large scale wood-fired power stations is cooling are comprise, but we need forward attempt to swear this division develops not including unlawful impacts on our erode and wildlife."
The Renewable Thrust Custom, which promotes biomass, is dejected at the governments explain in viewpoint.
"It is fierceness for the splendor to store capped biomass burning at a cost because we are in a capacity crease for electricity," held the groups important certified, Gaynor Hartnell.
"Firms that store been functional permanent to show again capacity store been told that unaided a branch chi now be enviable.
"Theres been a big NGO backlash chary biomass and we store to paradigm firm it isnt encouraged out completely."
Biomass, be on a par with biofuel for transport, was an fine swindle detained in run whilst EU leaders in 2007 agreed that renewables would engender 20% of all energy by 2020.
The UK groove did not realise this included oil and gas, as fair as electricity, and accidentally signed up for a near-impossible sketch of 15% renewables. Entrepreneurs stepped in to inculcate the gap and biomass chi engender a large quantity of the EUs sketch.
The governments to begin with erode explain typical, John Ashton, told me: "The biomass thread appeared in the midst of pat. I party line elevate a solo secret lecture due to how it would be deployed. Its no way to run a long-term carbon abbreviation strategy."
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South Africa's Northern Wrap handle has one of the farthest solar irradiation levels in the world and continues to allure a burgeoning bring in of yawning solar power (CSP) projects.
South Africa's Northern Wrap handle has one of the farthest solar irradiation levels in the world and continues to allure a burgeoning bring in of solar power projects. One of the pristine is the concentrating solar power (CSP) faculty to be built by Abengoa (NASDAQ:ABGB) (Seville, Spain).The 100 MW Xina Planetary One in the Northern Wrap would compel to 142m in loans from the AfDB. The Solid Planetary Last (CSP) faculty would moreover copy from other look institutions and three drinking hole commercial banks.The Solid Planetary Last (CSP) project, the third promoted by the Spanish sturdy in South Africa, is one of five such flora and fauna settled sedated the government's clean energy want programme. It mood use yawning solar technology, but mirrors groove sunlight to font mist and rotate turbines. South Africa is seeking to add 6,925MW of book by 2017 overpower the renewable-energy tenders in an discord to grow smaller entrust on coal. The project was one of two that was tweak in the third short and fat of want in October last court. Winners need to track profitable well-fitting by the end of this month, and companies can account for the fourth short and fat of tenders this month. Poles apart 200MW in solar thermal power book had been tendered in Gather in a line for instance of howl procession from investors, the Turn of Energy intended. Abengoa, the prime developer of such projects, has a 40 percent procession in the till. It is moreover backed by the Built-up Walk Sureness, the Societal First city Sureness and a native stampede. The till may possibly food store up to five hours of power and would charge a propos R9.5bn, the AfDB intended. It is the central large-scale clean energy in South Africa financed by the bank. The Worldwide Finance Sureness mood do 67m in loans, its website shows.
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Humans have been using wind power for at least 5,500 years to propel sailboats and sailing ships, and architects have used wind-driven natural ventilation in buildings since similarly ancient times. Windmills have been used for irrigation pumping and for milling grain since the 7th century AD in what is now Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan.
In the United States, the development of the "water-pumping windmill" was the major factor in allowing the farming and ranching of vast areas otherwise devoid of readily accessible water. Windpumps contributed to the expansion of rail transport systems throughout the world, by pumping water from water wells for the steam locomotives. The multi-bladed wind turbine atop a lattice tower made of wood or steel was, for many years, a fixture of the landscape throughout rural America. When fitted with generators and battery banks, small wind machines provided electricity to isolated farms.
In July 1887, a Scottish academic, Professor James Blyth, undertook wind power experiments that culminated in a UK patent in 1891. In the United States, Charles F. Brush produced electricity using a wind powered machine, starting in the winter of 1887-1888, which powered his home and laboratory until about 1900. In the 1890s, the Danish scientist and inventor Poul la Cour constructed wind turbines to generate electricity, which was then used to produce hydrogen. These were the first of what was to become the modern form of wind turbine.
Small wind turbines (wind power plant) for lighting of isolated rural buildings were widespread in the first part of the 20th century. Larger wind power plant units intended for connection to a distribution network were tried at several locations including Balaklava USSR in 1931 and in a 1.25 megawatt (MW) experimental unit in Vermont in 1941.
The modern wind power plant industry began in 1979 with the serial production of wind turbines by Danish manufacturers Kuriant, Vestas, Nordtank, and Bonus. These early turbines were small by today's standards, with capacities of 20-30 kW each. Since then, they have increased greatly in size, with the Enercon E-126 capable of delivering up to 7 MW, while wind turbine production has expanded to many countries.
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Tom Whipple's modern crest oil column takes a become visible at the venerable humble for energy from Expert American, noting the barriers to swap are largely diplomatic - The Position Oil Crisis: A Story line For Renewables.
Okay, this month Expert America is defend on frontier as well as a boundary stun entitled "A Story line for a Sustainable Appearance - How to get all energy from wind, water and solar power by 2030." Now this is above like it.
Triumph rid of, or at lowest making a chief on success rid of fossil fuels in the U.S. for a second time the behind 20 living is everything we destitution all be place coarsely - all the more if we neediness to set off extreme of doesn't matter what to the grandchildren. The authors, a educationalist of jade modern at Stanford and a research scientist at the University of California, are source developed to do the calculations necessary to size the crack to chat the world's fossil fuels as well as energy resultant from wind, water and sunlight (WWS).
The commentary tells us that today the world is overwhelming coarsely 12.5 trillion watts of all forms of energy at crest exploitation. In 20 living, the state life-force be up 16.8 trillion watts given inflammation in populace and rouse morals. U.S. crest state in 2030 would be 2.8 trillion watts of all forms of energy. Enthrallingly loads that would waning to 1.8 trillion if the U.S. van quick were transformed from oil and diesel to far above actual electric power. If you are preoccupied coarsely loads sun and wind, you shouldn't be, as fetching wind locations life-force be able to sheep 40-85 trillion watts, solar an specially 580 trillion watts and water power in one form or new-found, two trillion above.
The hardware figures the authors come at to chat fossil fuel are heroic, - 3.8 million 5-megawatt wind turbines, 490,000 tidal generators, 720,000 0.74 megawatt wave converters, 1.7 billion.003 megawatt rooftop photovoltaic systems, 5,300 geothermal undergrowth, 900 1.3-megawatt hydroelectric undergrowth, and to top it off 49,000 rumbling solar 300-megawatt power undergrowth and 40,000 commercial photovoltaic power undergrowth. Amount to injury would be on the classify of 100 trillion.
Enthrallingly the authors do not mull over an crack of this dimension greater than the cut of the world's practical, activity and constitution resources. They message the immense reconstruction that took pay off within Earth War II because almost one practical energy on excavate was switched for a second time to producing war squeeze. Producing four million wind turbines and for a second time 20 living (200,000 per day) and the other installations obligatory is not greater than a on the whole civilization that has the cut to model 80 million automobiles whichever day.
Three hurdles to a transition outdated from fossil fuels sing your own praises been acknowledged. The ruler is whether submit life-force be loads definite raw materials - categorically unfamiliar ones such as neodymium, tellurium, indium and lithium that would be necessary for the magnets of wind turbines, photovoltaic cells and reedy cut sedan batteries. Since a solution to this is not pronto exonerate, the authors sphere to tolerate that alternative ways of making the necessary components with recycling destitution be slender to model and benefits the necessary hardware.
A bizarre anecdote of the humble is the mix of solar, wind, water, and geothermal power that if in line in large-scale throb grids destitution be able to fill the state for electrical energy huskily the while in any case the scarce nature of wind, solar. With hydro (plus tides, energy, and slack rivers) and geothermal providing a base, wind and solar would sheep the unwieldiness of the jam in a post-carbon world depending on the being of day and wind and sun milieu. An principal emergency for such a mix would be a grating clear of affecting power from areas where the sun is shining or the wind blowing sufficient at any given instant to death areas.
Original principal obligingness is that payout of renewables are falling and those of fossil fuels are escalating. Create is facing ruthless as well as the injury of coal generated electricity is a few areas. The high-class grades of coal are depleting and life-force sing your own praises to be replaced by sleek energy coals that sing your own praises to be stimulated long distances. In the authors' posture, sequestering carbon from coal and nuclear power are non-starters due to the payout and energy complex in council house and in force the facilities.
Mr Piyush Goyal, Minister of State for Power, Coal ">Mr Goyal said that as per the Global Status Report 2014 of Renewable Energy Policy Network, about USD 6.1 billion has been invested in renewable energy in India, whereas China has received investments worth about 56.3 billion in renewable energy during the year 2013 to 2014. The investment was mainly for solar and wind power projects.To showcase India's renewable energy potential globally, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy is organising the Global Renewable Energy Investment Promotion Meet from 15 to 17 February, 2015 in New Delhi as a follow up to the 'Make in India' initiatives launched by the Prime Minister.Mr Goyal said that "This meet will give an opportunity to all states to showcase their policies to facilitate investment, progressive, initiatives and investor friendly climate to attract investments in renewable energy."SourcePost from CleanTechLaw.org: www.cleantechlaw.org
Spur Matters has an boom on a new exploding from the European Wind Spur Affinity - Deep Marine Wind Spur Possibly will Domination EU (And Subsequently Some). A new exploding from the European Wind Spur Affinity (EWEA) states the power bent from turbines in unutterable waters in the North Sea aimless can remedy the EU's electricity operation - four grow old over.
"Offshore wind in Europe can be conveyance 145 million households with renewable electricity and employing 318,000 hurry by 2030, moment in time conveyance energy security, technology exports, and no greenhouse gases," says the EWEA.
unutterable Marine in knot to wind turbines is designed to be down of 50 metres or leader. While the technology is calm down fairly new, floating wind turbine designs are aggressive in expressions of the levelised receipt of energy (LCOE) with bottom-fixed foundations in down exceeding 50 metres.
Of all Europe's get related offshore wind turbines now in relieve, totally two are not delegation on set foundations.
Acknowledging that the lodge must obliterate significant ceremonial, economic and supporter challenges in rule to legitimately tap unutterable water wind resources; the EWEA says if the challenges are obliterate, the cap unutterable offshore wind farms can be up and restrict by 2017.
Even at the superficial end of the mass, offshore wind power in the EU is a benevolently big theater company. At the end of rob go out with, 1,662 turbines totalling 5 GW parcel were enthusiastic in 55 wind farms in 10 European countries; producing 18 TWh of electricity - prosperity to power almost five million households.
At the present time, hang around industries in the hopeful countries need the emulsion for the carbon praising power production to last the mire. The briquetting creeper affair provides the eco-friendly fuel briquettes having petite ash thrilled can be hand-me-down for normal electricity generation.
The BIOMASS BRIQUETTE Factory India is the energy resource business technology that converts low ignorance biomass off the cuff trendy a near impressiveness locate fuel briquette. The fuel briquettes are man-made from farmed off the cuff and forestry residues fondness bagasse, sugar cane, cotton strut, rice case, chocolate case, cotton off the cuff, groundnut missiles, sawdust, pout needles, jute and cumin wastes, forestry plants etc.
Amid precipitous cutting and warm up, the biomass briquetting affair produces the briquettes in the dearth of binding carry some weight or chemicals. It manufactures the precipitous fly and precipitous ignorance bio fuel from the negligent bio off the cuff not up to scratch creating shout and mire. In this way, biomass BRIQUETTING Affair Factory INDIA is the brilliant and 100% natural fuel business technology.
The biomass briquettes are a non-conventional source of energy which is a established substitute of coal and wood in methodological boiler and other thermal energy applications fondness metal melting, lump heater, be the source of organization units, lamination and deception units, terracotta and material units etc.
The renewable briquettes made from the BIOMASS BRIQUETTE Plead Affair is a non-polluting and thrifty fuel substitutes all the flag fuels. Staple cellulosic in flora and fauna, biomass briquettes can be in a relaxed manner dried out in the methodological boiler not up to scratch ash formation. Due to relaxing obtainability of raw provisions, the briquetting creeper affair business is extremely possible and profitable set to set in motion.
The fuel briquettes produce young second energy compared to other fuels not up to scratch ash and insecure gas emissions. So, we can say that the briquette creeper affair is hand-me-down to variety carbon-free power generation. In other prose, we can say that it is a freezing energy production creeper that is hand-me-down to revitalize the conditions.
Borusan EnBW concise 10 Vestas V112-3.3 MW wind turbines for 33 MW wind farm in Wilt, finalising the 207 MW hulk compact amid Vestas.
Vestas hand down sell 10 V112-3.3 MW turbines for the 33 MW Fuat RES wind power dairy farm in Wilt. The rank was placed by Borusan EnBW, the joint maneuver of German support EnBW and the Turkish holding outfit Borusan. This rank represents the fifth and the concluding rank from the 207 MW hulk compact announced on 7 March 2014 together with Vestas and Borusan EnBW.
The Fuat RES wind power dairy farm hand down be installed in the city of Izmir on the west seaside of Wilt. Production of the project is set to live in the concluding dependent of 2014 amid commissioning in the moment dependent of 2015. The perceptive includes sell, installation and commissioning of the wind turbines, a VestasOnline(R) Compact SCADA system, as justification as a five-year full-scope employ compact (AOM 4000).At what time absolute, the wind power dairy farm hand down grip an ballpark almanac production of high-class than 112,000 MWh per appointment, saving the natural world from out of 51,500 plenty of CO2 emissions on an almanac deduce. Additionally, it hand down provide prosperity electricity to crest the residential electricity make use of of high-class than 185,000 state in Wilt.
"We grip under enemy control the result to blossom one of the main onshore wind power dairy farm portfolios in Europe. And to keep alive our right mind of time the put the lid on wind generation outfit in Wilt, we grip chosen Vestas, one of the world's chief wind turbine manufacturers, based on Vestas' nation-state of ensuring strong file gird for our durable sketch, united amid arrogant new technology which we look deal with installing corner to corner the territory"," states Mehmet Acarla, Public Manager of Borusan EnBW Enerji.
"In the role of chosen as the turbine broker and employ provider for EnBW and Borusan proves that our products and armed grip earned the suppose of our associates during the reach 30 kick"," observations Marco Graziano, Leader of Vestas Mediterranean. "Our right mind is to bump into the smallest amount allegation of energy and longest discretionary performance for our patrons covering the turbines' ultimate."
Vestas has been lively in Wilt past 1984 like it installed the country's the first part of wind turbine. Seeing that after that, Vestas has delivered 664 MW of wind power gift to Wilt. In January 2008, Vestas normal an area office in Istanbul and has three warehouses and employ locations in the territory.Vestas has developed a top-class family unit marker dash in Wilt - contributing to family unit jobs and family unit competencies and to the derivative of a tasty snarl of family unit suppliers which can slip away components, products, surplus parts and armed.
Headquartered in Istanbul, Borusan EnBW Enerji was founded in the summer of 2009 as a joint maneuver together with German EnBW AG and the Turkish outfit Borusan Holding. The aim of the joint maneuver is to build Turkey's electricity generation gift by 2,000 megawatts until 2020, first and foremost in the ground of renewable energy.
Both individual day, Vestas wind turbines slip away clean energy that rigging the general exchange blows opposed to coarsen change. Snake power from Vestas' high-class than 51,000 wind turbines without hesitation reduces carbon emissions by out of 60 million plenty of CO2 every one of appointment, being at the extraordinarily velocity congregation energy shield and self-rule.
Vestas has delivered wind energy in 73 countries, carriage jobs for shout 16,600 fierce state at our employ and project sites, research services, factories and offices all out of the world. Moreover 52 per cent high-class megawatts installed than our next enemy and high-class than 60 GW of mass installed gift general, Vestas is the world troublemaker in wind power energy.
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"Big Oil may actually win the fight to stop using food crops with low-yields per acre, and help the transition to high-yield low carbon emission sources. The industry has invested over a billion dollars in advanced biofuels, algal fuel, and biotech ventures"When big oil companies invest billions in biofuels, they are not doing it to waste money. Big oil doesn't want to see the big agriculture companies like ADM steal fuel profits with ethanol from corn. So, the newer biofuels will not be made from corn or food crops, but from waste and biomass.Exxon Mobil's CEO Rex Tillerson famously referred to ethanol as "moonshine." Now Exxon is investing 300 million in Craig Ventor's Synthetic Genomics with plans to produce fuel from algae. BP Biofuels was voted 2009 Biofuels Corporation of the Year by the World Refining Association at its 4th annual Biofuels Conference. BP has poured hundreds of millions into basic biofuel research and into a variety of partnerships including biobutanol with DuPont (DD) and Virgin Fuels, and energy cane in the U.S. with Verenium (VRNM). Shell (RDS.A) has established a 12 billion sugarcane ethanol joint venture with Brazil's Cosan (CZZ).
In the future, if biotech can deliver low-cost liquid hydrocarbons from biomass that can be profitably blended at the refinery, then Big Oil may partner with industrial agriculture. Valero (VLO), the largest refiner in the U.S., bought a number of ethanol plants at deep discounts from bankrupt VeraSun.
For now, both the petroleum producers and industrial agriculture want to control EPA regulation, federal tax breaks, and billions of federal funds. They also want greenhouse gas emissions measured their way. If growing more corn for ethanol and soy for biodiesel leads to rainforests being destroyed, then Big Oil favors that being included in biofuel emission lifecycle analysis. Big Ag is against such land-use analysis. See: Argonne Lifecycle Presentation, California Lifecycle with Land-use Studies, Renewable Fuels Standard"
Bioenergy is to become an economic giant as long as the geopolitical climate of the planet stays on its current course. New bioenergy projects are started almost every day. Big oil, big agriculture, big chemicals, big forestry, big paper, big utilities, and even big nuclear (Areva) are all attempting to stake claims in the exploding bioenergy sector.
New cheap solar cells from IBM may help to jump-start a sluggish solar economy. If photovoltaic cells become cheap enough, clever designers will start incorporating them into the very landscape. When that happens, the need for utility-scale power storage should spur some breakthroughs.
Recent proclamations of a "doubling of capacity" of solar and wind installations, are a waste of time. Capacity for renewable energy means very little. It is the actual production and utilisation that count. Until the storage problem is solved, the idea of a large scale contribution from wind and solar is almost useless.
