Sep
10
Calif., USA – Google has been playing an interesting role in renewable energy development, and not only because it has invested more than $780 million in renewable energy generation and tech development. The search giant on Thursday added a site that tallies the company’s electricity use, including the amount of renewable electricity it’s using, along with its carbon …
Sep
08
CONCORD, NH, U.S.A – It was 1996 and Rear Adm. Larry Baucom had a job to do. His mission: Protect American oil interests in the Persian Gulf. Even with the backdrop of peace, Baucom understood this was a costly endeavor. While the price of military intervention is often measured in American lives, in this case it …
May
25
Platinum S-A: Even in extreme ambient conditions and fluctuating temperatures, the PLATINUM S-A string inverter will work reliably and steadily. The PLATINUM S-A string inverter’s efficiency ranks among the highest in the class of transformer inverters. Thanks to Diehl Controls’s quick and accurate RAC-MPP® technology, the PLATINUM S-A gains extraordinary yields. As a standard, PLATINUM …
May
25
(50) Trina-Solar 230 Watt Modules (3) Diehl Ako Platinum Inverters 4301 S-A
May
15
Additional details have emerged about the planned Invenergy Illinois Solar I project, though location and other information have not yet been released. Invenergy is primarily a wind developer, though the company was one of two companies that won contracts from the Illinois Power Agency last December to supply solar-generated power to Illinois utilities. According to …
May
15
Regulators in Illinois have given the go-ahead for power companies ComEd and Ameren Illinois to buy renewable energy from new and existing renewable energy facilities in the state. The Illinois Commerce Commission approved three long-term power purchase agreements with Chicago-based wind developer Invenergy. The agreements come as part of a series of renewable energy deals …
May
15
An Illinois-based green energy company has proposed solar and wind energy projects in Calhoun County that could create as many as 500 jobs in Albion and generate enough electricity to power roughly 30,000 homes. New Generation Power is planning projects to create 100 megawatts of solar renewable energy and 100 MW of wind renewable energy …
May
09
In the future, the growing amounts of solar and wind energy will need to be stored for dark or low-wind periods. One solution is redox flow batteries that can supply current for up to 2000 households. Several Fraunhofer Institutes are working jointly on these fluid batteries of the future. The researchers will present their large …
May
02
Renewable energy policy advocates in Illinois have been very busy for the last several years and it shows. The state has a three year old renewable portfolio standard. And thanks to efforts at the 2010 state legislature, that renewable portfolio standard now requires a percentage of the renewable energy to come from photovoltaics. Starting in …
May
02
California, USA — Homeowners in California who invest in photovoltaic systems are netting up to 6.4 percent more in resale value for their homes than for similar homes sold without solar systems, according to a new study by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, in Berkeley. “We find compelling evidence that solar photovoltaic systems in California have …