Source:lenta.inform.kz ASTANA. KAZINFORM Today, a meeting was held on development of the green zone of Astana chaired by the Head of State, Akorda press service reports. After flying over the territory of the woodlands, President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev was informed on the current work on development of the green zone and the further gardening […]

Source: www.nasaspaceflight.com Throughout the inner solar system in 2016, NASA, ESA, JAXA, Roscosmos, and ISRO built upon their prior year successes and demonstrated a coordinated and cooperative approach toward advancing scientific returns from around Earth’s immediate neighbors. For these agencies, non-Earth orbital exploration yielded surprising and dramatic changes to our views of the Sun, Venus, […]

Source: www.rewmag.com Chagrin Falls, Ohio-based manufacturer RES Polyflow has announced it has developed a rapid assessment solution designed to prequalify raw materials for the company’s proprietary plastic to fuel energy recovery technology. The Remote Universal Feedstock Utilization System, or RUFUS, is a mobile diagnostic tool that uses pyrolysis to convert nonrecycled plastic to a liquid hydrocarbon for […]

Source: www.theguardian.com Route in Tourouvre-au-Perche cost €5m to construct and will be used by about 2,000 motorists a day during two-year test period France has opened what it claims to be the world’s first solar panel road, in a Normandy village. A 1km (0.6-mile) route in the small village of Tourouvre-au-Perche covered with 2,800 sq m […]

Source: www.renewableenergyworld.com A brisk, late November morning in Northern Germany provided backdrop to a ceremony held to mark completion of the structural supports of the factory slated to secure Siemens Wind Power’s position as purveyor of next generation wind turbine technologies. Behind the ceremony, a host of developments from Siemens are coming together to enable the company […]

Source: www.renewableenergyworld.com If you were a kid right now, would there be anything about renewable energy that would be attractive to you? All of the conversation around energy is actually pretty stale and boring — even for adults! And since kids are the future of the renewable energy industry, it’s imperative that we don’t overlook […]

Source: www.renewableenergyworld.com A transformation is happening in global energy markets that’s worth noting as 2016 comes to an end: Solar power, for the first time, is becoming the cheapest form of new electricity. This has happened in isolated projects in the past: an especially competitive auction in the Middle East, for example, resulting in record-cheap solar costs. But […]

Source: www.renewableenergyworld.com Image: Staff from Sandia National Laboratories meet with government representatives in the Southeast Asian island city-state of Singapore. Credit: Jacquelynne Hernández The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Sandia National Laboratories on Dec. 6 said it signed a cooperative research and development agreement with the government of Singapore’s Energy Market Authority (EMA) that will tap […]

Source: phys.org Astronomers from the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy (IfA), Brazil, and Stanford University may have solved a long-standing solar mystery. Two decades ago, scientists discovered that the outer five percent of the sun spins more slowly than the rest of its interior. Now, in a new study, to be published in the journal Physical […]

Source: reneweconomy.com.au Carnegie Wave Energy’s 100 per cent owned subsidiary, Energy Made Clean, is set to develop and demonstrate a commercial-scale solar and battery storage plant in Australia, after entering into a joint venture targeting Australia’s vanadium redox flow (VRF) battery market. Carnegie said on Tuesday that EMC had signed a memorandum of understanding with Japanese […]

Source: www.renewableenergyworld.com System designers have more options today than ever before when architecting solar systems. While this may seem like a great advantage, these options necessitate an ever growing number of decision points in the design process. No decision has more impact on the system cost and performance than the choice of inverters, as this dictates design constraints […]

Source: www.bangkokpost.com A Thai solar energy developer is taking full advantage of incentives in Japan to expand its business in the country, saying its Japanese operations promise to be much more profitable than those at home. Ukrit Tanthasatian, managing director of Primo Energy Co, which owns a 1.27-megawatt solar farm in Fukui Prefecture on the […]

Source: www.renewableenergyworld.com Benjamin Aufill is Sustainability Communications Manager at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, a bustling campus that serves 22,000 undergraduates each year and provides housing for 12,500 of them. The university has recently committed to installing 5.5 MC (DC) of solar on various locations around its sprawling 1,450-acre campus. “I’m pretty sure there will be […]

Source: www.solardaily.com Special event marks fourth large-scale solar project with the U.S. Military in Georgia ATLANTA, Dec. 9, 2016 /PRNewswire/ - Leaders from Georgia Power and the U.S. Army joined elected officials, community leaders and other dignitaries at Fort Stewartnear Hinesville, Ga. today to dedicate a new 30 megawatt (MW) on-base solar facility. The 30 MW alternating current, or 42 MW direct […]

Source: www.bbc.com The world’s largest cold energy storage plant is being commissioned at a site near Manchester. The cryogenic energy facility stores power from renewables or off-peak generation by chilling air into liquid form. When the liquid air warms up it expands and can drive a turbine to make electricity. The 5MW plant near Manchester can […]

Source:www.rechargenews.com Canadian Solar and contract manufacturer Flex have inaugurated a 400MW module-assembly plant in Brazil, the country’s first large-scale solar manufacturing facility owned by a top-tier solar company. Singapore-based Flex, a growing player in the solar industry, owns the building and will operate the production lines for Canadian Solar. A total of R$80m ($23m) was […]

Source: www.theguardian.com A series of new battery power-storage plants and two small new gas power stations will be built in the UK following the award of subsidies designed to bolster energy supply and head off the threat of shortages. But government hopes of an ambitious “dash for gas” were dealt another blow after this week’s auction of subsidies to […]

Source: renews.biz RES has filed to build an around 56MW wind farm on the Kintyre peninsula in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. The developer has submitted Section 36 paperwork in support of the 17-turbine Killean project near Tayinloan, where tips are set at 149.9 metres. RES trimmed the project from a 20-unit scoping layout on the […]

Source: www.eia.gov EIA’s U.S. Energy Mapping System and related interactive state maps now include two new layers showing population density to complement layers that already display energy infrastructure, energy resources, storm tracks, and flood hazard areas. The population density data will allow users to analyze how components of the U.S. energy system—such as electric power plants and transmission lines, crude […]