Tag: Renewables
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Colombian Community Builds Renewable Technologies for a Sustainable Future
By Laurie Guevara-Stone The plains of eastern Colombia are a tough land—the haunt of drug trafficking, guerilla warfare, and paramilitary groups; a place where the soil is so poor everyone said nothing could grow. Paolo Lugari, the founder of the 200-person community of Gaviotas, believed otherwise. In the face of adversity, he built a thriving, self-sustaining…
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Fukushima Floating Wind Turbine Up and Running
Clean wind energy is now being produced just off the coast of Fukushima, the same place where large quantities of radioactive water have been flowing as a result of a 2011 nuclear disaster. An offshore, 2 megawatt (MW) wind turbine became operational this week, according to the consortium operating the turbine as part of an experimental study. Named the Fukushima Mirai,…
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Global Energy Demand to Grow One-Third by 2035
[caption id="attachment_311889" align="alignright" width="360"] Graphic credit: International Energy Agency[/caption] The International Energy Agency (IEA) released the 2013 edition of its annual World Energy Outlook today, with much of the focus on what could happen in the next two decades. The organization believes that major changes will take place by 2035 when it predicts that total…
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Obama’s Power Africa Plan Selects U.S. Firms to Build 3 Solar Farms in Ethiopia
Two U.S. companies have received contracts to join President Obama’s plan to double power access in Africa by 2030. The Ethiopian Ministry of Water and Energy and directors at the Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation awarded contracts to Global Trade and Development Consulting (GTDC) and Energy Ventures to construct and operate three solar farms in Ethiopia, according to PV Tech.…
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4 Ways The Industry Can Help Lower Cost of Going Solar
For each year the industry continues without universal standards, powering every U.S. home and business with solar energy becomes more difficult. The Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) and National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) on Monday agreed the industry needed to “double down” on a unified effort to lower the cost of residential and small commercial installations.…