Tag: Press Releases
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First Wind and Avista Celebrate Milestone at Palouse Wind Project
First Wind, an independent U.S.-based renewable energy company, and Avista today commemorated the generation of 150,000 megawatt hours (MWh) by the Palouse Wind project since its start of commercial operations in December 2012. Since the Palouse Wind project went online, it has brought significant long-term tax revenue to Whitman County while generating enough clean energy…
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Champion Nano-Rust for Producing Solar Hydrogen
At the end of last year, Kevin Sivula, one of the collaborators at the LPI laboratory, presented a prototype electrode based on the same principle. Its efficiency was such that gas bubbles emerged as soon as it was under a light stimulus. Without a doubt, the potential of such cheap electrodes was demonstrated, even if…
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University Chemists Work to Desalt the Ocean for Drinking Water
By creating a small electrical field that removes salts from seawater, chemists at The University of Texas at Austin and the University of Marburg in Germany have introduced a new method for the desalination of seawater that consumes less energy and is dramatically simpler than conventional techniques. The new method requires so little energy that…
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Wind Power Forecast: Industry Will Add Over 241 Gigawatts of Capacity from 2012 to 2017
With the addition of 44.9 gigawatts in new installations in 2012, world wind power capacity grew to approximately 285.7 GW, an increase of 18.6 percent in the total wind power installation base. Average annual growth over the past 5 years has been 17.8 percent, achieved during the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, even with…
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Rooftop Solar Array on University Park Elementary School Will Generate Clean Energy and Revenue for Town and County Public Schools
This story about an elementary school solar array in University Park, MD provides a good example of how shared clean energy can benefit more than one user, environmentally and financially.