Tag: Renewable Energy

D.C.’s Union Station Now Powered by 100 Percent Wind Energy Provided by Washington Gas Energy Services

Union Station will transition to 100 percent wind power for its electricity load of 18,943,964 kilowatt hours annually. This is equivalent to avoiding the consumption of more than 1,400,000 gallons of gasoline or taking more than 2,700 cars off the road for one year. The world’s fastest-growing energy resource, wind power displaces conventional power, reduces…

April 11, 2013
UK Utility Scale Solar PV Plant Cluster Completed by Martifer Solar: Total Capacity of 28.1 MWp

Martifer Solar has entered into an agreement with the UK’s largest solar energy generator, Lightsource Renewable Energy, who has purchased all five projects, already commissioned. The entire cluster of 28.1 MWp will be added to the Lightsource asset management portfolio in the UK whilst Martifer Solar will be retained under an operations and maintenance contract…

April 11, 2013
BIO Comments on EPA’s 2013 Renewable Fuel Standard Rules

The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) recently submitted comments to the Environmental Protection Agency on the proposed Regulation of Fuels and Fuel Additives: 2013 Renewable Fuel Standards (RFS).

April 11, 2013
First Solar will Acquire TetraSun & Expand Addressable Market

First Solar, Inc. today announced it is acquiring TetraSun, a solar photovoltaic (PV) technology startup which has developed a break-through cell architecture capable of conversion efficiencies exceeding 21 percent with commercial-scale manufacturing costs comparable to conventional multicrystalline silicon solar cells.

April 10, 2013
Global Solar Photovoltaic Industry Likely Now a Net Energy Producer

For the first time since the boom started, the electricity generated by all of the world’s installed solar photovoltaic (PV) panels last year probably surpassed the amount of energy going into fabricating more modules, according to Michael Dale, a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford’s Global Climate & Energy Project (GCEP). With continued technological advances, the global…

April 9, 2013