30 April 2014
A new solar material that has the same crystal structure as a mineral first found in the Ural Mountains in 1839 is shooting up the efficiency charts faster than almost anything researchers have seen before—and it is generating optimism that a less expensive way of using sunlight to generate electricity may be in our planet’s […]
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30 April 2014
Loans of up to £400,000 per farm are available from today in a new initiative to help farmers in England who want to build small-scale AD plants on their farms. They are available from the On Farm Anaerobic Digestion (AD) Loan Fund of as part of a £3 million initiative administered by the government-funded Waste […]
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29 April 2014
Consumers Energy, Michigan’s largest utility and principal subsidiary of CMS Energy (NYSE: CMS), has resumed construction of its Cross Winds Energy Park in Tuscola County, Michigan, as warm weather returns to Michigan. “Consumers Energy and its contractors are committed to building Cross Winds Energy Park in the safest manner possible. Safety is our No. 1 […]
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29 April 2014
RenewableUK commented on the release of a new marine energy roadmap from the UK Energy Research Centre and the Energy Technologies Institute. The report, which focusses on cost-cutting, identifies forty technology and deployment issues faced by the wave and tidal energy sector in the UK, and lays out how to tackle these to ensure the […]
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29 April 2014
Researchers from the University of Surrey were today awarded funding by the UK government and the government in India for two projects to explore how nanotechnology will impact the future of renewable energy. Awarded to researchers from the Advanced Technology Institute (ATI) at the University of Surrey through the UK-India Education and Research Initiative (UK-IERI), […]
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29 April 2014
With the first Feed-In Tariff (FIT) degression applied from April 1, the Green Investment Bank (GIB) is expected to come out in support of the UK’s anaerobic digestion (AD) and biogas industry at the country’s biggest biogas event in July. Partha Vasudev, vice-president waste & bioenergy at the GIB, has been confirmed to speak at […]
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28 April 2014
Rising production of natural gas in the Marcellus shale play in the Appalachian basin continues to outpace the growth in the region’s pipeline takeaway capacity, which has led to supply backups in the region, the US Energy Information Administration reported in a weekly gas report. Because of this fact, EIA observed, new gas production is […]
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28 April 2014
Work has just started on a new 1MW anaerobic digestion (AD) plant that will use locally grown grass, whole crop silage and some maize at Consett in north east England. The build phase of the project will be completed in late 2014 with full production of heat, power and liquid fertiliser (digestate), which will be […]
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28 April 2014
In just six years’ time an estimated 150,000 homes in the UK and France could be powered by clean, renewable energy from the waters around a five-square mile island in the English Channel. Alderney, the third largest of the Channel Islands, is working on a strategy to revitalise its economy by not only becoming self-sustainable […]
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28 April 2014
The British arm of one of the world’s leading solar photovoltaic (PV) solution and service providers has secured a contract for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of a 37MWp solar plant on a disused airfield at Kencot Hill near Oxford. Once connected towards the end of this summer, the 144,000-panel ground-mounted plant on the […]
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Minister Naughten Awards €20m in Community Energy Grants
The search for a high flying clean energy generator
HYDROSOL Plant Project – Hydrogen power for zero CO2 emissions
Our Future – Efficiency and Renewable Energy
€10 million loan for the further development of wave energy
Oil hits two-month low on glut fears, technical selling
Farmers advised to exercise ‘caution’ when signing up to any solar energy contract
Indigenous Wind Energy Saved Ireland €70 Million in Energy Imports Since January
MEPs call for more ambitious A-G scale for energy labels
Strafford to construct a new €3m smokeless fuel manufacturing facility
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