Verve Energy in collaboration with BP Solar are planning to build Australia’s largest ever grid-connected solar power plant. The photovoltaic power plant is expected to generate about 10MW of clean energy and according to the two companies, it will be built in Geraldton, Western Australia.

At the beginning of this month, the European division of Sanyo has officially released its new enhanced HIT solar panel. Dubbed HIT-N235SE10, the new 235 watt solar panel has an energy-efficiency of 21.1%, improving the performance in limited space installations and offering more power generation per square meter.

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Summerhill Group, which is representing Ice Energy’s Ice Bear product in Canada, probably wishes the system has had more traction. Basically, the Ice Bear system uses off-peak electricity to create large blocks of ice, and then uses that ice during summer peak times to provide cooling — the idea being that it offsets the need to run air conditioners at times when electricity is most expensive.

A personal helicopter weighing just 230 lb created sizzling news when it flew on hydrogen with zero emission. With an ability to carry payloads up to 800 lbs, this pocket Hercules can fly for 90 minutes. Fitted with easy controls, this reaches a speed of 100 knots thanks to a pair of small yet powerful motors mounted on it. Two common and easily available things – Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and a catalyst – combined to bring about a milestone in personal aviation history with attention to the environmental issues as well! Avimech has combined these two to power engine in to an innovative machine.

Theo TKV, sau khi giấy phép thăm dò được cấp, Tập đoàn sẽ khẩn trương tổ chức thi công và lập báo cáo, nếu được nhà nước phê duyệt, TKV sẽ lập các dự án khai thác than thử nghiệm bằng công nghệ khai thác hầm lò truyền thống hoặc khí hóa than trong lòng đất trên cơ sở đảm bảo hiệu quả về kinh tế, môi trường và xã hội.

Phú Thọ hiện có 29 làng nghề ở 11 huyện, thành phố, thị xã được UBND tỉnh công nhận với các nhóm ngành nghề như: chế biến chè, đan lát mây tre, chế biến nông sản, thực phẩm, mộc, làm nón, dệt thổ cẩm...

Ông Nguyễn Quang Đạo, Chủ tịch Hội đồng quản trị, Tổng Giám đốc Công ty Cổ phần Thủy điện Thái An cho biết, Nhà máy Thủy điện Thái An được xây dựng trên địa bàn xã Thái An (huyện Quản Bạ) và xã Thuận Hòa (huyện Vị Xuyên). Nhà máy có công suất 82MW, với tổng vốn đầu tư hơn 2.000 tỷ đồng.

The U.S. Navy’s Seal Beach facility in California is now home to a new $1.9 million solar parking lot, thanks to funding from the federal Recovery Act. Aside from creating new green construction jobs, the new solar facility will save the Navy more than $30,000 per year in electrical costs. It’s just one part of an all-around solar power makeover for the Navy, which just this summer has commissioned another $100 million worth of new solar projects.

A team of researchers from the University of Nevada at Reno is out to prove that sludge from a wastewater treatment plant can be dried, powdered, gassified as biofuel, and then burned to generate electricity, which in turn can run equipment at the same treatment plant. Talk about having your cake and eating it, too! The question is whether the researchers can make their sewage sludge-to-biofuel process operate at a cost low enough to compete with the price of conventional fuels.

The 155,000-square-foot facility is located in Lockport, N.Y., and unlike conventional ones, it uses 95 percent less water and 40 percent less energy. The energy-efficient data center has a power usage effectiveness rating of 1.08, which is quite less compared to the industry average of 1.92.

Two scientists are on a path-breaking method to produce ’sea-urchins’ to expedite the work capacity and efficiency of photovoltaic devices. Jamil Elias and Laetitia Philippe are the two scientists from Empa’s Mechanics of Materials & Nanostructures Laboratory who have been successful in producing these tiny ’sea urchins’ which are ready to revolutionize solar-cell technology.

Nhà cung cấp năng lượng EDF vừa công bố một thiết bị mới mang tên EcoManager, cho phép người dùng có thể tắt các đồ gia dụng từ bất cứ nơi đâu trong nhà. EcoManager là thiết bị không dây, có khả năng giúp con người điều khiển và tắt lò vi sóng, TV, radio tại mọi nơi cũng như ngắt các nguồn sử điện không cần thiết, cắt giảm tiền điện.

Toshiba Satellite C640 đặc biệt nổi trội với ưu điểm tiết kiệm năng lượng. Việc tiêu thụ điện năng ít hơn góp phần kéo dài thời gian sử dụng pin, độ bền máy và hơn hết là bảo vệ môi trường.

Energy supplier EDF have unveiled a new gadget that allows consumers to turn off their appliances from anywhere in the home. The wireless EcoManager enables householders to control and switch off their microwave ovens, TVs and stereos from any location, allowing them to cut needless energy use and save money on their bills in the process.

Six miles per gallon doesn't sound like much, but don't tell that to the Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority. The transit authority's new diesel-electric hybrid buses get two miles per gallon more than the diesel-only cousins they are replacing.

Starting early to develop China's own energy-efficient and new-energy vehicles a decade ago, China now has an established industry with the research and development of three types of these vehicles and three key technologies at its core. Zhang Laiwu, vice science and technology minister, made the remark Thursday at a press conference in Beijing, adding that China' s industrial pattern of green vehicles was relatively unique in the world, because of its early start to develop these vehicles.

The project on construction of a wind power electricity plant on Phu Quy Island has been implemented by the PetroVietnam Power Corporation. The project costs VND335 billion. The plant has capacity of 6MW and includes three 2MW turbines. The plant produces about 25.4 million of kWh annually. It will connect with the 22kV network and work smoothly with the diesel power plant located on the island. The project occupies permanent and temporary areas of 0.74ha and 0.87ha respectively.

On September 17, the Thien Tan Joint Stock Company was successful in connecting electricity sources from the Ha Nang Hydroelectric Plant with the national electricity network. The plant has been constructed in Tra Thuy Commune, Tra Bong District, Quang Ngai Province. The plant has capacity of 11MW and totally costs more than VND300 billion. The plant supplies 76 million of KW annually.

A recent study, conducted by the Rochester Institute of Technology, reveals that the total energy needed to make organic solar cells is less than the one needed to make inorganic solar cells.