The Obama administration is awarding up to $11 million to a series of national research laboratories for the development of advanced water power technologies, including hydrokinetic systems.
The U.S. Department of Energy will provide funding to the following laboratories for up to three years:
Global offshore wind farm capacity could grow at a compound annual rate of 32% over the course of the next decade, according to a new report by energy consulting firm ODS-Petrodata.
The UK currently leads the way for both installed capacity and projects under construction, but it may experience a lull in activity in 2013 and 2014.
The International Offshore Wind Market to 2020 report predicts that by the end of 2020 global offshore wind farm capacity will have soared to 55 gigawatts (GW). Current installed capacity is under 2 GW.
New ETU report shows gross energy feed-in tariff would create 22,500jobs Greens call on government to act now Launching a report commissioned by the Electrical Trades Union ofVictoria in Melbourne, the Australian Greens today called on the Ruddgovernment to introduce a gross national feed-in tariff for renewableenergy as community support for this measure grows. Australian Continue Reading →
While significant progress has been made in government funding and support of solar power in the United States, the most effective renewable energy policy and solar incentive available — the feed-in tariff — has yet to receive major attention outside of the Europe Union.
Photovoltaic (PV) energy conversion is based on semiconductor technology, and the experience of the last decades has shown that the cost of PV electricity is reduced by 20% with each doubling of the total installed volume. Thus, it is necessary to design market incentives that allow for a rapid increase of the market size in order to quickly reach production volumes with the accompanying cost reductions to first reach parity with household electricity rates, and later with production costs of fossil and nuclear energy.
Leave population out of climate talks, Indian minister says Jairam Ramesh claims there is a move among western countries to bring India’s rapidly growing population into climate change negotiations Randeep Ramesh in Delhi guardian.co.uk, Friday 28 August 2009 17.10 BST Article history Western nations are trying to use India‘s “profligate reproductive behaviour” to force Continue Reading →
Posted on August 26, 2009 Biomass: Another Renewable Energy Source Today’s posting comes from AltaTerra Research’s principal analyst in “green data centers.” Data centers are responsible not only for giving you your email, web browsing, credit card transactions and views of your friends’ photos, but also a growing amount of energy use–on a par with Continue Reading →