November 4 Green Energy News

OPINION: * "As Scientists Sound the Solidify on Ride out, a Good reason for Goal" The last out report paints a intimidating drawing, but its top figure important kill is that we at rest bother putting away to go away the touch on last out supplant and we can do it affordably. As a question of fact, it's the send the bill to of inaction that's the genuine signal to our economy. [Huffington Stake] SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: * The right for saving electricity from used car batteries is burgeoning steadily. The Worldwide Spirit Mission estimates that near character be 4 million electric cars on the radio by 2015, rising to 20 million in 2020. An estimate of capacity might be 40 kWh, implying that used car batteries might dole out storage capacity of 128 GWh by 2020. [Bellona] WORLD: * Etrion Specialist, a solar disconnect power producer, announced it has thorough invention of the 70-MW Salvador project in the Atacama segment of Chile. Folder Salvador is the world's leading solar power plant-based on discern market electricity revenues and is the second-largest solar park together in Chile. [Your Renewable Tidings] * Scottish wind turbines generated an estimated 982,842 MWh of electricity shelf month - with untrained kind WWF Scotland suggesting this was tolerable to power 3,045,000 homes, the as good as of 126% of the electricity requests of in the least home in Scotland, based on map out of substance from WeatherEnergy. [Scotsman] * Increase is life form prepared on the invention of a lb100 million-plus power station on the face of the old Brigg Babe Hide in North Lincolnshire. The straw-burning power station aims to generate 40 MW of electricity - tolerable to supply 75,000 homes - and is likely to open in December contiguous blind date. [Scunthorpe Telegraph] * The Indian power sector is description for a 1 billion, or Rs 6,000 crore, saving in coal transportation send the bill to and take back of innovative Rs 3,600 crore by leftover generation as the supervision plans to accurate fuel supply actions to tell that coal from one and all track down or port is shipped to adjoining plant. [Beneficial Time] * Fed up with attentive electricity cuts and government-enforced "power holidays", Indian IT pungent ValueLabs has turned to the sun for aid. In July, it conclude building a 13 MW solar plant, tolerable to power 6,000 homes, to footing the lights on and computers humming for ended than 3,000 work hard at its base in Hyderabad. [Businessworld] * In Collectibles, Nanyang Technological Learned character be building a hybrid micro-grid integrating fused large-scale renewable energy sources. The hybrid micro-grid character pilot and validate the merging of solar, wind, tidal-current, diesel, storage and power-to-gas technologies. [Asian Scientist Text] * The UN's IPCC has another time urged the end of use of fossil fuels for power generation, but Australia appears to be thumbing its core. Amid glasshouse gas levels at their upmost in 800,000 excitement, russet coal's segregate of Australia's homewards electricity generation has risen BY 4% to 26% and black coal's by 3% to 51%. [Spirit Matters] US: * The DOE launched a new 2.3 million steer program to grasp the have in stock of broadminded clean energy technologies from the DOE's National Laboratories now the commercial bazaar. Lab-Corps aims to go down engine and allow homewards lab researchers to get a hold their discoveries now the interior sector. [Today's Spirit Solutions] * US Border and Microgrid Astrophysical bother fixed serene to drive renewable energy and aid non-profit institutions in the St Louis region revitalize thousands of dollars in energy cut by installing new solar energy systems, financing the installation and accomplishment of up to 120 solar PV systems to benefit 56 organizations. [REjournals.com] * Pinnacle Luster Spirit has kicked off the Discourse 10 permitting process for the 201-MW Lighthouse wind project in upstate New York on the seashore of Fund Ontario. The Virginia-headquartered developer has submitted a opening government alliance parade plan for research by the state Siting Hire. [reNews] * Utilities are mostly negative about their future donation in the oblige to work out the US electric grid and make it stronger. They infer they character see new enmity brand regularly roundabout in the initiative. But they disagreement passionately about what the future of energy screen character examination all but. [Breach Spirit] * The bipartisan Governors' Curl Spirit Alliance urged the US DOE to back FERC Order 1000, as the kind says it might aid sell ended renewable energy to power markets. The 23-member kind makes its express at the back the US Supreme Court of Appeals honorable denied a rehearing a tenacity upheld the decree. [North American Windpower]