Solar Ark Worlds Most Stunning Solar Building

Sanyo has built an ark for the solar century - an impressive 630 kW solar-collecting building that boasts over 5,000 solar panels and kicks off over 500,000 kWh of energy per year. Even more outstanding is the fact that most of the monocrystalline modules used on the Solar Ark were factory rejects headed to the scrap pile. Located next to Sanyo's semiconductor factory in Gifu, Japan, the Solar Ark stands as one of the best examples of building integrated...

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Sunedison Adani To Build 4 Billion Gujarat Solar Facility

Adani Enterprises Ltd, the flagship company of the 9.4 billion Adani Group, on Sunday signed an agreement with US-based SunEdison Inc. to set up a joint venture that will build a solar photovoltaic manufacturing facility in Gujarat with an investment of around 4 billion. The announcement comes amid a trade battle between India and the US at the World Trade Organization (WTO), where a dispute settlement panel has been established to hear US complaints...

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Jimmy Carter Was Right

Barely two weeks into his presidency, Jimmy Carter called for a comprehensive, long-range energy policy that emphasized conservation. Too bad no one listened"One of our most urgent projects is to develop a national energy policy," said President Jimmy Carter in a televised Oval Office address on February 2, 1977. It was his Report to the American People on Energy. He had been president for just 13 days.Noting that America was "only major industrial...

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Maryland Energy Facts

"MARYLAND ENERGY FACTS" Electrification in the United States has become a challenge to its citizens. The principal sources of electricity in the US are coal, oil and natural gas, which are classified as fossil fuels. Due to the fact that fossil fuels are non-renewable and they diminish with time, the cost of extracting them is persistently increasing. It's evident that electricity prices are steadily increasing (see article about BGE rate increasing)....

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Renewable Energy Overtakes Nuclear And Becomes Scotland Top Power Source

According to newly released statistics from the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change, renewable energy sources produced 32 percent of Scotland's electricity in the first half of 2014 - beating both nuclear power, which used to be Scotland's main source of electricity, and fossil fuels.Scotland produced 10.3 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity from renewable energy sources in the first half of 2013. Nuclear energy, which had previously been...

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World Largest Off Shore Wind Turbine 2014

Wind power is becoming one of the largest renewable energy source in modern world. Current researches on wind turbine focuses on extracting maximum power from the wind. New wind turbines have been designed to meet the requirements.For example, airborne wind turbine technology by Altaeros Energies is suitable for high altitude winds. Now Siemens, a German multinational conglomerate company along with DONG Energy is building the largest wind turbine...

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