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June of 2009

 

Rate Bhel to partner pvt firms for hydro projects

Original at Livemint external link    Wed, Jun 17

 India Civil construction usually comprises 60% of the cost of a hydroelectric power plant and such a partnership would help Bhel share the project risk. Hydropower projects are more complex to build and need specialized technology and design than thermal ...

Rate Clever Financing Gets California Back On Track

Original at Reuters external link    Wed, Jun 17

Besides solar, eligible projects include wind energy, closed-loop biomass, open-loop biomass, geothermal energy, small irrigation power, landfill gas, trash combustion, marine and hydrokinetic energy, and some hydropower facilities. ...

Rate Are Clouds Dissipating on the Solar Energy Industry 0 comments

Original at Seeking Alpha external link    Tue, Jun 16

 NY The high price of oil in the past year was a catalyst for development in other alternative energy sources, not just solar. Advances in wind, geothermal, and hydropower energy are reducing the cost of wind power to a point at which it is becoming ...

Rate Alternative Energy Markets Waiting for

Original at Metal Center external link    Tue, Jun 16

 IL The federal New Energy for America plan sets a goal of 10 percent of all electricity coming from renewable sources by 2012, increasing to 25 percent by 2025. Renewable sources include wind, solar, geothermal and hydropower—technologies that are all ...

Rate Green focus goes with climate risk

Original at Business Mirror external link    Tue, Jun 16

 Philippines He said there is a need to invest more on renewable-energy sources which include biomass, wind, geothermal, hydropower and solar power. According to the ADB report on climate-change programs, under a business-as-usual scenario, energy demand in ...

Rate Six new plants set for national power grid link

Original at Thanh Nien Daily external link    Mon, Jun 15

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 Vietnam Nguyen Manh Hung, deputy general director of EVN, said the additional power supply aims to meet increasing domestic demand. The six new thermal and hydropower plants are: the O Mon No. 1 (Can Tho City); Quang Ninh No. 1 (Quang Ninh Province); ...

Rate Albay looks up to US, Australia for its economic strategy

Original at Business Mirror external link    Mon, Jun 15

 Philippines The Green Energy program, he explained, involves the promotion of renewable energy through windmill power on Cagraray Island, hydropower on Rapu-Rapu Island and expansion of the Tiwi geothermal power capacity from 370 megawatts (MW) to 640 MW. ...

Rate USDA accepting applications for renewable energy and energy ...

Original at EmpireStateNews.net external link    Sun, Jun 14

 New York Grants are available for up to 25 percent of a project's cost, not to exceed $250000 for energy efficiency improvements and $500000 for renewable energy systems. Eligible renewable energy projects include biomass, solar, wind, geothermal, hydropower ...

Rate Local Industry News & Notes for Sunday, June 14, 2009

Original at Lihue Garden Island external link    Sun, Jun 14

 HI The program can be used to purchase and install renewable energy systems: solar, bioenergy (biomass, biogass), geothermal, wind, hydropower, ocean (including tidal, wave, current, and thermal), and hydrogen. USDA Rural Development's mission is to ...

Rate Energy-efficiency projects eligible for USDA funding

Original at Watertown Daily Times external link    Sat, Jun 13

 NY Grants are available for up to 25 percent of a project's cost, not to exceed $250000 for energy efficiency improvements and $500000 for renewable energy systems. Eligible renewable energy projects include biomass, solar, wind, geothermal, hydropower ...

Rate USDA Offers Loans For Renewable Energy Projects

Original at CleanTech Brief external link    Fri, Jun 12

 New York Eligible renewable energy projects include biomass, solar, wind, geothermal, hydropower and hydrogen. The program can also provide funding to conduct feasibility studies of proposed projects. Eligible applicants may seek loan guarantees to cover up to ...

Rate Anadolu Group to invest EUR 1bn in thermal power plant in Sinop. - ISI

Original at securities.com external link    Fri, Jun 12

The company executive also asserts that energy will be the group's second largest business after beverages in the coming years. Ozilhan states that Anadolu Group will also establish two hydropower plants in Turkey and Georgia and already started talks ...

Rate REN Alliance embraces bioenergy

Original at Biofuels International external link    Fri, Jun 12

 UK The agreement ensures that all the leading international renewable energy organisations are now part of the REN Alliance. The Alliance already represents agencies concerning the geothermal, hydropower, solar, and wind energy sectors respectively. ...

Rate World Bioenergy Association joins REN Alliance - Renewable Energy Magazine

Original at renewableenergymagazine.com external link    Fri, Jun 12

All the leading international renewable energy organisations are now part of the REN Alliance, with the International Geothermal Association (IGA), the International Hydropower Association (IHA), the International Solar Energy Society (ISES), ...

Rate Let's adopt wind power now

Original at The Salem (Mass.) News external link    Thu, Jun 11

 MA Energy production in the United States is largely fossil fuel-based, and it's pushing the limit on the amount of carbon dioxide our atmosphere and oceans can handle. Wind, solar, geothermal and hydropower have dwelled in the realm of the possible for ...

Rate China May power output decline narrows to 2.7 pct

Original at Reuters external link    Thu, Jun 11

 India We expect the growth rate of power generation to recover to positive territory in June." Output from thermal plants in May decreased 6.8 percent from a year earlier to 220.12 billion kilowatt hours, while production from hydropower stations increased ...

Rate UNEP & NEF Reveal Worldwide Renewable Energy Investment Trends

Original at RenewableEnergyAccess.com external link    Thu, Jun 11

 NH Of the $155 billion, $105 billion was spent directly developing 40 GW of power generating capacity from wind, solar, small-hydro, biomass and geothermal sources. A further $35 billion was spent on developing 25 GW of large hydropower, according to the ...

Rate Electricity generation from thermal power plants to be increased ... - ISI

Original at securities.com external link    Thu, Jun 11

Kulali explains that the installed capacity of thermal and hydropower plants are 12525 and 11674 megawatts, respectively. The share of EUAS in the country's installed capacity is 57.1 and electricity generation by the company's thermal and hydro power ...

Rate Renewable energy can supply America's new demand

Original at The Johnstown Breeze external link    Wed, Jun 10

 CO Solar power's potential is many times greater than that if we deploy panels on less than 1 percent of our land. Add to that the potential of geothermal, hydropower, and biomass – and fossil fuels begin to look like a dinosaur of the 20th century that ...

Rate The Capitalist | India should tap solar power for thermal plants

Original at Livemint external link    Wed, Jun 10    2 related articles

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Greentech Media  India The only factor that appears to go against solar power is the capital cost involved per MW of power generated (in sharp contrast to per MW of installed capacity). But on a per MW basis, solar power requires less capital expenditure than hydropower and ...

Rate Greenhunter Energy stock jumps 61.7 percent

Original at google.com external link    Tue, Jun 9

Greenhunter works on wind, hydropower, geothermal solar and other renewable energy projects. It has the nation's largest biodiesel refinery in Houston and a biomass-fired power plant in Brawley, Calif.

Rate Coal: What Happens If It Isn't Cheap and Plentiful?

Original at Seeking Alpha external link    Tue, Jun 9

 NY Elsewhere on the generation side of energytech, alternative baseload power candidates (such as wind, wave- and hydropower, solar-plus-storage, geothermal, etc.) would be more attractive. But the big winner would be energy efficiency technology, ...

Rate Multinationals look to grow in the wind

Original at China Daily external link    Sun, Jun 7

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 China By about 2020, wind power will likely surpass nuclear power as China's third-largest source of electricity, after thermal and hydropower, the analysts said. Today the world's top wind energy companies - including Vestas from Denmark and Gamesa from ...

Rate Clean Tech Fund's First Financing Goes to Turkey Renewables

Original at RenewableEnergyAccess.com external link    Thu, Jun 4    3 related articles

 NH It intends to tap Turkey's renewable energy potential including hydropower, wind, solar, biomass, geothermal, and other resources. The program funds include loans to Turkiye Sinai Kalkinma Bankasi, a private industrial development bank, ...

Rate Clean Energy Funding Trumps Fossil Fuels

Original at New York Times external link    Wed, Jun 3

 United States Large hydropower projects, wind, solar and geothermal were among renewable sources covered by the report. Fossil fuels included projects like building new coal plants in China. Even so, the long life of power plants meant it would be “some time” before ...

May of 2009

 

Rate Energizing the movement

Original at Petoskey News-Review external link    Sat, May 30

 MI This would involve strategies such as improved energy efficiency; use of renewable power sources including wind, solar and geothermal; existing carbon-free generating methods such as hydropower and nuclear power; and fossil-fuel plants that capture and ...

Rate KfW: Leading the way for renewables

Original at finchannel.com external link    Thu, May 21

 Georgia The renewable technologies covered by this support include wind parks, solar energy, biomass, hydropower plants and geothermal energy. Most of the funding delivered comes from the budget of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and ...

Rate 7 amazing facts about green jobs

Original at mnn.com external link    Thu, May 14

 GA that worldwide the solar thermal industry employs at least 624000 people, the wind power industry 300000, and the solar PV industry 170000; more than 1 million people work in the biomass and biofuels sector while small-scale hydropower employs 39000 ...

Year 2009

 

Rate EarthTalk: What is the ‘green cities’ movement?

Original at Christian Science Monitor external link    Fri, Mar 13

By editorial Another green cities leader is Rekjavík, Iceland, where hydrogen-powered buses ply the streets and renewable energy sources – geothermal and hydropower – provide the city’s heat and electricity. Other green cities include: London; Copenhagen, Denmark; Sydney, New South Wales; Bar...

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