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Top 5 Green Technologies Missing from the USA
High speed trains, solar cell phones, energy generating dance clubs, radiant floor heating, high tech toilets - Read More
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Topics : Bioenergy
Portugal's Renewable Target for 2020
Portugal has a target of generating 31 percent of its energy from renewable by 2020. The country pays a feed-in-tariff of about €0.23 (33 cents) per kilowatt hour. - Read More
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Ireland Cleantech - Over 30 billion $ to be spent
Ireland has invested heavily in cleantech in recent months, with goals to halve its carbon emissions within 12 years and get to carbon net-zero by 2035. The government is investing $16.5 billion into renewable energy and clean technology, and the state-owned Electricity Supply Board plans to spend €22 billion into wind, wave, tidal, biomass, smart metering and smart networks - Read More
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Topics : Finance
Boeing Joins Aviation, Energy and Academic Leaders to Accelerate Development and Availability of Sus
Boeing has, with leading air carriers and Honeywell’s UOP, a refining technology developer, established a group to accelerate the development and commercialization of sustainable new aviation fuels.. - Read More
ECA - Easy Connection Act Makes Renewable Energy More Attractive to Individuals
The ECA establishes uniform procedures to connect a small renewable energy system to the electric grid in a quick, safe, and reliable manner. The ECA also establishes "true net metering", which credits an owner of a renewable energy system at a one-to-one rate for electricity "sold" back to the grid. Most basically, the Easy Connection Act makes it easier and more cost effective for a person to install a renewable energy system onto a home or business. - Read More
One in Four Homes with Solar, 3500 Wind Turbines in Britain in 12 Years
One in four British homes could be fitted with solar heating equipment and 3,500 wind turbines could be erected across Britain within 12 years as part of a green energy revolution to be proposed by the government next week. - Read More
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Topics : Solar Energy Wind Energy
Heroes of Alt Energy in India
Two heroes of alt energy in India - Dr. H. Harish Hande, co-founder and Managing Director of Solar Electric Lighting Company (SELCO) & Tulsi Tanti, cofounder, Chairman and Managing Director of Suzlon Energy - Read More
Germany gave lots of subsidies for alt energy
Germany, for instance, gave away all of the necessary subsidies to attain energy security. These subsidies have led to the solar boom.
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Greenbelt Resources acquires 20 percent of algae technology developer Renewed World Energies
In Minnesota, Greenbelt Resources has agreed to acquire 20 percent of Renewed World Energies, an algae oil producer with a new technology for harvesting algae using covered ponds and genetically modified algae strains. Under the agreement, Greenbelt will provide distribution for algae fuel. - Read More
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Topics : Finance
Nigeria: Mobile Operators to Power Base Stations With Renewable Energy
In order to take mobile to the masses, the GSMA, global body for mobile operators last week, launched the Green Power for Mobile programme with the goal of helping the mobile industry use renewable energy sources, such as solar, wind, or sustainable biofuels, to power 118,000 new and existing off-grid base stations in developing countries by 2012. Achieving that target would save up to 2.5 billion litres of diesel per annum and cut annual carbon emissions by up to 6.3 million tones. - Read More