Sustainability Power Association of Australia has honored Galaxy Resources and Swan Energy with the Power Generation and Distribution Award. The award given in recognition of sustainable power efforts and innovation from the two businesses was presented inside a ceremony held at Perth, WA. State-of-the-art solar tracking technologies at Mt Cattlin project near Ravensthorpe in Western Australia. Mt. Cattlin will likely be the initial mine web page in Australia which is totally powered by renewable energy sources within the subsequent three years. At present about 10% of the power requirement from the mine is met by green energy and this may soar to 100% by 2014 if all goes to plan. Galaxy Resources has recently completed a renewable power installation at the Mt Cattlin lithium mine and also a processing plant located close to Ravensthorpe in Western Australia with 14 larger sized solar trackers and 2 wind turbines.
Group 5 is to construct a R5-billion solar power energy plant to provide mines, together with the initially electrical energy expected to flow in two years, the construction firm said yesterday. Greg Heale, the group’s director of engineering and construction, mentioned the project was still in advancement and he said Group Five, South Africa’s fourth-biggest construction firm, expected to conclude all contractual arrangements, like power-supply agreements with mining businesses, within the following six months. Heale did not wish to name the mining firms. “We hope to become producing energy in 2013 when it begins to come on line.” He added that the targets applied “if the project goes ahead”. Group 5, South Africa’s fourth-largest construction firm, expected to conclude all contractual arrangements, such as off-take agreements, with mining organizations within the following six months. The project, to become located inside the sun-drenched Northern Cape, will produce 150MW. It could possibly be upgraded to make 450MW to 500MW, Teale mentioned.
Speaking at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in California, MIT professor Daniel Nocera claims to have made “artificial leaves” — tiny solar power cells, in regards for the size of an oak leaf, that use a photosynthesis-like approach to turn water into electrical power. The scientist have created an artificial leaf developed from stable and cost-effective materials that mimics nature’s photosynthesis process. The device is an advanced solar cell, that’s left floating in a pool of water. Then, considerably like a all-natural leaf, it utilizes sunlight to split the water into its two core elements, oxygen and hydrogen, which are stored inside a fuel cell to become applied when producing electrical power. The leaves are affordable and stable to make and can operate continuously for 45 hours with out a drop in activity in preliminary tests and produced of extensively obtainable, cost-effective supplies – like silicon, electronics and chemical catalysts, which provides them an excellent deal of prospective for powering properties in nations exactly exactly where energy infrastructure is prohibitively high-priced.
An enormous solar power project on the campus of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore was recently turned on. The UMES project consists of 7,800 solar panels array, covering 17 acres of land on university-owned land, based on the school. It has the “largest concentration of photovoltaic modules on 1 site” in all of Maryland, based on the press release. That’s enough to energy 5,700 households per year. General, the project will probably produce energy for the school over the following 20 years, and save a considerable quantity of income on its power charges, the report mentioned. In its 1st year of operation, it must produce 3.3 million kilowatt hours (kWh) – roughly the equivalent annual demand of 300 common American houses. According to the terms of the agreement, UMES will in turn obtain the electricity. generated by the method at a predictable rate and use it to offset the university’s demand from the electricity grid. Here’s more from a press statement:
The New York City has received its initially solar-powered EV charging station which was revealed within the Brooklyn Bridge Park at a 34 hectare sustainable waterfront park which stretches 2 km along the Brooklyn’s East River shoreline. Beautiful Earth, a renewable energy company had created and constructed the charging station and it is one amongst couple of charging stations that has been powered by sun across the world. The 5.6 kw solar power system is expected to support the power requirements of an typical property and also support five of the electric automobiles within the park. With this project Brooklyn Bridge park will be able to save expense throughout the life time of the project with close to $200,000 in petrol, and a large number of dollars in the electrical power charges. The projects 25 year lifespan is expected to avoid emission of additional than 530 tons of carbon dioxide.
Lakeland Electric will generate adequate electrical power to serve 2,000 homes by making a 5.5-megawatt solar farm to be deployed in alliance with SunEdison in the Lakeland Linder Regional Airport this summer time. The 45-acre facility, known as a solar farm, will probably be on the west end of the runway south of Drane Field Road. SunEdison will finance and deploy the solar farm with no upfront costs from Lakeland Electric. Lakeland Electric will acquire the power produced at long-term predictable rates for 25 years. Lakeland Electric will make an announcement regarding the new solar power farm at two p.m. Wednesday at the Sun n’ Entertaining Fly-In. Particulars concerning the expenses were not included in a written statement. The utility plans to share additional details of the project March 30.
United States Marine Corps has completed its biggest solar installation to date – a 1.4 megawatt ground-mounted program – that will produce electrical power for Base Camp Pendleton outside of San Diego, Calif. The system was installed atop an inactive landfill.
In accordance with a press statement from the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Southwest: the installation need to make about two,400 megawatt-hours (MWh) annually, or sufficient electrical power to energy 400 average U.S. residences.
The $9.four million project is expected to save the Marine Corps at the least $336,000 yearly in electrical power charges, although tripling its earlier solar power capacity.
A Japanese organization with substantial operations in San Diego, Kyocera Solar, Inc. produced and supplied the photovoltaic modules for the method, domestically. Kyocera reported that 6,300 of its KD235 selection solar modules had been employed inside the project, inside of some 225 solar panels.
SunPower, a solar panel manufacturer, and Xcel Power, a utility supplier, have announced the completion of one particular solar power facility plus the development of another in Colorado’s Alamosa County. The Better Sandhill solar energy plant, a 19 megawatt photovoltaic technique, was completed and commissioned this March.
Better Sandhill is now making plenty of power to serve almost 5,000 residences each year when at potential. The solar electrical power plant began building within the summer of 2010, and is also explained to possess created one hundred work opportunities inside the region through its improvement. SunPower is making use of its proprietary solar tracking system on the plant, which it statements can make approximately 25% additional vitality than typical programs by titling panels towards the sun since it moves across the sky.
Constellation Energy Group Inc. signed a first-of-its-kind federal 20-year contract to help the U.S. State Department meet federal solar and wind energy goals.
Baltimore-based Constellation says it will supply the State Department with electricity from a $50 million solar energy project it plans to build in New Jersey and a wind power project planned in Pennsylvania. UNICOR, a federal prison industries service will build the panels – the project should be complete by mid-2012. The company says the solar panels will be built by a federal prison service that provides job skill training to inmates and market-priced goods for the federal government.
The long-term power purchase agreement with Constellation will supply the State Department, part of the White House campus and other federal facilities with an estimated 120,000 megawatts a year of clean energy annually to federal government facilities. The agreement, which is expected to be cost-neutral, will allow the State Department to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 30-35% compared to FY2008 by December 2012, far surpassing its goal of 20% by 2020.
Workers have finished installing an $11 million canopy of solar panels covering nearly four acres over a vast span of concrete parking lot to help power the Cincinnati Zoo and the system is expected to be turned on by mid-April. The solar power canopy will help to control the zoo’s $700,000 annual electric bill when it’s turned on by the middle of next month. Workers installed the last solar panels on Friday.
The project consists of 6,400 photovoltaic solar collection panels assembled on more than 100 metal arrays, 15 to 18 feet high. They cover 800 of the 1,000 parking spaces at the zoo’s main entrance. The solar canopy is designed to produce 1.56 megawatts of electricity, about 20 percent of the zoo’s annual need, or enough to power 200 homes a year.
The zoo’s project isn’t the largest solar project in Ohio. The Wyandot Solar Farm, a utility-sponsored project near Upper Sandusky in north-central Ohio, covers about 80 acres and can produce more than 10 megawatts of electricity. A dozen zoos have called to learn more about the project, and developers hope it will generate interest in using clean energy in big public spaces.
