Posted by admin on December 31st, 2010
Something new is going to the desert Southwest: New Solar power plants, which can make Solar electricity from the sun is shining or not.
Abengoa Solar Inc. expects to start construction in mid-2011 the factory in Arizona, which stores the sun’s heat generated by the six extra hours a day, the electricity generating capacity. The heat creates steam used to turn turbines.
Abengoa’s Solana $ 2000000000 plant is expected to be the first major storage heating plant in the United States when it enters service in 2013. Some are already in Spain and a few are in the planning stage and in Nevada and California.
Dec 21, Abengoa, the Spanish unit of Abengoa SA, a distribution company removed a major obstacle when it announced the $ 1,450,000,000 U.S. loan guarantee for 250 MW project, designed the Arizona site 70 miles southwest of Phoenix near Gila Bend.
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Posted by admin on December 31st, 2010
The sun is preparing to enter the most active part of the course is called solar max. There may be some sun-induced turbulence. Side effects of this phenomenon may result in faulty telecommunications and GPS.
The sun passes through the cycle of high activity and relatively quiet and does not burn a coherent force. Observed in approximately two centuries, sunspots are the most characteristic point of activity. Cycles last 11 years on average, but in the current period, which began in 1996, has lasted longer than usual to get solar max. It is estimated the Solar max will be at peak in mid 2013.
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Posted by admin on December 30th, 2010
This year has proved to be the boom year of solar industry, thanks in no small part to a lucrative state aid in Europe, especially in countries such as Germany and Italy. The new solar project institutions shot up 7.2 GW in 2009 to an estimated 15.8 GW in 2010, according to iSuppli. But analysts predict the slowdown in growth in 2011, because the incentives in these key European markets to fall quite a bit. Meanwhile, the U.S. market could grow faster. Here are the key trends I expect in 2011:
1. Rise in the U.S. market. Since the entire country, solar industry, people have long counted on the U.S. becoming the dominant solar electricity producer in one day. We will probably see a very big boom in this direction because of the confluence of state and federal policy. Congress just continues the popular grant program that helps to cover 30 percent of the cost to install solar projects. Extension until 31 December 2011, and projects that start construction of the deadline remain eligible to receive money. That deadline is asking companies to accelerate their pace of development projects.
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Posted by admin on December 30th, 2010
Tessera Solar on tuesday said that they have sold its 850-megawatt solar power project in California until a few months ago, was ready to be a showcase piece of the company.
K Road, through the K Street Power Sun subsidiary, has purchased a Calico Solar Power Project, which recently received approval for the California Energy Commission. The acquisition is a strange saga of turning a giant power plant, which went through a long gestation period before the end to ensure the authorization to begin construction.
But the economic woes faced by its parent company quickly eclipsed that achievement, after which the decision of the Southern California Edison to withdraw their consent to purchase electricity from the project. All these developments – which ensure that licenses to sell Calico – took place within weeks.
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Posted by admin on December 29th, 2010
This small country’s large engineering combines efficiency with some of the legislation’s most ambitious climate in the world. Does not hurt to understand the frugal that investment in new energy now saves money in the long term as well.
Stunning new renewable dissemination of statistics out of the Scottish Government revealed that a small country made their goals easily.
By the year 2009, the renewable energy had already met more than 27% of electricity use.
As of this year, with 7 GW of renewable energy on the Internet is in the process, and Scotland on the target to achieve its ambitious goal to get 31% of its electricity from renewable energy by 2011, and a stunning 80% by the year 2020, thirty years ago the world.
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Posted by admin on December 29th, 2010
The world’s largest solar-powered shiny white boat arrives in Miami, Florida after an Atlantic crossing that started in Monaco and lasted 61 days, 34 minutes in record time. Before heading to Mexico for the climate conference, where developers hope to show off the vessel as a way of the future. A vessel seemingly straight out of a vintage James Bond movie will slip into Miami’s Government Cut sometime around 8 a.m. Saturday.
The 102-foot-long Turanor PlanetSolar — which its team of Swiss-German builders says translates into ”power of the sun” in the Elvish language JRR Tolkien invented for Lord of the Rings — is far from the first boat to run on the sun.
“This is a milestone in the progress of solar mobility,” says Immo Ströher, owner of Turanor PlanetSolar and president and CEO of Rivendell AG, a Swiss firm that invests in renewable energy. “It is my vision to see solar power take its rightful place – not only on rooftops, but also on the roads, seas and in the skies of the future.”
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Posted by admin on December 29th, 2010
Xiaofeng Peng, the Xinyu-based company’s chief executive officer has announced that they have increased there production capacity of Solar wafers to 3.0 gigawatts. He said “This achievement positions the company to continue to capitalize on the demand for its PV products”.
A wafer is a thin slice of semiconductor material, such as a silicon crystal, used in the fabrication of integrated circuits and other micro devices. Several types of solar cell are also made from such wafers. On a solar wafer a solar cell (usually circular) is made from the entire wafer.
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Posted by admin on December 28th, 2010
Engineering students from University of Washington have Create Inexpensive Water Testing Tool to monitor water disinfection using Solar Power / Sun rays. They have won an international contest for their design and got $40,000 prize from the Rockefeller Foundation and are now working with nonprofits to turn their concept into a reality.
Using the sun’s rays is a primary way to disinfect water or minimize the water-borne infections. But one problem with many systems is the user doesn’t know when the water is finally safe to drink. That’s where the students at University of Washington step in.
Team member Jacqueline Linnes, she and other students treated their drinking water by leaving it in plastic bottles in the sun when recently after completing her bioengineering doctorate, traveled to Bolivia last year with the UW chapter of Engineers Without Borders. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by admin on December 28th, 2010
Thailand is going to install 204 megawatts of Solar Panels in coming four years. These Panels will be installed in 34 different locations in Thailand in four years.
The Kyocera Corp. of japan will supply 1 million solar panels to Thailand. The Sanae Iwasaki, a Kyocera spokes woman, said on phone that Kyocera will supply these solar panels to Thailand’s Solar Power Holdings Co.
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Posted by admin on December 28th, 2010
Those willing to install solar power will have to act soon, as few days ago there was an announcement by the Federal Government that the Solar Credits Rebate will be reduced substantially a year ahead of schedule or face paying an extra $1200 for their solar electricity system.
The Solar Credits Rebate is a Federal rebate which represents thousands of dollars towards the upfront investment in your system. This rebate will be reduced from $6200* for a 1.5kW solar electricity system down to $5000* for systems installed after July 1st 2011, a reduction of $1200!
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