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26Nov

European consortia to build renewable energy farms in Arab deserts

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Europe’s ambitious project to capture solar and wind energy across Arab deserts to power homes in Europe, the Middle East and Africa inched forward Thursday despite technical and political hurdles.

Two international consortiums led by German and French industrial giants joined forces in highly complex drives to deploy solar panels and wind turbines in arid regions, and sink cables across the Mediterranean.

The two groups, Desertec Industry Initiative and Medgrid, signed a cooperation deal in Brussels on the sidelines of an EU energy ministers’ meeting, linking projects aimed at meeting 15 percent of Europe’s electricity demand by 2050.

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24Nov

Google Pulls Plug on Renewable Energy Project

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Google Pulls Plug on Renewable Energy Project

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Google Inc has abandoned an ambitious project to make renewable energy cheaper than coal, the latest target of Chief Executive Larry Page’s moves to focus the Internet giant on fewer efforts.

Google said on Tuesday that it was pulling the plug on seven projects, including Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal as well as a Wikipedia-like online encyclopedia service known as Knol.

The plans, which Google announced on its corporate blog, represent the third so-called “spring cleaning” announcement that Google has made since Google co-founder Page took the reins in April.

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26Oct

60-90% of UK Electricity Could Come from Renewable Energy

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60-90 of UK Electricity Could Come from Renewable Energy

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A new report published by WWF UK finds that 60% to 90% of the UK’s electricity could come from renewable energy sources such as wind, tidal, and solar energy by 2030.

“By using this amount of renewable energy, we can decarbonise the power sector without resorting to new nuclear power. We will also be able to maintain system security – that is, provide enough electricity at all times to make sure there’s never a risk of the ‘lights going out’,” the report states.

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22Oct

UK renewable energy subsidies slashed

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Public subsidies for a range of renewable energy technologies are to be cut under plans unveiled by the government on Thursday, as ministers respond to complaints of “green taxes” driving up energy bills.

Power stations using biomass from plants or waste byproducts to generate energy are among the worst losers, with developers disappointed that their subsidy levels have been left at a level they say will not encourage new projects.

Companies generating energy from landfill gas will cease to receive any subsidies at all. Projects to produce energy from waste will have their subsidies slashed, and hydroelectric power will receive only half the subsidy it used to.

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17Oct

German Trains Will Run on 100% Renewable Energy by 2050!

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Germany has made many remarkable strides towards sustainability in the past few years – they were the first nation to announce the abolition of nuclear power, the entire country already runs on 20% renewable energy, and now Deutsche Bahn, Germany’s national railway operator, has announced plans to run all of its trains on 100% renewable energy by the year 2050. The German railway currently uses 2% of the country’s total electricity, so their goal will have a powerful impact upon the nation as a whole.

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12Oct

Your world of tomorrow: Beaming renewable energy from space

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Your world of tomorrow Beaming renewable energy from space

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Today, approximately 80% of global energy demand is fulfilled by exploiting fossil fuels like coal, petroleum, and natural gas. By the end of 21st century, entire storage of fossil fuels is expected to be consumed. The problem of fossil fuel exhaustion and global warming can definitely be overcome by the use of alternative unconventional energy resources like solar, wind, geothermal, sea tides etc.

Solar emission is a colossal source of unlimited supply of green energy in form of heat and light. The contribution of solar energy in power production is just only 0.03% of the total world energy. In order to improve the efficient and economical utilization of solar energy, research is in process. In this direction, the SBSP (Space-Based Solar Power) concept has been put forward for exploiting the solar energy from space to convert it into valuable form of electricity. Space solar energy has been found more resourceful for green power production purposes over the terrestrial solar rays and other energy resources as it has

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10Oct

Renewable energy hits record high in UK

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Renewable electricity contributed an all time high of 9.6% of the UK’s grid mix in the second quarter of this year, statistics released on Thursday by the Department of Energy and Climate Change have revealed.

The 7.86TWh (terawatt hours) contributed by green energy generators represented a 50% rise on the same time last year. The surge in green energy was led by the wind energy sector, which saw output rise 120% year on year, and hydroelectricity where output rose 75% year on year.

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5Oct

Strength in Numbers: 5 Partnerships That Could Expand Renewable Energy

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Today, there is no perfect form of energy. Fossil fuels are abundant but dirty. Solar and wind are clean but intermittent, and geothermal is cheap once its running but difficult to get started. Yet, as technologies evolve, so do creative partnerships that maximize an energy’s potential while hedging against its shortfalls.

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22Sep

10 Reasons Renewable Energy May Beat the Projections

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Five percent? That’s the EIA’s projected global increase in renewable energy generation by the year 2035. You’d think that nearly 30 years of technological, business and environmental inroads would make a bigger dent in the world’s future energy mix.

Aren’t we supposed to be living the solar dream by then? Won’t we be driving to the beach in algae-powered vehicles? Won’t we all revel in our views of majestic wind turbines? The utopian vision of our energy future may not exist in our lifetimes, but it has to have a better outlook than the one released this week.

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21Sep

7 most innovative European renewable energy generating ideas

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7 most innovative European renewable energy generating ideas

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European Union ranks number two in the world in developing as well as operating renewable energy power plants through the length and breadth of the European Union. They are currently experimenting with all possible sources of renewable energy including solar energy, wind energy, geo thermal energy, etc. Many parallel test stations have been set up for this purpose around the world. Once these pilot experiments are successful, permanent establishments will be created at various locations that will try to match the energy production of conventional plants. Read on to know more about such experiments.

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