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First Solar, Inc. has announced that it will build a 10 megawatt (MW) photovoltaic (PV) power plant for Sempra Generation near Boulder City, Nevada. First Solar will design, engineer and construct the turnkey PV power plant and will provide monitoring and maintenance services for the plant over its lifetime. Sempra Generation will be the developer for the project, and will own and operate the PV power plant once completed.
Construction began in July, and the 10 MW PV power plant is expected ... [more]
Geothermal energy is a continuous source of energy since the heat is trapped inside the earth, without depleting. This places geothermal energy above sporadic wind and solar energy, which tends to have a capacity factor of only 20-35%; geothermal capacity is more than 70%.
In the race to find alternative energy sources, geothermal energy is gaining favour. Although global energy use from geothermal sources today only amounts to less than 1%, geothermal projects now exist in around 20 countri... [more]
Foster Wheeler Ltd. has announced that a subsidiary of its Global Power Group has been awarded a contract by E.ON Värme Sverige AB, Sweden for a waste-fuel-fired circulating fluidized-bed (CFB) boiler island to be located at the combined heat and power (CHP) plant in Norrkoping, Sweden.
This waste-to-energy plant using Foster Wheeler’s CFB technology will divert waste headed for landfills and convert it into valuable steam and electricity. Foster Wheeler CFBs have inherently low levels of SOX... [more]
Technology currently exists for analyzing cost and performance of solar systems, developing parabolic trough technology for solar electricity generation, and developing advanced technologies such as concentrating photovoltaics (solar panels).
The Holy Grail for solar panel manufacturers is to engineer and commercially manufacture solar panels that can produce one watt of power for under a dollar, without subsidies, making solar energy generally cheaper than coal generation. Currently the best... [more]
Hermaness National Nature Reserve is located on Unst, Shetland - the most northerly part of the British Isles. The NNR is home to literally thousands of pairs of breeding birds including bonxies or great skuas and also provides a habitat for red throated divers, snipe, dunlin, golden plover and arctic skua. The reserve contains areas of blanket bog, an increasingly threatened habitat globally.
Unfortunately the impact of foot traffic on the reserve has caused a certain amount of erosion to th... [more]
Fluor Corporation has announced today that it signed a contract with Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) to design and construct the 500 megawatt (MW) Greater Gabbard Offshore Wind Farm. The venture is the world's largest offshore wind farm project to move into the construction phase and will be built approximately 25 kilometers off the Suffolk coast of the United Kingdom (UK). The new award will be booked in the company’s second quarter of 2008 and is worth approximately $1.8 billion (£900 milli... [more]
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