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13 December 2010
South Africa, the most industrialised country in Africa, has a population of approximately 50 million living on a land area of 1.2 million km2. The country has large reserves of coal and uranium, and small reserves of crude oil and natural gas. Coal provides 75% of the fossil fuel demand and accounts for 91% of electricity generation. South Africa is enjoying sustained GDP growth of approximately 5% per annum.
13 December 2010
The RES Group, now in its 28th year in the renewable energy industry, is one of the world’s leading independent renewable energy project developers with operations across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific. With a portfolio of over 5GW of wind projects developed and/or constructed to date, RES is active in a range of renewable energy technologies including large-scale wind, biomass, solar, wave and tidal.
13 December 2010
Invest €8 billion ($12 billion). Get back €25 billion. That is how much the European economy should benefit by implementing a new European Union directive, according to its economic impact assessment.This initiative follows an examination of just how efficiently all energy produced is used – in this case in Europe’s 190 million buildings, where almost half of all fuel is consumed – which found it sadly wasteful.
13 December 2010
Denmark’s new centre for green offshore energy, Lindoe Offshore Renewables Centre (LORC), is working to ensure that the green offshore industry is able to meet the technology demands of the future. Most recently with the decision to establish one of the world’s largest offshore wind turbine component and drive train testing facilities. There must be more production, in deeper water, and the price of energy must come down. There are big and difficult challenges to face, but it is out there – out in the blue sea – that Europe can find solutions to two of its major goals: energy independence from other countries and the vitally important slowdown of climate change.
13 December 2010
Being the market-leader in wind power, Vestas Wind Systems A/S aims to create the world’s strongest energy brand. In an interview for International Sustainable Energy Review, Mr. Anders Soe-Jensen, President of Vestas Offshore A/S, argues that the cost of producing energy is not as expensive as many people think, and he also gives his opinion on what the UK needs to do to ensure it can meet those all important 2020 goals.
13 December 2010
The Ormonde Offshore Wind Farm is currently being built in the Irish Sea, 10km off Barrow-In-Furness. Ormonde was previously owned by Eclipse Energy and the project was acquired by Vattenfall in 2008. On completion, the wind farm will comprise 30 RePower 5M wind turbines with the capacity of 150 megawatts and is expected to produce around 500 gigawatt hours of energy every year. This is sufficient to supply over 100,000 homes per year.
13 December 2010
Although geothermal energy is well positioned within the renewables industry (in 2008 geothermal power production exceeded more than three times that of solar photovoltaics), current growth is regarded as steady, but rather slow. While wind and solar PV show exponential growth, geothermal power develops rather linearly, so far provided by hydrothermal resources, located in special geological settings. The universally deployable Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) technology could speed up geothermal growth, although substantial R&D efforts are needed to solve still open problems.
13 December 2010
Consumers are steering big business towards a greener path with increased demand for more environmentally-friendly and sustainable products and practices. In response, companies are looking for technologies that can both save money and the planet at the same time. One clean energy technology attracting high profile corporate customers is the fuel cell.A new report by Fuel Cells 2000, ‘The Business Case for Fuel Cells: Why Top Companies Are Purchasing Fuel Cells Today,’ spotlights 38 nationally recognised companies, including 11 Fortune 500 corporations, that are collectively saving millions of dollars in electricity costs while reducing carbon emissions by tens of thousands of tonnes per year by using fuel cells.
13 December 2010
Beluga Shipping GmbH is the worldwide leader in the project and heavy-lift shipping segment. In an interview with International Sustainable Energy Review, Niels Stolberg, President and CEO of Beluga Shipping GmbH, explains the safety-at-sea challenges his company are faced with, the need for operating more sailings through the Arctic Sea to Siberia and highlights a number of 2010 achievements for the company.
13 December 2010
Thirty years ago. You may remember the days – the second oil shock, double-digit inflation, solar panels on the Carter White House. Wind turbines, primarily a California phenomenon, were delivered by a long-haired guy with a peace headband and blades loaded into the back of a VW bus, like surfboards. Fast forward to today: wind energy has grown up. From a marginal, ‘hippie’ phenomenon with little impact on the overall electricity sector, wind is now a major player, accounting for approximately 40% of all new power plants built in the United States in 2008-2009 – roughly equal to natural gas, and leagues ahead of traditional players like coal and nuclear, or other renewables like solar and biomass.1
13 December 2010
In recent years, the solar thin-film market has been characterised by dramatic growth. Thin-film manufacturers have recently been able to raise their market share to circa 20% as an attractive, cost-effective alternative to traditional crystalline photovoltaic modules. However, this boom is in danger of busting – prices for mono and polycrystalline modules have reduced thin-film’s cost advantage and are putting manufacturers under great pressure. CIGS presents itself as a promising future technology, considered by experts to be especially efficient and cost-effective.
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