Solar thermal power

Rise And Shine: Solar Power Gets Bigger In The U.S.

October 26, 2010

US Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar yesterday approved the construction of the world’s largest concentrated solar power plant with an overall capacity of 1,000MW. in the Mojave desert near Blythe, California. The 7,025-acre Blythe Solar Power Project will nearly double the country’s solar power output and will power around 300,000 homes, besides saving save [...]

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California Energy Commission approves the largest solar farm in the world

September 17, 2010

The California Energy Commission on Wednesday approved the construction and operation of four solar-thermal power plants with a planned overall capacity of around 1,000 megawatts (MW) at the Blythe location in California. The project site was developed by Solar Millennium LLC, a company focused mainly on solar-thermal power plants. Technorati Tags: California, California Energy Commission, [...]

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Renewable energy consumption grows in Europe

July 14, 2010

According to a report issued by Eurostat, in 2008, energy from renewable sources was estimated to have contributed 10.3% of gross final energy consumption in the 27 member countries of the European Union, compared with 9.7% in 2007 and 8.8% in 2006. Related Posts:No Related Posts Found! Go find some…

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Switching to renewable energy

May 15, 2010

This week I read a brilliant interview with Mark Jacobson (pictured, left) on the Financial Times’ Energy Source blog. Jacobson is a Stanford professor of engineering who is a strong proponent of the idea that the world could move to 100 per cent renewable power, which is music to our ears. (for more details about [...]

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Fossil fuels still getting largest U.S. subsidies

September 21, 2009

Image via Wikipedia A new research to be released on Friday by the Environmental Law Institute (ELI) reveals that “the largest U.S subsidies to fossil fuels are attributed to tax breaks that aid foreign oil production”. The report was produced in partnership with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. The study reviewed fossil fuel [...]

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