The State of California is to double the cap on solar energy production by net metering. Currently set at 2.5% of the states peak energy needs this will be raised to 5% if the bill finally becomes law.
The net metering policy will allow small solar energy producers, including home owners, to sell more of their [...]
Diamonds, according to the song, are a girls best friend are made from Carbon. The ingredients of those sparkling gems have a darker side too. While commonly in environmental circles carbon is the C in CO2 there is another combination of this element and that is soot or black carbon.
The complexity of the earth climate [...]
Part of the holiday festivities include the lighting displays that brighten up the cold winters nights. At some places not only the trees are green, the lights have gone green also.
Theme parks around the country embrace this time of year to put on very special lighting displays and some of those displays will cost much [...]
The Times Square Countdown goes green with LED lighting.
The traditional Ball drop that marks the start of the New Year in times square has gone a bit greener this year. For the fist time the illuminations will be completed powered by Light Emitting Diodes (LED).
Energy usages of LED lighting is around 80% of the [...]
Light Emitting Diodes (LED) lighting is proving to be extremely efficient and producing some unwanted side effects.
Their use in Traffic Lighting has proved to be a great way for cities and towns around the world to save on energy and also as they last much longer than traditional light bubs they need less maintenance.
A [...]
Tunisia is the latest north African country to embrace the Desertec Project.
With 40 projects announces which range from water heating to wind electrical generation. The projects will help reduce the causes of climate change and boost energy co-operation between countries surrounding the Mediterranean.
It is hoped that up the developments will be equivalent of 22% of [...]
Desertec an ambitious project to harness the solar energy of North Africa`s Sahara Desert has taken a step further to become a reality. A consortium of companies have formed the Desertec Industrial Imitative among the names are ABB, Abengoa Solar, Cevital, Desertec Foundation, E.ON, HSH Nordbank, MAN Solar Millennium, Munich Re, M+W Zander, RWE, Schott [...]
Morocco, in North Africa, has announced the developments of a US$9 billion solar projects for the country. Ideally situated to take advantage of the solar energy and five sites have been selected for a combination of solar power stations.
Currently Morocco relies on Oil which currently supplies 95% of its energy needs. Unlike some other African [...]
The Russian parliament is introducing moves to ban the sale and production of the energy hungry Incandescent Light Bulb. To be introduced in stages starting with those bulbs with a rating over 100 watts from January 1, 2011. This will be followed in 2013 with the rating ban lowered to those over 75 watts. With [...]
This week will see the switch thrown of the (currently) largest solar power plant in the United States of America. The Desoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center in Florida is about to be turned on and will have a capacity of about 25 megawatts of electrical production.
This solar plant takes up and area of 180 [...]