Highest Wind Prices in Europe—But Are They Too High?[more]
Updated tables on Feed-in Tariffs including British strike price for renewables and nuclear, and feed-in tariffs for renewable heat.
Over 16,000 demonstrators from across Germany took the streets of Berlin to demonstrate for renewal energies. They tired to send a clear signal to the government to move toward the defined goals.
Badriyah holding a copy of the Renewable Energy Act. Under the Act, there are only four technologies applicable for FiT, which are biomass, biogas, solar photovoltaic and small hydro. Seda is now...
I’d already marked up my version of Matthias Willenbacher’s book My Indecent Offer to the Chancellor in the faint hope of some day posting a review from the German—it’s difficult and time consuming...[more]
So the Government's price for its nuclear programme will be hefty price rises for an increasing size of the UK electricity market being owned by the Chinese Government.
As Komaneff points out in detail, the cost of nuclear projects are hard to understand exactly. That’s because it takes a long time to build a nuclear power plant. Lots of things can and do go wrong...
Sweden, reviving its nuclear power, will not follow Britain's example of offering state guarantees to fund the construction of new plants, its energy minister said on Wednesday.
Even at 30% penetration, results indicate that the PJM system can handle the additional renewable integration with sufficient reserves and transmission build out.
Based on our best estimate, Germany managed to get 34 percent of its electricity from wind and solar over a 24-hour period on Sunday – measured in gigawatt-hours, not gigawatts. Prices on the...
Sustainable renewable energy (RE) policies must be based on a wise mix between technologies and applications. In the case of variable but predictable RE technologies such as wind power and solar PV,...
The tribunal found the current state of scientific opinion was that there was no causal link of a physiological nature between adverse health effects and wind turbines. It was given no evidence at...
What links the phenomena of allegedly stressed emus, dancing cattle and disoriented echidnas? Nothing but the ill-founded trend to blame anything and everything on wind farms
The most interesting places on Earth are the subduction zones where tectonic plates of science and emotion scrape relentlessly. Buried in these dynamic boundaries we find the most telling insights...
“The Japanese feed-in tariff is one of the most lucrative in the world,” explained Adam James, GTM Research Solar Analyst for Global Demand. “As a result, there has been a gold rush. In the first...
Japanese solar photovoltaic “PV” installations have now passed 10 GW for cumulative PV capacity, only the fifth country to reach the mark.
French energy expert Bernard Chabot takes a look at the distribution of PV arrays in Germany by system size based on the latest data up to July 2013.
76-page report on the ownership of renewable energy in Germany through 2012, including the original charts in German translated by Craig Morris into English.
Germans can switch power providers. In fact, they are not only free as power consumers, but also free to become “prosumers” – simultaneously producers and consumers. They can even sell the power they...
Dubbed "Community Power--for people's ownership of renewable energy", the slick new web site offers a platform for expanding community ownership of renewables in the European Union.
Grand Jury for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Southern Division indictment of James Alan Rowan of Mag-Wind, Enviro-Energies.[more]
Thank you for your critique on the CBC article. I do not expect to get praise or support from anyone in the wind industry for the efforts that I have made, but I do wish you and others, would keep an...[more]
It must be a slow news week out on the Canadian Prairies. No big city mayor smoking crack or threatening to kill someone in Saskatchewan to grab attention. Instead they’re touting another—yes...[more]
A long time in the making and reported on earlier, the Indonesia government is planning to increase the price of electricity to be bought by state-owned electricity company PT PLN from geothermal...
If realized, it would be the first geothermal plant on a remote island that takes advantage of the country's feed-in tariff program for renewable energy, according to the Natural Resources and Energy...
I've posted photos of geothermal power plants in various locations from my collection, including photos from Iceland and Italy. . .
