When total building performance conforms to targeted load management goals, the building is called grid-supportive, and this is how building mass and technical storage help to smooth out the fluctuations from renewable energy. […]
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Plant-e Plant-e is a young Dutch company that focuses on creating products that generate electricity from living plants. This super innovative way of power production is not only environmentally responsible, it is also of […]
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Our story about white coal has stimulated a lot of interest. In this post I list some of the providers of briquetting machines which I hope will be of interest to readers and […]
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This year’s PV Module Reliability workshop is being held at Loughborough University’s Centre for Renewable Energy Systems Technology (CREST) in Leicestershire, UK, from April 16-17th. International speakers and participants will largely focus on […]
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Infographic by Arbtech Related articles across the web Boris Johnson told to divest £4.8bn pension fund from fossil fuels Prices Fail to Reflect Fossil Fuels’ Real Costs We need to […]
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I remember that carbon wizard Anthony Turner, who runs Carbon Sense, once told me that the atmosphere has no political boundaries. And just as carbon dioxide affects everyone, so too does nuclear pollution. It all depends […]
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By 2025, solar power in sunny regions of the world will be cheaper than power from coal or gas / Success depends on stable regulatory conditions In a few years, solar energy plants […]
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More than 70 per cent of India’s electricity is produced by coal-fired power plants. Most of them do not have modern technologies and use low-grade coal that is low on energy content and […]
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On March 11, 2015, the official kick-off of innovation project ‘Grass for Sustainable Growth’ will be held in Johannesburg, South Africa. The INGCA consortium – comprising the Dutch company Dutch aWEARness and the South African […]
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The European Commission’s Roadmap for moving to a low-carbon economy says that to achieve the EU’s 80 to 95% greenhouse-gas-reduction objective by 2050 would require a 40% domestic reduction compared to 1990 as a […]
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