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The Polish town of Kisielice has received the European Commission’s ManagEnergy Award 2014 for its clean energy leadership. It is 100% powered by renewable energy (wind and biomass, to be specific). The prize is to award outstanding local and regional sustainable energy projects. Kisielice’s submission was titled, “Energy self-sufficient Commune of Kisielice.” Mayor Tomasz Koprowiak of the small community in

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(Reuters) – Renault plans to build its Fluence electric car in China and is discussing the proposal with Chinese authorities, Chief Executive Carlos Ghosn said on Monday. With government approval, “Renault is ready to build the Fluence in China” for an unspecified Chinese brand, Ghosn told reporters at a test-drive event in Nantes, western France. Renault and partner Dongfeng Motors

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NEC Italia SpA, the smart energy competence center for the EMEA market and Ricerca Sistema Energetico SpA (RSE), a company with a solid national and international track record of electro-energy research, tomorrow will release details of a new study into the new ancillary service business models that will be enabled by the Non-Predictable Renewable Energy Sources (NPRES), coupled with Energy

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The battery could be used for many applications including as a reliable energy source in automobiles or for space flight. “Betavoltaics, a battery technology that generates power from radiation, has been studied as an energy source since the 1950s,” said Jae W. Kwon, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and nuclear engineering in the College of Engineering at

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Elon Musk and Tesla Motors have seemingly been on a roll lately, and the latest victory for the Gigafactory was a big one, sending stock prices soaring to new heights. Then on Monday, Tesla stock lost 10% of its value in a matter of hours, falling from about $280 a share down to just above $251 a share, and for

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India has already proven itself capable of delivering on the promises it makes regarding expanding its use of solar power, and now the world’s second largest population is set to revamp their country’s National Solar Mission again. New Delhi-based advisory company Bridge to India has provided “unconfirmed information” suggesting that India will soon announce plans to cancel the planned allocation

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In a completely unsurprising turn of events, NPD Solarbuzz forecasts that global solar PV demand is being driven by major Asian markets, with India, China, and Japan leading the way. In a blog post on the NPD Solarbuzz website, analyst Michael Barker comments on numbers extracted from Solarbuzz Quarterly, published in June. The numbers are represented in the following image,

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If you know what makes a stealth bomber stealthy, you might already have an understanding of what a stealth wind turbine is just from reading the article title. Similar to the very low radar profile of a stealth bomber, stealth wind turbines don’t reflect radar signals as much as the typical kind do. Some wind farms have been rejected for

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If you know what makes a stealth bomber stealthy, you might already have an understanding of what a stealth wind turbine is just from reading the article title. Similar to the very low radar profile of a stealth bomber, stealth wind turbines don’t reflect radar signals as much as the typical kind do. Some wind farms have been rejected for

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Stem, a behind-the-meter energy storage startup, just closed on a $100 million fund to finance distributed energy storage at commercial and industrial customers. The fund is provided by B Asset Manager, a New York City-based investment adviser in the insurance industry, according to a release. Stem has also received venture funding from Angeleno Group, Iberdrola and GE Ventures. As the

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