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Three of Belgium’s seven nuclear reactors are currently down, and the international press is waiving the power outage flag for the upcoming winter. But the concern is, as so often, a bit exaggerated; Germany has plenty of reserves for its neighbors and will be happy to step in to fill the gaps, as it did in 2012 – even though

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The Danish wind power leader increased its sales of 13 percent year over year, moving out of the red in the process, partly because of greater profit margins from projects. It may be a sign of a healthier global wind market.EBIT increased by 92 million to 104 million euros in the second quarter, with most of the profits reportedly coming

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Yesterday, I presented a guide to the new visualization of an entirely green power supply. Today, we take a look at a few of the main assumptions behind the study, starting with power generation.First, the bad news: I have been in contact with the makers of the study, and no English edition is planned. A budget of 1.8 million euros,

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Recent paper on the situation in Australia suggests that a reverse auction might be a good way of replacing feed-in tariffs. What problem are they trying to fix? The paper itself is behind a paywall, and the author has not responded to my request for a review copy, so I will have to focus on my colleague’s Jesse Jenkins’ overview;

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Samoa has completed the installation of its largest solar project yet – a 546kW PV system that spans three separate sites on two of the independent state’s South Pacific islands, Savai’I and Upolu.The project, developed by US company SunWize Technologies in conjunction with Samoan power utility Electric Power Corporation (EPC), was financed by the government of Japan through the Pacific

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The world’s largest tidal-stream power plant is one step closer to being built after the Australian-founded and managed tidal turbine maker behind the project, Atlantis Resources, raised around $US83 million towards commencing construction.The funds will be used to finance the installation of four 1.5MW turbines in Scotland’s Pentland Firth – a small portion of the 86MW planned for the project’s

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Leading solar researcher Martin Green is aiming to more than double the conversion efficiencies of solar cells through a  new innovative method of stacking solar cells. According to Green, the efficiency of solar cells can be lifted from around 15 per cent boasted by most major manufacturers, to more than 30 per cent and ultimately more than 40 per cent.

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Earlier this month, in Washington D. C. at one of the largest electrical engineering conferences in the world, a speaker from the State Grid Corporation of China outlined a vision for a massive global electricity grid powered by renewables.Zhenya Liu is the Chairman of the State Grid Corporation of China and his company is the largest state-owned electric utility company

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China’s use of coal for electricity could peak as early as next year, then decline until 2020 in a turnaround of “global importance”, according to economist Ross Garnaut in a lecture presented at the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, University of Melbourne.The shift means the world has a much better chance of keeping global warming below 2 degrees C — the

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A leading academic has warned that Australia’s world leading solar research could “lose momentum” without a long-term plan and if changes to renewables funding were passed through parliament.Professor Les Field, the deputy vice chancellor (research) at the University of NSW, said on Tuesday that some of the leading research programs were at risk because there was no long-term funding strategy.His

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