Archive for March, 2009
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23 March 2009
At the European Wind Energy Conference (EWEC) in Marseille, Siemens Energy announces the arrival of the SWT-2.3-101 which is ideally suited to sites with low to medium wind speeds. With a rotor diameter of 101 meters, the new wind turbine will provide more power at lower wind speeds, significantly increasing the return on investment of [...]
Category: Energy, Wind energy
Norwegian Think enters Dutch Market: 500 electric vehicles to be delivered this year
23 March 2009
With the Dutch Parliament calling for the quick introduction of EVs (electric vehicles), the Minister of Transport, Mr. Camiel Eurlings, earlier this year announced a fund of 10 million Euros to support the large scale, early introduction of electric mobility.
Richard Waitz, Think’s Sales Director, is very optimistic about the rapidly growing opportunities in the Dutch [...]
Category: Mobility
Commission adopts two regulations to improve the efficiency of light bulbs
22 March 2009
The Commission adopted this week two ecodesign regulations to improve the energy efficiency of household lamps and of office, street and industrial lighting products. The two regulations lay down energy efficiency requirements which will save close to 80 TWh by 2020 (roughly the electricity consumption of Belgium, or of 23 million European households, or the [...]
Category: Energy, Energy savings
Renewable electricity: Italy fails to accept guarantees of origin
21 March 2009
The European Commission sent today a reasoned opinion to Italy for failure to recognise certain guarantees of origin from other EU Member States. Under an EU Directive on electricity production from renewable energy sources Member States are required to establish a system of guarantees of origin and, as a general rule, to recognise those of [...]
Category: Energy
GE’s 2.5xl Wind Turbine a Growing Force in Europe
21 March 2009
The latest evolution of GE Energy’s wind turbine technology, the 2.5xl wind turbine, is playing a growing role in helping Europe meet its renewable energy demands. This machine has been selected for projects across Europe that will add nearly 1,000 megawatts of wind-generated electricity in 2009, or enough to serve over 480,000 typical European households. [...]
Category: Energy, Wind energy
Belgian city Gent rents roofs to solar energy producers
21 March 2009
The city council of Gent (Belgium) wants to rent the roofs of its buildings to producers of Solar energy systems. In this way, the local authorities intend to create green solar energy production for local consumption, says councilor Christophe Peters to the Belgian newspaper Het Nieuwsblad. “We plan to produce all the necessary electricity ourselves. [...]
Category: Energy, Solar energy
Impression: The Pharox LED lamp
21 March 2009
One can see big differences between LED lamps. Although the market for this new technology is growing fast, there is still al lot of resistance against this innovative technology. Main point made by opponents is that the light is too harsh and too white. That’s why most producers are working hard on the development of [...]
Category: Energy savings
Spain starts pilot electric car infrastructure
20 March 2009
The Spanish Ministry of Industry has chosen the southern Spanish town of Seville along with the capital Madrid and the northern hub Barcelona to implement the Movele pilot electric car infrastructure project according to Treehugger . The cities’ energy authority will this year begin putting in place the recharging stations for an eventual fleet of 500 [...]
Category: Mobility
Portugal: wave-power project terminated
19 March 2009
The plan for Aguaçadoura had been to install 25 wave energy converters for a combined capacity for 21 MW. Back in November, the existing wave energy converters were pulled from the water due to leaks affecting their buoyancy. But once those problems were solved, the recession took its toll.
The €9 million Aguçadoura wave-power project in [...]
Category: Energy
Plasma Television banned from European market by 2012?
18 March 2009
In 2012 new televisions will have to consume 20% less energy than televisions which came to the market in 2008. This is the proposal which will be voted on by the Ecodesign committee of the European Commission. If the bill passes, this will mena that plasma televisions will have a hard time staying on the [...]
Category: Energy, Energy savings, Politics
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