NEW UN STUDY HIGHLIGHTS HUGE POTENTIAL FOR GENERATING CLEAN ENERGY IN AFRICA

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity

NEW UN STUDY HIGHLIGHTS HUGE POTENTIAL FOR GENERATING CLEAN ENERGY IN AFRICA New York, May 13 2013  4:00PM Less than 1 per cent of all patent applications relating to clean energy technology (CET) have been filed in Africa, according to a new United Nations study, which also highlights the opportunity …

Trendspotting: US States Warming up to Renewable Energy Heating and Cooling, Part 1

kristyGreentech

Trendspotting: US States Warming up to Renewable Energy Heating and Cooling, Part 1 by Jennifer Runyon, Managing Editor, RenewableEnergyWorld.com | August 9, 2012 | Post Your Comment Of the fifty U.S. states, four territories and one District of Colombia, almost forty of them have some kind of renewable energy requirement …

Iceland Home to World’s First Zero-Emissions Data Center

kristyResource Efficiency

UK telecoms and IT services provider Colt is well on its way toward building the world’s first zero-emissions data center, in all of four months. Being built for data center developer Verne Global, the plant will be built on a former NATO base in Keflavik, Iceland, where geothermal and hydroelectric …

Alstom delivers first turbine runner for Xiangjiaba hydro project in China

kristyEarth Systems Science

Hydro Headlines Alstom delivers first turbine runner for Xiangjiaba hydro project in China LEVALLOIS-PERRET, France — Alstom delivers the first 812-MW turbine runner to the site of the Xiangjiaba hydroelectric power project under construction in China. HydroWorld.com weekly newscast The HydroWorld.com weekly newscast, featuring headline news from the global hydropower …