tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20336300889416036442024-03-13T02:24:56.700-07:00Solar PV News Blog Lauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15795417593307714927noreply@blogger.comBlogger231125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2033630088941603644.post-74325437146961303092016-02-01T03:52:00.001-08:002016-02-01T03:52:37.763-08:00Flotation Is the Next Big Thing in Energy Production<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<br />There’s a growing international trend in energy production: make it float.</div>
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Perhaps the most novel project type is the floating nuclear power plant. China General Nuclear (CGN), China’s largest nuclear operator, announced earlier this month that it expects to start operating a <a href="http://www.nicenter.org.tw/modules/news/article.php?storyid=984" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">small modular offshore reactor</a> by 2020.</div>
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Construction of the <a href="http://en.cgnpc.com.cn/n1017169/n1017328/c1032129/part/1032131.pdf" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">ACPR50S</a> demonstration project is expected to begin next year, having recently been approved by China's National Development and Reform Commission as part of the country’s 13th Five-Year Plan. China plans to build <a href="http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Country-Profiles/Countries-A-F/China--Nuclear-Power/" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">300 gigawatts</a> of nuclear capacity over the next 10 to 20 years, with seven nuclear reactors coming on-line each year through 2030.</div>
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The 200-megawatt floating reactor is designed to supply electricity, heat and desalination, and could be used to supply power to remote coastal areas or deepwater oil and gas rigs. It could also prove useful in the event of a natural disaster. China sees the project as a significant piece of its domestic policy. According to the CGN <a href="http://en.cgnpc.com.cn/n1017152/n1017227/c1224892/content.html" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">press release</a>, marine nuclear power platforms are being built to “play an important role in the implementation of the strategy of strong marine power.”</div>
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There are several logistical advantages to a waterborne nuclear plant, besides mobility. Theoretically at least, there are few siting concerns and a very low environmental impact. Also, building the plant at a shipyard is expected to bring efficiencies and cost savings, and once in operation, seawater can conveniently be used for cooling.</div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.025em; line-height: 28.9998px;">But at the same time, floating nuclear power has its drawbacks. Access to personnel and equipment is a challenge. And while nuclear is a low-carbon energy source, the possibility of radioactive material leaking into the sea presents health and environmental risks.</span></div>
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China’s ACPR50S won’t be the world’s first floating nuclear power plant. The Russian company Baltiysky Zavod has already started construction on the Akademik Lomonosov, a barge equipped with two 35-megawatt reactors similar to those used in submarines. The project is scheduled to be delivered to the Russian nuclear power plant operator Rosenergoatom in September, and could start operating in the Chukotka region as early as 2017.</div>
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Meanwhile, construction on the world’s largest floating solar project is getting underway.</div>
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In Japan, Kyocera Corp. and Century Tokyo Leasing Corp. and have started building a 13.7-megawatt floating solar plant on the Yamakura Dam reservoir near Tokyo. The plant is scheduled for launch in March 2018.</div>
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The Yamakura Dam project has grown in scale since it was <a href="http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/japan-to-build-worlds-biggest-floating-solar-farm" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; text-decoration: none;">first announced in 2014</a>. The array will generate an estimated 16,170 megawatt-hours of electricity per year (up from the initial estimate of 15,635 megawatt-hours), which is enough to power nearly 5,000 typical households.</div>
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In 2015, the Kyocera TCL Solar joint venture launched three floating solar projects sized 1.7 megawatts, 1.2 megawatts and 2.3 megawatts, respectively. Japan is an ideal location for floating solar because space is limited and there are numerous inland waterways used for agricultural and flood-control purposes.</div>
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Floating solar is also a growing trend in the U.S. Last March, Sonoma Clean Power signed a contract to build a 12.5-megawatt "floatovoltaic" project -- the <a href="http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/sonoma-county-to-build-the-largest-floating-solar-project-in-the-us" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; text-decoration: none;">largest floating solar project in the U.S.</a> and the second-largest in the world after the Yamakura Dam array.</div>
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Wind projects are now floating, too. Following successful testing of a 2-megawatt floating turbine developed by WindFloat, a consortium of companies <a href="http://www.maritimejournal.com/news101/marine-renewable-energy/consortium-to-build-portuguese-floating-wind-farm" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">announced plans this month</a> to deploy a 25-megawatt offshore wind project by 2018.</div>
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The new wind park, located roughly 12 miles off the Portuguese coast at Viana do Castelo, is being developed by Principle Power Inc., EDP Renewables, Mitsubishi Corporation (through its subsidiary Diamond Generating Europe), and the Chinese Chiyoda Corporation (through its subsidiary Chiyoda Generating Europe).</div>
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The chief benefit of a floating wind farm is that it can be set up farther away from shore, where the water is too deep for bottom-mounted systems. This reduces the likelihood of interference with shipping routes and fishing, as well as addressing concerns over visual pollution. Wind is also stronger and more consistent over the open ocean.</div>
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The Norwegian energy giant Statoil started testing the first-ever floating wind project in 2009, and since then has reportedly reduced costs by 60 percent. Last November, the company announced it will build a five-turbine, <a href="http://www.gizmag.com/worlds-first-floating-wind-farm/40383/" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">30-megawatt floating wind farm</a> off the shore of Scotland by late 2017, which will become the first commercial-scale project of its kind.</div>
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Not to be left out, there’s also floating equipment for oil and gas production: floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessels. Depleted onshore oil and gas reserves are pushing companies to explore for energy resources at sea. High upfront costs are likely to temper the adoption of FPSOs, but at the same time, there are high costs and technical risks associated with fixed platforms, which could ultimately drive up demand for floating systems.</div>
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In 2012, the FPSO market was valued at $12.6 billion. According to <a href="http://www.transparencymarketresearch.com/fpso-vessels-equipments-market.html" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">a new report</a> by Transparency Market Research, the FPSO market is expected to grow by just over 17 percent between 2013 to 2019, when the market will reach $38.7 billion.</div>
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Exxon Mobil Corp., Statoil, DNV GL and others are <a href="https://www.dnvgl.com/news/oil-and-wind-have-joined-forces-in-dnv-gl-led-win-win-jip-44819" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">exploring ways</a> to use floating wind to power oil and gas production, similar to how China plans to support oil and gas operations with an aquatic nuclear power plant. A technical analysis on the potential for waterborne wind to serve the oil and gas industry is scheduled for release in the first quarter of 2016.</div>
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Lauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15795417593307714927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2033630088941603644.post-58397003867455746052016-01-22T00:54:00.000-08:002016-01-22T00:54:23.261-08:00KYOCERA TCL Solar Begins Construction on 13.7MW Floating Solar Power Plant<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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KYOTO, Japan--(<span itemid="http://www.businesswire.com" itemprop="provider publisher copyrightHolder" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization"><span itemprop="name"><a href="http://www.businesswire.com/" itemprop="url" rel="nofollow" style="color: #79a2bd; text-decoration: none;">BUSINESS WIRE</a></span></span>)--In a joint venture, Kyocera Corporation (herein “Kyocera,”) and Century Tokyo Leasing Corporation (herein “Century Tokyo Leasing”) announced today that Kyocera TCL Solar LLC (herein “Kyocera TCL Solar”) has started construction of the world’s largest<span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">*1</span> 13.7 megawatt (MW) floating solar power plant on the Yamakura Dam reservoir, managed by the Public Enterprises Agency of Chiba Prefecture in Japan for industrial water services.</div>
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Scheduled for launch in FY2018 (fiscal year ending March 31, 2018), the plant will be comprised of approximately 51,000 Kyocera modules installed over a fresh water surface area of 180,000m<span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">2</span>. The project will generate an estimated 16,170 megawatt hours (MWh) per year — enough electricity to power approximately 4,970 typical households<span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">*2</span> — while offsetting about 8,170 tons<span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">*3</span> of CO<span style="bottom: -0.25em; font-size: 12px; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">2</span> emissions annually. This is equal to 19,000 barrels of oil consumed<span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">*4</span>.</div>
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The project was initiated in October 2014, when the Public Enterprises Agency of Chiba Prefecture publicly sought companies to construct and operate a floating solar power plant to help reduce environmental impact.</div>
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With the decrease in tracts of land suitable for utility-scale solar power plants in Japan due to the rapid implementation of solar power, Kyocera TCL Solar has been developing floating solar power plants since 2014, which utilize Japan’s abundant water surfaces of reservoirs for agricultural and flood-control purposes. The company began operation of <a href="http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fglobal.kyocera.com%2Fnews%2F2015%2F0401_tome.html&esheet=51263518&newsitemid=20160121005416&lan=en-US&anchor=1.7MW+and+1.2MW+plants&index=1&md5=0cc548a5f084f8a9abfd45a91914a68d" rel="nofollow" style="color: #79a2bd; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">1.7MW and 1.2MW plants</a> in March 2015 followed by the launch of a <a href="http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fglobal.kyocera.com%2Fnews%2F2015%2F0503_khfp.html&esheet=51263518&newsitemid=20160121005416&lan=en-US&anchor=2.3MW+plant&index=2&md5=de53f65b626c272b89cc48fb3b9bffce" rel="nofollow" style="color: #79a2bd; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">2.3MW plant</a> in June. With Kyocera Communication Systems Co., Ltd. responsible for construction and Kyocera Solar Corporation undertaking O&M (operation and maintenance) of these projects, the Kyocera Group is cultivating the technology and expertise to construct, operate and maintain floating solar power plants.</div>
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(Ichihara City, Chiba Prefecture, Japan)</div>
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Planned launch: FY2018 (fiscal year ending March 31, 2018)</div>
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Kyocera Corporation (19%)</div>
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*<span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">1</span> World’s largest floating solar power plant in terms of output. Claim is based on research by Kyocera TCL Solar LLC (as of January 15, 2016) of projects currently under construction and in operation.<br />*<span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">2 </span>Based on average annual use of 3,254.4kWh per household. Source: Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan (Graphical Flip-chart of Nuclear & Energy Related Topics 2015)<br />*<span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">3</span> Based on calculations derived from JPEA (Japan Photovoltaic Energy Association) standards<br />*<span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">4 </span>Based on calculations derived from the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s <a href="http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.epa.gov%2Fenergy%2Fgreenhouse-gas-equivalencies-calculator&esheet=51263518&newsitemid=20160121005416&lan=en-US&anchor=Greenhouse+Gas+Equivalencies+Calculator&index=3&md5=9ae6ddf79f6c11ffe7f531b87900d18c" rel="nofollow" style="color: #79a2bd; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies Calculator</a></div>
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<a href="http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fglobal.kyocera.com%2F&esheet=51263518&newsitemid=20160121005416&lan=en-US&anchor=Kyocera+Corporation&index=5&md5=bde6bb2168adafcdec53bb4a783b9094" rel="nofollow" style="color: #79a2bd; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Kyocera Corporation</a> (NYSE:KYO)(TOKYO:6971) (<a href="http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fglobal.kyocera.com%2F&esheet=51263518&newsitemid=20160121005416&lan=en-US&anchor=http%3A%2F%2Fglobal.kyocera.com%2F&index=6&md5=93da193f14f05eb787772a901dcc03ad" rel="nofollow" style="color: #79a2bd; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://global.kyocera.com/</a>), the parent and global headquarters of the Kyocera Group, was founded in 1959 as a producer of <a href="http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fglobal.kyocera.com%2Ffcworld%2F&esheet=51263518&newsitemid=20160121005416&lan=en-US&anchor=fine+ceramics&index=7&md5=03da13c71ec10cd4551b3c3d4a9b650d" rel="nofollow" style="color: #79a2bd; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">fine ceramics</a> (also known as “advanced ceramics”). By combining these engineered materials with metals and integrating them with other technologies, Kyocera has become a leading supplier of solar power generating systems, mobile phones, printers, copiers, electronic components, semiconductor packages, cutting tools and industrial ceramics. During the year ended March 31, 2015, the company’s net sales totaled 1.53 trillion yen (approx. USD12.7 billion). Kyocera appears on the latest listing of the “Top 100 Global Innovators” by Thomson Reuters, and is ranked #552 on <i>Forbes</i> magazine’s 2015 “Global 2000” listing of the world’s largest publicly traded companies.</div>
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<a href="http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ctl.co.jp%2Fenglish%2F&esheet=51263518&newsitemid=20160121005416&lan=en-US&anchor=Century+Tokyo+Leasing+Corporation&index=9&md5=7f4ea9a26d1e9c52b3bf1a996d1fe4d2" rel="nofollow" style="color: #79a2bd; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Century Tokyo Leasing Corporation</a> (TOKYO:8439) was launched in 2009 through the merger of the former Century Leasing System, Inc. and the former Tokyo Leasing Co., Ltd. Century Tokyo Leasing is one of the leading companies in the industry, operating in four business segments, Equipment Leasing, Specialty Financing (including environmental and energy business), Automobile Financing and International Business. Century Tokyo Leasing enjoys the support of a strong line-up of shareholders, including Mizuho Financial Group and ITOCHU Corporation. As of the year ended March 31, 2015, the company's consolidated operating assets reached total of 2.9 trillion yen (approx. USD24.2 billion), and the company's market capitalization stood at 390billion yen (approx. USD3.2 billion).</div>
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KYOCERA Corporation (Japan)<br />Hina Morioka, +81-(0)75-604-3416<br />Corporate Communications<br />Fax: +81-(0)75-604-3516<br />E-Mail: <a href="mailto:webmaster.pressgl@kyocera.jp" style="color: #79a2bd; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">webmaster.pressgl@kyocera.jp</a><br />Website: <a href="http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fglobal.kyocera.com%2F&esheet=51263518&lan=en-US&anchor=http%3A%2F%2Fglobal.kyocera.com%2F&index=10&md5=975d7aa8bbb76feac93b03b66862e28a" style="color: #79a2bd; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://global.kyocera.com/</a><br />or<br />Century Tokyo Leasing Corporation<br />Takeshi Matsubara, +81-(0)3-5209-6710<br />Investor Relations Office<br />E-Mail: <a href="mailto:contact_e@ctl.co.jp" style="color: #79a2bd; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">contact_e@ctl.co.jp</a><br />Website: <a href="http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ctl.co.jp%2Fenglish%2F&esheet=51263518&lan=en-US&anchor=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ctl.co.jp%2Fenglish%2F&index=11&md5=02809cf716ead3fb4ee47ac487f11885" style="color: #79a2bd; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.ctl.co.jp/english/</a></div>
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Lauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15795417593307714927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2033630088941603644.post-27078586977701072932015-12-10T00:36:00.003-08:002015-12-10T00:39:25.193-08:00Benefits of a Floating Solar Array<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #5a5a5a; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 32px;">Manchester England will soon be the home of </span><a href="http://corporate.unitedutilities.com/4053.aspx" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 32px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Europe’s largest floating solar array</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #5a5a5a; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 32px;">. United Utilities, provider of water and sewer services for nearly seven million people in northwest England, is installing a solar farm on rafts that will float atop Manchester’s Godley reservoir. The three megawatt photovoltaic array will generate one third of the electricity used by the water treatment facility - about 2.7 GWh per year. (That number assumes an average of 2.4 peak sun hours per day, which is pretty low but probably correct for northern England, with its 53</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #5a5a5a; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">o</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #5a5a5a; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 32px;"> latitude.) Although United Utilities is privately owned, its prices are regulated by the UK, so customers will ultimately see lower rates as a result of this investment.</span></div>
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Economics aside, I’d like to focus on the technical benefits of solar panels floating on water. First and foremost, water is a great heat sink, and PV panels operate better when they’re kept cool. How much better?</div>
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A typical PV panel has nominal current and voltage ratings. Output current is a function of the amount of light reaching the panel, and output voltage is primarily dependent on the load. Power is the product of current times voltage. Nominal values are based on standard test conditions, typically a light intensity of 1000 w/m<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">2</span>and an operating temperature of 25<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">o</span>C.</div>
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Each panel has temperature coefficients that tell how much the voltage and current will vary with temperature. For example, a panel’s voltage and current may vary by -80mV/<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">o</span>C and 5mA/<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">o</span>C, respectively. (Note that the <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">voltage has a negative temperature coefficient</em>, so lower temperature results in higher voltage.) <span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2;">Cooling a panel by 1</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">o</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2;">C will increase its voltage by </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2;">80mV and decrease its current by 5mA.</span></div>
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How does cooling the panel affect power production? </div>
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Let's look at a commercial panel that provides 135W when its voltage is 17.7V and current is 7.63A. Suppose the panels are cooled by 5<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">o</span>C*. How does the voltage and current change?</div>
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Voltage will increase by 0.4V, giving 18.1V.</div>
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Current will decrease by 0.025A, giving 7.605A</div>
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The new power output is 18.1V x 7.605A = 137.7W, an increase of about 2%.</div>
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Two percent doesn’t seem like much, but with a 3 MW array, an extra 2% is 60kW. Over one year at that location, we’re looking at an additional 52 MWh of energy.</div>
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*<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Disclaimer: I don’t know exactly how much of a cooling effect the water will have on the panels. I know of a <a href="http://www.engineering.com/ElectronicsDesign/ElectronicsDesignArticles/ArticleID/6123/Photovoltaic-Thermal-System-Achieves-86-Efficiency.aspx" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">hybrid PV thermal panel</a> that decreases cell temperature by 22<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">o</span>C, but that system pumps water under the panels for more efficient cooling. I suspect that floating on a reservoir will have a less dramatic impact, so I used 5<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">o</span>C in my calculations.</em></div>
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The floating array will cover more than 45,000 square meters of water, 75% of the reservoir’s surface. Godley is an open air reservoir, so it’s affected by evaporation. How much? Well, we’re getting out of my area of expertise, so I went to the<a href="http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/evaporation-water-surface-d_690.html" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Engineering Toolbox</a> and found that under typical atmospheric conditions, a body of water with a 45,000 m<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">2</span> surface area could lose more than 15,000 kg (almost 4000 gallons) of water every hour. If we assume that evaporation takes place primarily during the day in warmer months, we can cut that number by a factor of four, so the floating array could prevent the reservoir from losing about eight million gallons of water every year. (It won’t stop rainwater from getting in, though - the floats will have drainage.)</div>
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Decreasing Algae</h1>
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Anyone who’s ever owned a swimming pool knows that algae loves sunlight. Curtailing the growth of algae in open air reservoirs is often accomplished through the use of herbicides and algaecides, and nobody wants to drink those. I’ll leave it to the biologists to run the calculations on how much this array will reduce algae growth, but with 75% of the surface covered, I think it’s safe to say that United Utilities will spend less money on chemical treatments for algae reduction.</div>
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Lauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15795417593307714927noreply@blogger.comManchester, Royaume-Uni53.4807593 -2.242630500000018453.329540300000005 -2.5653540000000183 53.6319783 -1.9199070000000185tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2033630088941603644.post-74972235538748509552015-12-05T12:30:00.001-08:002015-12-16T05:53:40.173-08:00Woodbridge-based East Green Energy completes floating solar panel project<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Article published in www.eadt.co.uk, on december 3rd, 2015</span></span><br />
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East Green Energy, based at Woodbridge, has installed a 50kilowatt array
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Linda Grave, managing director at East Green Energy, which supplies biomass systems as well as solar photo voltaic panels, said the idea behind the concept of floatinig panels was to make use of otherwise “dead” space on the surface of farm reservoirs.</div>
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The panels would generate the power required to drive irrigation pumps – the demand for which happily coincides usually with sunny weather when the panels are producing the most energy – with any surplus power being fed into the grid.</div>
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Other advantages were that the cooling effect of the water improved the efficiency of the panels in converting light into energy and that the presence of the panels helped to limit both evaporation and the development of toxic algae.</div>
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The size of installations took into account the potential for the water level to fall, so that wildlife would always have access the water, she added.</div>
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Although the agriculture sector is a major market for East Green Energy, which is a member of the Archant Green 100, the company also supplies a mix of domestic and commercial clients.</div>
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Lauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15795417593307714927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2033630088941603644.post-23494836907036969502015-11-13T01:52:00.000-08:002015-12-16T05:35:11.114-08:00Brazil's Chesf to install 5-MW floating PV system in Bahia - report<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: small;">Article published in November 9th on<a href="https://renewables.seenews.com/"> www.renewables.seenews.com</a> </span></div>
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Brazilian power utility Chesf and Pernambuco's Federal University (UFPE) will build a 5-MW solar floating system in the Sobradinho reservoir, Bahia, local news portal Jornal do Commercio reported on Sunday.</div>
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Some BRL 50 million (USD 13m/EUR 12.2m) will be invested in the project through the Research, Development and Innovation Programme.</div>
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By December 15, the company responsible for the installation of solar panels will be hired. The first 1 MW of the system should be finalised within seven to eight months from December.</div>
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Apart from producing clean electricity, the solar panels will help reduce the evaporation in the reservoir, says Chesf's Director of Engineering and Construction, Antonio Varejao, as quoted by Jornal do Commercio. One of the goals of the project is to study the impact of solar panels on the reservoir volumes, temperature and humidity.</div>
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Similar installations have already been completed in China, India, Japan and other countries.</div>
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For more information about floating solar benefits, please check <a href="http://www.cieletterre.net/">www.cieletterre.net</a> </div>
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Lauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15795417593307714927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2033630088941603644.post-43980218049611998302015-10-30T04:14:00.002-07:002015-10-30T04:14:33.317-07:00Solar panels install at Godley reservoir<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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For more information about the floating technology used for Godley Reservoir, <a href="http://www.cieletterre.net%20/">visit www.cieletterre.net </a></div>
Lauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15795417593307714927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2033630088941603644.post-58511891507859630402015-10-27T20:48:00.000-07:002015-10-27T20:48:10.265-07:00United Utilities installs Europe's largest floating solar power project on reservoir<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Article published in <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/">www.telegraph.co.uk</a>, on october 26th 2015<br />
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Water giant United Utilities is to install Europe’s biggest floating solar power system on a reservoir near Manchester, as it seeks to capitalise on the novel technology to cut its energy costs.</div>
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The 12,000 panel, £3.5m development will be only the second of its kind in Britain, dwarfing an <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/energy/solarpower/11110547/Britains-first-floating-solar-panel-project-installed.html" style="color: #234b7b; font-weight: bold; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">800-panel pilot in Berkshire last year</a>, and will be the second biggest in the world after a scheme in Japan.</div>
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Installation of the panels is due to begin on Monday at the Godley reservoir in Greater Manchester, where it will provide a third of the power for a water treatment works.</div>
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The system is scheduled to be completed before Christmas, in order to qualify for subsidies before they are <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/energy/solarpower/11829471/Ministers-signal-the-end-of-Britains-solar-revolution.html" style="color: #234b7b; font-weight: bold; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">due to be drastically cut in the new year</a>.</div>
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United Utilities’ three megawatt (MW) scheme is currently eligible for subsidies of almost 6p per kilowatt-hour (KWh), but ministers have proposed to cut the rate to about 1p per KWh, under plans which have caused widespread anger in the solar industry.</div>
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<span class="ssImg " style="padding: 0px;"><img alt="The UK’s first floating solar panel system has been installed on a reservoir at Sheeplands Farm, Berkshire " height="387" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03045/solar_panels_3045483b.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: -40px; overflow: hidden;" version="b" width="620" /><span class="artImageExtras" style="display: block; font-family: arial; margin: 5px 0px 12px; max-width: 620px; padding: 0px;"><span class="ingCaptionCredit" style="padding: 2px 0px 0px;"><span class="caption" style="color: #666666; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;">The UK's first floating solar panel system in Berkshire</span><span class="credit" style="color: #999999; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"> Photo: Floating Solar UK Ltd</span></span></span></span></div>
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United Utilities is also exploring plans for a second floating solar project near Lancaster, but Neil Gillespie, its director of energy strategy, said it was “doubtful” whether that would go ahead if the subsidy cuts were as harsh as planned.</div>
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The water giant’s use of the floating solar technology at Godley is a coup for Mark Bennett, an entrepreneur who introduced the technology to the country last year with the pilot project on his own farm in Berkshire.</div>
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<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/markets/ftse100/11848608/Takeover-chatter-sends-United-Utilities-higher.html" style="color: #234b7b; font-weight: bold; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">United Utilities</a> is also in the process of installing up to 100 MW of solar panels on its land. It aims to install up to 40 MW in time to qualify for the current rate of subsidy, but Mr Gillespie said it was hopeful it would still be able to proceed with many of the remainder of the projects even if subsidies were cut.</div>
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Paul McCarren, energy services director at Forrest, the contractor working with United Utilities on Godley and several of its land-based solar projects, estimated that ground-mounted solar farms could currently get a 12pc to 14pc return, and that this would still be viable with at least 9pc returns even if subsidies were slashed.</div>
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He said there was “a lot of scaremongering in the market” about the impact of the proposed subsidy cuts and his firm still had a “large pipeline” of solar farms planned for installation next year, even in light of the planned changes.</div>
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Lauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15795417593307714927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2033630088941603644.post-14705206472070054742015-10-27T19:46:00.002-07:002015-10-27T19:53:17.303-07:00New installation in Israël for Floating Solar PV<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Lauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15795417593307714927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2033630088941603644.post-6428624676946022072015-10-15T08:02:00.001-07:002015-10-15T08:02:48.108-07:00TNB Puts To Test Pilot Floating PV System<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: black;">With some 70 lakes found suitable in Peninsular Malaysia for developing floating photovoltaic (PV) systems, Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB) has just embarked on its a 100kWp pilot system in Sg Labu Water Treatment Plant in Sepang, Selangor. The project, which is owned by the Ministry of Energy, Green Technology and Water, is 80% funded by the Malaysia n Elect ricit y Supply Industries Trust Account or known by its Malay acronym AAIBE (Akaun Amanah Industri Bekalan Elektrik), while the rest is by TNB.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The RM3.95 million project will span around 1,000 sq m over a 50ha lake. The pilot floating PV systems project commenced in March 2015 and is scheduled for completion by November 2016.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Should the project proves to be successful, TNB will look at how to replicate and promote the initiative in the other lakes which have a combined surface area of 1,001.9 sq km (100,190ha).</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The system is ideal for installation in water reservoirs and water catchment areas as well as several holding ponds used by the Stormwater Management And Road Tunnel.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">While it is the first of its kind in Malaysia, neighbouring countries have ventured along this path.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Similar system has been installed for raw water catchment/pond in Cheongju, South Korea and in Okegawa, Japan.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Singapore’s Economic Development Board and national water agency Public Utility Board are launching its US$8.6 m illion (RM32.17 million) pilot floating solar farm in Tengeh Reservoir. It is capable of generating energy enough for the consumption of 1,000 Housing and Development Board households.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Japan will soon have what is said to be the world’s largest floating solar power plant, with a total capacity of 1.7MW installed on Lake Nishihira in the region of Hyogo.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Mohd Razwan said the floating PV systems development will negate the need for ground-based installations or tree felling. It may also reduce unwanted algae growth and water evaporation rate, and can be integrated with a hydroelectric power plant to minimise the effects of voltage fluctuations from the PV system.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">On average, a 1MWp solar plant requires four acres of land. The cost to purchase or rent can advsersely affect the return-oninvestment of the project.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">“Placing the solar panels on water bodies frees up land for agricultural use, conservation or other development. More importantly, we don’t have to clear land to make space for the system,” he added.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">He said that installation of PV system on water bodies may minimise water evaporation by lowering the water temperature and reducing the size of water area exposed to air.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">“One major problem for solar panels is the loss of power with the increase of temperature,” he said. Estimates suggest a loss of 0.41% power for every 1% increase in temperature.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">“Although this source of renewable energy needs a high initial capital, the maintenance cost is very minimal. The system could also be installed in homes with the option of selling it back to utility companies such as TNB,” he added.</span></div>
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Lauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15795417593307714927noreply@blogger.comSepang, Selangor, Malaisie2.691369 101.75052712.437605 101.4278036 2.945133 102.0732506tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2033630088941603644.post-25858621103298911432015-09-03T11:29:00.001-07:002015-09-03T11:29:32.545-07:00Is your roof suitable for PV? Just google it.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Article Parished www.sunwindenergy.com on the 21st of august 2015<br />
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<strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: unset; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">One of the engineers at Google has a PV system on his roof. A lot of his friends and acquaintances always told him that they certainly couldn’t install a PV system on their roof because their place was not sunny enough. If you are already working for Google, the idea presents itself to use its own services and start a new project which turns Google Maps into a big solar land registry.</strong></div>
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Thus “Project Sunroof” was born. This webpage lets users enter their address and uses a combination of Google’s mapping data and <a href="http://www.sunwindenergy.com/global-solar-map" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: unset; color: #dd6710; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Solar Irradiation Map">solar irradiation data</a> to calculate how sunny their roof actually is. More specific, Google wants to show how many sunshine hours per year a house gets and even provide an estimate as to how much money the homeowners could save by installing a PV system. </div>
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Now, Google wouldn’t be Google if it did not think of including search results in this new service. People who own a sunny roof could get forwarded to an installation technician from their area. That companies might be willing to pay for being listed further up would probably be far from inconvenient for Google.</div>
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So far, the project is still in its early phases and the “sunniness” of their own roof can only be analysed by citizens of Boston, the San Francisco Bay area and Fresno. Why those cities? This is also mentioned (in a likeable way) in the info video about the project: The Sunroof Project Team comes from Boston, Google has its headquarters in Mountain View in the SF Bay Area and in Fresno, well, apparently, one of the engineers’ mother is living there.</div>
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If the prediction of the announcement video turns out to be correct, the service might be available all over the U.S. rather soon. Maybe even worldwide, but that probably depends on the realisation and the success of the new project. The link to Project Sunroof unfortunately does not work from Germany (where Sun & Wind Energy is based) but if you are somewhere else, feel free to check it out: <a class="ext" href="http://www.google.com/get/sunroof" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: unset; color: #dd6710; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.google.com/get/sunroof<span class="ext" style="background: url(http://www.sunwindenergy.com/sites/all/themes/bva_gummi/css/extlink.png) 100% 50% no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: unset; height: 10px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 10px;"><span class="element-invisible" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: unset; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); height: 1px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute !important;">(link is external)</span></span></a></div>
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It is unclear how exactly the search giant wants to factor in things such as a roof’s inclination, different amounts of shade at different times during the day or whether this is even planned at all. The accuracy/precision of Sunroof might leave room for improvements. The underlying idea is nevertheless a good one. Since, even if the project does not deliver the most exact data ever, at least the PV industry might profit from two big things: simplicity and awareness. Google is one of the best known brands worldwide. If such a company supports solar energy, this can only increase the amount of people asking themselves: “Why don’t I have a PV system on my roof?” And if they can answer this with a comfortable: “I’ll just sunroof this quickly!” and find out how well their roof is suited for a PV system: So much better!</div>
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The country’s Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources recently <a href="http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/08/20/govt-promises-incentives-renewable-energy-projects.html" style="color: #85d2eb; font-weight: 700; transition: 0.8s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">announced</a> that the government is mulling several incentives to bring large investments into its renewable energy sector, one of which could reduce the import duty on equipment used in the development of renewable energy projects. The planned incentives would play a critical role in Indonesia’s endeavour to <a href="http://cleantechnica.com/2015/06/11/indonesia-sets-19-renewable-energy-target-2019/" style="color: #85d2eb; font-weight: 700; transition: 0.8s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">boost</a> the share of renewable energy sources in the total energy mix to 19% by 2019 and to 25% by 2025, up from its current share of renewable energy sources of between 5% and 6%.</div>
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The government is nevertheless taking significant measures to make the renewable energy sector more attractive for investors, indicating that the <a href="http://cleantechnica.com/2015/06/18/indonesia-flags-fivefold-boost-to-renewables-spend-in-2016/" style="color: #85d2eb; font-weight: 700; transition: 0.8s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">budget for renewable energy development</a> could be increased five-fold next year to around $800 million.</div>
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Policy guidance by the government is slowly reaping results. Construction of the country’s first large-scale <a href="http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/06/05/five-things-about-indonesia-s-first-wind-energy-farm.html" style="color: #85d2eb; font-weight: 700; transition: 0.8s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">wind energy project</a> has already started, with the 50 MW project being constructed by a joint venture between an Indonesian and American company, and is expected to be commissioned in 2019. The government was also <a href="http://cleantechnica.com/2015/06/11/indonesia-sets-19-renewable-energy-target-2019/" style="color: #85d2eb; font-weight: 700; transition: 0.8s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">reported</a> to be working to have 4 to 5 GW of geothermal capacity operational by the end of this year.</div>
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Lauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15795417593307714927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2033630088941603644.post-44455312169996063492015-08-20T02:52:00.000-07:002015-08-20T02:52:15.345-07:00Can Solar In India Change The World?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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India is where China was 30 years ago: It needs to industrialise, and for that, it needs to massively expand its energy infrastructure. The difference is: its choices are much better and clearer.</div>
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A look at China shows the downsides of a coal-heavy strategy: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-can-india-learn-from-chinas-coal-experience-tobias-engelmeier?trk=mp-reader-card" style="color: #85d2eb; font-weight: 700; transition: 0.8s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">severe pollution and enormous water-usage</a>. At the same time, the <a href="http://cleantechnica.com/2015/04/13/solar-wind-power-prices-often-lower-fossil-fuel-power-prices/" style="color: #85d2eb; font-weight: 700; transition: 0.8s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">costs of wind and solar</a> have fallen to about 10% of what they were in 1990.</div>
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India today has an option China never had: to build its future energy infrastructure around solar (and other renewables, storage, and smart grids), <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/indias-energy-system-2030-solar-backbone-tobias-engelmeier?trk=mp-reader-card" style="color: #85d2eb; font-weight: 700; transition: 0.8s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">rather than coal</a>.</div>
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This will be a choice that costs less, is much cleaner, saves water, provides a maximum of energy security, and allows India to move to the forefront of key future technologies. Solar has enough potential to satisfy vastly increased power demand in India.</div>
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It is also the opportunity of a lifetime for Indians that have no access to power (mostly in the villages) or face highly unreliable power (in many cities and industrial hubs). <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/consumers-investors-determine-our-energy-future-tobias-engelmeier?trk=mp-reader-card" style="color: #85d2eb; font-weight: 700; transition: 0.8s ease-in-out;">Solar now puts the power into the hands of consumers</a>. It is quick and easy to install, making distributed power generation possible. In the future, if the government won’t fix it, consumers will do it themselves.</div>
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The promise of the Indian solar market attracts an entirely new crowd of international investors, ranging from American and European utilities to <a href="http://cleantechnica.com/2015/06/25/softbank-foxconn-pledge-20-billion-solar-power-investment-india/" style="color: #85d2eb; font-weight: 700; transition: 0.8s ease-in-out;">the Japanese entrepreneur Masayoshi Son and his Softbank</a>, to leading private equity investors and <a href="http://cleantechnica.com/2015/07/26/solar-power-transforming-indias-energy-market-part-1/" style="color: #85d2eb; font-weight: 700; transition: 0.8s ease-in-out;">the Russian oil major Rosneft</a> — often shifting away from other energy businesses (oil, coal, nuclear). They are making investment bets as large as any in the global energy market and India has attracted the biggest share of international investments this year.</div>
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A Lifetime Opportunity for the Global Climate</h3>
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Lauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15795417593307714927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2033630088941603644.post-39573484733671956182015-08-19T01:02:00.000-07:002015-08-19T01:02:04.026-07:00Tendering process for photovoltaics and wind power with 1 MW or more in Germany<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Article published in <a href="http://www.sunwindenergy.com/">http://www.sunwindenergy.com/</a>, in August the 5th, 2015<br />
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<strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: unset; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">On Friday, the German Federal Ministry of Economics published the <a class="ext" href="http://www.bmwi.de/BMWi/Redaktion/PDF/Publikationen/ausschreibungen-foerderung-erneuerbare-energien-anlage,property=pdf,bereich=bmwi2012,sprache=de,rwb=true.pdf" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: unset; color: #dd6710; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">key points<span class="ext" style="background: url(http://www.sunwindenergy.com/sites/all/themes/bva_gummi/css/extlink.png) 100% 50% no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: unset; height: 10px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 10px;"><span class="element-invisible" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: unset; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); height: 1px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute !important;">(link is external)</span></span></a> of a law to tender renewable energy projects, which will come into effect in 2017. According to the document, the tendering process, which was tested earlier this year, will be mandatory for ground-mounted solar parks.</strong></div>
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Photovoltaic systems on buildings with an output of 1 MW or more, as well as those installed at sites such as landfills, have been newly included in the process. The tendering process will be mandatory for wind farms from 2017 onwards. The only exceptions are plants with less than 1 MW capacity, prototypes and test facilities. The maximum size of wind farm projects is not specified.</div>
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Tendering process also for on-roof photovoltaic systems starting at 1 MW</h3>
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The majority of private and commercial photovoltaic systems will continue to be subsidised through a predetermined feed-in tariff under the German Renewable Energies Act (EEG). In these cases, quantity control will still be implemented via the so-called 'flexible ceiling', and systems installed through the tendering process will be included in the calculation.</div>
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In the specific implementations of the tendering systems, technologies will be differentiated using customised tender designs. According to the Federal Ministry of Economics, the draft document focuses on technologies "that will make the most significant contributions to achieving the development goals of the EEG in 2014, specifically onshore wind energy, offshore wind energy and solar energy."</div>
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Federal Minister Sigmar Gabriel is utilising the leeway provided by the EU's energy subsidy guidelines, which require funding for renewable energy to be transitioned to the tendering model but nevertheless allow exceptions. The German Solar Industry Association noted that it is still too early to say with certainty whether the tendering process will be more efficient than the existing feed-in tariff model for solar energy in achieving the goal of expanding photovoltaics, as policy-makers intend. In general, however, the association welcomed the fact that small and medium-sized systems were not included in the tendering process. Nevertheless, it criticised some of the details. In the association's view, for example, it is "unacceptable that the Federal Ministry of Economics wants to exclude large roof-mounted PV systems that allow own-consumption of solar power from participating in the tendering process."</div>
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Tenders for wind energy as well</h3>
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The tendering process will be mandatory for wind farms from 2017 onwards. The only exceptions are plants with less than 1 MW capacity, prototypes and test facilities. The maximum size of wind farm projects is not specified.</div>
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In order to participate in the tendering process, a permit pursuant to the German Federal Emission Control Act (BImSchG) must be obtained. The purpose of this is to ensure that bids are based on projects that have a high probability of being carried out, that their location and performance are specified and that they can be clearly categorised. In addition to this material qualification requirement, financial collateral must be deposited along with the bid. The so-called 'bid bond' will be 30 euros per kW installed capacity of the bid amount. The collateral can be submitted in the form of a bank guarantee conditioned upon successful participation or a cash deposit into a blocked account.</div>
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By contrast, representatives of conventional energy immediately criticised the key points. They had repeatedly demanded that small and medium-sized photovoltaic systems should only receive funding through the tendering process.</div>
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Statements, in particular regarding the consultation questions formulated in the key points document, can be submitted at the following email address until 1 October 2015: <a class="mailto" href="mailto:Ausschreibung-eeg@bmwi.bund.de" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: unset; color: #dd6710; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Ausschreibung-eeg@bmwi.bund.de<span class="mailto" style="background: url(http://www.sunwindenergy.com/sites/all/modules/extlink/extlink_s.png) -20px 50% no-repeat; border: 0px; box-sizing: unset; height: 10px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 12px 0px 0px; width: 10px;"><span class="element-invisible" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: unset; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); height: 1px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute !important;">(link sends e-mail)</span></span></a>. After carrying out a consultation procedure, the German Federal Government will submit a bill this year, which will then be discussed in the first half of 2016 in the Bundestag.</div>
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Lauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15795417593307714927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2033630088941603644.post-85336566792437614142015-08-18T00:39:00.003-07:002015-08-18T00:53:45.674-07:00ReneSola, Pristine Sun to form JV for 300MW solar projects in US<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Article published on <a href="http://solar.cleantechnology-business-review.com/">http://solar.cleantechnology-business-review.com/ </a>, in august the 6th, 2015<br />
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China's ReneSola and San Francisco-based Pristine Sun have agreed to form a joint venture (JV) to develop, build and operate more than 300MW of solar projects in the US.</div>
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ReneSola will own a majority stake in the JV, dubbed Baynergy while Pristine Sun will own about 49% interest, depending on several conditions.</div>
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Baynergy JV intends to have about 150MW of solar projects in operation by the end of next year.</div>
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ReneSola CEO Xianshou Li said: "The U.S. market is full of tremendous opportunities in the downstream project sector with 25 gigawatts projected to be constructed in the commercial and utility space in the next five years.</div>
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"We believe we can capitalize on these opportunities and grow the joint venture by leveraging ReneSola's global reputation, network, high-quality green energy products and solar project execution."</div>
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Pristine Sun CEO Troy Helming said: "Capturing synergies from ReneSola's global platform and high product quality and Pristine Sun's in-depth U.S. market expertise, Baynergy is expected to accelerate efforts in promoting the use of renewable energy in local communities and yield healthy returns for investors of both companies."</div>
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Lauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15795417593307714927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2033630088941603644.post-36974703443917995202015-08-13T04:18:00.001-07:002015-08-13T04:19:21.616-07:00Carbon Emissions Falling Fast as Wind and Solar Replace Fossil Fuels<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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emissions are falling fast, mainly because of the rapid spread of the</span> <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">wind turbines and solar panels</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">that are replacing
fossil fuels for electricity generation.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 150%;">European Union (EU) data shows that once
countries adopt measures to reduce greenhouse gases (GHGs</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 150%;">),
they often exceed their targets—and this finding is backed up by figures
released this week in a </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 150%;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: windowtext;">statement by the United Nations Framework Convention on
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international treaty on combating global warming—have frequently exceeded their
promised GHG cuts by a large margin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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change</span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <span lang="EN-GB">agreements not only work, but can drive even higher
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beacon for governments as they work towards a new, universal climate change
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of the total savings on the continent. But most of the 28 countries in the bloc
are also making progress towards the EU’s own target of producing 20 percent of
all its energy needs from<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">renewables</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">by 2020. It has already
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targets to reduce GHGs is to measure every two years the effect of various
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introduction of renewables in electricity production, heating and cooling
systems and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">transport</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Because of the
time taken to compile the figures, the </span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">latest report</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">from the EC Joint Research
Center goes up only to 2012. However, it shows that each year in the three
years up to the end of 2012 GHGs emitted by the EU fell by 8.8 percent as a result
of replacing fossil fuels with renewables.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Two-thirds of
the savings came from the widespread introduction of wind and solar power.
Renewables used for heating and cooling achieved 31 percent of the savings and
transport 5 percent. Most transport renewables came from the use of bio-fuels
instead of petrol and diesel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Measuring the
progress towards targets is vital for mutual trust between nations in the
run-up to the </span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Paris climate talks</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">. It also gives
politicians confidence that they can make pledges they can keep.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The
knowledge that the EU is likely to exceed its target of a 20 percent reduction
of all emissions on 1990 levels by 2020 has led ministers to a more ambitious
goal—total reductions of 40 percent by 2030. A large part of this will come
from the installation of more renewables and energy-efficiency measures.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Across
Europe, emissions vary widely from country to country, with Germany having the
highest and Malta the lowest. Germany also had the greatest absolute reduction
of emissions—a total drop of 23 percent on 1990 levels by 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The
highest emissions per capita were in Luxembourg (20 tons of carbon dioxide per
person), followed by Estonia (12.7), the Czech Republic (10.2), Germany (9.8)
and the Netherlands (9.7).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Just
five member states—Germany, Poland, the UK, Italy and Romania—together produced
two-thirds of the EU’s emissions in 1990. The only change by 2012 was that
Romania had been overtaken by Spain.</span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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Lauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15795417593307714927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2033630088941603644.post-22291956173976887812015-08-06T04:34:00.003-07:002015-08-06T04:37:26.767-07:00Solar farms to float on dams<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #444444;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Article originally published on The Star Online in August
6th 2015.</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #444444;">SEREMBAN: The Negri Sembilan
government will embark on an ambitious project to open “floating solar farms”
at dams in a bid to generate green power.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Mentri Besar Datuk Seri
Mohamad Hasan said a pilot project would be carried out at the Sungai Terip dam
near here where solar panels would be “floated” on a specially-designed
platform covering one fifth of the dam’s surface.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #444444;">“Gone are the days where dams
will only be used to store and supply treated water to consumers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #444444;">“We will now optimise their use
to produce renewable energy,” he told reporters here.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #444444;">He said the state government
hoped to get consent from the Energy Commission before it could proceed with
the project, believed to be the first of its kind in the region.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #444444;">If approved, the venture – to
be jointly carried out by the state and a private company – would be able to
generate between 7.5MW and 10MW of power.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #444444;">“The problem is that Negri
Sembilan has used up its quota to generate solar renewable energy. But since
some states have not used the quota allotted to them, we hope to be considered
for more,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Although there are eight dams
in the state, not all are suitable for “floating farms”.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #444444;">This is because the dams need
to be located close to the national power grid to enable power to be transmitted
onto it and supplied to consumers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Mohamad said at present, Negri
Sembilan produced some 32MW of solar renewable energy. The electricity
generated can provide power to an estimated 20,000 homes daily.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #444444;">This renewable energy is
obtained from thousands of solar panels put up at four closed landfills in the
state.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Mohamad said the state
government hoped to be given the green light to proceed with the “floating
farm” solar project as the demand for power would increase following the rapid
development taking place in the state.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Citing an example, he said
several new townships and industrial parks were expected to be opened in the
next few years as part of the Malaysian Vision Valley project.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #444444;">“The project will be carried
out over a 30-year period encompassing a 108,000ha area,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #444444;">“This will see a massive
increase in demand for electricity. So, it is best that we try to generate
whatever renewable energy we can so that we will not have to rely solely on one
source.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Lauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15795417593307714927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2033630088941603644.post-5058194414163788842015-07-29T03:19:00.000-07:002015-07-29T03:26:14.886-07:00PV Japan 2015: REC boosts market presence with new products, solutions, partners and market expertise<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #444444;"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">REC, the largest European brand of solar
photovoltaic (PV) panels, is showcasing excellence at Japan’s largest exhibition
of the solar industry, PV Japan in Tokyo from July 29<sup>th</sup>–31<sup>st</sup>.</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">With new products and solutions, new
partners and comprehensive market expertise, REC is demonstrating thought
leadership and will continue to reinforce its presence as a major player in
Japan’s solar industry, the company announced.</span></span></strong></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px; text-align: left;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px;"><span style="color: #444444;">REC received an Intersolar Award for the recently introduced TwinPeak solar PV panel</span></span></i></strong></td></tr>
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</span></span></strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 150%;">Being now part of the Norwegian Elkem
Group, REC is even in a stronger position to boost its pole position by further
optimizing the solar value chain and utilizing solar’s incredible long-term
potential. REC executives and regional representatives will be on hand at booth
P2-103 to discuss insights on the Japanese market.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Renowned quality with
new products and solutions</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br />
Visitors to PV Japan 2015 will have ample opportunity to see REC’s renowned
product quality close up with new products on display. With demand on quality
requirements continuously increasing, the recently introduced REC TwinPeak
solar panel, an Intersolar Award winner, is rated up to 280 watt peak,
delivering more power output per square meter. Especially in regions such as
Japan where space is at a premium, this is an important USP. The new multi
crystalline series is ideal for the full range of rooftop solar applications in
the growing residential, commercial, and industrial markets.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">To further leverage the promising
opportunities for solar energy installations in Japanese homes, REC is
introducing its SolarKit solution for the residential segment also. After the
successful launch for commercial installations in Q1, the all-in-one solar kit
provides a perfectly matched combination of REC Peak Energy solar panels,
inverter, remote controller and cables. Private solar energy enthusiasts no
longer need to worry about potential hassles of mixing and matching different
components or trying to minimize losses in energy efficiencies, the company
notes.<br />
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The new developments will be on display alongside the established REC Peak
Energy Series, also as a compatible version with ZEP racking systems for
residential markets in Japan. This mounting system permits faster installation
and improved aesthetics. Supplemented by the REC Peak Energy 72-cell series for
large commercial, industrial and utility scale installations, the range of
products available demonstrates REC’s ability to address various customers’
needs in Japan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Increased solar footprint with a new partner</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">With WQ Inc. as a new member of the
prestigious REC Partner Program, REC is increasing its solar footprint in
Japan’s expanding residential segment. WQ Inc. has completed around 400
installations with a total capacity of 31.3 MW using over 122,000 REC
solar panels. Both companies will work together to certify REC Solar
Professionals in order to ensure excellent quality for private solar system
owners on both the product and installation levels.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">REC’s increased solar footprint will be
also demonstrated by impressive solar installations. The most recent success
story is the Tomakomai Rinku Kashiwabara Power Plant with a system size of
1.7 MW.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">Making efficient use of 33,600 m<sup>2</sup><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>of previously unutilized land, Japan’s
NYK Trading Corporation and Nippon Container Terminal Co. Ltd. are benefiting
from a secure long-term investment as well as boosting their environmental
reputation by saving 1,337 tons of CO<sub>2</sub><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>emissions every year. Another
impressive reference case on display is the 480 kW commercial installation
at the IKEA Sendai store in the Miyagi Prefecture.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Dynamic growth as
solar PV costs approach grid parity</span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">Japan will be the second largest market
in 2015, with installations forecast to reach 10.4 GW. The commercial and
mega-solar segments will still account for a large proportion of Japanese
demand in 2015. The most common commercial system size will be 10–50 kW,
with 3.7 GW of installed capacity expected in this segment.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">Mega solar installations above 1 MW
system size will increase to nearly 4.6 GW in 2015. Despite a
5.5 percent cut to feed-in tariffs, the Japanese residential sector
remains a dynamic market for solar energy investment.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">“Solar energy can be generated today at around
JPY 27 (USD 0.22) per kWh, which is approaching grid parity. With
average solar system prices having dropped by around 50% over the last six
years, solar installations can maintain attractive ROI even at these reduced
feed-in tariffs. REC therefore expects a stronger push for the residential
segment and predicts residential installations will reach 1.5 GW in 2015
in Japan,” says Tadao Kasahara, Executive Chairman at REC Solar Japan.<br />
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“Japan is consistently one of the world’s largest markets for solar power
installations, and continues to be a key market for REC. We are valued as a
premium supplier in the quality-conscious Japanese market,” Kasahara adds.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">“Our exceptionally low product claims
rate confirms REC’s quality. To put this in perspective: out of a total of four
million panels shipped last year, less than 400 were returned to REC as
defective.”</span><span style="color: #3d4e5a;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Lauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15795417593307714927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2033630088941603644.post-21504892271644999442015-07-27T05:02:00.001-07:002015-07-27T05:02:25.497-07:00Solar technology could give consumers the power to get off the grid<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Article originally published on Dallas news in July 27th 2015.</span></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #444444;">HOUSTON<b> </b>—<b> </b>In the more than 130
years since Thomas Edison released the electric light bulb on the world,
households have more or less gotten electricity one way. Build a power plant,
string power lines in all directions until you’ve connected as many homes and
businesses as possible, repeat.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #444444;">But in a nondescript white brick house a few miles
outside downtown Houston, there is no need for a distant power plant spinning
on a steady burn of coal or maybe radioactive uranium.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #444444;">One moment the lights and home appliances are humming
along like those in any building. Then, for a fraction of a second, the lights
dim and the room goes quiet. Joe Coffey, an engineer with NRG Energy who spends
his days testing out devices like portable solar panels and water heaters you
put on your roof, has cut the house off from the power grid.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Only, the air conditioner is still running, as are the
lights. In place of the grid — or the standard gasoline-powered backup
generator — is a battery array in the garage and solar panels on the roof. On
the patio, where the grill should be, sits what is essentially a 5-foot-tall
miniature power plant hooked into the natural gas line.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #444444;">“A lot of this stuff, it’s going to be years before it
can be delivered to customers cost-effectively. But it’s like anything. There’s
going to be early adopters, and we want to be ready,” Coffey said.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #444444;">The U.S. by and large runs on a network of more than
7,300 power plants, including 1970s-era coal plants, wind farms<b> </b>in
West Texas, the Hoover Dam, nuclear reactors at Comanche Peak and more. The
facilities are large and often away from population centers, each supporting on
average 20,000 customers across millions of miles of power lines.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #444444;">But what if each of those 146 million U.S. electric
customers could generate his or her own electricity?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Historically, generating electricity was expensive,
and there were cost savings in size. But with the advent of new technology —
known as “distributed generation” within the industry — the prospect of
cost-effectively generating electricity at home is moving beyond the realm of
science fiction.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Solar panels, for a long time so grossly expensive
only hard-core environmentalists would buy them, are now being mass-produced in
China. With government incentives, solar power can now compete with the power
grid in 10 states, according to analysis by NRG.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #444444;">And then there are home battery systems, potentially
upending the need for a constant flow of electricity from the grid. Tesla
founder Elon Musk is building a battery factory in Nevada so large he calls it
a “gigafactory.” Fuel cells, which can be powered by hydrogen, natural gas and
other substances, are no longer just for space missions. They’re finding their
way into talking points of forward-looking CEOs.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #444444;">“Distributed generation is already in California. It’s
not the future; it’s real,” said Michael Webber, deputy director of the Energy
Institute at the University of Texas. “Instead of building large power plants,
we’ll install solar panels and battery systems. It’s not today, but 10 years
from now it will be.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Solar heating up</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Locales including Germany, Hawaii, California and
Arizona have been inundated with rooftop solar systems, prompted by a
combination of high power prices and generous subsidies for renewable energy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #444444;">If predictions hold true that solar panels are only
going to get cheaper, that same growth trajectory is expected to spread across
the U.S.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Right now solar power represents about 2 percent of
the nation’s electrical capacity, both through rooftop installations and
utility-scale farms.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #444444;">If current growth rates continue, by 2025 there should
be 90 gigawatts of solar power in the U.S. — more than 8 percent of current
capacity — according to the financial services firm UBS. That will hold even if
the U.S. government lets the solar tax credit expire next year.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Batteries and fuel cells remain firmly stuck in the
development phase, with no clear timeline for mass adoption. But were one of
those technologies to prove cost-effective, homes and businesses could quickly
be generating their own electricity.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Texas’ grid operator, the Electric Reliability Council
of Texas, is not taking the potential for a shift away from the grid lightly.
After watching the sudden onslaught of solar in other states, the agency
launched a study to determine what steps it could take to prepare, said Paul
Wattles, a senior analyst at ERCOT.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #444444;">“Other than Austin and San Antonio, we haven’t had the
strong incentive programs that encouraged a massive adoption rate,” he said.
“But the price of [solar panels] is so low, it’s approaching the point where
we’re going to start seeing massive adoption rates.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">The power of green</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Environmentally speaking, this is all good news. Power
plants, particularly those that burn coal, are responsible for more than 30
percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #444444;">At IKEA in Frisco, planners have cut demand on the
grid by covering the store’s roof in solar panels — about two football fields’
worth.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #444444;">The almost one-gigawatt system is one of the largest
in Texas and supplies about 20 percent of the store’s energy demands, as
throngs of customers a day go in and out to shop for Pöang chairs and Caja
tablecloths.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #444444;">“If you go back to 2010, we’ve cut our energy costs by
35 percent,” said Tim Smythe, operations manager at the store. “That’s
everything: the solar system, switching to LED light bulbs, automating our
temperature and lighting to use less power when the store is closed.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #444444;">In the U.S., electricity is a $377 billion-a-year
industry, employing hundreds of thousands of people.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Already the boom in solar panels is cutting into
traditional sales, along with a housing stock that is vastly better insulated
and more efficient than it was just a decade ago. Since peaking in 2007,
electricity sales have fallen by 1 percent, according to the U.S. Energy
Information Administration.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Oncor, Texas’ largest transmission company, warned
investors in its annual report this year, “to the extent self-generation
facilities become a more cost-effective option for certain customers, our
revenues could be materially reduced.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #444444;">By and large, the sentiment within the industry is
that while distributed generation will cut into profits, it is far from the
game changer some have made it out to be. The government regulators who run the
power grid must ensure a stable electrical supply. Any change to the grid and
the markets upon which electricity contracts are traded would probably be
rolled out slowly and cautiously, Webber said.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Branching out</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Already, the power industry is lobbying in statehouses
across the country to reduce the rate they pay for their customers’ excess
solar power, to better account for the cost of maintaining the grid.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #444444;">“This is going to be negative headwind to power prices
for the foreseeable future. But let’s not overemphasize this,” said Julien
Dumoulin-Smith, an energy analyst with UBS.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Not everyone in the power sector anticipates a modest
shift.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #444444;">In a letter to investors last year, NRG Energy CEO
David Crane warned that not only was distributed generation growing but the day
was coming when homeowners and businesses would generate “most of the
electricity they consume on the premises.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Already, NRG is branching out in an “if you can’t beat
’em, join ’em” strategy. It created a new Home division last year that will not
only install solar panels on your roof and a vehicle charging station in your
garage, it will sell you a device to charge your tablet while sitting in the
bleachers of your child’s soccer game.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #444444;">A house outside downtown Houston serves as a lab in
which to test new products. Touring the facility last month, NRG retail
president Elizabeth Killinger said that while revenues for the new venture were
modest, she expected one day they would help mitigate the anticipated drop in
power sales.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #444444;">“We can help make the complex simple. Sure, we might
sell less power, but at the end of the day the customer is going to use less
anyway. Someone’s going to help them,” she said.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Sun is rising</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #444444;">In some parts of the world, rooftop solar
installations have become so prevalent they’re already forcing a rethinking of
how electricity is transmitted.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #444444;">In Hawaii, which has some of the highest electricity
rates in the world, there are so many solar systems that the local utility
warns it is losing its ability to maintain the delicate harmony of electricity
generation and demand across the grid. Last year, Hawaiian Electric Co.
announced it was in negotiations to build utility-scale batteries in hopes of
easing the strain.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #444444;">In Arizona, utilities have complained the high rates
they are required to pay their customers for their unused solar power —
combined with the loss in sales — are threatening to send them into what some
have termed a “utility death spiral.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #444444;">It’s too early for any such issues to have arisen in
Texas, said Wattles, the ERCOT analyst.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #444444;">With no state subsidy and the decision on what to pay
for distributed power left to the companies, Texas has one of the lowest
per-capita rates of solar in the country. But with so many sunny days, developers
continue to watch the state as the next big market.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Among the early leaders, Adam Stetson, with
Austin-based PSW Homes, is selling what he calls “sustainable” houses for which
one of the primary selling points is a rooftop solar system capable of supplying
about 40 percent of a household’s daily electricity needs.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #444444;">So far, PSW only has four homes built in Dallas. With
seven housing developments in development across the city, Stetson says more
than 270 homes should eventually get built.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Assuming they use the standard size, that should work
out to around 3,200 solar panels.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Lauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15795417593307714927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2033630088941603644.post-72651771790919597212015-07-24T03:16:00.005-07:002015-07-24T03:19:57.322-07:00Have You Heard Of Solar Desalination? If Not, You Will Soon.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #444444;"><i style="line-height: 150%;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Article originally
published on </span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><i>thinkprogress</i></span></span><i style="line-height: 150%;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;"> in July 23th 2015.</span></i></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDmG8bZRA4zG5UrCyqxKIxsSKIItk6y0Ybco0vKlXwV-Sk_nEFKvJ_cKbfjxm6wrYYvvZoOOZUsF13gNkXgkbTN8HPNJryU6QN0hb3yUhB20SrCjlafY5pen0xL5ZbDPgr07_O2P9faSQ/s1600/...........jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="color: #444444;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDmG8bZRA4zG5UrCyqxKIxsSKIItk6y0Ybco0vKlXwV-Sk_nEFKvJ_cKbfjxm6wrYYvvZoOOZUsF13gNkXgkbTN8HPNJryU6QN0hb3yUhB20SrCjlafY5pen0xL5ZbDPgr07_O2P9faSQ/s640/...........jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Open Sans', Calibri, 'Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.0799999237061px; text-align: start;">The parabolic solar panels at WaterFX's demonstration solar desalination plant in California's Panoche Water and Drainage District.</span></td></tr>
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Desalination removes unwanted minerals from saltwater so it can be used for
drinking or agriculture.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">These two technologies have typically been employed
separately in the effort to live more sustainably and limit dependence on
finite resources. Now in California, a company has found a way to merge the two
with the aim of providing long-term relief to farmers suffering the impacts of
the state’s devastating four-year drought. The implications are far-reaching,
as agriculture accounts for 80 percent of water use in California and roughly
70 percent of water use globally. In California alone, there is an estimated
one million acre-feet of irrigation drainage that could be treated and reused
if solar desalination catches on.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“Conserving or recycling even a small share of this
water can make a big difference,” Sandra Postel, director of the Global Water
Policy Project and a Freshwater Fellow of the National Geographic Society, told
ThinkProgress.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">WaterFX, a San Francisco-based water producer for
agricultural and commercial users, recently announced that its California
subsidiary, HydroRevolution, plans to build the state’s first commercial solar
desalination plant. To be located in the agriculture-intensive Central Valley,
the plant will ultimately generate up to 5,000 acre-feet, or 1.6 billion
gallons, of clean water per year — enough water for 10,000 homes or 2,000 acres
of cropland. It will be built on 35 acres of land currently used to grow
salt-tolerant crops, and will recycle unusable irrigation water from a
7,000-acre drainage area into a new and much-needed source of freshwater for
nearby water districts by removing unwanted mineral and salts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">It could be a win-win for farmers and the environment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Using something called Aqua4 technology, the
desalination process creates zero excess discharge and produces only freshwater
and solid salt as co-products. This differs from traditional desalination where
up to half the discharge ends up as brine back in the ocean.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">This is not the only way solar desalination differs
from traditional reverse osmosis desalination projects, where sea water is the
main input. There are currently several of these large-scale projects in use or
under construction along the California coastline. Conventional desalination
plants force salt and other minerals through a membrane; they are
energy-intensive and can also harm marine life and disturb coastal ecosystems.
The solar desalination plants developed by WaterFX use solar thermal energy to
avoid the use of fossil fuel-powered electricity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“The energy intensity of conventional reverse osmosis
plants has dropped considerably over the last two decades, but they still have
a relatively high energy price tag compared to other water supply and demand
management strategies,” said Postel. “I see no elegance in a technology aimed
at ensuring there’s enough drinking water during droughts if it employs a
process that will hasten climate change, which in turn will worsen droughts.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Postel said WaterFX’s technology has several
advantages, including “not contributing to climate change,” cleaning up local
salty, toxic irrigation drainage, and being more cost-effective. She said while
she hasn’t done an independent cost comparison, she’s read that solar
desalination produces clean water at rough one-fourth the cost of conventional
desalination.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“Lastly, it’s super exciting to me because it opens up
the possibility of farmers and irrigation districts leasing some water back to
the environment,” said Postel. “It could be a win-win for farmers and the
environment” if they could lease some water “to safeguard habitats for fish and
wildlife.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">The Aqua4 technology at WaterFX’s demonstration solar desalination plant in California’s Panoche Water and Drainage District.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The solar desalination technology is also “modular and
movable,” Ivy Wisner with the WaterFX communications team told ThinkProgress.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“The equipment is delivered in modules and mounted on
skids so installation is easy and equipment can be moved depending on water
treatment needs,” she said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">According to WaterFX, the HydroRevolution system is
the most efficient of its type available. It uses heat generated from parabolic
solar panels to evaporate clean water out of the original source water. The
condensate is then recovered as pure water at over 90 percent efficiency. When
the sun isn’t shining, thermal heat storage used to hold excess heat allows the
process to continue.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“WaterFX hopes this project is merely the first step
in revolutionizing the way California uses water,” said Wisner.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">WaterFX Co-founder and Chairman Aaron Mandell, who
studied groundwater engineering, told ThinkProgress that in order to confront
climate change, any solution to the water crisis must be long-term.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“Droughts come and go, but the water problem in
California is driven by climate change,” he said. “While lack of rain is
temporary, elevated temperatures due to a warming climate is permanent and as a
result will have a long-lasting impact on the amount of available water.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">WaterFX’s mission is to expand the availability and
reliability of freshwater generation — very few places need this more than
right now than California’s dried-out Central Valley. In some places in the Central
Valley, groundwater tables have dropped 50 feet or more in just a few years,
and many shallower wells have run dry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">While the HydroRevolution plant is currently in
pre-production and seeking investors, WaterFX installed a demonstration plant
in the Panoche Water and Drainage District in the Central Valley, where the
federal Bureau of Reclamation has cut back water deliveries from dams and
canals by up to 80 percent. Central Valley water districts are also under
pressure to limit polluted irrigation runoff from their fields into the San
Joaquin River. The solar desalination plants could also provide a fix to this
issue.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“The technology is being piloted in the perfect place
for it,” said Postel. “The drainage water from irrigation in this western side
of the San Joaquin River in the Central Valley has an unusually high load of
salts, selenium, and other contaminants.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">As the Central Valley publication Ag Alert recently
reported, the plant “will help the district clean up salts, selenium, boron and
other minerals in tile-drain water coming from irrigated fields and reach its
goal of zero agricultural water being discharged into the San Joaquin River by
2019, which is required by an agreement with federal agencies.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Part of HydroRevolution’s innovative approach to the
solar desalination project is to pursue a crowdsourcing effort, or
capital-raising campaign, that will be available to California residents only.
It is still in the preparatory stages.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Postel considers WaterFX’s approach one way of
confronting the bigger challenge of repairing the overall water cycle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“Our approach to water management has been very
disruptive of the natural water cycle and all the benefits that cycle
provides,” she said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Other avenues that can aid in this process include
better storm water management, green infrastructure that helps rainwater
infiltrate back into the earth, and wastewater recycling and reuse.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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conservation and efficiency improvements,” she said. “Both indoors and
outdoors.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="color: #444444;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div>
<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="color: #444444;">Let's discover our innovation "floating solar system": </span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><a href="http://www.ciel-et-terre.net/hydrelio-floating-solar-system/">http://www.ciel-et-terre.net/hydrelio-floating-solar-system/</a></span></span></b></div>
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Lauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15795417593307714927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2033630088941603644.post-65856840714770539142015-07-22T03:31:00.000-07:002015-07-22T03:31:42.285-07:00Les centrales électriques fonctionnant aux hydrocarbures bientôt suppléées par l'énergie solaire (rapport)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Article originally
published on maghrebemergent in July 19th 2015.</span></span></i></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="color: #444444;">Selon les estimations des experts de
l'agence Bloomberg, le prix de l'énergie solaire continuera de chuter jusqu'à
devenir la moins chère du marché. « D'ici 2026, l'industrie énergétique solaire
sera compétitive sur la plupart des marchés, et 25 ans après le coût du cycle
vital d'une centrale solaire sera divisé par deux », relèvent les experts.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="color: #444444;">Dans
deux décennies, les centrales électriques fonctionnant aux hydrocarbures
n’auront plus droit de cité. L’agence Bloomberg,
dans son rapport sur l'énergie intitulé "Le mode énergétique de l'humanité
changera bientôt à tout jamais", prédit que les centrales électriques
fonctionnant aux hydrocarbures ne seront plus compétitives dans quelques
années. Elles seront bousculées par l'énergie solaire qui, entre temps, sera
devenue si efficace et bon marché qu'il ne sera plus rentable de construire des
centrales électriques fonctionnant aux hydrocarbures. En effet, selon les
estimations des experts de l'agence Bloomberg, le prix de l'énergie solaire
continuera de chuter jusqu'à devenir la moins chère du marché. « D'ici 2026,
l'industrie énergétique solaire sera compétitive sur la plupart des marchés, et
25 ans après le coût du cycle vital d'une centrale solaire (fonctionnant avec
des panneaux solaires) sera divisé par deux », relèvent les experts. Dans le
même temps, le prix des hydrocarbures augmentera.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="color: #444444;">Énergie renouvelable : un tiers de
l'énergie mondiale en 2040<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="color: #444444;">L'énergie
solaire fera perdre sa rentabilité à la construction de centrales
traditionnelles mais aussi à l'exploitation des centrales existantes, notent
les experts. « L'ère industrielle a été fondée sur le charbon. Elle s'achèvera
dans 25 ans », conclut Bloomberg. Et d’ici 2040, les sources d'énergie
renouvelable produiront un tiers de l'énergie mondiale et pratiquement dans
tous les pays du monde, l'électricité produite par les panneaux solaires sur
son propre toit sera moins chère que celle du réseau, et d'ici là presque 13%
de l'électricité mondiale sera produite par des dispositifs autonomes »,
indique Bloomberg. Selon les prévisions, la production d'électricité par les
centrales à charbon diminuera. Elle restera stable pour les centrales
thermiques, à gaz et nucléaires et augmentera significativement pour les centrales
solaires et éoliennes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="color: #444444;">Les
investissements totaux dans l'énergie solaire d'ici 2040 atteindront 3 700
milliards de dollars, prédisent les experts, ce qui portera la capacité totale
des centrales solaires à plus d'un tiers des nouvelles capacités de l'énergie
mondiale (200GW). La construction de centrales tournant aux hydrocarbures
stagnera, d'après les prévisions de l'agence. Dans le même temps, la
consommation mondiale d'électricité n'augmentera pas, sous l'effet des
économies d'électricité croissantes réalisées par les consommateurs finaux, le
passage à l'éclairage LED économise 80% d'électricité, rappelle Bloomberg. « La
consommation d'électricité restera plus au moins au niveau actuel en dépit
d'une augmentation sans précédent de la classe moyenne », notent les experts de
Bloomberg. L'augmentation moyenne de la consommation dans les décennies à venir
ne dépassera pas 1,8% par an, par rapport à 3% entre 1990 et 2012, indique le
rapport. Plus le pays est développé, moins sa croissance nécessite d'énergie,
souligne-t-on.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Lauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15795417593307714927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2033630088941603644.post-73283517261083826132015-07-21T05:28:00.006-07:002015-07-21T05:28:55.169-07:00Could we finally power cars with SOLAR PANELS?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Article originally published on dailymail in July
20th 2015.</span></span></i><br />
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Nanowire technology may
allow new types of hydrogen fuel cell for vehicles<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<li><strong style="line-height: 150%;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #444444;">Scientists created a grid of tiny wires of gallium
phosphide to split water</span></span></strong></li>
<li><strong style="line-height: 150%;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #444444;">This harnessed the sun's energy to generate hydrogen
and oxygen</span></span></strong></li>
<li><strong style="line-height: 150%;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #444444;">They say this can be used to create a fuel cell that
could power vehicles</span></span></strong></li>
<li><strong style="line-height: 150%;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #444444;">The new technology is 10 times more efficient than
previous solar fuel cells</span></span></strong></li>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">Solar-powered cars have come a step closer
after scientists discovered a way to create compact fuel cells that use the
power of the sun to generate hydrogen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">Researchers claim their method has
increased the efficiency of using solar cells to split water into its
constituent elements – hydrogen and oxygen – by a factor of ten.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">They say the technique could finally allow
cars and other vehicles to be fitted with solar panels, overcoming problems
such as keeping the vehicles running at night.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6666669845581px; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444;">Most attempts to build solar powered cars, like the one above, rely upon direct sunlight in order to provide the power needed to keep going, but new technology that has allowed scientists to use solar energy to split water into hydrogen and oxygen could provide compact solar fuel cells for powering vehicles even after dark.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Rather than powering the
car directly, the solar panels could produce hydrogen and oxygen from water to
produce a fuel cell that can power the vehicles.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">The scientists behind the technology say
this could provide a new clean replacement for traditional fossil fuels that
they have termed 'solar fuel'.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">Professor Erik Bakkers, a nanoscientist at
Delft University of Technology in Delft, the Netherlands, who led the work,
said: 'Photoelectrochemical hydrogen production from solar energy and water
offers a clean and sustainable fuel option for the futureThey also say their
approach also uses ten thousands times less of the rare-metal semiconductor
used in modern solar panels, gallium phosphide.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt; min-height: 1px;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">'For the nanowires we needed ten thousand
less precious gallium phosphide material than in cells with a flat surface.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">'That makes these kinds of cells
potentially a great deal cheaper.'<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">Creating hydrogen from solar energy has
been possible for some time, but it is extremely inefficient and expensive as
the amount of energy produced from solar panels is low.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">Most solar cells uses silicon based
semiconductors to generate electricity from the sun, more recently gallium
phosphide has emerged as a new material.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">Some approaches have connected a solar
cell to a battery, which stores up the energy until there is sufficient to
split the water into hydrogen and oxygen but this makes the technology heavy
and impractical for vehicles.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">The researchers, whose work is published
in the journal Nature Communications, used a grid of tiny wires of gallium
phosphide measuring 500 nanometres long and 90 nanometres thick. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">The gallium phosphide can convert sunlight
into electricity and split the water all in one, producing a solar fuel
cell. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">Energy can be released from the fuel cell
by converting the hydrogen and oxygen back into water, releasing electricity.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">This could lead to new compact
solar-powered fuel cells that can be used on vehicles.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">They found this could be used to directly
split the water and could boost the yield of hydrogen by a factor of ten to
achieve a record for solar cell electrochemical hydrogen production by
converting 2.9 per cent of water into hydrogen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">However, the researchers say they have
still some way to go before they can reach the sort of yields that can be
obtained using batteries – which can convert 15 per cent of water into
hydrogen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">Solar powered vehicles usually rely upon
solar panels producing electricity to generate power for the vehicle, but these
either need large batteries to keep going after dark or cannot operate at
night. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">Professor Bakkers said the new approach
they had developed could allow solar energy to be 'stored' as hydrogen and
oxygen for use even after dark.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">He said: 'Gallium phosphide is also able
to extract oxygen from the water – so you then actually have a fuel cell in
which you can temporarily store your solar energy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">'In short, for a solar fuels future we
cannot ignore gallium phosphide any longer.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Lauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15795417593307714927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2033630088941603644.post-66902070119788864372015-07-20T04:15:00.001-07:002015-07-20T04:24:38.714-07:00World Scientists: Climate Change as Serious a Risk as Nuclear War<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-size: medium; line-height: 24px; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #444444;">Climate change poses risks that demand to be treated as seriously as the threat of nuclear war,<br />says a report commissioned by the UK government.</span></span></i></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Scientists from the UK, U.S., India and China say in a
report commissioned by the UK that deciding what to do about climate change
depends on the value we put on human life, both now and in years to come.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">One of the lead authors of the report is Sir David
King, formerly the UK government’s chief scientist, who last month co-authored
a report on the scale of investment that should be made to move from fossil
fuels to renewable energy by 2025. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In a foreword to the latest report, Baroness Anelay, a
minister at the British foreign office, writes that assessing the risks
surrounding nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation means understanding
inter-dependent elements—including what science says is possible, what other
countries may intend, and systemic factors such as regional power dynamics.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“The risk of climate change demands a similarly
holistic assessment,” she says.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Value Human Life<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">She concludes: “How much do we care
about the effects of climate change? How important is it that we act to avoid
them? What probability of their occurrence can we tolerate? … The answers to
these questions depend in part on how we value human life—both now, and in the
future.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">The report is not the first to put
climate chaos and nuclear devastation in the same category of risk, but its
sponsorship by one of the world’s nuclear powers is eloquent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">It says the most important
political decision is how much effort to exert on countering climate change,
taking into account what we are doing to the climate, how it may respond, what
that could do to us, and what we might then do to each other.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">The authors’ best guess, based on
current policies and trends, is that greenhouse gas emissions will keep going
up for another few decades, and then either level off or slowly decline.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">This, they say, is for two reasons:
governments are not making maximum use of the technologies already available;
and technology is not yet progressing fast enough to give governments the
policy options they will need. In the worst case, emissions could keep on
rising throughout the century.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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change, and what that could do to us, are both highly uncertain. “The important
thing to understand is that uncertainty is not our friend,” the report says.
“There is much more scope to be unlucky than there is to be lucky.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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possible global temperature and sea level increase. On a high emissions
pathway, it says, where the most likely temperature rise is estimated at 5°C by
2100, anything from 3°C to 7°C may be possible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;">On this pathway, the chances
of staying below 3°C will become “vanishingly small,” but the chances of
exceeding 7°C will increase and could become more likely than not within the
next century.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;">The authors see very little
chance that global sea level rise will slow down, and every chance that it will
accelerate. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;">The only question is by how much.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-size: medium; line-height: 24px; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Extreme water stress and competition for productive land could lead to conflict.</span></i></td></tr>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2033630088941603644" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2033630088941603644" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">“While an increase of
somewhere between 40cm and 1m looks likely this century, the delayed response
of huge ice-sheets to warming means we may already be committed to more than
10m over the longer term. We just do not know whether that will take centuries
or millennia.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;">A temperature increase of 4°C
or more could pose very large risks to global food security, and to people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;">Humans have limited tolerance
for combinations of high temperature and humidity. Their upper limits of
tolerance are rarely if ever exceeded by climatic conditions alone, but with
temperature increase somewhere between 5°C and 7°C, it starts to become likely
that hot places will experience conditions that are fatal even for people lying
down in the shade.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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also likely to double the number of people living below a threshold of extreme
water shortage by mid-century.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the report, probably have thresholds in terms of the rate and extent of sea
level rise that they can deal with, but we have very little idea where those
thresholds are.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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0.8°C of climate change experienced so far is now causing us significant
problems, and that “it seems likely that high degrees of climate change would
pose enormous risks to national and international security”—for example,
through extreme water stress and competition for productive land.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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they say migration from some regions may become more a necessity than a choice,
and could happen on a historically unprecedented scale.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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relentlessly downbeat. “An honest assessment of risk is no reason for
fatalism,” it says. “Just as small changes in climate can have very large
effects, the same can be true for changes in government policy, technological
capability, and financial regulation … the goal of preserving a safe climate
for the future need not be beyond our reach.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Lauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15795417593307714927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2033630088941603644.post-80979922366018256342015-07-20T01:58:00.004-07:002015-07-20T02:00:41.654-07:00India's Ingenious Solar Canals<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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evaporation is a major concern. And for many citizens of India, inconsistent
power is just a fact of daily life. Enter a new project the state of Gujarat in
India: covering canals with solar panels.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Indian government plans cover the more than 19,000 kilometers (or about 11,800
miles) of canals in Gujarat with solar panels. For right now, the project is
limited to a small pilot project, with just 750 meters covered, producing 1
megawatt of energy. But if the project could indeed cover the entire canal,
India believes it could produce much, much more power—a tremendous boon to a
country still undergoing an energy crunch.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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inauguration ceremony for pilot project earlier this year: "I saw more
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An earlier version of this article stated that Gujarat was a district, not a
state. We have also removed a reference to 2.2 gigawatts of power being
produced by the final project due to uncertainty about the actual potential
power produced. If we can find a more accurate number, we will update. We
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Lauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15795417593307714927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2033630088941603644.post-3426268453458479852015-07-16T07:28:00.003-07:002015-07-16T07:29:38.145-07:00Tarifs de l’électricité : une hausse de 2,5 % en moyenne en août <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">La ministre de l’écologie et de l’énergie, Ségolène Royal, a annoncé jeudi
16 juillet que les tarifs d’électricité augmenteraient en moyenne
de 2,5 % le 1er août. Cette annonce est faite alors que la
Commission de régulation de l’énergie (CRE) a estimé dans un rapport que
l’augmentation des tarifs d’EDF pour les ménages et les petits professionnels
devrait être comprise entre 3,5 % et 8,0 % pour compenser
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">«<i> Je vais leur répondre non </i>», a
rétorqué Mme Royal, interrogée sur ce rapport lors d’un entretien accordé
à BFM-TV et RMC :</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">« Pour certains consommateurs ce sera zéro, et
notamment pour toutes les consommations des artisans, des commerçants, des
petites entreprises. »</span></i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Concernant un autre dossier, la ministre exclut
d’aligner d’ici à 2020 la fiscalité du diesel sur celle de l’essence, comme le
préconisait le rapport, ajoutant que, plutôt que d’augmenter les taxes, elle
souhaitait <i>« donner envie d’agir aux collectivités, aux
entreprises, aux agriculteurs »</i> de lutter contre la pollution.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">2,1 milliards d’euros de manque à gagner</span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Les interventions des pouvoirs publics pour bloquer ou
limiter les hausses de tarifs de l’électricité se sont multipliées ces
dernières années, de même que les recours juridiques des rivaux d’EDF, qui
réclament, à l’inverse, des augmentations garantissant la couverture des coûts
de l’opérateur historique pour pouvoir le concurrencer.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">La CRE a estimé à 2,1 milliards d’euros environ
le manque à gagner pour EDF dû à des hausses insuffisantes ou des gels de
tarifs survenus en 2012, 2013 et 2014. Trois recours contre des décisions
tarifaires ont été déposés en 2014 devant le Conseil d’Etat par l’Anode,
l’Association nationale des opérateurs détaillants en énergie
— alternatifs — Direct Energie et ENI notamment.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">« Il y a un effort de fait, c’est le verre à
moitié plein »</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">, a réagi Fabien Choné,
le président de l’Anode, après l’annonce de la hausse pour août.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">« Le verre à moitié vide n’est pas une
surprise : à force de ne pas augmenter suffisamment les tarifs, on
accumule des retards colossaux et on reporte sur les générations futures les
charges d’aujourd’hui. »</span></i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">L’Anode continue ainsi de s’opposer au nouveau mode de
calcul qui ne permet pas de couvrir les coûts d’EDF et de développer la
concurrence, a précisé Fabien Choné, sans se prononcer à ce stade sur un
éventuel nouveau recours contre la hausse annoncée pour le 1er août.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Nouveau mode de calcul</span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Longtemps très modérée, la hausse des tarifs de
l’électricité a commencé à être significative en 2010. Les prix ont augmenté de 2,5 % au 1er novembre
2014, après le gel par l’Etat de la hausse de 5 %
initialement promise par le gouvernement Ayrault et la définition d’un nouveau
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Cette nouvelle formule, intégrant davantage les prix
de gros, très bas actuellement, et censée protéger le consommateur, comptait
pour 1,6 %, les 0,9 % restant correspondant au rattrapage tarifaire
sur 2012-2013 imposé par le Conseil d’Etat.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Lauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15795417593307714927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2033630088941603644.post-60208166180351496222015-07-16T03:47:00.002-07:002015-07-16T03:48:33.283-07:00Le solaire, grand gagnant de l’électrique d’ici à 2040<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Le monde de la production d’électricité va être secoué par des séismes d’ici à 2040. C’est la principale conclusion du rapport « New Energy Outlook 2015 », publié par Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF). En tête des bouleversements à venir figure l’explosion du solaire, qui va capter 30 % des 12 200 milliards de dollars qui seront investis dans de nouvelles capacités de production d’électricité d’ici à 2040. Environ 60 % des investissements dans le solaire iront dans les installations décentralisées (toitures…), qui verront leur capacité multipliée par 17, de 104 à 1 800 gigawatts grâce à un prix au kilowatt divisé par deux. Dans leur ensemble, les énergies renouvelables attireront les deux tiers des investissements dans la production d’électricité, prévoit BNEF, qui estime aussi que « le gaz ne sera pas le «carburant de la transition» vers un monde sans charbon ».</span></div>
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