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Citing recent success in alternative power, GE Energy, a subsidiary of General Electric Co. is hoping to boost its solar energy sales to $1 billion annually by the end of the decade, the head of GE’s solar business said.
Britain will not meet the government’s target of producing 10% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2010, energy experts say.
The Tories would change planning rules so central government could not overrule local objections to new wind farms, Michael Howard has said.
Britain produces comparatively little renewable power – while the global market for it is growing, writes Mark Tran
“We kind of hit a cliff after 2006. As we look farther out, there are much fewer megawatts coming online.”
A breakthrough in thin film solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) is currenty being refined in labs at the University of Houston, which they say could lead to distributed power generation from natural gas.
Lawsuits could be a means to convince major power companies they need to make a real effort toward lowering greenhouse gas emissions.
Wind energy’s erratic performance as a power source means the more it forms part of a power system, the more back-up supply is required and the less cost efficient it is, according to a report on renewable energy produced for Britain’s House of Lords.
China’s power shortages show no signs of easing, state media said Wednesday, as the company in charge of the nation’s power grid threatened to cut off factories that fail to conserve energy.
Opponents of renewable power projects like wind farms and hydroelectric dams are missing the forest for the trees – perhaps air pollution from fossil fuel plants in neighboring states is obscuring their view.
Four-fold growth in wind energy generation this financial year is just a starting point, Energy Minister Pete Hodgson said in Palmerston North yesterday.
When California’s energy crisis subsided in 2002, consumers who conserved thousands of megawatts of electricity in 2001 gradually slipped back into their old consumption habits.
