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  • Goal of 50% UK content in UK wind farms
    At a meeting of the Offshore Developers Forum, co-chaired by Department of Energy and Climate Change Minister Charles Hendry, it has been put forward that UK firms should provide more than 50% of the content of future wind farms.
  • 3TIER opens EMEA office
    Solar and wind energy assessment and forecasting company 3TIER is opening an EMEA office in the UK in response to increasing demand in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
  • Intelligent Energy, Suzuki form joint venture to produce fuel cell systems
    UK-based Intelligent Energy and the Suzuki Motor Corporation in Japan are establishing a joint venture company, to develop and manufacture air-cooled PEM fuel cell systems for a range of industry sectors.
  • UK energy storage company picks up awards
    UK energy storage technology company, Highview Power Storage, has won the Rushlight Award for Power Generation and Transmission, and the Group Energy Environmental Award.
  • India saw US$10.3bn of clean energy investment in 2011
    India saw clean energy investments reach US$10.3 billion in 2011, 52% higher than 2010, and accounting for 4% of global clean energy investment, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
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  • Sustainability in bioenergy
    Biomass is a very versatile resource that can be used to produce heat, electricity, transport fuels and a range of chemicals and materials. It is used in all these applications today, and its future demand is estimated to grow substantially.
  • Wind: Does the cost per kilowatt hour outweigh the benefit?”
    In an increasingly difficult economic climate, with consumers facing increasingly high bills for their electricity, there is a clear demand from many international governments for increasing alternative means of energy supply to the grid.
  • What are the prospects for wind power development through 2012 and beyond?
    Many people interested in renewable energy perceive wind power to be one of the most mature and low cost of the renewable technologies. And with over 200 GW now installed worldwide in nearly 100 countries, it’s not difficult to see why. But the industry has not been without its troubles in recent years. The credit crunch especially provided a difficult landscape for developers to obtain investment in new projects, and important markets such as the U.S. have been on something of a roller coaster over the past few years; the emergence of new reserves of shale gas in the country has compounded problems. And even in China, which has seen a massive surge in development over the past few years, recent months have seen problems with manufacturing overcapacity, with the Government in May halting all new project approvals (though it has recently cleared the way for a further 26 GW of projects, according to RECHARGE magazine). But with all the challenges, the wind industry continues to innovate around areas like aerodynamics, drive train and intelligent operation, as it strives to improve performance and reduce costs further.
  • What are the prospects for competing solar electric technologies?
    The argument about who wins – Solar Photovoltaics (PV), Concentrating Solar Thermal Power (CSP), or Concentrating PV (CPV) – is currently all the rage. But in reality it is too early to identify winners and losers in the overall solar industry. The solar industry, while growing exponentially in recent times, remains in startup phase compared with conventional power, and is now beginning to experience challenges with rapidly decreasing incentives, subpar availability of transmission and distribution, and for PV, almost overnight growth from MW to multi-GW level of demand.
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