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Podcasts

  • Interview with Jim Doyle, president of Panasonic Eco Solutions North America
    To grow its solutions portfolio in North America, Panasonic Eco Solutions North America has engaged in end-to-end solutions that include financing options to better serve and provide added value to our customers. This is particularly true for its offerings of solutions in the renewable energy sector to commercial building customers. In this Podcast, Jim Doyle tells us what this means for the industry in general, as well as it's customers specifically.
  • Weekly Podcast: Wave and tidal in the UK: 2GW by 2020?
    It's a widely held view that wave and tidal has great potential, but that it is still an R&D industry only now starting to deploy demonstration projects. So how can we ramp up the various technologies? Renewable Energy Focus reports back from the Wave and Tidal 2010 event, organised by RenewableUK (formerly BWEA).
  • Weekly Podcast: EPRI charts 2025 solar and wind costs
    EPRI charts the cost of solar and wind energy in 2025. Find out more by tuning in to this week's news podcast.
  • Weekly Podcast: Yvo de Boer resigns from UNFCCC
    UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer is resigning his position. Tune in to find out more.
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Webinars

  • Advanced Conversion: Maximising the Potential for Energy from Waste
    One of the most readily-available and viable solutions to help address the challenge of our growing energy needs is Energy-from-Waste (EfW) – which has the potential to take a multitude of waste streams (such as municipal solid waste) and convert them into energy. We look at how modern techniques can make the technology more efficient.
  • 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.
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Blogs

  • Time to end the guilt on incentives and start fighting
    Posted by David Hopwood • 10 April 2013
    The last month has brought another depressing piece of news: This time the potential demise of Suntech, a pioneer credited with helping scale up the PV industry, on the verge of bankruptcy. The recen...
    tags: renewable energy, incentives
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  • Editorial Leader: New markets for a new era of power
    Posted by Gail Rajgor • 09 April 2013
    AND WOW, there are certainly plenty of new markets for the renewable energy industry – and they are finally coming out into the light. Deployment of renewables is an “idea whose time ...
    tags: renewable energy, solar, solar energy, CSP, wind energy, wind power, renewables, alternative energy, EWEA, IRENA, IEA, blog, Editorial, renewable energy industry, energy markets
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  • Solar energy: what cost, what outlook and what’s going on in Hawaii?
    Posted by Gail Rajgor • 20 February 2013
    So cumulative solar PV power installations worldwide shot past the 100GW mark in 2012, the European Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPIA) announced this month. In fact, the figure by end 2012 was j...
    tags: Solar,  PV,  subsidies,  renewable energy,  EWEA, solar energy, photovoltaics
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  • 10 clean energy investments from Google
    Posted by David Hopwood • 31 January 2013
    The past few years has seen Google embark on an ambitous program of investment in the renewables space, the most recent announcement seeing Google investing $200 million in a Texas wind farm. So where...
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  • Top 10 trends for the fuel cell industry in 2013
    Posted by Steve Barrett • 30 January 2013
    Around this time of year everyone and their dog does a review of the year just gone, or a preview for the year to come, often in the form of a ‘Top 10’. Even so, it’s interesting to...
    tags: fuel cell, fuel cells, hydrogen, hydrogen energy, hydrogen fuelling, hydrogen infrastructure, fuel cell vehicles, platinum, palladium, energy storage
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Features

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Downloads

  • Inverters: quality is the future
    The quality of all system components and the inverter quality in particular play a crucial role for the longevity of large PV power plant projects. Only if inverters function reliably and safely during the entire life-span of a PV project maximum yields and minimum risk can be ensured for all project stakeholders. Worldwide applicability and first-class quality of SMA central inverters are secured by product tests under extreme conditions in SMA’s internationally recognized internal testing center.
  • Why invest in high-performance green buildings?
    Interested in learning more about saving energy in the built environment...
  • Green Premium eco-mark: In Sustainability, Information is Power
    Interested in how environmental labels could help the drive for sustainability?
  • Steps towards a low carbon future
    Over the course of the next ten years demand for electricity is going to far exceed the supply by three times. Steps Towards a Low Carbon Future discusses the solutions and technologies that will support the global revolution required and transition to clean energy.
  • Engineering the 21st Century Utility: A Changing Industry
    Utilities must change business practices to keep pace with the evolving intelligent grid transformation. This whitepaper explores some of these challenges and discusses the benefits of implementing innovative software solutions to design and manage the modern grid from plant to point of service.
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