First white paper on PV development in India
India is poised to expand its role in photovoltaic manufacturing and use, and to become a global leader in this technology.
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Largest SHC system for retirement home
<p> A recently renovated retirement facility in Canada will now benefit from the country's largest solar heating and cooling (SHC) installation. The system will cut electricity consumption roughly
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A new model for pushing solar hot water
<p> Most residential water heaters in the US are electric. Now a solar hot water service in Florida helps to promote solar water heaters. What is interesting about the service is that a local power company
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Towards one standard
<p> Any company wishing to sell solar collectors and systems worldwide must have its products certified in order to obtain whichever certificate is required in a particular region. This is a barrier
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Hunger for wood
<p> The climate around the most important renewable resource-wood-is becoming increasingly rough. On the one hand, many countries are pushing the use of wood as an energy source in order to protect the
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Do good and talk about it
In a worldwide survey, Sun & Wind Energy questioned more than 1,000 companies from the renewable energy sector about their social involvement. Only 49 companies took the opportunity to respond to our questionnaire. The result: social projects are popular. But background information in scarce.
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Just H2O if you can, please!
Water is probably the last thing people think of when they consider photovoltaics, and yet it is an important resource during solar manufacturing.
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Calculating costs and risks
From 2013 on utilities will have to buy up their full requirement of European Emission Allowances via auctions. One way to reduce their requirement, and thus costs, will be to generate CO2 certificates from CDM project participation.
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Biomass is in vogue
Bio seems to be the buzzword of the moment when experts in India talk about the country's future energy supply. India's government wants to put more emphasis on biomass and the industry shows increaseing interest.
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Call for strong national policy
While US clean energy and climate advocates rarely display any real swing time mode when looking at the Copenhagen Climate Talks and beyond into 2010, they definitely also do not play the blues. Quite to the contrary: The lack of any concrete international outcome at that point in time might still give the domestic US process the needed tailwind to come to some clean energy, climate legislation.
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New and emerging markets for renewable energy
While eco-protection and energy efficiency measures played only a minor role in the oil producing countries of the Gulf region in the past, such issues are meanwhile receiving an increasing interest. The region is expected to carry on with an enormous market potential.