Posts in 'Alternative Energy'
Community Solar Gardens Help Renters Go Green, but Solar Companies are Concerned
Posted on Mar 12, 2010 by Jennifer Lance.
If you live rent an apartment, own a condominium, live in a shady neighborhood, or simply don’t want solar panels on your roof, residents of Colorado have a solution: community solar gardens. What’s a community solar garden? It’s a unique idea to allow residents to purchase a share of a large solar array that would give them credit on their utility bill and qualify for rebates.
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Kenya’s Biggest Geothermal Project Planned: 280 MW
Posted on Mar 02, 2010 by Derek Markham.
For a country which can only supply electricity to about 10 percent of its citizens, Kenya has been able to do rather well as far as using renewable energy for its power. Some 90 percent of Kenya’s electricity is produced with hydroelectric dams, which are susceptible to droughts, and its current geothermal plants only produce about 200 MW of power. But a new $1.3 billion, 280 MW, geothermal project could help the country meet more of the growing demand for electricity.
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USA Could Generate 37 Million Gigawatt-hours From Wind
Posted on Feb 22, 2010 by Susan Kraemer.
The newest and by far the most scientifically accurate and detailed estimate to date of the nation’s wind power potential has just been published by the NREL in Colorado, in conjunction with AWS Truewind.
Back in 1993; when turbines were smaller and less powerful, and computers were less able to calculate wind speeds over smaller areas, the NREL calculated the potential at about one third of this. The first comprehensive calculation has just been completed. With current technology, the US has enough wind potential to generate 37 million Gigawatt-hours of electricity from wind every year: enough to provide more than 12 times what we use each year.
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Idaho Man Builds 12 Foot Solar Road
Posted on Feb 17, 2010 by Jennifer Lance.
Necessity is the mother of invention, and garage inventors have been meeting the challenge of climate change head on. From building their own electric cars to home alternative energy systems, many pioneers of the green movement are regular people who love to tinker. Take for example Idaho resident Scott Brusaw. Brusaw has built a 12 foot square solar road in his friend’s garage.
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Home Wind Power for Half the Price, Over the Counter
Posted on Feb 03, 2010 by Derek Markham.
For commercial renewable energy enthusiasts, there’s no shortage of eye candy among industrial sized wind installations, but for the homeowner, the closest they get to feeling like they’re really generating clean energy might be the ‘Powered by the Wind’ sticker they get from their local utility when purchasing the wind power option for electricity. But that could change very soon, because a major retail store, Ace Hardware, will soon be selling a very cool new home wind turbine at half the installed price of a traditional turbine.
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