News tagged with megawatt
US approves world's biggest solar energy project (Update)
The Obama administration has approved a thousand-megawatt solar project on federal land in southern California, the largest solar project ever planned on U.S. public lands.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Oct 25, 2010 |
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First Google.org-funded geothermal mapping report confirms vast coast-to-coast clean energy source
New research from SMU's Geothermal Laboratory, funded by a grant from Google.org, documents significant geothermal resources across the United States capable of producing more than three million megawatts ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 25, 2011 |
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Walney offshore wind farm is world's biggest (for now)
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Walney wind farm on the Irish Sea--characterized by high tides, waves and windy weather--officially opened this week. The farm is treated in the press as a very big deal as the Walney ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Feb 11, 2012 |
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Obama unveils historic power grid reform
President Barack Obama Tuesday announced the largest modernization of the US electricity grid in history, in a 3.4-billion-dollar bid to launch a new era of renewable energy consumption.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Oct 27, 2009 |
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France builds world's biggest photovoltaic solar plant
French energy giant EDF is building the world's biggest photovoltaic solar power plant at an abandoned NATO air base and plans to have it open by 2012, a spokesman said Tuesday.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Mar 02, 2010 |
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Cheaper and cleaner electricity from wave-powered ships (w/ video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- At the Clean Technology 2011 Conference and Expo in Boston, Andre Sharon presented a new concept of using ships equipped with a wave-power system to harvest energy and deliver it back to a ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jul 20, 2011 |
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As overhead costs shrink, solar becomes newly attractive
At a former industrial site on Chicago's South Side, more than 32,000 solar panels slowly tilt every few minutes, following the sun as it moves across the sky.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jul 10, 2010 |
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World's largest solar park planned in Greece: PM
Debt-hit Greece plans to build the world's largest solar park over depleted coal mines in the northern city of Kozani, Prime Minister George Papandreou said this week.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jan 21, 2011 |
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Giant offshore windfarm opens in Denmark
One of the world's biggest offshore wind farms opened Tuesday in southeastern Denmark, its operator, German power giant E.ON, said.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Oct 12, 2010 |
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Work on Africa's biggest wind farm in Kenya to begin
The construction of what is to become Africa's biggest wind farm will start by June in an arid region of northern Kenya, the project's officials said on Saturday.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Mar 24, 2012 |
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Spallation Neutron Source first of its kind to reach megawatt power (w/ Podcast)
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Department of Energy's Spallation Neutron Source (SNS), already the world's most powerful facility for pulsed neutron scattering science, is now the first pulsed spallation neutron source ...
Sep 28, 2009 |
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Germany's first offshore wind farm begins turning
The blades began turning at Germany's first offshore wind farm Tuesday, 45 kilometres (28 miles) off the coast in the North Sea, with 12 turbines producing energy for 50,000 households.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Apr 27, 2010 |
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France launches vast solar panel array
France on Thursday launched its largest-ever solar energy farm, with an array of panels spread over about 200 hectares (500 acres) in the mountainous southern Alpes-de-Haute-Provence region.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Oct 13, 2011 |
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World's longest superconductor cable
The "AmpaCity" project has been kicked off: The RWE Group and its partners are just about to replace a 1-kilometre-long high-voltage cable connecting two transformer stations in the Ruhr city of Essen with ...
Jan 19, 2012 |
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California hits wind energy milestone: About 5 percent of power from wind
California now gets about 5 percent of its electricity from wind power, according to data released Tuesday by the California Wind Energy Association.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Feb 07, 2012 |
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Watt
The watt (pronounced /ˈwɒt/ wot; symbol: W) is a derived unit of power in the International System of Units (SI), named after the Scottish engineer James Watt (1736–1819). The unit, defined as one joule per second, measures the rate of energy conversion.
For more information about Watt, read the full article at
Wikipedia.
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