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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 ...

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created Feb 11, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (16) | comments 88 | with audio podcast weblog

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.

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created Oct 25, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (34) | comments 62

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.

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Where the wild winds blow: Stanford engineers use weather models to site offshore wind farms

(PhysOrg.com) -- Politics aside, most energy experts agree that cheap, clean, renewable wind energy holds great potential to help the world satisfy energy needs while reducing harmful greenhouse gases. Wind ...

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created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

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.

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created Mar 24, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 15

Engineers enlist weather model to optimize offshore wind plan

Politics aside, most energy experts agree that cheap, clean, renewable wind energy holds great potential to help the world satisfy energy needs while reducing harmful greenhouse gases. Wind farms placed offshore could play ...

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created Mar 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Solar installations doubled last year, with California leading the way

The amount of photovoltaic solar panels installed in the United States more than doubled from 2010 to 2011, representing a historic year for the American solar industry.

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created Mar 19, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 5

Iberdrola builds huge wind farm in US

Spanish energy giant Iberdrola has completed one of the world's biggest wind farms in the US state of Ohio, which will produce more than 300 megawatts of power, it said on Monday.

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created Mar 05, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 19

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.

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created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 41

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 ...

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created Oct 25, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (21) | comments 23 | with audio podcast

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.

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created Oct 13, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 11

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 ...

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created Jul 20, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 35 | with audio podcast report

Solar tunnel powers part of Paris-Amsterdam train line

High-speed international trains linking Paris and Amsterdam as of Monday became the first in Europe to use electricity generated by solar panels installed in a tunnel on the line.

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created Jun 06, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 6

Plainville, Conn. gets a solar carport

(PhysOrg.com) -- The city of Plainville, Conn. got a brand new carport, and this one runs entirely on the power of the sun. The carport makes use of solar panels that have been mounted of the roof in order ...

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created May 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 4 | with audio podcast weblog

High-efficiency solar power that floats in water

Sometimes you encounter an idea so seemingly brilliant you wonder why you didn't think of it yourself. OK, here goes: Utility-grade "concentrating" solar power ... in water. You're not applauding - what's going on?

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created Apr 25, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 7

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.

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