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USA: World’s largest solar plant is now fully operational
The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, the world's largest concentrated solar power plant has become fully operational last week. Ivanpah employs concentrated solar power (CSP), which uses hundreds of thousands of mirrors to reflect the sun toward a tower. This heats a boiler in the tower, which creates steam to drive turbines and make electricity.
read more... 17/02/2014
Gamesa strikes agreement with Eolus Vind for G114-2.0 MW turbine supply
The global technological leader in the wind industry Gamesa, inked a deal with Swedish wind power developer Eolus Vind, envisaging the supply of four of its G114-2.0 MW wind turbines in the Scandinavian market.
read more... 17/02/2014
Russia to increase its oil and gas production
Deputy Energy Minister, Kirill Molodtsov, declared that Russia is likely to increase its oil production by 0.3% to 525 million tons in 2014, about 10.54 million barrels per day, which could be the highest level Russia has attained since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The significant growth was attributed to changes in tax law, which has stimulated development of new fields and hard-to-recover reserves.
read more... 14/02/2014
Biggest Irish wind farm became operational
Ireland-based renewable energy company Invis Energy unveiled the biggest wind farm it has built in country in 2013 has started to operate, generating power to households and businesses.
read more... 14/02/2014
France: a new method of shale gas extraction was proposed
France might be interested in testing a new technique of shale gas extraction with non-flammable propane, which has still to be confirmed as a secure and efficient one. Even though the exploitation of shale gas is prohibited in France, the Minister for Industrial Renewal, member of President Francois Hollande's Socialist Party, Arnaud Montebourg, has recently announced that he is in favor of extracting shale gas with the help of a new method of extraction, an experimental type of “clean fracking” which employs fluoropropane.
read more... 13/02/2014