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Urban Green Energy (UGE) recently unveiled its newest vertical-axis wind turbine, the VisionAIR, as part of an installation at the Beijing International Garden Expo. The company confirmed to Gizmag that the VisionAIR is replacing its former 4K turbine, last ...

Ocean Power Technologies Australasia plan to construct a 19 MW point absorber wave farm off the coast of Victoria. The rise and fall of the waves causes a floating buoy to move up and down. The oscillating action is converted to electricity via a mechanical ...

Business interest in solar power is on the rise, according to figures provided to The Australian. According to the paper, solar power systems are being installed at triple the rate of last year, encouraged by falling panel prices and rising electricity prices.

Petition organiser Jim Benn says the wind farm would be detrimental to the island's long term future. "Here we have a unique position in the world in that we are pretty well clean of industry, we're pretty well clean of all kinds of things that could damage our ...

“Wind power has been around since Don Quixote and it belongs in an industrial museum not in a modern economy. “For too much of the time, the wind just sucks subsidies when it should be turning turbines. “The 20% renewable energy target is unachievable ...

CAES storage helps solve the problem of intermittency in renewable energy generation. When the wind powers turbines, or the sun shines on a solar power plant, electricity is abundant and must be stored for later use. CAES works by using excess energy ...

A company looking to produce biofuel from algae has abandoned its pilot plant in Karratha, in the north-west of Western Australia, saying it's too expensive to continue research and development work in the region. Karratha, with its high temperatures and low ...

Crikey journalist Amber Jamieson recently reported that the National Health and Medical Research Council is examining whether anti-wind farm campaigner Sarah Laurie has breached ethical codes of research conduct. The NHMRC and the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation ... We note it was analysed by an independent expert from Adelaide University, who found no correlation between high blood pressure and wind turbine exposure

Snowtown is earning a new title, the Wind Farm Capital of Australia, as the $700 million Snowtown Wind Farm proceeds at full pace. Reliable wind and proximity to transmission lines make the site ideal, and Stage 1 opened in November 2008 with 48 turbines ...

Xnergy is a full-service EPC (Engineering, Procurement, Construction) firm, which has engineered, installed, and/or commissioned over 100 MW of alternative energy systems. Xnergy provides a broad range of comprehensive energy solutions including the ...

The politics over renewable energy get bleaker by the moment. As the election date gets closer and a change of government grows more likely, the voices of the pro-coal and anti-renewable interests are becoming more strident and, it would seem, finding ...

Until now, wind power has been the leading low-carbon alternative to oil, coal and gas, outside large niche markets such as Germany, which has seen a huge ramp-up in installed solar. But that could change, with deep implications for the health of both ... Wind turbine manufacturers are targeting both incremental technology development in existing platforms as well as more fundamental advances, in particular towards bigger turbines for the offshore market

Mr Green said the existing solar feed-in tariff of 27 cents per kilowatt of energy should be guaranteed for existing solar customers for three years. Households who install solar panels after this year would receive a lower rate to be set by the independent ...