Posts tagged: energy

Over Half of Germany’s Renewable Energy Owned By Citizens & Farmers

Courtesy: Thomas Kohler/treehugger.com   Germany‘s promotion of renewable energy rightly gets singled out for its effectiveness, most often by me as an example of how to do things well versus the fits and starts method of promotion common in the US. Over at Wind-Works, Paul Gipe points out another interesting facet of the German renewable [...]

Saturday January 14th, 2012 in , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Former Real Estate Company Moves Into Clean Energy Production

Cal-Bay International, Inc. has announced the company has finalized the process of revising the company’s real estate and land lease acquisition business plan along with the future direction for the production of “Alternative Fuels & Clean Energy” from subsidiary companies. The company is moving forward with the previously planned acquisition of an established Land Development [...]

Wednesday January 11th, 2012 in , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Hancock Solar Power Facility to go Online in early January

Zebulon Hull stands beside one of five rows of solar panels at the Hancock Sewage Treatment Plant. The solar panels are expected to begin generating power in the next few weeks. (By Don Aines, Staff Writer) Hundreds of blue photovoltaic solar panels stand on a gentle slope outside Hancock, not quite ready to begin supplying [...]

Monday January 9th, 2012 in , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

The Time of Wind Power for Homes Has Come Round Again

Courtesy: planetsave.com  Many years ago, wind power was commonly used for domestic purposes. Don Cervantes tilted at windmills that were being used for domestic purposes. In the British colonial era, wind generators were used to charge batteries that powered radios and allowed people to keep in touch with the powerful wartime speeches of Winston Churchill. [...]

Wednesday January 4th, 2012 in , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Germany: Solar Power Output Increases by 60 Percent in 2011

By:  Shamsiah Ali-Oettinger The German Solar Industry Association (BSW) has announced that German solar power producers have increased electricity output this year by 60 percent over 2010 to 18 billion kWh. This is more than three percent of total power output volumes. The solar sector has already produced enough electricity to power approximately 5.1 million [...]

Tuesday January 3rd, 2012 in , , , , , , , , | No Comments »