• Major report reveals size of UK renewable energy sector

    Updated: 2012-04-26 01:00:00
    New research by the Renewable Energy Association (REA) and consultant Innovas reveals that the UK's £12.5 billion renewables industry supports 110,000 jobs across supply chain, and could support 400,000 by 2020.

  • DECC unveils plans to back eco innovators

    Updated: 2012-04-26 01:00:00
    Energy and Climate Change Secretary Edward Davey announced details yesterday (25 April) of support to help SMEs to devise the low carbon ideas of the future.

  • Quick Feasibility Analysis for Waste Heat Recovery Potential using GE In-House Simulation Tool

    Updated: 2012-04-25 21:32:59
    An incredible amount of up to 50% of the total energy input in the industrial sector is lost in the ...

  • Why "Passive Activities" May Be Clean Energy's Biggest Hurdle

    Updated: 2012-04-25 14:00:00
    If you care about the future of the American renewable energy industry, you need to learn what the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) calls “passive activities.” Because these important rules mean that as long as the U.S. relies on the tax code to provide renewable energy incentives, renewable energy can only grow as fast as Wall

  • Swale Heating wins £8.85m contract

    Updated: 2012-04-25 01:00:00
    Swale Heating has won a five-year contract worth £8.85m to provide repair and maintenance services for the Town & Country Housing Group (TCHG).

  • Efficiency should be priority for FMs, says ebm-papst

    Updated: 2012-04-20 01:00:00
    With growing pressure on energy supply, fan manufacturer ebm-papst has called on the FM industry to focus on energy efficiency as a priority rather than getting side-tracked by things like PV.

  • eu.bac outlines five steps to a greener future

    Updated: 2012-04-19 01:00:00
    eu.bac, the European Building Automation and Controls Association, has produced a paper to coincide with the informal meeting of energy ministers currently taking place (17 to 20 April) in Horsens, Denmark.

  • Rural Africa Looks Beyond the Grid

    Updated: 2012-04-12 14:00:00
    In picking South Africa for last year's meet-up, the COP-17 climate change talks prompted some inevitable grumbles. Why was the global climate change industry holding its jamboree in a country that, despite its commitment to renewables, pumps out so much CO2?

  • Sponsor PennWell's Wall of Honor To Recognize Military Service Personnel

    Updated: 2012-04-09 20:30:21
    Exhibitors and attendees at PennWell's 2012 events in the U.S. can become sponsors of the Wall of Honor.

  • Chile's Uncertain Renewable Energy Future

    Updated: 2012-04-09 14:00:00
    In May 2011 Carlos Slim, the Mexican business magnate, predicted that Chile will be the first Latin American nation to attain the status of a developed country. Chile's GDP per capita of US$15,400 in 2010 puts it far ahead of most of its neighbours and with economic growth for 2011 slated at 6.5 percent, the country would appear to be well on course to achieve Slim's forecast.

  • Trade-in the 20th Century Electric Grid, Don't Trade-off Local Energy

    Updated: 2012-04-05 14:00:00
    In a New York Times Sunday Review piece last month — rawing the Line at Power Lines mdash; lisabeth Rosenthal suggested that our desire for clean energy will require significant tradeoffs: There are pipelines, trains, trucks and high-voltage transmission lines. None of them are pretty, and all have environmental drawbac

  • Top Six Reasons We Need a Better Definition of Clean Energy

    Updated: 2012-03-26 21:49:11
    United States Senator Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Bingaman (D-NM) has just introduced his clean energy standard legislation, and yes, it has every energy source in it, except energy efficiency. Can a clean energy standard include all energy sources - and should it?

  • Teaching Circuits and Solar

    Updated: 2012-03-25 18:58:13
    ATC is teaching a class – “Circuits and Solar” in Guatemala this month.  Our team of local engineers are teaching a very hands-on class that communicates the essence electricity, circuits and then how to make and install a small scale solar home energy system.  The ultimate goal is to get solar into households that lack [...]

  • Polish Biogas Industry Poised for Growth if Regulatory Hurdles Eased

    Updated: 2012-03-16 16:00:00
    Poland’ biogas sector is very much in its infancy, but the sector is poised for explosive growth in the coming years. At least 300 agricultural plants are thought to be in advanced planning stages, and the Polish Government is targeting an ambitious uptake of 2500 projects by 2020. With a vast resource potential and an attractive certificati

  • Why the 1603 Treasury Grant Program Matters to Solar and RE

    Updated: 2012-03-16 14:00:00
    Last Tuesday, March 13, Congress failed to act to renew the 1603 Treasury Grant program, and that’ not only a loss for the entire solar industry, but other renewables too. Some may see 1603 as a program that only benefits large scale solar, but 1603 indirectly benefits the residential solar community, as well as solar thermal, and all other

  • Zero Net Energy Buildings Emerging as Market Driver for Solar

    Updated: 2012-03-15 21:23:23
    The concept of zero net energy buildings and communities—designed to produce as much energy from onsite renewable resources annually as they consume—is gaining momentum across the U.S. in both the residential and commercial sectors. Signs of the increased interest in zero net energy (ZNE) building concepts are everywhere. Last year, TD

  • Minnesota Electricity Could Be 100% Renewable, 100% Local

    Updated: 2012-03-13 20:10:28
    A new report released today by the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research shows that Minnesota can meet 100% of its electricity needs with in-state wind and solar power, and (with ample energy efficiency investments) at a comparable cost to its existing electricity supply. The notion that solar and wind energy cannot be the mainstay o

  • Perhaps the Opportunity for California Solar PV Installers… is Solar Hot Water

    Updated: 2012-03-09 14:00:00
    A recent check of the California Solar Initiative’ database reveals that there are currently 2,244 rebate-eligible solar PV installers in California. And on the solar hot water side? Only 374! That lack of competition for solar water heating services in a huge state like California is startling. Despite the recent — and generous &mdas

  • Dia Bras Sells Hydropower Assets in Peru to Volcan

    Updated: 2012-03-06 22:27:59
    Canadian mining company Dia Bras Exploration Inc. has completed the sale of its hydroelectric assets to Volcan Compania Minera S.A.A. via its Peruvian subsidiary Sociedad Minera Corona S.A.

  • What Will This Year's Geothermal Industry Report Reveal?

    Updated: 2012-03-05 21:43:15
    For those who are counting, it’ March already, and Americans are struggling to make sense of the mood swings surrounding both the weather and the Republican primaries. The GEA’ U.S. Geothermal Power Production and Development survey and report is another cultural staple in a new season of submissions and updates. #xD; In geoth

  • China's Solar Markets Also Catch Chill

    Updated: 2012-03-02 14:00:00
    With the solar bubble apparently bursting around the industry's ears in late 2011, as 2012 opens its doors for business much attention has been focused on the sector. The markets are certainly wise to be cautious given the impact of the downturn, regulatory instability and an increasingly price-competitive and oversupplied market.

  • Better Renewables Risk Management Solutions Emerge

    Updated: 2012-03-01 14:00:00
    Global economic woes have taken their toll, but investment in renewable projects is still strong and since 2010 has surpassed investment in new fossil fuel plants.

  • Renewable Energy Industry Leaps into Mainstream Power Generation

    Updated: 2012-02-29 16:22:14
    It’ a leap year and I am writing this on February 29th. This year we have one extra day to make our work count. It’ exciting and invigorating to me. #xD; There’ another exciting and invigorating development taking place this year. It is one that proves renewable energy has made it to the mainstream and it is happe

  • EPA's Green Power Partnership Helps Big Corporations Greenwash

    Updated: 2012-02-27 14:02:00
    While I generally have nothing but praise for the Environmental Protection Agency, their Green Power Partnership program falls short of the agency’ usual standard. In particular, the program — roviding media recognition for participating companies who procure renewable energy — nflates the activities of large

  • Nigeria, Energy Poverty and Renewable Energy

    Updated: 2012-02-27 14:00:00
    Nigeria’ decision to attain 7 percent renewable energy use by 2025 has been tagged to be a very proactive commitment. An important fact to note is that more than 60 percent of the nation’ population is not connected to the national grid and the remaining population can only boast of epileptic ower supply.  #xD; Apart from the

  • Volume 45, Number 6, April 2004

    Updated: 2012-01-03 07:26:37
    Energy Conversion and Management, Volume 45, Number 6, April 2004. Loaded on 2004-01-17

  • Volume 45, Number 5, March 2004

    Updated: 2012-01-03 07:26:37
    Energy Conversion and Management, Volume 45, Number 5, March 2004. Loaded on 2003-12-13

  • Volume 44, Number 20, December 2003

    Updated: 2012-01-03 07:26:36
    Energy Conversion and Management, Volume 44, Number 20, December 2003. Loaded on 2003-08-23

  • Volume 44, Number 19, November 2003

    Updated: 2012-01-03 07:26:36
    Energy Conversion and Management, Volume 44, Number 19, November 2003. Loaded on 2003-08-02

  • Volume 44, Number 17, October 2003

    Updated: 2012-01-03 07:26:35
    Energy Conversion and Management, Volume 44, Number 17, October 2003. Loaded on 2003-06-28

  • Volume 44, Number 16, September 2003

    Updated: 2012-01-03 07:26:35
    Energy Conversion and Management, Volume 44, Number 16, September 2003. Loaded on 2003-05-17

  • Volume 44, Number 15, September 2003

    Updated: 2012-01-03 07:26:35
    Energy Conversion and Management, Volume 44, Number 15, September 2003. Loaded on 2003-05-17

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