A recent announcement has confirmed that Oceanlinx Limited, an Australia-based high-tech company, will provide electricity to Maui Electric Company from Hawaii’s first wave energy project. The project aims to provide up to 2.7 megawatts using 3 Oceanlinx wave energy converters (WECs) that will be located about a kilometre due north of Pauwela Point on the northeast coast of Maui.
Oceanlinx is an […]
A proposal for a new 400 megawatt solar thermal power plant has been submitted to the California Energy Commission. To be known as the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System (ISEGS), the facility will be built 4.5 miles southwest of the town of Primm, Nevada and just to the west of Ivanpah Dry Lake in Southern […]
China Holdings has executed a Development and Construction Agreement for the exclusive right to develop and construct a 50MW biomass-powered generation plant in the Chinese province of Hunan. The contract has been lodged through its subsiduary China Power, Inc with the local Huaxian Government.
Huaxian has also agreed to grant China Power the land rights for up to 133,400 square […]
For what it’s worth I will provide details of the proposed solar power plant that is planned to be built near Victorville, California by Stirling Energy Systems. This is a project that was originally announced back in August 2005 as a thermal solar power plant with a capacity of 500MW, a significant contribution to electricity […]
A new experimental tidal turbine is about to be installed in the Northern Ireland waters of Strangford Lough and has the potential of revolutionising the renewable energy industry in the UK. The tidal turbine is called the SeaGen and each one has a capacity to produce 1.2 MW of energy.
When the SeaGen is in place […]
It’s hot at Cloncurry in Outback Queensland. In fact, Cloncurry boasts the hottest Australian day in recorded memory and it’s the perfect site for a proposed solar thermal power station. It seems like the perfect plan for a town that once recorded a temperature of 53 degrees Celsius in the shade way back in 1889.
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