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| Hydrogen games |  |
| A hydrogen powered cab will run during London`s 2012 Olympics |
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| 100 MW axed from P.E.I. green energy plan | |
| P.E.I.`s main utility has seriously cut back on plans to generate renewable energy on the Island, citing a lack of interest in the market. |
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| Fossil Fuels Receive 12x More Subsidies Than Renewables | |
| Global subsidies for fossil fuels dwarf support given to renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power and biofuels, a recent study shows. |
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| Modular Vertical Farm for Prague gets powered by renewable energy | |
| Eco Factor: Sustainable vertical farm harvests on-sire renewable energy. Architects have often proposed vertical farms as one of the best possible solutions to bring farmlands to the urban world, which reduces transportation costs and pollution. |
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| Skystream Dealer Training Receives IREC Accreditation | |
| Southwest Windpower announced today that it is the first distributed wind manufacturer to receive training accreditation from the Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC). IREC has implemented the Institute for Sustainable Power Quality (ISPQ) framework of standards and metrics to provide a means to compare content, quality, and resources across a broad range of training programs covering renewable energy, energy efficiency and distributed generation technologies. This international framework ensures legitimacy of what`s being taught and by whom. When certifying training programs, IREC evaluates a variety of criteria including quality of instructors, equipment and safety considerations. |
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| Results of Xcel Energy`s Wind-to-Battery Project | |
| Back in October 2008, Xcel Energy started an innovative study in which it installed a 1-megawatt (MW) capacity battery (20 50-kW NGK Insulator batteries) near an 11-MW wind farm owned by Minwind Energy, LLC. The battery was supposed to store, when possibly, the wind energy and release it to the grid when necessary. For the past 21 months the utility has been collecting data and this week it released preliminary results. |
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| Wind Turbine Prices Remain Low | |
| New Figures from Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) show that wind turbine prices are still low compared to when they peaked in 2008. |
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| The Big Question: The Best We Can Hope for in 12 Months Time? | |
| In the Big Question feature for this annual review issue, Renewable Energy World magazine is asking readers to give us their hopes and fears for the year ahead, to share their thoughts on what the industry might look like 12 months from now given the best possible scenario and, conversely, perhaps present their view of the worst outcomes a year from now. |
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