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World’S Only: Vertically Integrated Energy Co
Jun 21 2016 10:55 PM | eds in Green Energy
Elon Musk's Tesla Motors, . . . has just offered to buy his cousin Lyndon Rive's company, SolarCity. A consumer will be able to go into a store, and "with a few clicks" buy: . . . . . . an electric vehicle, . . . . . . a solar system,...
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World’S Most Sophisticated Battery Systems
Dec 15 2016 02:45 PM | eds in Green Energy
Intelligently controlled batteries, are best suited, . . . to smooth out short-term fluctuations in power supply, and demand, . . . quickly and precisely, enabling the integration of a much larger share of . . .. intermittent clean energy sources. 12...
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World’S Most Powerful #wind Turbine
Apr 11 2018 12:40 PM | eds in Green Energy
Vattenfall’s European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre, . . . successfully installed, the first of two, . . . 8.8 megawatt (MW) turbines, . . . off the coast of North East Scotland. The project was initially caught up in a protracted legal battle, ....
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World’S Most Efficient Solar/thermal Collector
Apr 01 2014 12:35 AM | eds in Green Energy
TIGI developed the world’s most efficient solar/thermal collector and . . . the first to provide a commercially viable solution, . . . for cold and temperate climates, . . . based on transparent insulation honeycomb technology. TIGI’s Honeycomb Collec...
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World’S Most Affordable Solar Light $5.-
Oct 18 2016 09:20 PM | eds in Green Energy
The new SM100 solar light retails for . . . $5 in various parts of Africa, and . . . meets “Lighting Africa” standards. 10-18-2016 Source: World’s most affordable solar light $5.- Yingli SM100
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World’S Largest Solar Pv Market
Jul 07 2014 04:45 PM | eds in Green Energy
Global New Energy Development Report 2014, . . . provides a comprehensive overview of the global renewable energy market, and . . . says China has now surpassed Germany, to take the top spot. Total global cumulative installed solar PV capacity now res...
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World’S Largest Solar Power Plant
Dec 01 2016 05:00 PM | eds in Green Energy
Kamuthi Solar Power Plant in Tamil Nadu, . . . has been titled as the largest solar power plant in the world. The power plant spreads over a vicinity of . . . 2500 acres, and it has the capacity to generate over . . . 648-megawatt green power. 12-1-20...
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World’S Largest Population Deprived Of Refriger...
Apr 06 2012 01:55 PM | eds in Green Energy
92% of the population,71.7 million households,380 million people,live without electricity,in Rural India.
Effective refrigeration in rural areas can help people extend their access to not only food, but also essential drugs.
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World’S Largest Office Furniture Manufacturer
Feb 03 2016 05:35 PM | eds in Green Energy
Steelcase has a goal to reduce its energy consumption, and . . . greenhouse gas emissions by 25% from 2010 levels by 2020. The world’s largest manufacturer of office furniture will soon offset, . . . 70% of its total U.S. electricity usage, with wind...
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World’S First Solar-Powered Helicopter
Apr 12 2013 09:35 PM | eds in Green Energy
Queen Mary University of London's, 7 Masters students create "SolarCopter." Source: SolarCopter
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World’S Biggest Solar Farm
Sep 30 2012 02:50 AM | eds in Green Energy
1,000-megawatt Blythe project in southern California, . . . First Solar may be the only manufacturer with the capacity . . . to supply enough thin-film panels to NextEra. Source: first-solar-may-supply-world-s-biggest-solar-power-plant
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World’S Biggest Floating Solar Power
Jul 28 2015 10:10 PM | eds in Green Energy
Kyocera Corp. started Thursday operating. . . . the world’s biggest floating solar power station, . . . a 2.3-megawatt facility, . . . 9,072 waterproof solar panels installed on a float, . . . made of high-density polyethylene. 07-28-2015 Source: Wor...
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World’S Biggest #solar Park?
Mar 28 2018 01:10 PM | eds in Green Energy
The Softbank Solar project, . . . planned for the Saudi desert would be about . . . 100 times larger than the next biggest proposed development, . . . 200 Billion dollars, in cost, for . . . 200 GW of energy. 3-28-2018 Source: World’s Biggest #Solar...
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World's Most Efficient Solar Cell
Jun 14 2013 09:35 PM | eds in Green Energy
A concentrator triple-junction compound solar cell, . . . 44.4% conversion efficiency in only 4mm x 4mm! Previously, these types of high-efficiency solar cells have only been used on space satellites, . . . but with each record it breaks, Sharp...
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World's Largest: Wind Farms
Aug 26 2016 06:10 PM | eds in Green Energy
DONG Energy, . . . building wind farms, off the east coast of Yorkshire, England. Hornsea Project 1: 1.2-GW project. Hornsea Project 2: 1.8-GW project. Hornsea Project 3: 2.4-GW project. 8-26-2016 Source: World's Largest: Wind Farms
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World's Largest Solar-Powered Bridge: London
Jan 23 2014 02:20 AM | eds in Green Energy
Blackfriars Bridge across the River Thames,covered with . . . 4,400 photovoltaic panels, providing up to . . . 1/2 the energy for London Blackfriars station, . . . cutting about 511 ton's of carbon emissions a year. Electric trains are already the...
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World's Largest Solar Power Plant
Sep 22 2016 11:15 PM | eds in Green Energy
The plant has a capacity of 648 megawatts (MW), . . . opens in Kamuthi, India. 9-22-2016 Source: World's largest solar power plant
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World's Largest Solar Cooking Class
Apr 02 2013 03:35 AM | eds in Green Energy
India is quite serious about introducing solar cooking to young students. On January 19, 2013, middle school students gathered on the grounds of . . . JES College in Jalna, India to be trained in the use of a simple solar panel cooker. After a quick...
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World's Largest Pv Power Plant
Jun 24 2015 06:20 PM | eds in Green Energy
579 megawatts on-line in Antelope Valley, Calif. 06-24-2015 Source: World's Largest PV Power Plant
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World's Largest Fleet Of Electric Vehicles
Jul 20 2015 04:20 PM | eds in Green Energy
The German yellow Electric van, with the Deutsche Post DHL brand, . . . 30 sensors are sending 100 different data readings wirelessly to a central server, . . . while 30 data streams are being sent back to it. Thousands of cars with rain sensors for th...
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World's Largest Exporter Of Oil, Buys Solar
May 11 2012 01:40 PM | eds in Green Energy
Saudi Arabia is the world's largest exporter of oil.
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World's Largest Electricity Blackout
Apr 28 2013 01:00 AM | eds in Green Energy
Blackout left over 600 million people in the dark, . . . the energy supply gap has reached a level that jeopardizes India's . . . . . . economic growth prospects and . . . . . . national security. 37 nuclear power plants, would need to be commissi...
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World's First 1+Gw Offshore Wind Farm
Feb 04 2016 05:20 PM | eds in Green Energy
DONG Energy's Hornsea, . . . Project One, that's slated to be, the largest offshore windfarm in the world. . . . 1+GW of capacity online. DONG also has rights to develop, at Hornsea, . . . Project Two, and . . . Project Three, which togeth...
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World's Biggest Offshore Windfarm
Aug 16 2016 11:15 PM | eds in Green Energy
Hornsea Project Two, located about . . . 55 mi off the UK coast, will cover an area of more than . . . 185 sq mi in the North Sea, will have . . . 300 turbines, producing about . . . 1.8 GW, able to power around . . . 1.6 million homes. 8-16-2016 Sou...
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World's Best Insulation
Apr 29 2014 07:25 PM | eds in Green Energy
Super-Efficient Insulation. 2014-04-29 Source: World's Best Insulation
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