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Solar power plant “Archimede” was inaugurated
It’s the first solar thermal facility integrated with a gas combined-cycle plant to use molten-salt technology as the heat transfer fluid
Enel inaugurated on July 14th at Priolo Gargallo (Syracuse, Sicily) the solar thermal plant named Archimede. It’s first in the world to use molten salts as the heat transfer fluid and also first in the world that integrates a gas combined-cycle plant with a solar facility for electricity generation.
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The Alta Wind large-scale project was launched in California
The turbines for the initial 570 MW have been ordered. The project, with a total capacity of 3,000 MW, will be the largest wind energy farm in the whole of North America and one of the first in the world -
US research programme will produce fuels directly from solar light
strong>The highly innovative projects plans to develop an integrated solar to chemical system to generate fuels simply from water, carbon dioxide and Sunlight -
Agreement for 484 MW solar thermal in California
The commission for energy regulation has approved a power purchase agreement for two 242 MW plants, allowing construction works to start. Initial operations of first facility are planned for 2013 -
China completed the world’s first 800 kV ultrahigh-voltage power superhighway
It can transmit up to 7,200 MW for about 2,000 km from the Xiangjiaba hydropower plant near Shangai, meeting the energy needs of 24 million people living in remote areas -
Photovoltaics: Solarbuzz says the market will be unstable until 2015
It is still fast-growing, though greatly affected by the possible regression of a number of local markets and by the policies adopted by a number of countries, which are reducing spending on incentives -
DOE’s “cool roofs” programme
The US Department of Energy promotes simple and low-cost technologies that can increase the energy efficiency of federal buildings, while reducing energy consumption for cooling and consequently emissions
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