Energy efficiency Features for December 2013

Energy efficiency Features Archive

From solar cells to power stations — a natural transition?

Construction at the world’s largest solar plant could symbolise a shift from panel and cell manufacturing to providing downstream electricity. Nicholas Zeman reports.

Biomass company finds power solution Biomass company finds power solution

When Michigan-based L’Anse Warden Electric Company wanted to reduce the road traffic associated with biomass trucked to its electric power generation station, it found a way to power an above ground pipeline that would pump the material from an access point along a major highway to the plant.

Case study: solar-assisted heat pump system Case study: solar-assisted heat pump system

Minus 7 installed a hybrid energy harvesting system at a charity housing development for the elderly in London.