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Using Ocean Temperature Differences to Create Renewable Energy
Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) is an idea for creating renewable energy by exploiting the difference in ocean temperatures between the surface and the seabed. The OTEC permit office first opened in 1981 as part of NOAA, America’s National Oceanic...
India Offers Assistance to Mauritius in Tapping Renewable Energy
India has offered help to Mauritius in developing its renewable energy sector. The Minister of New and Renewable Energy, Dr. Farooq Abdullah, during his recent visit to Mauritius called on the Prime Minister of Mauritius, Dr. Navinchandra Ramgoolam, and...
Investment in African Renewable Energy Reaches $3.6 Billion in 2011
First, the bad news. Although Africa has vast fossil and renewable energy sources, only twenty percent of its population has direct access to electricity and in some rural areas, four out of five people are completely without power. According to the UN,...
Eskom Embarks on Pilot Solar Project
Eskom has embarked on a pilot project that will see it using the power of the sun to generate electricity at three of its facilities.
Department of Energy Receives 53 Bids to Provide Renewable Energy
South Africa’s Department of Energy says it has received 53 bids to provide renewable energy and intends to announce preferred bidders during the COP17 conference to be held in Durban later this month. How People Arrived Here: Department of Energy IPP...
Germany Faces Sticker Shock Over Renewable Energy to Replace Nuclear
On 30 May, in the aftermath of Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster, German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced that Germany would close all of its 18 nuclear power plants between 2015 and 2022, which produce about 28 percent of the country’s electricity. How...
World Bank Grants $250m Loan to Eskom for Its Eskom Renewables Energy Support Project
Power parastatal Eskom has been granted a $250 million loan (about R1.9 billion) for its Eskom Renewables Energy Support Project (ERSP), said the World Bank.
Germany Sets Aside $130 Billion for Renewable Energy
German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced on 30 May that Germany, the world’s fourth-largest economy and Europe’s biggest, would shutter all of its 17 nuclear power plants between 2015 and 2022, an extraordinary commitment, given that they...
