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Fuel cell power for new World Trade Center - 0 views

  • The redeveloped World Trade Center will be “one of the largest fuel cell installations in the world” according to the New York Power Authority (NYPA). Under the US$10.6 million agreement between NYPA and fuel cell developer and provider UTC Power, fuel cells with a total capacity of 4.8MW will provide an on-site supplement to the renewable and other clean energy that will power the rebuilt centre. The first fuel cells will be delivered to the Freedom Tower in January 2009, and will be owned and operated by the Port Authority, which also owns the building. The fuel cells for the other three towers will be owned and operated by World Trade Center Properties, LLC. “Fuel cells are one of the environmentally beneficial technologies that the Power Authority is investing in under Governor Paterson’s leadership to combat greenhouse gas emissions and diversify the state’s energy mix. To date, we’ve installed 15 fuel cells in New York City and other locations, and expect to add to this total in support of the Governor’s ambitious goals for significant increases in the state’s renewable power,” says Roger B Kelley, NYPA President and Chief Executive Officer.
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    The redeveloped World Trade Center will be "one of the largest fuel cell installations in the world" according to the New York Power Authority (NYPA). Under the US$10.6 million agreement between NYPA and fuel cell developer and provider UTC Power, fuel cells with a total capacity of 4.8MW will provide an on-site supplement to the renewable and other clean energy that will power the rebuilt centre. The first fuel cells will be delivered to the Freedom Tower in January 2009, and will be owned and operated by the Port Authority, which also owns the building. The fuel cells for the other three towers will be owned and operated by World Trade Center Properties, LLC. "Fuel cells are one of the environmentally beneficial technologies that the Power Authority is investing in under Governor Paterson's leadership to combat greenhouse gas emissions and diversify the state's energy mix. To date, we've installed 15 fuel cells in New York City and other locations, and expect to add to this total in support of the Governor's ambitious goals for significant increases in the state's renewable power," says Roger B Kelley, NYPA President and Chief Executive Officer.
Colin Bennett

A Transmission Tower Collapse In China Circa 2011 - 0 views

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    "Thick ice weighed down the (overhead utility) wire, and heavy winds subsequently toppled the tower."
Colin Bennett

Global Wind Tower Manufacturer Plans to Set up Production Facilities in the UK to Serve... - 0 views

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    "This investment would result in the first factory in the UK to commercially produce offshore wind towers."
Colin Bennett

300 km of cables for tower - 0 views

  • The contract involves supplying 300 km of low and medium voltage cables from the Afumex range: Afumex 750, Afumex 1000 Amico and RF 31-22. Manufactured in compliance with the IEC 60332-3-4 and EN 50266-2-4 fire testing norms and drawing heavily on European environmental management standards (ISO 14000), Afumex cables combine reduced flame spread with very low emission of irritant and corrosive gases, ensuring more time for possible evacuation of buildings and facilitating the work of rescue teams.
Sergio Ferreira

Abu Dhabi's solar venture - 0 views

  • . Masdar, the oil-rich emirate’s $15 billion renewable energy venture, and Spanish technology company Sener on Wednesday announced a joint venture called Torresol Energy to build large-scale solar power plants in Australia, Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and the United States.
  • The irony is too rich to leave unsaid: A leading oil producer invests billions in carbon-free energy while a leading consumer of fossil fuels - the United States - continues to subsidize Big Oil while while offering only tepid support for green technology
  • Torresol plans to build solar power plants using a technology it calls a Central Tower Receiver system. It’s similar to technology used by competitors like BrightSource in that fields of mirrors called heliostats focus the sun’s rays on tower that contains a receiver. In this case the receiver is filled with salt which when heated vaporizes water to create steam that drives an electricity-generating turbine. The company says it intends to have 500 megawatts of solar electricity online by 2012.
Sergio Ferreira

Perkins + Will's Antilla "Green" Tower in Mumbai - 0 views

  • Renderings of the 27-story Antilla building depict a highrise that couldn’t be greener. It’s covered in foliage, with living walls enclosing all four sides, hanging gardens and green rooftop. Just a few days ago, the architects boasted about its environmental features – primarily that the walls of plants will increase green space and combat urban heat island effect.
Colin Bennett

China transmission cable growth - 0 views

  • PM Wen Jiabao reaffirms China’s commitment to upgrading its power grids in the rural regions during the China State Council board meeting held on 5 Jan 2011. This comes on the back of an increase in electricity consumption in rural areas, following the implementation of China’s rural home appliance subsidy program. Many places are still suffering from an inadequate supply of power grid infrastructure…ben_oh : …Hu An is poised to benefit from China’s estimated Rmb200b invmt in its rural power grids btwn 2010-12, of which two-thirds will be spent on power transmission eqpt such as power wires and cables, transformers, wire poles and towers. In particular, China is expected to shift its focus from main power grids (220-750 KV) to the ultra high voltage power grids (800-1000 KV) and rural/ urban distribution power grids (<110KV)…
  • Hu An Cable: PM Wen Jiabao reaffirms China’s commitment to upgrading its power grids in the rural regions during the China State Council board meeting held on 5 Jan 2011. This comes on the back of an increase in electricity consumption in rural areas, following the implementation of China’s rural home appliance subsidy program. Many places are still suffering from an inadequate supply of power grid infrastructure…ben_oh : …Hu An is poised to benefit from China’s estimated Rmb200b invmt in its rural power grids btwn 2010-12, of which two-thirds will be spent on power transmission eqpt such as power wires and cables, transformers, wire poles and towers. In particular, China is expected to shift its focus from main power grids (220-750 KV) to the ultra high voltage power grids (800-1000 KV) and rural/ urban distribution power grids (<110KV)…
Colin Bennett

New cable plant in US to support reinforcement of transmission grid - 0 views

  • The plant has a distinctive 131 meter extrusion tower, built to allow the insulation material to cool symmetrically around the metal cable conductor. It is ABB’s first high-voltage cable plant outside Europe, and will manufacture high-voltage transmission cables for both AC and DC applications.The cables produced at the new facility are also well suited to bringing power from remote wind and solar installations to the grid. More than 130 people will work at the $90 million facility built by ABB.
Hans De Keulenaer

New High-Capacity Electricity Conductor Regarded As Most Technologically Significant Pr... - 0 views

  • BC Transmission Corporation (BCTC), the transmission system operator for the province of British Columbia, is the first Canadian utility to install 3M’s light-weight, high-capacity electricity conductor, 3M Aluminum Conductor Composite Reinforced (ACCR). 3M ACCR can carry twice the current of conventional steel-core conductors of the same diameter, without requiring larger towers, even across long spans.
Emma james

Taiwan's first zero-carbon building flaunts 13 green building design methods - Educatio... - 0 views

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    The Y. S. Sun Green Building Research Center, which costs TWD87,000 ($296,1) per 36 square feet, adopts 13 different green building design methods, including five natural ventilation energy-saving methods, two equipment reduction methods, and five equipment energy-saving technologies and renewable energy technologies.
Piotr Ortonowski

China - Rural power grids to be upgraded - 0 views

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    According to sources from the State Grid Corporation of China, meetings have been held to start a new round of projects to upgrade rural power grids. In July 2010, a former head of National Energy Administration said that the budget for the new round of projects would be over RMB200B. Two thirds of the total budget would be used for the purchase of transformers, electric wire, power cable, towers, poles, and associated products. The national grid area will cover 26 provinces and will serve 667 million people in rural areas (about 80% of the rural population).
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