Month: November 2017

Advanced Technologies in Relation to Renewable Energy

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Advanced technologies in relation to the renewable energy

Someday, technological innovations will be available to anyone. These technologies will aid in reducing biological hazards and environmental dangers. Someday, those technologies may even be found unthinkable as creations but they will be successfully utilized.

This is true in connection to the renewable energy technologies.

Today, technicians and engineers are constantly hard at work trying to create world-class technologies. Day by day, news and reports are announced to inform the general public about the various inventions that are safe, Eco-friendly and important to mankind. Through research, one can discover that countries are creating their very own renewable energy technology to help save the planet from destruction brought about by the accumulation of pollution, specifically man-made pollution.

The environmental pollution has meet its match

The world is going green to safeguard the Earth from total obliteration.

At present, the technological innovations are centered on creating environments that uphold human health and other living thing’s safety. In this manner, pollution can be halted and possibly even restore the cleanliness of the surroundings.

Mentioned below are few of the highly valued inventions created to this date:

In Europe for example, research on making algae as a source of energy is ongoing. Algae are available all throughout the shores of every country making it highly commendable for energy usage. This type of energy is known as Energetic Algae. Since it is widely accessible various organizations are convinced that a sustainable energy can be produced using it.

In South West England the creation of a new technology commonly called the Wave Hub is in the process. Despite being a country known to have lesser technologies available for renewable energy as compared to others, it has still pioneered the conversion of wave energy to sustainable electricity.

Another promising development is the creation of Atlantis Resources Corporation’s AK1000. This is expected to be installed this year at the European Marine Energy Center. The AK1000 is expected to be the largest and most powerful tidal turbine ever made, it can provide electricity up to 1 Megawatt. Aside from the vast energy it can offer to residences it boosts faith in renewable energy that cannot jeopardize the environment.

Lastly the High Concentration Photo Voltaic solar technology is a type of solar power that exceeds the 40% efficiency barrier. In relation to the usual solar energy panels that only reaches 15% efficiency barrier. High Concentration Photo Voltaic technology provides three times of economic revenues. This allows more energy yields at a lower cost. Recently the Renewable Energy Institute a company that has innovated the renewable energy technology have partnered with a United States based engineering company that has been searching for locations at the southwest part of the United States of America to place the said invention.

The good things about renewable energy technologies

With so many environmental problems countries are facing these years, it is vital that the attention must be refocused on saving nature since there is only one Earth. Since the development of various technologies is very relevant in providing renewable energy, it can be guaranteed that environmental hazards will soon decrease, or even disappear.

The benefits of these technologies include halting the global warming, cleaning of the air, lessening of the carbon emissions, and saving of the plants and animals. In general, technologies aimed at renewable energy help on the salvaging of the ecosystem and regaining its normal fauna and flora.

In addition man kind can fully enjoy every daily task without causing risks through the aid of the renewable energy inventions. The High Concentration Photo Voltaic solar technology lessens monthly electric bills, the AK1000 and Energetic Algae supply alternative forms of sustainable electricity and of course the wave hub decreases destruction of the ecosystem.

Probably many people might be wondering how ambitious most inventions are, yet such researches greatly save the environment from total destruction. It is today that men need to consider the use of the renewable energy technology not just to halt the massive damage but to save the Earth for the future use of the next of generations.

With the environmental pollution as a problem and with renewable energy technology as a solution, an action today is important; tomorrow is not even an option.

Solar Energy in Spain

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Solar Energy in Spain

Spain is forging ahead with plans to build concentrating solar power plants, establishing the country and Spanish companies as world leaders in the emerging field. At the same time, the number of installed photovoltaic systems is growing exponentially, and researchers continue to explore new ways to promote and improve solar power.

This is the seventh in an eight-part series highlighting new technologies in Spain and is produced by Technology Review, Inc.s custom-publishing division in partnership with the Trade Commission of Spain.

From the road to the Solcar solar plant outside Seville, drivers can see what appear to be glowing white rays emanating from a tower, piercing the dry air, and alighting upon the upturned faces of the tilted mirror panels below.

Appearances, though, are deceiving: those upturned mirrors are actually tracking the sun and radiating its energy onto a blindingly white square at the top of the tower, creating the equivalent of the power of 600 suns. That power is used to vaporize water into steam to power a turbine.

This tower plant uses concentrating solar technology with a central receiver. Its the first commercial central-receiver system in the world.

Spanish companies and research centers are taking the lead in the recent revival of concentrating solar power (CSP), a type of solar thermal power; expanses of mirrors are being assembled around the country. At the same time, Spanish companies are investing in huge photovoltaic (PV) fields, as companies dramatically increase production of PV panels and investigate the next generation of this technology.

Spain is already fourth in the world in its use of solar power, and second in Europe, with more than 120 megawatts in about 8,300 installations. Within only the past 10 years, the number of companies working in solar energy has leapt from a couple of dozen to a few hundred.

Power from the Suns Heat

Southern Spain, a region known the world over for its abundant sun and scarce rain, provides an ideal landscape for solar thermalpower. The tower outside Seville, built and operated by Solcar, an Abengoa company, is the first of a number of solar thermal plants and will provide about 10 megawatts of power.

The company Sener is completing Andasol 1, the first parabolic trough plant in Europea 50-megawatt system outside Granada that will begin operation in the summer of 2008.

Unlike photovoltaic panels, which harness the movement of electrons between layers of a solar cell when the sun strikes the material, solar thermal power works by utilizing the heat of the sun. CSP has until recently cost nearly twice as much as traditional naturalgas or coal power plants, and it is effective only on a large scale.

“You need a very large budget to set up a concentrated solar power system,” says Eduardo Zarza, director of concentrating solar research at the Solar Platform of Almera (PSA in Spanish), a research, development, and testing center.

Gary Cardone Knows A Thing Or Two About Energy

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Gary Cardone And His Contributions To The Energy Industry

Gary Cardone has been linked to the energy industry for quite a while. He has a long history with such major providers as Dynegy and Accord Energy.

After the profitable sale of Accord Energy Gary Cardone served to create Dynegy Europe which developed into one of the most productive U.S. energy companies operating in Europe. After three years of operations it had obtained 87% of the Storage of Natural Gas in great britan, had 600 staff members with power and gas positions in Germany and Holland with establishments in Switzerland, Spain, Italy and Holland.

Gary Cardone was managing director of Dynegy UK and Dynegy Europe. Cardone, who had been earlier director and gm of Energy Trading at Dynegy UK, took over responsibilities for all of Dynegy’s UK and European gas, power and crude oil trading and marketing activities and development of new business prospects.

When Gary Cardone was chosen as managing director of Dynegy UK and Dynegy Europe, Chuck Watson, chairman and chief executive officer of Dynegy, said, “We are pleased that Gary has decided to tackle the job of managing director as Dynegy moves to participate in the deregulating energy markets in Europe”

Gary did exactly that.

Cardone joined up with Dynegy in 1987 and relocated to London in 1994 in order to develop its European energy organization. The business began trading the U.K. and Scandinavian power markets.

Gary has worked in all sectors of Dynegy’s commercial activities across the US and Canada. Cardone joined Dynegy UK in 1993 and was a key component in the formation of Accord Energy, a joint venture between BG and Dynegy. When operational control of Accord was transferred to Centrica at the begining of 1997, Gary became director and general manager of Energy Trading in the recently formed Dynegy UK.

Gary Cardone ran lots of functions purchasing as well as managing gas acquisition with the North Eastern States, Gulf of Mexico and flows to California as well as imports from Canada. Left in 1993 to build up a business for NGCH in Europe.

Accord Energy was a joint venture whereby Gary was the architect of between British Gas PLC and Natural Gas Clearinghouse to exploit the inefficiencies inside gas and electric industry in britain.

Following the successful sale of Accord Energy Cardone helped make Dynegy Europe which became one of the successful U.S. energy companies doing work in Europe. After three years of operation it had acquired 87% of all Storage of Natural Gas in england, had 600 employees with power and gas jobs in German and Holland with office buildings in Switzerland, Spain, Italy and Holland.

Gary Cardone functioned as Commercial Advisor with a large Private Equity firm leading them on discovering deals on the sell and buying side. He focused on opportunity to co-invest, midstream acquisitions including pipelines, expansions, platforms, and divestments of gas and oil properties, midstream assets, and renewable assets.

Accord Energy was a joint venture that Gary Cardone was the architect of between British Gas PLC and Natural Gas Clearinghouse to take advantage of the inefficiencies within the natural gas and electric industry in great britain.