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Apple makes renewable energy push with solar, fuel cells
2013-03-21 19:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Apple Inc now runs its largest U.S. data center entirely on renewable energy, with a majority of the power generated on-site from solar panels and fuel cells, the company's chief financial officer, Peter Oppenheimer, said on Thursday. The data center in Maiden, North Carolina, which supports Internet storage and Apple's service-hosting iCloud product, produces 167 million kilowatts -- the power equivalent of 17,600 homes for one year -- from a 100-acre solar farm and fuel cell installations provided...
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U.S.-Spain Energy Companies Plan Worlds Largest Solar Towers
2013-03-21 17:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: A U.S.-based company that will soon finish construction of one of the worlds largest solar thermal power plants in the Mojave Desert, is now looking to build an even larger plant in Southern California. BrightSource Energy, which is expected to begin producing up to 370 megawatts of electricity in the Mojave Desert per day from its Mojave plant beginning this summer, last week announced plans to build, in partnership with Spain-based Abengoa Solar, a 500-megawatt plant in Riverside, California....
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UAE opens first big solar energy plant
2013-03-17 15:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Sunday officially opened its first big solar energy plant, the three companies behind the project said in a statement. The 100-megawatt (MW) Shams 1 concentrated solar plant (CSP) took the UAE's Masdar, France's Total and Spain's Abengoa three years to build at a cost of around $600 million. Shams 1 is one of the largest CSP projects in the world and by far the largest solar plant in a fossil fuel reliant region that lags far behind much of Europe, the Americas...
Peru is top solar energy producing country in the region, president says
2013-03-12 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Peru This Week: On Monday President Ollanta Humala inaugurated new photovoltaic power plants in southern Peru, state news agency Andina reported. According to Humala, the new power plants mean that energy produced by Perus solar panels now exceed 100 megawatts, making it the top solar producing country in South America. "[The country in second place produces] as little as 18 or 19 megawatts, Humala said during the opening of a new solar power plant in the province of Alto de Alianza, in the region of Tacna....
Shell Sees Solar as Biggest Energy Source in Next Half Century
2013-02-28 07:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) says solar power, a business it abandoned four years ago, may expand into the worlds biggest source of energy in the next half century. The proposition that photovoltaic panels will be the main power source by 2070 is one of the New Lens Scenarios Europes largest oil company published today in a report on energy demand this century. A second has natural gas as the main fuel by 2030. Both come with risks to energy producers and the climate. The world is complicated,...
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