Omni Breaks Ground on $68M Affordable Bronx Community
The 15-story Morris II Apartments will comprise 154 units with a 4,000-square-foot ground-floor community space, and 30 percent of the units will be permanently affordable.
Treasury report into Tegeta urges: Probe Gupta allies
National Treasury says Eskom’s former chief executive Brian Molefe, along with suspended chief financial officer Anoj Singh and former acting boss Matshela Koko, must be investigated for corruption.
Europe must wake up to undervalued CHP says industry
Combined heat and power (CHP) is set to be an essential contributor to Europe’s energy transition but has thus far been overlooked and undervalued by policymakers.
That was the unanimous conclusion of the non-policymaker speakers at this week’s ‘CHP as a sustainable enabler for renewable energy’ event in Brussels, part of Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW17).
Organised by the Belgian cogeneration association Cogen Vlaanderen and industry trade group COGEN Europe, the event brought together energy sector professionals and policymakers for a day of presentations and spirited discussion.
Shuangliang Eco-Energy Announces Breakthrough in CoGeneration System Performance
ENRGISTX, the USA Distributor for Shuangliang Eco-Energy, announces a breakthrough in absorption chiller performance and reliability, for CoGeneration and natural gas fired absorption chillers. The new J Series high efficiency absorption chillers recover from 15-25% more waste energy, and improve the overall fuel system efficiencies of cogeneration or trigeneration to well over 90%.
Opinions are all over the map on the value of solar power
People in the solar industry like to say that Texas is second only to California in its potential for solar power – particularly West Texas, with its abundant sunshine.
But Texas has, nonetheless, done little to encourage the spread of solar – it has no statewide net metering policy, which requires utilities to buy the excess electricity produced by small residential and commercial solar systems. In states like California, net metering has encouraged the widespread adoption of solar energy and helped avoid electricity shortages and price spikes during periods of peak demand on hot summer days.
Tesla is changing the electric grid
There’s a good chance flipping on the light switch 10 years from now will feel just as ordinary as it did for your parents and grandparents.
But behind the scenes, a radically different system for sending electrons where they’re needed will be turning on those lights. Electrical power that today comes from massive centralized generation stations could originate from your neighbors’ solar panels, then wait a few hours in a mammoth battery in your garage until you get home.
That’s because the biggest change to our power grid since it was first built more than a century ago has begun. And this time we’re all sharing the control once held by the companies that generate power and ones that distribute it.
Wind and solar to ‘dominate’ future of electricity by 2040
Renewable energy is indeed the future, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance’s latest report, which forecasts technologies such as wind and solar to “dominate” the future of electricity by 2040, making up 48% of the world’s installed capacity and 34% of electricity generation.
Stanford Scientists Are Making Wireless Electricity Transmission a Reality
Stanford researchers have discovered a practical method for wireless transmission of electricity, making Nikola Tesla’s vision of a wireless power grid a possibility. If the method can be scaled, it will mean much lower costs and greater convenience for electric vehicles.
Energy Efficiency: Hot Topic at Anuga FoodTech 2018
Anuga FoodTec 2018 will approach the topic of technologies in the food and beverage industries that need to reduce energy consumption in production processes.
Energy turnaround is a hot topic, according to the organizers of Anuga Food Tec. One example they offer is that of the German bakery Malzers in Gelsenkirchen, for whom this principle has long since become everyday routine.
For EUR2.5m, the industrial bakery installed a gas-driven combined heat and power (CHP) plant including a 12-cylinder engine, which drives a generator to produce energy. Since then, combined with a photovoltaic system spanning 7,000 sqm, Malzers has been generating around three quarters of the required energy consumption itself.
