Features for November 2007
The 9th annual Renewable Energy Finance Forum (REFF) was held recently at the Park Plaza Riverbank Hotel in London. The consensus of opinion pointed to some muscular challenges ahead for clean energy.
01 November, 2007
George Marsh reports back from the Renewable Energy Association's Wind & Tidal Symposium (WATTS) 2007 at Cowes, Isle if Wight, and Adam Westwood brings Renewable Energy Focus the latest project developments from the offshore wind and marine sector.
01 November, 2007
Steve Sawyer continues his tour of high-level meetings around the world in his role as ambassador for GWEC, and remains frustrated by the intransigence of many who should by now know better.
01 November, 2007
Finding efficient, cost-effective and environmentally friendly ways of transmitting electricity generated can be almost as important as generating the electricity in the first place. Peter Jones and Bo Westman look at HVDC Light.
01 November, 2007
The debating chamber building for the National Assembly of Wales - the Senedd - was officially inaugurated in March 2006. The design approach is an interesting example of how to create a building that naturally responds to the dynamics of the local environment on the one hand; while ensuring it's possible to use a selection of renewables - geothermal and biomass in this case - on the other.
01 November, 2007
It isn't just transmission that needs to be looked at carefully when delivering renewables in challenging environments and special applications. Chris Plant and Mike Foster introduce a project investigating sub-sea electrical and fibre-optic connector technology.
01 November, 2007
Despite a number of studies from organisations like the US' Center for Energy and Environmental Policy and the Florida Solar Energy Center - focused on using PV for emergency power - most US federal, state and local agencies have not integrated PV into disaster planning or emergency response infrastructure. Montana is a notable exception.
01 November, 2007
How can a particular volume of electricity generation i.e. from renewable energy sources, be properly accounted for in order to be allocated to a particular consumer or to receive subsidies? This is exactly what an important project has been looking into.
01 November, 2007
The European Biomass Association's (AEBIOM) new European Biomass Statistics 2007 report offers a comprehensive analysis of the current bioenergy situation in the EU 27 member states. Herwig Ragossnig looks at where the EU currently stands with regard to biomass, and finds that a strategy to encourage renewable heating is vital of the EU is to achieve the magic renewable energy target of 20% by 2020.
01 November, 2007