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Vattenfall joins Carbon Trust’s effort to speed up wind development

Swedish energy company Vattenfall is joining the Carbon Trust’s Europe-wide effort to drive down the costs of offshore wind power. The Offshore Wind Accelerator programme was set up by the Carbon Trust two-and-a-half years ago in collaboration with nine UK wind farm developers to identify and commercialise technologies and innovations that could reduce the costs of offshore wind by 10% […]

GE’s hybrid bus technology makes it to the next stop

By Tryllium Staff

Scientists at GE Global Research say they have made it to the next stop in the route to affordable, clean fuel, zero-emission buses. GE has demonstrated a bus powered by its new Durathon™ sodium battery in tandem with a lithium-ion battery and a hydrogen fuel cell. Two years after demonstrating a dual-battery system for a zero-emission hybrid […]

US slaps import tariffs on wind towers from China and Vietnam

By Tryllium Staff

As the US and China conclude discussions of trade relations, the Commerce Department has slapped still tariffs on wind towers from China and Vietnam. Wind towers are the steel support structures for utility-scale devices (over 100 kW) that hold the rotor blades and house the engine. At the beginning of this year, the Commerce Department launched an […]

EU makes progress on renewables but UK still lagging

By Tryllium Staff

The European Union is still making progress on renewables, with its energy share increasing to 13.4% in 2011, but the UK is still lagging in the league table of nations, according to the latest figures. The independent EurObserv’ER Barometer ranks nations by the share of renewable energy out of their final energy consumption and compares the performance to […]

EC awards €1.2 billion to innovative renewables projects

By Tryllium Staff

The European Commission yesterday announced the award of €1.2 billion to 23 innovative renewable energy projects under the NER300 funding programme. But while renewables projects from bioenergy to marine power will be supported by the programme, there was no decision on carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects. The EC says that the €275 million earmarked for CCS […]

US Department of Energy appoints efficiency and renewables advisory committee

By Tryllium Staff

The US Department of Energy has appointed an expert committee to report on its activities in energy efficiency and renewables to the Energy Secretary. The 19-strong Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Advisory Committee (ERAC) will periodically review the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE). It will look at the Office’s priorities and strategies, whether long-range plans are […]