Headline News:
- Thailand has been seeking to diversify from its currently fossil fuel based power generation towards more renewable energy power generation. Geothermal is one of the available options, and a local TV station carried some footage covering geothermal plant in the province of Chiang Mai in northern Thailand. [ThinkGeoEnergy]
Fang geothermal plant, Chiang Mai, Thailand (Helmut Duerrast, creative commons)
- Cuba is embracing renewable and affordable energy as a new solar panel park is saving the country over half a million dollars in fossil fuels spending in its first year, at practically no cost. In its first year of operation, Pinar 220 A1 was estimated to have fed almost 6 GWh of electricity to Cuba’s national electricity grid. [teleSUR English]
- The Indian government has estimated that by 2020, India will need 1.5 billion tonnes of coal. A PriceWaterhouse Coopers report indicates there is a slight problem. It said that to achieve its target, the government would have to invest around ₹10 lakh crore ($149 billion). This is four times India’s annual defence budget. [Scroll.in]
- The vision the federal government unveiled on Friday calls for wind farms off of nearly every US coastline by 2050, in an effort to generate 86 GW of electricity from offshore wind, enough zero-carbon power for more than 23 million homes. Offshore wind is a major part of the US strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. [Grist]
- Wind Energy Development, based in North Kingston, Rhode Island, installed nine 1.5-MW, German-made turbines over the summer. It is the largest onshore wind farm in Rhode Island. The developer says technological advances now enable turbines to take advantage of weaker winds away from the coast. [The Providence Journal]
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September 11 Energy News posted first on Green Energy Times
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