Renewables and Efficiency

Orbital Marine Power has awarded the multi-million-pound manufacturing contract for its ‘O2’ tidal stream turbine to TEXO Group. which will build the technology at its quayside facilities in Dundee.

PacifiCorp is to repower the state’s first commercial wind farm with modernised. more efficient turbines.

The energy generated will be supplied to the grid. with the user then able to purchase it back at a discounted fixed-tariff rate.

The Haliade-X 12MW offshore turbine blade is bigger than nine London buses or the pitch at Wembley Stadium.

The West Bakr Wind project will have a capacity of 252MW and is expected to produce enough renewable electricity to power around 350.000 homes.

The project in the Netherlands will have a total capacity of 60MW. enough to deliver renewable energy to around 40.000 households.

The offshore wind developer aims to gather feedback and opinions regarding the planned project off the coast of Yorkshire.

With six hours of daily charging. it is expected to increase the travel distance by an extra 1.300km annually.

The systems will automatically manage the transportation of heat to molten salt tanks for storage and control how power is fed into the grid.

A new study suggests if less than 1% of agricultural land around the world had solar panels deployed on it. it would provide enough renewable electricity to match global demand.