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Solar PV provides enough electrical power to brew entire range of beers
April 25th, 2013 by Wieckse
Wieckse, market leader in the Dutch weiss beer segment, will brew beers using solar power as the sole source of energy. This will be highlighted on new packaging that will appear in supermarkets, bars and restaurants from April 2013. A total of 3,632 solar panels have been installed on the roof of their brewery in [...]
Guernsey Electricity offers ways to reduce your energy bill
November 22nd, 2012 by Guernsey Electricity Ltd.
Guernsey Electricity Ltd sells air source heat pumps, solar hot water and photovoltaic systems.
Guernsey Electricity Ltd promotes solar energy for your home
November 22nd, 2012 by Guernsey Electricity Ltd.
Guernsey Electricity Ltd sells solar thermal panels to produce hot water and photovoltaic panels to produce electricity. Call Guernsey Electricity’s Energy Team on 200700 to get started with renewable energy for your home.
Guernsey Electricity sells air source heat pumps & solar energy systems
November 22nd, 2012 by Guernsey Electricity Ltd.
Guernsey Electricity Ltd. sells air source heat pumps, which can produce four times as much energy in heat as they consume in electricity. They are suitable for providing heat for central heating and for hot water, and they can be installed indoors or outdoors. Guernsey Electricity Ltd also sells solar thermal panels to provide hot [...]
Efficient low cost solar cells can be printed directly onto glass
November 16th, 2012 by Oxford Photovoltaics
Oxford researchers have developed a photovoltaic (PV) technology that has the potential to deliver low cost, efficient solar cells that can be readily incorporated into glass building facades. Results published in the journal Science promise to provide the lowest cost-performance photovoltaic solution on the market. The technology makes use of a simple manufacturing process with [...]
How is Germany bringing about a ‘Clean Break’ from fossil fuels?
November 14th, 2012 by InsideClimate News
A modern industrial economy, the biggest and most powerful in the European Union, is making a clean break from coal, oil and nuclear energy. Germany already gets 25% of its electricity from renewables and is on track to be running on 80% renewable energy by 2050. Some predict it could even reach 100% by then. [...]
E-Si Ltd’s vision is for all Guernsey properties to have a heat pump and photovoltaics by 2032
November 14th, 2012 by Paul Fletcher
E-Si Limited installs heat pumps, photovoltaic, and solar thermal systems in Guernsey. As the leading micro-renewable energy installer, E-Si Ltd educates the community about micro-renewable energy systems, and informs opinion about the direction Guernsey should take with its energy policy. E-Si believes that to safeguard Guernsey’s economic future, it’s infrastructure and long term prosperity, the [...]
Guernsey’s growing enthusiasm for energy efficiency and renewables
November 5th, 2012 by Richard Lord
Guernsey is improving energy efficiency and developing micro-renewable energy projects but progress is very slow compared to developments in the rest of Europe. Some Guernsey residents are making their homes more energy efficient and producing and using their own renewable energy. Guernsey Electricity Ltd increased the price of electricity on 1 October 2012 because of [...]
Government policy uncertainty not helpful to clean energy investment
October 10th, 2012 by Bloomberg New Energy Finance
Global investment in clean energy totalled $56.6 billion in the third quarter of 2012. This was down 5% on the second quarter and 20% lower than in Q3 2011, explained partly by weaker figures from the US and India, and a lull in wind farm financings. The figures published by research company Bloomberg New Energy [...]
Fraunhofer develops less expensive processes to produce solar cells
September 29th, 2012 by Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST in Braunschweig, Germany are engineering coating processes and thin film systems aimed at lowering the production costs of photovoltaic solar cells. A few of these processes were unveiled at the EU PVSEC trade show in Frankfurt in September 2012. The photovoltaic industry is [...]
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