3/7/2009

Last week, the EU Environment Council reached a common position on the new Industrial Emissions Directive, which overhauls the framework for controlling pollutants from thousands of industrial installations across Europe, combining and strengthening seven earlier pieces of legislation.

3/7/2009

This month Alstom has signed an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract with StatoilHydro on behalf of the partners of the European Carbon Dioxide Technology Centre Mongstad (TCM) for a chilled ammonia (carbonate) carbon dioxide capture plant at TCM in Norway.

2/7/2009

The concept is to use the deserts of North Africa to produce electricity and desalinate water using solar thermoelectric power plants and solar concentrating systems. By 2050, Europe could receive 15% of its electricity from the African desert. The project is called Desertec.

2/7/2009

The German wind turbine manufacturer has announced that it has signed a contract with the Turkish electricity utility Bilgin Enerji to supply it with 36 N90/2500 wind turbines with a total capacity of 90 MW. According to Nordex, the machines will be installed on the Bergama wind farm, “one of the largest in the country”.

1/7/2009

Today marks the official opening of Andasol-1, the ACS Group’s solar thermoelectric plant in Andalusia (Spain), which started sending power to the national grid back in November of last year. Andasol-1 is the first phase of the largest solar thermoelectric complex in Europe and the second biggest in the world.

1/7/2009

Titan Tracker, the technology firm based in Spain specialising in manufacturing and marketing dual-axis solar trackers, has announced that it has developed a Stirling dish concentrator (125-129 STIRLING) specifically designed for utility-scale Concentrating Solar Power.