ウェールズが2025年までに、年に3％の温暖化効果ガス削減を確実に進め、さらに再生可能エネルギー、そして総合的な省エネ対策を進めることにより、80-90％の温暖化効果ガス削減と地域内エネルギー自給を完成させる意欲的なプラン”One Wales: One Planet”を公表。このプランは、2025年までに70％、さらに2050年までに100％のカーボンニュートラルな社会を実現するという総合的なマスタープランとなっています。イギリス国内だけでなく、世界に大きく影響を与えアピールする意欲的な内容となっています。
" One Wales: One Planet: Consultation on a new sustainable development scheme for Walesより
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Our Vision of a Sustainable Wales
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radically reduce by 80-90% our use of carbon-based energy, resulting in a
similar reduction our greenhouse gas emissions. This reflects the latest
estimates for action needed to address damaging climate change. It would
build on our existing 3% per annum reduction target in Wales and our
ambitions to make all new buildings zero carbon buildings and to move to
producing as much electricity from renewable sources by 2025 as we
consume;
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Renewable energy - Through our Renewable Energy Routemap and
Microgeneration Action Plan we aspire to see Community-scale renewable
energy installations, and the use of household-level micro-generation,
marine renewable energy and biomass energy become more common.
Our aim is to generate annually more than 30TWh of electricity from
renewable sources by 2025 and 3 TWh of heat, mainly from biomass. Our
aim is to produce more electricity from renewables than we consume as a
nation within 20 years. The planning system, which fully recognises the
implications of climate change, will facilitate the uptake of energy
efficiency and renewable energy measures and avoid siting new
developments in areas of known flood risk.
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Sustainable Energy Finance Initiative（国際連合環境計画UNEP関連のシンクタンク）は、現在の経済危機下の状況における再生可能なエネルギーに対する公共投資により経済にどのような意味、メリットがあるのかについてのリポート"Why Clean Energy Public Investment Makes Economic Sense - The Evidence Base"を公表しました。
" The purpose of this study is to provide an analysis of the connection between government clean energy spending and various measures of economic health. The work was commission by the SEF Alliance in response to the current global economic downturn in order to provide a comprehensive understanding of why and how countercyclical investment in sustainable energy by the public sector can be a sound economic response to recession. "
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日本語要約 : エグゼクティブ・サマリー「持続可能なエネルギーへの投資の世界的動向 2009
(GLOBAL TRENDS IN SUSTAINABLE ENERGY INVESTMENT 2009）
国際連合環境計画SEFI (UNEP Sustainable Energy Finance Initiative)
ニューエネルギーファイナンス (New Energy Finance Ltd)」P.2より
海洋エネルギーの利用における潮流発電の分野では、振動を利用するタイプや容器内で空気が圧縮される力を利用して発電するものがタービン型よりも長期にわたる運転においてメリットがありそうな気がしてきていました。しかし、今回開発計画が発表されたカナダのBlue Energy Canada社のものは、垂直軸型の回転翼をもつタイプです。
" World Energy Research and Blue Energy Canada have signed a joint agreement under which World Energy Research would finance the development of Blue Energy Canada's first 200-megawatt (MW) commercial tidal power project at a cost of roughly US $500 million.
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太陽の国、スペインでは、これまでも多くの太陽熱発電所が建設されてきましたが、EUが地中海、そしてアフリカ南部にまで太陽エネルギーによる発電所の建設プロジェクトを進める計画は、EU全体のエネルギーそして安全保障上重要なプロジェクトとして位置づけられてきました。今回の取り組みでもドイツの宇宙計画センターが位置や追尾装置の設計などに協力しているようで、新しいリリースをGerman Aerospace Center (DLR)の発表で見ることができます。
プレスリリース / German Aerospace Center (DLR),1 July 2009
・Andasol 1: The largest solar power station officially inaugurated
-----image(”As well as Andasol 1, the first commercially operated power station of its kind, plans are well underway for a further two solar power station at the same location. Andasol 2 (clearly shown in the above image) is scheduled to come on stream later this year, also rated for a capacity of 50 megawatts. Andasol 3, also with a 50 MW rating, is expected to follow in the course of 2010. Credit: Solar Millennium AG.”) : 同リリースより
" On 1 July 2009 the solar-thermal power station Andasol 1, located in the Spanish province of Granada in Andalusia, was officially inaugurated. At the present time, Andasol 1 is the largest solar power station in the world. Researchers at the German Aerospace Centre (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) were heavily involved in the development of key technologies and identified the most suitable location with the help of various tools, including satellite data. They did this on behalf of Solar Millennium AG, the project development company. In addition, their measuring methods contributed towards the precision design of the parabolic trough collectors.
.......... -----image(”When setting up this system, it is also possible to use high-speed optical measuring processes developed by the DLR for precision production control of the parabolic collectors. Precise and well-aligned parabolic mirrors are able to boost the energy yield by up to 10%, and this makes a key contribution to the cost-effectiveness of a plant of this kind. Credit: Gollmer/Solar Millennium AG.”) : 同リリースより "
プレスリリース / NRG,06/11/09
・NRG Energy / eSolar to Develop Solar Plant in New Mexico for El Paso Electric(PDF)
" El Paso Electric (NYSE: EE) has signed a power purchase
agreement for the full capacity of a 92 megawatt (MW) concentrating solar power plant to be
developed in southern New Mexico by NRG Energy (NYSE: NRG), a national Fortune 500 energy
provider, and eSolar, a leading producer of modular, scalable solar thermal power plants. This
project is part of NRG and eSolar’s recently announced plans to develop up to 500 MW of solar
thermal power in California and across the Southwestern United States.
The plant is expected to be the first commercial-scale solar thermal project in New Mexico when
fully operational in the summer of 2011. The project will help deliver clean power for the growing
demand in the state and support El Paso Electric’s plans for meeting New Mexico’s renewable
portfolio standard. Governor Bill Richardson signed New Mexico’s aggressive renewable portfolio
standard law in March 2007 and has enacted 37 incentive measures to attract renewable energy
companies to the state.
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" The prototype has already fed the grid with its first kilowatts and has recently generated 50 MWe in a day, the greatest amount ever generated by a Gamesa wind turbine
Guillermo Ulacia, Gamesa's Chairman and CEO, described the event as a ”proof that the talent of people and the commitment to innovation made by companies and institutions are the pillars upon which new economic models will rest and which will place a country on the cutting edge”
Gamesa Corporacion Tecnologica presented the first prototype of the Gamesa G10x - 4.5 MW product platform at the Cabezo Negro R&D wind farm located in the Jaulin local authority in the Spanish province of Saragossa.
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The Gamesa G10X - 4.5 MW wind turbine has a unitary power output equivalent to the annual consumption of more than 3,000 homes, a rotor diameter of 128 meters, equivalent to the length of a soccer field, and blades measuring more than 60 meters long. The tower has a height of 120 meters and is made of concrete and steel.
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・Major Success----- IRENA - International Renewable Energy Agency,29 June 2009
-----image（”Map of IRENA's Signatory States (as of 29 June 2009)”） : 同リリースより-----29 June 2009
" This morning, at a press conference in Buffalo, New York, with New York Governor David Paterson and Senator Chuck Schumer, we took another big step forward in addressing climate change. We announced plans to build one of the greenest, most energy-efficient data centers in the world.
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Here’s what makes us so proud of our future New York data center plans. First, it will be powered by one of the cleanest utilities in the country ? fed predominantly by renewable hydroelectric power from Niagara Falls. And second, a record 90% of that energy will power the servers. To put that in context, the industry average is 50% or lower, with the other half dedicated mostly to keeping the servers cool.
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" .........
he following quotes were provided in support of the Yahoo! announcement:
Congressman Brian Higgins said: “Western New York’s access to hydropower makes this announcement possible and this region’s future hinges on our ability to see much greater benefits from this unique resource moving forward. Our lake, that feeds our river, that drives the Niagara power plant, holds great potential to replicate economic development and job success stories like this in Western New York again and again, but to do this we must be given the opportunity to reclaim what is naturally ours.”
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プレスリリース / Siemens,Jun 10, 2009
・Press Release / Hywind: Siemens and StatoilHydro install first floating wind turbine
-----image（”The world’s first large-scale floating wind turbine is located approximately 12 km south east of Karmoy in Norway at a water depth of about 220 meters.”） : 同リリースより
" StatoilHydro and Siemens installed the world’s first large-scale floating wind turbine. The turbine is located approximately 12 km south east of Karmoy in Norway at a water depth of about 220 meters. The Hywind project was developed by StatoilHydro, and Siemens supplied the SWT-2.3 MW wind turbine with a rotor diameter of 82 meters. Over the next two years the floating wind turbine will be tested to provide a thorough analysis of this innovative concept. The Hywind turbine will be connected to the local grid and is expected to start producing power in mid-July.
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" Inkjet system capable of printing over 2000 high performance solar cells per hour
Innovalight, Inc., a privately-held firm developing silicon-ink printed solar cell technology has installed the world’s first high-throughput industrial silicon-ink inkjet printing system at the company’s headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. The printing system was engineered and manufactured by OTB Solar in co-operation with Innovalight.
Using high precision touch-less inkjet printing of silicon-ink, Innovalight can halve the number of costly manufacturing steps required to produce high efficiency solar cells. In addition, the OTB printing system allows for high volume production of ultra-thin crystalline silicon solar cells with thicknesses as little as 50 microns. Current mass manufactured solar cells are almost four times thicker requiring more material and twice as many processing steps to convert into finished solar cells.
“In OTB Solar we found a strong partner with experience in both solar industry and inkjet printing technologies, “ said Mr. Conrad Burke, Chief Executive of Innovalight. “The OTB Solar team delivered a very sophisticated and powerful solution to Innovalight in record time,” he added.
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" Innovalight (Sunnyvale, Calif.) is developing very high-efficiency, low-cost solar cells and modules by ink-jet printing their proprietary “silicon ink” onto thin-crystalline silicon wafers. The company’s contact-less printing process has been demonstrated to significantly reduce both the manufacturing costs and the complexity required to make today’s highly-efficient cells and modules. (Up to $3 million) "
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