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  • Interview with Jim Doyle, president of Panasonic Eco Solutions North America
    To grow its solutions portfolio in North America, Panasonic Eco Solutions North America has engaged in end-to-end solutions that include financing options to better serve and provide added value to our customers. This is particularly true for its offerings of solutions in the renewable energy sector to commercial building customers. In this Podcast, Jim Doyle tells us what this means for the industry in general, as well as it's customers specifically.
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  • Sustainability in bioenergy
    Biomass is a very versatile resource that can be used to produce heat, electricity, transport fuels and a range of chemicals and materials. It is used in all these applications today, and its future demand is estimated to grow substantially.
  • What are the prospects for wind power development through 2012 and beyond?
    Many people interested in renewable energy perceive wind power to be one of the most mature and low cost of the renewable technologies. And with over 200 GW now installed worldwide in nearly 100 countries, it’s not difficult to see why. But the industry has not been without its troubles in recent years. The credit crunch especially provided a difficult landscape for developers to obtain investment in new projects, and important markets such as the U.S. have been on something of a roller coaster over the past few years; the emergence of new reserves of shale gas in the country has compounded problems. And even in China, which has seen a massive surge in development over the past few years, recent months have seen problems with manufacturing overcapacity, with the Government in May halting all new project approvals (though it has recently cleared the way for a further 26 GW of projects, according to RECHARGE magazine). But with all the challenges, the wind industry continues to innovate around areas like aerodynamics, drive train and intelligent operation, as it strives to improve performance and reduce costs further.
  • What are the prospects for competing solar electric technologies?
    The argument about who wins – Solar Photovoltaics (PV), Concentrating Solar Thermal Power (CSP), or Concentrating PV (CPV) – is currently all the rage. But in reality it is too early to identify winners and losers in the overall solar industry. The solar industry, while growing exponentially in recent times, remains in startup phase compared with conventional power, and is now beginning to experience challenges with rapidly decreasing incentives, subpar availability of transmission and distribution, and for PV, almost overnight growth from MW to multi-GW level of demand.
  • Building blocks: how can renewable energy reach its potential?
    Announcing the latest Renewable Energy Focus interactive webinar, in association with the World Future Energy Summit - Abu Dhabi, 2011.
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Blogs

  • Time to end the guilt on incentives and start fighting
    Posted by David Hopwood • 10 April 2013
    The last month has brought another depressing piece of news: This time the potential demise of Suntech, a pioneer credited with helping scale up the PV industry, on the verge of bankruptcy. The recen...
    tags: renewable energy, incentives
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  • 10 clean energy investments from Google
    Posted by David Hopwood • 31 January 2013
    The past few years has seen Google embark on an ambitous program of investment in the renewables space, the most recent announcement seeing Google investing $200 million in a Texas wind farm. So where...
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  • Top 10 trends for the fuel cell industry in 2013
    Posted by Steve Barrett • 30 January 2013
    Around this time of year everyone and their dog does a review of the year just gone, or a preview for the year to come, often in the form of a ‘Top 10’. Even so, it’s interesting to...
    tags: fuel cell, fuel cells, hydrogen, hydrogen energy, hydrogen fuelling, hydrogen infrastructure, fuel cell vehicles, platinum, palladium, energy storage
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  • EWEA 2013 conference - hot topics
    Posted by David Hopwood • 23 January 2013
    EWEA 2013 is just a few weeks away. So what can conference delegates expect to be the main topics up for debate? Event launch and keynotes The EWEA 2013 conference will open with a series of high-pr...
    tags: EWEA 2013, Wind , Wind Power
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  • We bid an Austrian farewell to EWEA’s man at the top...
    Posted by David Hopwood • 22 January 2013
    The Renewable Energy Focus team – along with many on the wind power side of the renewable energy business – is looking forward to some top wind-related events coming up in the next few wee...
    tags: Windpower, renewables, EWEA 2013, Kjaer
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