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Toshiba announces full-scale entry into the solar photovoltaic systems business: Toshiba today announced its full-scale entry into the solar photovoltaic systems business. On January 1, Toshiba's Transmission Distribution & Industrial Systems Company established the Photovoltaic Systems Division. Solar photovoltaic systems are moving beyond residential applications to large, megawatt-scale projects for utility and industrial plants. Toshiba will secure orders for large solar power generation systems by drawing on its competitive advantages. In components, the company's expertise includes high-efficiency power conditioning systems and the SCiB—the Super Charge ion Battery—Toshiba's breakthrough rechargeable battery that offers excellent safety, long life and rapid charging.
More...; January 5, 2009 | Related Entries - Green Energy
Japan Airlines first Asian airline to test biofuel derived mainly from camelina plant: . Japan Airlines will carry out a flight test on Jan. 30 of a Boeing 747-300 airliner fitted with a Pratt & Whitney engine using a 50 percent blend of a biofuel derived mainly from camelina, a plant in the mustard family. JAL will power one of the airliner's four Pratt & Whitney engines with the biofuel blended at 50 percent with a conventional jet fuel based on kerosene. The biofuel also contains oil derived from algae and Jatropha, a plant. During the flight the engine will be cut in midair and then restarted for experimental purposes.
More...; December 18, 2008 | Related Entries - Green Energy | Related Entries - Transport
Toyota to use approximately 60 percent Ecological Plastic in Vehicle Interiors: Toyota plans to increase use of plant-derived, carbon-neutral plastics in more vehicle models, starting with a new hybrid vehicle next year. The newly developed plastics, collectively known as "Ecological Plastic", are to be used in scuff plates, headliners, seat cushions and other interior vehicle parts. Within 2009, Toyota aims for Ecological Plastic to account for approximately 60 percent of the interior components in vehicles that feature it.
More...; December 17, 2008 | Related Entries - Green Energy
Sanyo to display SUNPLANT designed by Toshiyuki Kita for the first time in Japan: Sanyo will display the ‘SUNPLANT’ installation at the ‘Lighting Objet 2008’ in ‘Tokyo Building Tokia Galleria Square’. The ‘SUNPLANT’ is an installation designed by Toshiyuki Kita, one of the world’s most recognized designers, and incorporates both Sanyo’s rechargeable ‘eneloop’ batteries and highly efficient ‘HIT’ solar cells, displaying the concept of charging ‘eneloop’ rechargeable batteries and LED lights through clean energy. The ‘SUNPLANT’ was born from the concepts of Sanyo’s brand vision ‘Think GAIA’ and the eneloop universe product line-up based on it which emphasizes clean natural energy from the sun powering the electronic devices found around people everyday with batteries that can be reused and recycled. Agreeing with this concept, Toshiyuki Kita proposed the ‘SUNPLANT’ installation design as a way to capture the future of energy and power in a very familiar-type object, a plant.
More...; December 11, 2008 | Related Entries - Green Energy
Honda leases first FCX Clarity Fuel Cell Vehicle to Ministry of the Environment in Japan: Honda began leasing the FCX Clarity fuel cell vehicle in Japan, delivering the first vehicle to the Ministry of the Environment. This transaction follows directly upon a completed lease to the Ministry of the FCX fuel cell vehicle, predecessor to the FCX Clarity. Designed as a dedicated fuel cell vehicle, the FCX Clarity is powered by the Honda V Flow fuel cell stack. Thanks to the innovative layout of the fuel cell power plant, the FCX Clarity offers superior design, packaging and driving performance. Emitting no CO2 in operation, the FCX Clarity offers not only the ultimate in environmental responsibility but also real-world performance and appeal.
More...; November 25, 2008 | Related Entries - Green Energy | Related Entries - Transport
Los Angeles mayor announces world’s largest solar energy plan: Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa unveiled an ambitious plan for installing solar panels on residents' rooftops to meet 10 percent of the city's energy needs by the year 2020.The energy plan, Solar LA, is expected to cost each Los Angeles resident an additional 2 dollars a month once it is complete. Details of the plan, including a cost estimate, will come up over the next 90 days. The framework of the plan calls for 380 megawatts of power to be generated from solar panels installed on residents' rooftops and through the SunShares Program, which would allow customers to purchase shares of a city solar power plant in exchange for credits on their energy bills. Another 500 megawatts of energy would come from utility-scale solar power projects that would feed into two transmission stations run by the city's Department of Water and Power.
More...; November 25, 2008 | Related Entries - Green Energy
15-meter-high solar-powered Christmas tree unveiled at the Mitsukoshi department store in Tokyo: It seems Christmas fever has already started in Japan. Today Mitsukoshi department store in Tokyo's Nihonbashi district unveiled a 15-meter-high solar-powered Christmas tree with some 20,000 light emitting diodes. The Christmas tree will be on display till December 25.
More...; November 1, 2008 | Related Entries - Green Energy
Honda Begins Sales of Thin-Film Solar Cells for Public and Industrial Use in Japan: Honda's wholly-owned solar cell subsidiary Honda Soltec Co., Ltd. will begin sales throughout Japan of thin-film solar cells for public and industrial use on October 24, 2008. Having sold solar cells for home use since October 2007, Honda intends to expand its customer base by manufacturing and selling solar cells capable of the high-capacity electrical generation required by public and industrial facilities.
More...; October 23, 2008 | Related Entries - Green Energy
Mazda RX-8 Hydrogen RE car goes to Norway: Mazda today introduced the Mazda RX-8 Hydrogen RE (Rotary Engine) vehicle to Norway’s public roads in collaboration with the Norwegian national hydrogen project, HyNor. Initially, the Mazda RX-8 Hydrogen RE’s driving performance on Norwegian roads will be validated with a single vehicle, which will also be shown at various events. This marks the first time that a Mazda hydrogen rotary vehicle has been put into regular use on public roads outside Japan.
More...; October 15, 2008 | Related Entries - Green Energy | Related Entries - Transport
Five minutes charge enables an electric car to run for about 40 kilometers in Japan: Tokyo Electric Power Co. has installed charging devices for electric vehicles in nine basement parking lots, including those under several office buildings, in the business district near JR Tokyo Station on a trial basis. It is the first time that "battery stations" for electric vehicles have been set up in basement parking areas. The charging equipment, offers high-speed battery chargers that will enable a car to run for about 40 kilometers for every five minutes charged.
More...; September 17, 2008 | Related Entries - Green Energy | Related Entries - Transport
Solar Light Brick-integration of solar technologies into traditional construction materials: Sunrise Solar Corp announced the introduction of a Solar Light Brick for the integration of solar technologies into traditional construction materials. This innovative technology includes advanced solar cells, an energy storage device and a crystal lighting system that surrounds the energy module in a square or rectangle. The imbedded solar cell generates electricity when the sun shines and stores it in the storage device. The light is automatically activated after dark. The solar brick can be designed to light in any color.
More...; September 8, 2008 | Related Entries - Green Energy
Korea's largest solar power plant starts producing electricity: LG Group has completed Korea's largest solar power plant in Taean, South Chungcheong Province and started producing electricity. The solar power plant with an annual power generating capacity of 19,000 MWh stands on a site measuring about 300,000 sq. m. The 14-megawatt total output capacity is enough to meet the power needs of 8,000 households around the region.
More...; September 4, 2008 | Related Entries - Green Energy
World’s largest solar power plant is larger than 100 football fields!: Kyocera is fitting out another major solar power plant with photovoltaic modules for the Spanish renewable energy company Avanzalia. When finished, the project will be one of the largest solar power generating facilities world-wide. In August 2008, the plant in the Castile-La Mancha region of the Spanish province of Cuenca will be capable of generating 18 MW – enough electricity to supply 9,200 households. By this time, 89,320 Kyocera PV modules will have been installed. Some 3,300 tonnes of steel were used to build the supporting frame.The total site will have a surface area of 80 hectares and cover a space larger than 100 football fields.
More...; September 4, 2008 | Related Entries - Green Energy
Saibao Chinese electric Car scores US-NCAP 4 stars: Chinese electric Car Saibao jointly developed by China's Tianjin Qingyuan Electric Vehicle Company and Hafei Auto Group recently passed Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS)'s 40mph frontal offset impact test. This is the first time a Chinese electric vehicle has passed the test. Saibao, scored US-NCAP (United States New Car Assessment Program) 4 stars. Injury measures on all body regions of the test dummy fell well within the safety limits, and the car's high-voltage electric engine as well as all the other key electric assemblies remained untouched after the crash.
More...; August 29, 2008 | Related Entries - Green Energy | Related Entries - Transport
Pacific Gas and Electric to build world's biggest solar power plants in California: California's largest utility company- Pacific Gas and Electric has signed deals to build the world's two biggest solar plants that would supply electricity to 250,000 homes and reestablish the United States as the global leader in solar power, officials said Friday. Pacific Gas and Electric will use the two massive solar facilities to help it meet state requirements to generate 20 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2010. PG&E has signed contracts with two Silicon Valley firms, Optisolar and SunPower, to build the plants in the sunny central California coast city of San Luis Obispo, which is almost equidistant from the state's two population centers San Francisco and Los Angeles. Optisolar will build a 550-megawatt solar farm using thin-film photovoltaic panels, while SunPower will build another 250-megawatt plant on former farm land, PG&E said, adding that the OptiSolar plant alone could reduce as much carbon emissions as by 90,000 cars. Energy sector officials said that the new project is so large that it would double the entire installed base of solar power generation in the United States. The world's largest solar facility is currently in Spain with a23-megawatt generation capacity, while a 154-megawatt station is under construction in Australia.
More...; August 17, 2008 | Related Entries - Green Energy
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