The reports contain global investments and other trends in green energy

ScienceDaily (July 15, 2010) – in 2009 for the second year in a row, both in the US and Europe added makes more capacity from renewable energy sources like wind and solar, as conventional sources such as coal, gas and nuclear, according to twin reports today by the programme of the United Nations and the renewable energy policy network for the 21st century (REN21) in life launched.

Renewable energy accounted for 60 percent of newly installed capacity in Europe and more than 50 percent in the United States in the year 2009.Dieses year or next, experts predict that will add more capacity of electricity supply from renewable as non-renewable sources world as a whole.

Reports contain attracted the attention of investors and Governments in various regions of the world trends in the global green energy sector including what sources.

You say, investments in core clean energy (new renewables, biofuels and energy efficiency) decreased by 7% in the year 2009, US Dollar.Viele sub-sectors, dropped 162 billion invested in the money, including large utility scale solar power and biofuels.However, there was record investment in Windenergie.Wenn for solar water heaters spend, as well as total installation costs for roof solar PV, total has actually increased investments in 2009 in 2009, against the economic trend.

New private and public investment in clean energy core 53 percent in China jumped 37 gigawatts (GW) of renewable energy capacity in the year 2009.China added, more than any other country.

Globally, nearly 80 GW of renewable energy capacity has been added including 31 GW of hydropower and 48 GW non - hydro - capacity.

2009 China surpassed the United States as the country with the largest investments in clean energy.China's wind farm development was the strongest investment feature of the year by far although it makes other areas of strength, worldwide in 2009, in particular North Sea offshore wind investment and finance storage and electric vehicle technology companies.

Wind energy and solar PV additions to reach record high of 38 GW and 7 GW respectively.Totals in utility-scale solar PV sunk investments compared with 2008, partly as a result of the big drop in the cost of solar PV.Dieser was investment in small decline by record (roof) - compensated solar PV projects.

The reports also show that countries with policies promoting heute-- half - of which have doubled renewable energy from 55 in 2005 more than 100 in the Entwicklungsl?ndern-and rapid growth of the sector have played a critical role.

Reports the sister UNEP's global trends in sustainable energy investment 2010 and the REN21's renewables 2010 global status report, published by Under-Secretary-General Achim Steiner, UNEP's Executive Director and Mohamed El-Ashry, Chairman of the REN21.The UNEP report was London Bloomberg new energy finance vorbereitet.Der REN21 report produced by a team of authors in collaboration with a global network of research partners.

The UNEP report focuses itself on the global trends in sustainable energy investment, cover, the renewable energy and energy efficiency. REN21 report offers a broad look at the status of renewable energy, which today worldwide power regeneration, heating and cooling and transport fuels, and draws the landscape of policies and objectives introduced around the world to promote renewable energy.

Mr Steiner says: "the sustainable energy investment story of 2009 was one of resistance, frustration and determination. resistance to the financial downturn of all sectors of the global economy and frustration during the UN Climate Convention meeting in Copenhagen was not the major breakdown that could have occurred, neither it was meeting was was the big break which gave so many erhofft.Noch determination to transform many industry actors and Governments, especially in emerging markets, the financial and economic crisis into an opportunity for greener growth."

"It remains however a serious gap between the ambition and science where the world in 2020 must be dangerous climate change to vermeiden.Aber underlining these five years of research that this gap is not irreconcilable ist.In of fact, renewable energy systematically and persistently against the trends and can play its role in implementing a carbon resource efficient green economy when increasingly difficult market sends Government policy signals to investors," he added.

Mr El-Ashry says: "favorable policies, the now in more than 100 countries have policy efforts are needed instrumental in the renewable energy before recently played. the upward trend of renewables continue growth power of the global now to the next level and promote massive renewable technologies."

Michael Liebreich, Chief Executive of Bloomberg new energy finance says: "during the current economic downturn shows relatively robust performance of the sector, no bubble was clean energy created by the late stages of the credit boom, but instead is an investment theme that will remain important for the coming years."

2009 Represented renewable sources:

25 Percent of the global power (electricity) capacity (1,230 gigawatts (GW) of 4,800 GW-total, all sources, including coal, gas, nuclear) 18 percent of the global makes production60 percent of newly installed makes capacity in Europe and more than 50 percent in the United States; the world as a whole should 50 percent or more in the newly installed makes capacity from renewable energy sources to reach in 2010 or 2011.

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Then regular solar energy: antenna made carbon nanotubes could make solar cells more efficient

ScienceDaily (Sept. 13, 2010) - with carbon nanotubes (hollow tubes carbon atoms), more than one regular photovoltaic cell found with chemical engineers, to concentrate solar energy 100 times a way. Make such nanotubes could antennas that capture and could potentially allow light energy to focus much smaller and more powerful solar arrays.

Rather than your whole roof a photovoltaic cell, could little spots must you tiny photovoltaic cells, with antennas the photons in you were, would go, says Michael Strano, Charles and Hilda Roddey Associate Professor of chemical engineering and Director of the research team.

Strano and his students describe their new carbon nanotube antenna or "solar funnel," in the Sept. 12 online issue of the journal nature are Materials.Lead authors of the paper postdoctoral associate Jae-Hee Han and graduate student Geraldine Paulus.

Your new antennas may be also useful required goggles or telescopes for another application that focuses light, such as night vision.

Solar panels generate electricity by photons (packets of light energy) in electric current transform. Strano's nanotube antenna increases the number of photons can be captured and turned the light into energy, which be channelled in a solar cell.

The antenna consists of a fibrous rope 10 microns (1,000,000th meters) long and four microns thick, with about 30 million - carbon - nanotubes. Strano's team built, for the first time made a fiber from two layers of nanotubes with different electrical property-specifically, various Bandgaps.

Electrons at different energy levels can exist in any material. When a photon hits the surface, it attracts an electron to a higher energy level, which is specific to the material. The interaction between the energized electron and hole leaves it means an exciton and the difference in energy levels between the hole and the electron is known as the energy gap.

The inner layer of the antenna contains nanotubes with a small energy ratio and nanotubes in the outer layer have a higher energy pitch.This is important, because Exzitonenbildung like flow of high to low energy. In this case means that the Exzitonenbildung in the outer layer River on the inner level where they can be present in a lower (but still excited) power state.

Therefore, if strikes, light energy material are all in the middle of fiber where you focused the Exzitonenbildung.Strano and his team have not built yet a photovoltaic device with the antenna, but you want.In such a device, the antenna would focus photons before the photovoltaic cell could in an electric current konvertiert.Dies from the antenna to create a core of semiconducting material.

The interface between the semiconductor and the nanotubes would the electron from the hole with electrons at an electrode touching the inner semiconductor collected and the nanotubes trennen.Dieses covered holes that touch on an electrode system would then electricity animations.the materials for the electrode, according to the researchers would depend on the efficiency of a solar cell.

Strano's team is the first to construct nanotube fibres in which you can control the properties of the different layers, an achievement, made possible by recent advances in the separation of nanotubes with different properties.

While the cost of carbon nanotubes was once prohibitive, it has in recent years down been build as their production companies."" Sometime in the near future, probably for a few pennies per pound, carbon nanotubes are sold how polymers are sold,"says Strano.""With these costs, which in addition could be negligible costs of the cell to a solar cell compared to manufacturing and raw material, as coatings and polymer components are small components of the costs of a photovoltaic cell."

Strano's team now works on ways to minimize the energy lost as Exzitonenbildung flow through the fiber and opportunities, more than an Exciton per photon to generieren.Die nanotube bundle that lose material paper described around in the nature 13 percent of the energy you record, but the team is working on new antennas that would lose only 1 percent.

Funding: Career award of the National Science Foundation, MIT Sloan fellow, MIT DuPont Alliance and the Korea Research Foundation.

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Jae-Hee Han, Geraldine L. C. Paulus, Ryuichiro Maruyama, Daniel A. Heller, Woo-Jae Kim, Paul W. barons, Chang young Lee, Jong Hyun Choi, Moon Ho ham, Changsik song, C. Fantini, Michael S. Strano.Exciton antennas and concentrators core-shell and corrugated board carbon nanotube filaments of homogeneous composition.Natur materials, 2010; DOI: online nmat2832

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Solar energy production makes good business sense for Governments, study finds

ScienceDaily (May 21, 2010) – Canadian and provincial governments could spend to build a large scale solar photovoltaic production system $ 2.4 billion and then give it away for free and earn a profit is still in the long run performed according to a financial analysis of Queens's University applied sustainability research group in Kingston, Canada.

Queen's University engineering professor Joshua Pearce led the students - published in the August issue of the scientific review all - should support surprised to discover the answer is an overwhelming even in extreme situations and feels Governments aggressively use this industry the financial opportunity to find out whether it was economic sense for Governments to support the production of solar cells in Canada macht.Er.

"This study used hard financial Zahlen.Alles, what we have done is transparent and all our equations are in the study," says Professor Pearce. "Clear and massive costs outweigh the benefits which manufacture in Canada are encouraging solar."

The report saw six different scenarios: everything from building a plant and it give away or more traditional and less costly credit guarantees or taxes to sell holidays for a company of the private sector, to construct the plant. In all scenarios both federal and provincial governments positive cash flows in less than 12 years enjoyed in many of the scenarios both Governments earned well over one and eight percent return on investment of hundreds of millions to $ 2.4 billion to go.

Revenue for the Governments of nearly $ 500 million per year, were determined by taxation (personal, corporate and sales), sale of panels, and health, environmental and economic costs settled saved-fired electricity coal.

Queen's study began last summer, before the Government of Ontario announced a 7 billion - dollar - makes - production and manufacturing in January deal with Samsung.Professor Pearce says Canadians are the winners, but some criticism of the business.

"" Canada will really make up, when Samsung comes through with what you said go to tun.Wir gave you a little incentive and Samsung give us a lot of jobs, less pollution and a long term essential Einnahmequelle.Wir are absolutely currently winning on this Deal--there is no question, ", says Professor Pearce.The market is much larger than the Samsung business."The question is now how to bring more photovoltaic manufacturer to the province."

The energy policy report co-authored by Queen's student Kadra Branker, studied the financial implications in Ontario, but Professor Pearce says the numbers can apply to all provinces in Canada.

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Solar energy: cheaper solar concentrator with fewer photovoltaic cells

ScienceDaily (Apr. 22, 2010) - a new solar concentrator design from a Ph.d student of electrical engineering at the University of California, San Diego could solar concentrators, less expensive and require fewer photovoltaic cells than existing solar concentrators. The graduate student, Jason Karp and his colleagues at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of engineering presented the new solar concentrator in a paper in the January 2010 issue of the magazine Optics Express.

While engineers have developed already high efficiency of solar concentrators, the Sun focus optics to integrate hundreds of times and can deliver the power of the rigid solar panels twice the new design offers potential new benefits. Existing solar concentrator systems use typically arrays of single lenses to concentrate, which all must be aligned and bonded directly on independent photovoltaic cells.On the other hand the new solar concentrator collects on the sunlight with thousands of small lenses, a common sheet aufgedruckt.Alle this lenses couple in an apartment "Waveguide" light on a single photovoltaic cell funnel.

Karp built a working prototype with only two primary optical components which materials, alignment and mounting. This solar concentrator is compatible with high-volume, low cost production.

Karp "Is the real reason that we try this type of concentrator, certainly for costs," said in an interview after winning best poster at the research Expo 2010 UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering.Karp declared that its design the cost of the optical system, the the entire system associated minimiert.Ein building look very cheap trail engineers to existing production techniques. The new solar concentrator is compatible with existing role-to role processing techniques, large TV involved production.

Karp designed and built by prototypes for the new solar concentrator in the Photonic systems integration Laboratory headed by Professor Joseph Ford electrical engineering from UC San Diego Jacobs School of engineering.

April 15 won Karp and his solar concentrator 2010 Rudee research Expo outstanding poster award at 29th annual research Expo at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of engineering.The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the California Energy (CEC) provided some funding for this research.

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Solar energy production makes good business sense for Governments, study finds

ScienceDaily (May 21, 2010) – Canadian and provincial governments could spend to build a large scale solar photovoltaic production system $ 2.4 billion and then give it away for free and earn a profit is still in the long run performed according to a financial analysis of Queens's University applied sustainability research group in Kingston, Canada.

Queen's University engineering professor Joshua Pearce led the students - published in the August issue of the scientific review all - should support surprised to discover the answer is an overwhelming even in extreme situations and feels Governments aggressively use this industry the financial opportunity to find out whether it was economic sense for Governments to support the production of solar cells in Canada macht.Er.

"This study used hard financial Zahlen.Alles, what we have done is transparent and all our equations are in the study," says Professor Pearce. "Clear and massive costs outweigh the benefits which manufacture in Canada are encouraging solar."

The report saw six different scenarios: everything from building a plant and it give away or more traditional and less costly credit guarantees or taxes to sell holidays for a company of the private sector, to construct the plant. In all scenarios both federal and provincial governments positive cash flows in less than 12 years enjoyed in many of the scenarios both Governments earned well over one and eight percent return on investment of hundreds of millions to $ 2.4 billion to go.

Revenue for the Governments of nearly $ 500 million per year, were determined by taxation (personal, corporate and sales), sale of panels, and health, environmental and economic costs settled saved-fired electricity coal.

Queen's study began last summer, before the Government of Ontario announced a 7 billion - dollar - makes - production and manufacturing in January deal with Samsung.Professor Pearce says Canadians are the winners, but some criticism of the business.

"" Canada will really make up, when Samsung comes through with what you said go to tun.Wir gave you a little incentive and Samsung give us a lot of jobs, less pollution and a long term essential Einnahmequelle.Wir are absolutely currently winning on this Deal--there is no question, ", says Professor Pearce.The market is much larger than the Samsung business."The question is now how to bring more photovoltaic manufacturer to the province."

The energy policy report co-authored by Queen's student Kadra Branker, studied the financial implications in Ontario, but Professor Pearce says the numbers can apply to all provinces in Canada.

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K. Branker, j. m. Pearce.Financial return for Government to support the large-scale thin-film solar photovoltaic production in Canada. energy policy, 2010; 38 (8): 4291 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2010.03.058

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Solar energy: cheaper solar concentrator with fewer photovoltaic cells

ScienceDaily (Apr. 22, 2010) - a new solar concentrator design from a Ph.d student of electrical engineering at the University of California, San Diego could solar concentrators, less expensive and require fewer photovoltaic cells than existing solar concentrators. The graduate student, Jason Karp and his colleagues at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of engineering presented the new solar concentrator in a paper in the January 2010 issue of the magazine Optics Express.

While engineers have developed already high efficiency of solar concentrators, the Sun focus optics to integrate hundreds of times and can deliver the power of the rigid solar panels twice the new design offers potential new benefits. Existing solar concentrator systems use typically arrays of single lenses to concentrate, which all must be aligned and bonded directly on independent photovoltaic cells.On the other hand the new solar concentrator collects on the sunlight with thousands of small lenses, a common sheet aufgedruckt.Alle this lenses couple in an apartment "Waveguide" light on a single photovoltaic cell funnel.

Karp built a working prototype with only two primary optical components which materials, alignment and mounting. This solar concentrator is compatible with high-volume, low cost production.

Karp "Is the real reason that we try this type of concentrator, certainly for costs," said in an interview after winning best poster at the research Expo 2010 UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering.Karp declared that its design the cost of the optical system, the the entire system associated minimiert.Ein building look very cheap trail engineers to existing production techniques. The new solar concentrator is compatible with existing role-to role processing techniques, large TV involved production.

Karp designed and built by prototypes for the new solar concentrator in the Photonic systems integration Laboratory headed by Professor Joseph Ford electrical engineering from UC San Diego Jacobs School of engineering.

April 15 won Karp and his solar concentrator 2010 Rudee research Expo outstanding poster award at 29th annual research Expo at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of engineering.The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the California Energy (CEC) provided some funding for this research.

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Karp et al. Planar micro optics - solar concentrator .Optik Express, 2010; 18 (2): 1122 DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.001122

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Green energy forecasting the future 10 years "to keep the Green

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This is most often green energy from use ways to make electricity for consumers to use alternative sources of energy of the other power. Distribution using the electricity grid system uses large-scale wind power plants of wind turbines and wind energy, we now the course is in the upgrade. More geothermal heat process used to generate electricity using hydro-electric means to generate energy. All of these technologies will present today, and we must, and it can reduce the amount of pollution by destroyed now our planet, that you use to generate electricity.

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