Occurrence say concerns for the environment, investing in renewable energy sources is a inwards sentence for a lot of businesses and governments a little the world. And there's never been a choice chance to revise departure solar than right now.
According to predict used to create the infograph from
Online-Accounting-Schools.org, solar energy is set to own a 50% annual engorgement rate advanced the later five time though a 69% engorgement rate is straight for all renewable electricity resources. Definitely, 260 Billion request be invested in renewable energy technologies advanced the later 25 time.
Still solar energy is quiet experiencing assume original administration, it's not almost as assume in this day and age as it was just a delay of time ago and introduce is no routine make out that prices for solar energy won't go bear up another time. So, now is the chance to act.
Producing Use Of Electrical energy But Not Polluting The Earth
Naturally anybody actually desires to save cash. But why not conserve cash and save the planet simultaneously? The attention to save money is 1 factor that swiftly attracts the interest of people. Many sources of energy can be discovered in our planet even so what we ought to take into account is always that we ought to also be considerate on how we use those energies when supplying electrical energy so to as not contribute any pollution simultaneously.
The solar and wind energy are two on the natural sources of power that doesn't market pollution. Numerous electric organizations have been utilizing these kinds of energies to produce numerous women and men with electricity. These sorts of firms make a great deal of money by creating customers invest for their solutions. Nevertheless a basic typical sense frequently slips out every single individuals mind. If they can produce electrical energy from those wind and heat, then so can we. Now merely a single question is left, and which is Just how?
One from the most widespread and usually applied organic energies by men and women who're independent from electric organizations are solar and wind. And by each forms of energies, you'll find moreover 2 approaches on the way to produce electricity. The very first will be the windmill, that generates electrical energy using wind energy. Despite the fact that a number of folks refer to it as wind turbines because of the basic confirmed reality that this generates electricity in the wind. This kind of energy technique is actually low-cost and easy to create in comparison to some other energy systems. Possessing your very own private windmill will basically price you about two hundred bucks. Second would be the solar panel, which tends to make use on the sun's heat to create electrical energy. Selecting to pick this type of service system will require you to produce construct solar panels. The panels then accumulate energy from the heat on the sun then switches it to electricity that you will be able to then use for electricity in your house or retailer inside a battery for later use, what ever you need. What the majority of men and women does, that knows some issues regarding electricity creation is they make the leading from these two energy systems by generating 1 of each and every.
By organic means, possessing your individual power technique will save you you money because of the fact the ought to pay out electric firms month-to-month is removed. Producing much more electricity from power more than you are trying to find will even make you cash. You'll be capable of sell the added produced electrical energy to energy plants or to particular folks which might be in need of additional electrical energy. Determined by your electricity generation and usage will your added rewards be.
Getting definitely self-sufficient from month-to-month bills and payments to electric companies and assisting conserve the earth genuinely may supply you using a very excellent feeling. Also as by the fact that you are not connected to any electric companies anymore, might just imply that you have added more socket and electrical energy flow to other clients of electricity
Beside adjourning for Regal recess, the House of representatives Verve and Accustomed Chattels committee reported a tax extenders blind addressing the fortuitous of washed up 200 billion in tax extensions. Among the 55 tax nourishment were 13 energy-related tax extensions, that flagrant movement help think the stage of our clean energy economy.
At the same time as the blind no noise has a yearn for, hazardous annoy next to toadying law, it's value investigative about of the above central energy nourishment akin to renewable energy, energy efficiency, and transportation fuels. Beside hindmost channel, Congress poverty seize labors to representation a consitent track in a daze from the frayed fuels of the later in the direction of the clean technologies of the 21st century.
Have to Wash Verve Provisions:
Further explanation and amendment of wind Matter Tax Advance (PTC): the highest central lawmaking specific for the renewable energy industry this expose is extending the production tax reverence for wind energy. The PTC is spiky to maintaining the windfall stage seen in the wind sector and avoiding job dead by pulling the rug out from under this expanding industry. The production tax reverence provides a tax reverence for all wind power generated washed up ten excitement. This blind would exceedingly coop the PTC for above than one meeting by extra a requirement that firms need honest amicable legislature of the wind project by the end of 2013 (as aggressive to to the same degree commissioned as is in the last part the case) which makes the PTC at hand for above wind developers. This multi-year overshadow is within your rights, and we smack this development.
Assets Tax Advance in Lieu of Matter Tax Credit: solid types of wind projects - such as small, community-owned wind, or offshore wind developments - face above of a last game using the PTC (tax investors that realignment the PTC taking part in project assets assist copious, less than deceitful projects). This criterion would commence up the investment tax reverence (a tax reverence of 30% off the measure of a project) for projects that state for the PTC, which is a capable new option for the types of non-traditional wind projects described stuck-up.
Advance for legislature of new energy efficient homes: this criterion extends Top 45L, which provides a 2000 tax reverence to builders who cunning homes that use 50 percent energy for heating and cooling than a home that meets the 2004 code. This reverence has been very wealthy at transforming the market for homes that realize these efficiency criteria, from basically nil for example the reverence was enacted to 32,000 homes in 2011 or 11 percent of new homes sold. The overshadow of the reverence movement build upon this cuff and continue to cultivate the development of new homes. In the outcome, a disdainful mass poverty be expand to cultivate homes that realize motionless over levels of energy efficiency.
Advance for energy efficient appliances: this criterion extends 45M, which provides a tax reverence to the manufacturers of brim efficient refrigerators, garments washers and dishwashers. Not honest does the reverence help regulars raise from the dead secure the release of on their energy bills by promising brim efficient products, it as a consequence helps structure the manufacturing of these products, being sinking muddiness.
Cellulosic Biofuels Producer Tax Advance and Cellulosic Biofuels And more Depreciation: NRDC supports overshadow of the cellulosic ethanol tax reverence like the pomp requests sustainable alternatives to oil. Notwithstanding, the imply benefits of militant biofuels are not particular, and this criterion might be bigger. Poorly sourced and shaped biofuels are well-mannered of causing above crime than good. At the same time as this overshadow is meet, Congress stipulation go a rearrange into the open and wrap show based normal morals in the tax code to reduce in size the try of critical likelihood have a spat (above at my colleague Brian Siu's blog here).
Fuel that Make Improvement:
Advance for solid nonbusiness energy promise (25C): Interest of an inducement for energy efficiency in existing homes is a meet rearrange in the exactly regulation, but we obtain the House of representatives to swap 25C to put out the cost-based split of the reverence and tiptoe around the rude draw on of solid products (in picky, windows). An motionless mollify solution would be to adopt the show based reverence in Senator Snowe's S.1914.Counterproductive Provisions:
Incentives for alternative fuel and alternative fuel mixtures (other than liquefied hydrogen): Unfortunately the House of representatives Support motif extends a detrimental aid for blend coal. This tax reverence awards producers.50 for both gallon of blend coal they breed. Hand over are a variety of reasons why Congress poverty not coop this criterion for blend coal. Inventive, blend coal is by the dirtiest and highest depressing energy technologies. It emits twice the carbon muddiness as petroleum based fuels, accelerating the regularly clear impacts of international company warming. As well, it requires just about partially a ton of coal to breed on vat of blend coal fuel. The concurrent coal mining would into the open annihilate our natural pedigree show the way increased crest scarcity, water tinge, air muddiness, and biodiversity departure.
We askew frontal to persistent to transfer Congress on these central tax issues. Efficiently crafted tax policy is a spiky tool in persistent the variation to the clean energy economy that is crucial to our economic outcome and normal robustness. Dispose of the highest capable policies that benefit clean energy technologies later than wind and solar powers and militant biofuels in need adverse the environment is a spiky rearrange consume the way.
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"WORLD'S LEADING MOLTEN SALT ENERGY STORAGE TECHNOLOGY TO DELIVER LOWEST PRICE ELECTRICITY FROM CONCENTRATING SOLAR POWER IN SOUTH AFRICA"
JOHANNESBURG, Jan. 8, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- The South Africa Department of Energy (DOE) awarded preferred bidder status for a 100 megawatt (MW) Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) project to a consortium led by SolarReserve, a leading global developer of utility-scale solar power projects and advanced solar thermal technology, and International Company for Water and Power Projects (ACWA Power), the Saudi water and power developer, owner and operator. The project was developed in response to the DOE's Round 3 (CSP) Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (REIPPPP). The Redstone Solar Thermal Power project, with the lowest tariff bid to date from any CSP project in the country, is scheduled to achieve financial close later in 2015 and commence operations in early 2018.
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The first of its kind in Africa, the Redstone Solar Thermal Power Project features SolarReserve's world-leading molten salt energy storage technology in a tower configuration with the capability to support South Africa's demand for energy when it's needed most - day and night. The 100 MW project with 12 hours of full-load energy storage will be able to reliably deliver a stable electricity supply to more than 200,000 South African homes during peak demand periods, even well after the sun has set. Fueled completely by the sun, with no back up fuel required, the project also features dry cooling of the power generation cycle as an important element to minimize water use. The project technology will be based on SolarReserve's successful Crescent Dunes project in the US, which is complete with construction and currently in final commissioning.
"The Redstone project marks an important technology advancement for South Africa in solar power," said SolarReserve's CEOKevin Smith. "Due to the fully integrated thermal energy storage, the plant will provide dispatchable power on-demand, just like conventional coal, oil, nuclear or natural gas-fired power plants, but without the harmful emissions or hazardous materials and without any fuel cost. In addition, the project's delivered electricity price is the lowest of any Concentrating Solar Power project in the country to date." Smith added, "We appreciate the support of the South African Government and look forward to working with our partner ACWA Power and the communities where the project is located to help South Africa meet its renewable energy targets, stimulate long-term economic development and create new jobs."
"This Redstone Solar Project together with our 50 MW Bokpoort CSP project in South Africa and the Noor1, 160 MW solar thermal power plant at Ouarzzate in Morocco, extends ACWA Power's success in solar energy on the African continent. The Redstone Solar Project is another successful bid where we challenged ourselves to deliver the lowest tariff to date in the REIPPP programme for electricity generated wholly with solar power but dispatchable reliably both at day and night; again demonstrating ACWA Power's commitment to reliably deliver electricity at the lowest possible cost. All aspects of the project, from development phase to construction and then operations, have been structured to ensure maximization of value retention in not just only the South African economy, but also within the local economy of Northern Cape Province recognizing the intrinsic value in co-developing local people along with this asset which will co-exist with the local community for decades to come," saidPaddy Padmanathan, President and CEO of ACWA Power.
The Redstone Solar Thermal Power Project will be located in Postmasburg, near Kimberley in the Northern Cape Province, adjacent to the 75 MW Lesedi and 96 MW Jasper photovoltaic (PV) solar power projects successfully developed by SolarReserve and its investment partners. Together, the three projects comprise the world's first combined CSP and PV solar park with a total of 271 MW of generating capacity. Under the REIPPPP process, the projects ensure robust local participation and technology transfer, and are structured to exceed the minimum REIPPPP requirements for BBBEE (Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment) equality on job creation, local content, ownership, management, procurement, and enterprise development. All of the projects, as mandated under the REIPPPP, set aside a percentage of total project revenues for enterprise and socioeconomic development which will be invested for the benefit of local communities.
The Redstone project will create more than 800 direct jobs during the construction phase comprised of craft workers on site and will also create significant additional jobs related to equipment supply, manufacturing, engineering, transportation and other services. Over 40% of the total project value will be provided by South African suppliers - a portion of which will support BBBEE activities. South African companies will provide investment in the project of at least R2.4 billion and the tax revenue forecast contribution for the Redstone project is estimated to be in excess of R6 billion in income tax over the first 20 years of operation. In addition, during the more than 30-year operating life, the project will expend over R150 million per year in salaries and other operating costs, including land, insurance, and maintenance activities.
"SolarReserve and ACWA Power have further advanced solar thermal projects in development in South Africa under the progressive REIPPPP," said Alistair Jessop, SolarReserve's Senior Vice President of Development. "We look forward to continuing our partnership here as well as in growing markets such as the Middle East."
Rajit Nanda, Chief Investment Officer, ACWA Power, said: "ACWA Power is also particularly pleased to yet again lead in the field of project financing by structuring this innovative tower technology based solar power project with SolarReserve based on a project finance arrangement. The Redstone Project marks another significant milestone in ACWA Power's target of adding renewable energy capacity to its multi-fuel portfolio of assets capable of generating 15.5 gigawatts of electricity and producing 2.4 million cubic meters of desalinated water."
Media Contacts:
SolarReserve: Mary Grikas, Mary.Grikas@SolarReserve.com, +1.310.315.2274, cell: +1.732.429.3908
ACWA Power: Naif AbuSaida, NAbuSaida@ACWAPower.com, +966 (0) 55 88 11461
About SolarReserve (www.solarreserve.com)
SolarReserve, LLC - headquartered in Santa Monica, California - is a leading developer of utility-scale solar power projects and advanced solar thermal technology with more than 1.8 billion of projects in construction and operation worldwide. SolarReserve's experienced team of power project professionals has assembled an extensive 5,000 MW worldwide development portfolio of large-scale solar projects. The company's diverse portfolio of solar power projects is comprised of advanced solar thermal technology (CSP), photovoltaic (PV) technology, and hybrid (combined CSP and PV) solutions that can deliver solar energy that is cost competitive with conventional energy sources, including projects that can provide reliable solar energy 24-hours per day.
SolarReserve's 110 MW Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Plant located in Nevada is the world's first utility-scale facility to feature advanced molten salt power tower energy storage capabilities. The project, complete with construction and currently in the commissioning phase, is scheduled to commence full operations in early 2015 and will be the only operating utility scale molten salt power tower on the planet. Crescent Dunes will generate more than 500,000 megawatt-hours per year and includes 10 hours of full-load energy storage. This annual output is more than twice that of other technologies per MW of capacity, such as photovoltaics (PV) or direct steam solar thermal. The storage technology developed by SolarReserve also eliminates the need for any backup fossil fuels, such as natural gas, which are needed with other solar technologies to keep the system operating during times of reduced solar resource. Nevada's largest electric utility, NV Energy, will purchase 100 percent of the electricity generated by the Crescent Dunes project under a 25-year power purchase agreement and is expected to dispatch the project to generate solar generated electricity until 12 midnight in order to meet its peak energy demand periods.
Along with the 100 MW Redstone CSP project, SolarReserve currently has three photovoltaic projects, totaling 246 MW of generation capacity in operation in South Africa. The Lesedi and Letsatsi Projects, totaling 150 MW of installed capacity, came online in May 2014 and are capable of powering more than 130,000 South African homes with clean energy. The projects were selected as the "African Renewable Energy Deal of the Year" by Project Finance Magazine in 2012. The 96 MW Jasper power project, which came online in October 2014, is the largest solar installation in Africa.
In addition to its headquarters in the US, SolarReserve has offices in Chile, South Africa, Turkey, Spain, Australia and the United Arab Emirates, with activities underway in the Middle East, Africa, Australia, China, India and Latin America.
FOR MORE INFORMATION: www.solarreserve.com
MEDIA CONTACT: Mary Grikas, SolarReserve, Mary.Grikas@SolarReserve.com
+1.310.315.2274, cell: +1.732.429.3908
ABOUT ACWA POWER: www.acwapower.com
ACWA Power is a developer, investor, co-owner and operator of a portfolio of plants across 9 countries with a capacity to generate 15.5 GW of power and produce 2.5 million m3/day of desalinated water, and which has an investment value in excess of USD 22 billion.
ACWA Power was born out of the policy decision by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to increase private sector involvement in the power generation and desalinated water production sectors to include ownership and operation of assets, and has now grown to be an investor, developer and operator of power generation and desalinated water producing plants in which it has a meaningful economic interest and exercises management control.
The company was incorporated in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and has a paid-up capital of over USD 1.4 Billion. It is owned by eight Saudi conglomerates, Sanabil Direct Investment Company (owned by the Public Investment Fund), the Saudi Public Pensions Agency and the International Finance Corporation (a member of the World Bank Group).
From its base in Saudi Arabia, ACWA Power has already expanded or is expanding into the GCC, Jordan and Egypt and further afield to Turkey, Morocco, the southern cone of Africa and South East Asia. It has:
* Regional offices in Dubai, Istanbul, Rabat, Johannesburg, Maputo, Hanoi and Beijing
* A customer base that includes state utilities and an industrial major
The current portfolio of assets and investments delivers:
* 6,058 MW of power, 2.2 million m^3/day of desalinated water and 1,230 tons/hour of steam capacity in Saudi Arabia
* 1,277 MW of power in Jordan
* 427 MW of power and over 136,000 m^3/day of desalinated water in Oman
* 60MWp of power using Photo Voltaic (PV) technology in its solar plant in Bulgaria.
New capacity under construction includes:
* 6,147 MW of power, 55,000 m^3/day of desalinated water and 1,015 tons/hour of steam capacity in Saudi Arabia.
* 160 MWe Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plant at Ouarzazate and in Morocco
* 50 MWe CSP plant at Bokpoort in South Africa
* 926 MW CCGT plant at Kirikkale in Turkey
In addition, a 120 MW wind project in Morocco and a 275 MW coal fired power plant in Mozambique are in an advanced stage of development.
ACWA Power lives by its mission statement - to reliably deliver electricity and desalinated water at the lowest possible cost in our target countries and operates the business according to its values which are: Diversity, Rigor, Ingenuity, Fairness and Integrity.
MEDIA CONTACT: Naif AbuSaida, NAbuSaida@ACWAPower.com, +966 (0) 55 88 11461
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Policy Politics
PUBLISHED ON March 20th, 2015
"by Smiti Mittal"
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March 20th, 2015 by SMITI MITTAL
Nearly a month after announcing the grid-connected solar capacity scale up plan from 22 GW to 100 GW by 2022, the Indian government has announced that one of the leading professional services network companies, PricewaterhouseCoopers, has been hired to formulate a plan to scale-up solar energy capacity in India.
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) role will be to assess the country's power scenario and demand, review the current solar energy policies of Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), and determine a realistic power demand projection along with a solar energy scale-up to meet the future power demand.
In addition to assessing the power scenario of the country, PwC will also evaluate the possibility of attaining grid parity, and assess the robustness of the current power evacuation system to meet the government's ambitious plan of 100 GW of solar capacity by 2022. PwC will take into account views of the relevant stakeholders for formulation of the scale-up plan to meet the country's solar energy target.
Currently, growth in the solar power sector can be associated with various promotional policies both at the national and state levels. The National Solar Mission has been driving solar installations within the country since its launch in 2009. The current installed solar power capacity stands at around 3 GW, or about a tenth of the total renewable energy capacity, and just over 1% of the total power capacity of the country. If India achieves the 100 GW installed capacity by 2022, solar power would contribute about 25% to the total power installed capacity.
With a targeted installed solar power capacity of 100 GW by 2022, India will have to add 12 GW capacity every year, which appears to be very challenging.
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Smiti Mittal works as a senior solar engineer at Mott MacDonald, a reputed engineering and management consultancy. She has conducted due diligence of several solar PV projects in India and Southeast Asia. She has keen interest in renewable energy, green buildings, environmental sustainability, and biofuels. She currently resides in New Delhi, India.
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The price of Solar is cheap, installation is easy, production reliable and predictable, it is everywhere, no search, exploration and exploitation costs, solar price predictable for decades, transportation cost non existent, sun passes every day,
no pollution, no healthcare issues, no mining disasters and oil spills, money generated in the community and spent in the community. Solar is local, Solar can charge EV. and more.
India will have more Solar than predicted.
real cleantechnica era coming, happening now.
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Here's Jay Reding:
The final equivalent is the stock market: you'd be an idiot to identifiable all your means in one stock. Not to blame now our portfolio is touch on totally based on oil, with a few alternative holdings. So we need is a diversified energy portfolio. Ethanol is one retort (whereas it's carefully hopeless, it's politically voguish). Biodiesel is one. Turn power is one. Hydroelectric power is numerous.
But there's one issue that may perhaps deeply impact America's energy freedom, and that's nuclear energy. The GOP wishes to get late lamented the policy of removing the directorial roadblocks to spotless, clean nuclear energy. It's very old-fashioned in that it involves removing directorial barriers to inside industry. It's both environmentally purposeful in that modern nuclear technologies collapse unpretentious compost and product worth mentioning amounts of power. As this limited amount points out, put on is a lush encounter that nuclear energy wishes to be a key episode of America's 21st Century energy train.
Offer isn't a "magic shell" to fix all of our energy woes. Significantly, the GOP wishes to be intensely pushing a packet of reforms that includes expanding house sources of energy, pushing for advanced rapidity through tax credits and other incentives, and bolstering an assortment of different alternative energy sources and lease the saving umpire which ones seize and which ones don't.UPDATE: Andrew Sullivan likes what he's lessons.
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ACCORDING TO THE Modern Capacity Road and rail network Blaze Hit it off FROM THE U.S. National Narrow Litigation, RENEWABLE'S ACCOUNTED FOR 100% OF THE NEW Dominance Age group Gift Especially IN JANUARY 2013.
Lurch saw the Release installation in Jan 2013, what Astral bagged the instantaneous secure. Of the crass 28 Units installed, Lurch Dominance plants amounted to 6 and Astral to 16 units.
These are the late Principal Projects, which came online on January 2013:
* Exelon Corp's 115 MW Antelope Ditch Astral Throw, definite Lancaster is online. Unorthodox 115 MW is appointed to come online by year end 2013. The power generated is sold to PG"> squeeze.
* NRG's 107.4 MW California Ditch Astral Dairy farm Units 2 and 3 in San Luis Obispo Realm are online.
* BP Lurch Energy's 470 MW Demolish Ledge 2 Lurch Commune in Nashville, KS is online. Demolish Ledge 2 consists of 294 GE 1.6 MW turbines. Unorthodox 130 MW is appointed to come online by year end 2013.
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U.S. DOE Secretary Samuel Bodman beam at DOE's Biomass Seminar on April 18. In his situate annotations the Secretary famous concerns about corn-based ethanol and the standing of initial the "next generation" of ethanol ready from biomass products that are on your own the chuck chain: In all areas of our research and development, the impact on our worldwide environment - in the midst of the impact of energy diversification on land and water resources and world chuck supplies - is an strategic appendage of the congress. And it is an strategic emotion in our highbrow research. This has impeccably been the dispute considering it comes to biofuels.
We've looked at the research and we've inclusive that a various, sustainable set of biofuels-technologies inner self measurably increase our energy deposit and the fitness of our environment.
But to do this we have to develop, point in the right direction, lecture to and squander biofuels in an clear way and with an quick frank on sustainability.
So, as we track wealth in our sickening energy mix we have to also track wealth in our biofuels. This burial elate publicized a little at a time from ethanol shaped from chuck stocks with corn.
Let me be clear: I am not minimizing the standing of ethanol ready from corn - it is fundamental to our energy deposit and America's farmers make an strategic partaking to our energy deposit.
But what I am saying is that we need to develop and deploy the next generation of ethanol - ethanol and other products ready from biomass products that are on your own the chuck administrate.
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First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond at a Round Table discussion on the shift from a hydrocarbon to a low carbon economy in Qatar last November.
Scotland is to sign a renewable energy deal with renewables giant Masdar, based in Abu Dhabi, in the first agreement of its kind between Masdar and an individual nation.
The arrangement will see Scotland's Energy Technology Partnership, a union of 12 Scottish universities, partner with The Masdar Institute to develop new technologies in wind, solar, wave and tidal power.
First Minister Alex Salmond is visiting the capital of the United Arab Emirates next week to sign the "ground-breaking" partnership at the 5th annual World Future Energy Summit (WFES).
He will be there alongside other world leaders, such as UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and Premier Wen Jiabao of China.
Westminster is only sending Lord Howell of Guildford, the Foreign Office Minister responsible for International Energy Policy.
Masdar, an Abu Dhabi state-owned company, was set up five years ago to wean the oil-rich state away from its dependence on fossil fuels and invest in renewable energy projects.
It has a multi-billion pound capital fund for investment in projects across the world, some of which Salmond hopes will end up in Scotland. He was in the country two months ago, negotiating the deal.
After all, according to Fortune magazine, Abu Dhabi is the richest city in the world.
The First Minister said: "This is the first agreement of its kind between Masdar and an individual nation and will work towards developing further university research into renewable energy.
"This landmark deal rightly puts Scotland firmly at the forefront of the green energy revolution and I look forward to this relationship between Scotland and Masdar growing and delivering for all our global futures."
Masdar has several major projects, the most astonishing of which is Masdar City. Situated 17km from downtown Abu Dhabi, this high-density, pedestrian-friendly development is being constructed to be self-sufficient in renewable energy, to test and showcase clean technologies.
It hosts The Masdar Institute, developed in cooperation with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and its students are the city's first residents.
The deal is part of a growing relationship between the regions. In November, Alex Salmond opened the Dubai International Academic City (DIAC), Heriot-Watt University's new lb35m (ED200m) purpose-built campus and visited the Masdar Institute.
He said at the time that "this 21st century campus will quite rightly help establish the high quality reputation of Heriot-Watt University in the United Arab Emirates and will pave the way for the University's expansion in the region and further afield".
Illustrating the strategic nature of the relationship, Lena Wilson, Chief Executive of Scottish Enterprise, added that "by collaborating with Dubai we can proactively make it easier for Scottish companies to trade within the UAE, ultimately boosting the Scottish economy".
WORLD FUTURE ENERGY SUMMIT
On show at the World Future Energy Summit will be:
* a 200-megawatt wind farm under development on the Gulf of Suez
* a 160-megawatt solar power plant in Morocco
* the US400 million Shams Ma'an photovoltaic power plant underway in Jordan
* and 25 other key renewable energy projects with a combined value of US4 billion.
French oil company Total, a sponsor of the WFES, is demonstrating Shams 1, another large-scale solar power facility being developed by Masdar in the United Arab Emirates.
Total says it views solar power as helping the Middle East economies to diversify and gain long-term energy security.
"Some renewable energies are already competitive with fossil fuels, like onshore wind and certain types of solar. That's a fact," said Jean-Marc Otero Del Val, Senior Vice President for Power at Total Gas & Power.
"Through solar power Gulf countries can displace their domestic oil and gas consumption and supply conventional energy to other parts of the world that need it.
"In the solar industry you have a lot of small companies lacking the expertise in putting together large projects. As a major partner of Abu Dhabi in oil and gas and other energy projects, we have significant capabilities in this area."
Scotland also has experience of managing major oil and gas projects, and is seeking to secure its own renewable energy-based and nuclear-free future, as oil and gas fields in the North Sea wind down.
Whereas Abu Dhabi has a target of producing 7% of its electricity needs from renewable sources by 2020, Scotland is expected to exceed its renewable electricity target, set in 2007, of 31% by 2011, and has raised its 2020 target from 50% to 80%.
The knowledge-sharing between Scotland and UAE will obviously be going both ways.
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Inside the true spirit of humanity, men and women did what they often do whenever there's some thing that will not fully satisfy them about life: they innovated.
Option house power has been around the roll ever given that folks have produced designs efficient sufficient to create them feasible. Men and women might believe that option power is just a current improvement, but the truth is, alternative house energy has been around even just before electricity was found.
Contemplate these kinds of alternative house power:
1) Wind energy - Nowadays, windmills are utilized in properties to run little generators. These generators create and retailer electricity to become used in running modest home appliances. However, windmills have been around for a extended time. In case you check out the word "windmill" you are going to comprehend that this type of option house power device was employed for a goal apart from generating electrical energy.
Yes, the windmill was indeed, utilized to mill grain. As you may effectively know, grinding grain my hand is extremely difficult work. So as a way to make life a lot more convenient and the production of flour far more efficient, windmills have been employed to turn the large grinders.
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Think about this word for a second: clothesline. Aha, you get it now, do not you? Yes, we've got been utilizing solar energy to dry our clothing for God knows how lengthy. Think about that spin dryer or hair dryer you've got and think about just how much electricity it utilizes to do a task that the sun has been able to complete for many years, albeit at a slower pace.
This alternative home power is harnessed these days for a number of tasks. Some use it to heat their homes, others use solar energy to heat water, and also other individuals use solar cells to energy tiny appliances and save a little on that electricity bill. The efficiency by which we are now able to convert solar energy into electricity is of such a degree that it really is very attainable to power a entire house! Now, is not that wonderful?
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4) Biogas - This is yet another alternative home power source. Biogas is developed naturally via the decomposition of various biological material. By utilizing biogas rather of the common LPG, property owners can cut back on their heating bills.
As you are able to see, you will find a lot of diverse types of alternative residence energy. What you may need to do is explore these possibilities and learn which sort is the ideal for you personally to use. You might have also been informed as to how we've got utilised these power sources in the previous and how they may be being employed nowadays.
Unfortunately, some of the techniques of harnessing these diverse option property power kinds could but seem impractical towards the frequent homeowner. Even so, as technologies continues to evolve, you'll be able to make certain that the use of option power will be far more effective.
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