http://www.powermag.com POWER Mag en-us 2012 Wed, 8 Feb 2012 15:35:01 EST Of the $35.9 billion in loan guarantees awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) since 2009, roughly $26.5 billion have financed nuclear and renewable power projects across the nation through the Section 1703 and 1705 loan guarantee programs.... http://www.powermag.com/issues/departments/global_monitor/4316.html Wed, 1 Feb 2012 0:00:00 EST A consortium of European developers, with funding from the German federal government, have completed a power plant in Prenzlau, near Berlin, Germany, that uses excess wind energy to convert water into oxygen and hydrogen in a process called hydrolysis, and then uses hydrogen and biogas to generate power and heat.... http://www.powermag.com/issues/departments/global_monitor/4317.html Wed, 1 Feb 2012 0:00:00 EST Using nanoparticles of a copper compound to develop an inexpensive and durable high-powered battery electrode could be the breakthrough solution to the problem of sharp drop-offs in the output of wind and solar systems, scientists at Stanford University say.... http://www.powermag.com/issues/departments/global_monitor/4318.html Wed, 1 Feb 2012 0:00:00 EST A semi-submersible structure supporting a 2-MW wind turbine was towed nearly 350 kilometers (217.5 miles) to water depths of about 35 meters (114.8 feet) into open Atlantic waters and deployed off the coast of Aguçadoura, Portugal, last November.... http://www.powermag.com/issues/departments/global_monitor/4319.html Wed, 1 Feb 2012 0:00:00 EST Last December, as Spain’s national carbon capture and storage (CCS) research laboratory Fundación Ciudad de la Energía (CIUDEN) began a much-watched testing phase of oxycombustion in its 30-MWth circulating fluidized bed (CFB) boiler in Cubillos del Sil, Vattenfall scrapped the €1.5 billion ($2 billion) Jänschwalde CCS demonstration project that it had planned to build and begin operating by 2015 in the German federal state of Brandenburg.... http://www.powermag.com/issues/departments/global_monitor/4320.html Wed, 1 Feb 2012 0:00:00 EST Indonesian state-owned utility Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN) formally launched operations at three new coal-fired power plants on Dec. 28.... http://www.powermag.com/issues/departments/global_monitor/4321.html Wed, 1 Feb 2012 0:00:00 EST ANDRITZ to Rebuild Oldest Egyptian Nile Dam. Austrian firm ANDRITZ HYDRO on Dec. 22 won a $138.4 million contract from the Egyptian Ministries of Energy and Water Resources for the supply and installation of four bulb turbines, generators, and the electrical... http://www.powermag.com/issues/departments/global_monitor/4322.html Wed, 1 Feb 2012 0:00:00 EST After years of political wrangling, coal-rich Australia in November passed legislation that will require the nation’s top 500 polluters, starting in July 2012, to pay a tax at a fixed price of A$23 (US$23.50) per ton... http://www.powermag.com/issues/departments/global_monitor/4243.html Sun, 1 Jan 2012 0:00:00 EST Driven by policies to limit carbon emissions, as well as government subsidies, the share of worldwide nonhydro renewable power is set to grow from just 3% in 2009 to 15% in 2035, the International Energy Agency (IEA) forecasts in its recently released World... http://www.powermag.com/issues/departments/global_monitor/4244.html Sun, 1 Jan 2012 0:00:00 EST After more than a decade debating whether to pass a carbon-limiting law, Australia’s Senate in November voted in a landmark bill that will impose a price on carbon emissions. The country, which accounts for just 1.5% of global carbon emissions, but... http://www.powermag.com/issues/departments/global_monitor/4245.html Sun, 1 Jan 2012 0:00:00 EST