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Installation of a concentrated solar power pilot plant in Bad Aibling in southern Germany. Designed for small to medium applications from 1-20 MW, these CSP plants close the gap between large plants (+50 MW) and very small plants (up to 100 KW). Source: Maximilan Mutzhas, Protarget AG / ESTELA
Experienced service technicians and intelligent maintenance strategies help maintain reliable wind turbine output throughout the entire estimated life-span of up to 25 years for a windmill. In the Gunfleet Sands III in south-east England, Siemens installed two 6 MW offshore wind test turbines in spring 2013. Source: Myrzik & Jarisch, Siemens AG
Aquamarine Power’s first Oyster wave energy converter was made at Nigg near Inverness in Scotland and was installed at the European Marine Energy Center (EMEC) in Orkney in 2009. Source: Aquamarine Power
Ocean power energy about to be installed in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Santander, Spain. IBERDROLA is Spain’s leading energy group and has achieved a total installed capacity of 45,000 MW and supplies 211,000 GWh a year to around 100 million people around the world. This has meant investments of € 80.353 billion from 2001 to 2013. Source: IBERDROLA
Cables connect offshore wind farms to onshore electricity grids and are increasingly used for subsea and underground transmission of energy. These are High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) cables being prepared for turntable deployment at the Meerwind loadout warehouse in Hartlepool, UK. Source: Steve Morgan
Connecting the offshore turbines in the North Sea with onshore electricity networks, this shows the pull-in high voltage export cable from the C-Power wind farm in Bredene, Belgium. Source: Tom D’Haenens, C-Power N.V.
A rotor being lifted to the nacelle on the top of the pylon. The length of the nacelle is about 15 meters and its diameter is 6.5 meters. 11,159 MW of wind power capacity (worth between €13-18 billion) was installed in the EU-28 during 2013, according to the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA). Source: Siemens AG
At the Aqua Park of the “Grand SPA Lietuva” (a 20.000 m2 wellness complex), in Druskininkai, Lithuania, 10 heat pump units provide heating for the swimming pool and domestic hot water with a total capacity of 310 kW. Source: Alpha-InnoTec AG
This machine is called a Francis turbine runner. ANDRITZ’s Large Hydro Division is a global supplier of turnkey electromechanical equipment and services for the installation of large new hydropower plants (“water-to-wire”). The Austrian company claims that only about 30% of global hydropower resources have been developed so far. Source: Klaus Faaber / ANDRITZ Hydro
Large hydropower energy is generated by releasing water from the valves of dams that cause rivers to pool up into reservoirs. The environmental impact of dams can be significant hence why hydropower is considered to be renewable (from water) but not always sustainable (causing ecological alterations). This is a scenic view of the Limmernboden reservoir in Switzerland. Source: ANDRITZ Hydro
The European Investment Bank partly financed the expansion of the Hellisheidi geothermal plant in the south-west of Iceland. In Europe, geothermal energy is used primarily in Italy and Iceland. According to ECOHZ, they have a combined excess of 1,400 MW of installed production capacity. Source: Gunnar Svanberg Skúlason / EIB
Lifting the world’s first BioDME advanced biofuels process plant units into place in May 2010 in Sweden. Biofuels comprise a controversial but officially renewable source of energy. The transition to greater use of biofuels for transport in particular would in effect wean us off the darker fossil fuels we depend upon. Source: Markus Tiburzi / Chemrec
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