Green Options » capacity http://greenoptions.com/tag/capacity Posts tagged 'capacity' Sat, 27 Dec 2008 15:19:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en US Becomes Largest Wind Power Producer in the World http://cleantechnica.com/2008/12/27/us-becomes-largest-wind-power-producer-in-the-world/ http://cleantechnica.com/2008/12/27/us-becomes-largest-wind-power-producer-in-the-world/#comments Sat, 27 Dec 2008 15:19:22 +0000 Andrew Williams http://cleantechnica.com/2008/12/27/us-becomes-largest-wind-power-producer-in-the-world/

The United States has overtaken Germany to become the largest producer of wind energy in the world, generating enough capacity to eliminate the burning of 91 million barrels of oil per year.

According to the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), US wind producers enjoyed another record year of growth in 2008—the third in a row. The country now has an installed wind power capacity well in excess of 21,000 megawatts (MW), enough to supply electricity to over 5.5 million American homes.

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2008/12/27/us-becomes-largest-wind-power-producer-in-the-world/feed/ New Carbon Material May Allow for Storage of Large Amounts of Renewable Energy http://cleantechnica.com/2008/09/17/new-carbon-material-may-allow-for-storage-of-large-amounts-of-renewable-energy/ http://cleantechnica.com/2008/09/17/new-carbon-material-may-allow-for-storage-of-large-amounts-of-renewable-energy/#comments Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:42:51 +0000 Joshua S Hill http://cleantechnica.com/2008/09/17/new-carbon-material-may-allow-for-storage-of-large-amounts-of-renewable-energy/ 080916143910-large One of the biggest roadblocks to a future of renewable energy production is the ability to store such generated electricity. The current networks of power supply and storage simply have no chance of being able to provide necessary storage capacities for renewable sources such as solar and wind, given the propensity for spikes in generated electricity.

However engineers and scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have made a breakthrough in the development of a new carbon-based material that they believe might allow for at least a doubling of current electricity storage capabilities. The new structure is called grapheme, and measures in at one atom thick.

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