8 In brief... Solarzentrum wins certification A new PV-Therm module made by Solarzentrum Allgäu of Germany has earned 4 TÜV PTL certificates, confirming that the product complies globally with the safety and quality codes required of thermal solar collectors and PV modules. Now ready for market, the WIOSUN PVT 180 module combines both a thermal solar collector and PV module, providing simultaneous heating, cooling and electricity to a facility all at the same time. Toleram targets Estonian markets The Tolaram Group of Singapore is poised to launch a €30m CHP production project in Kehr, Estonia, based on biomass fuels. A joint venture with Estonian energy company Eesti Energia, Tolaram says annual production from this project will involve 108 GWh of heat and 63 GWh of electricity per year. Facilities are projected to begin producing energy by 2014. The key thinking behind behind this new CHP technology focuses on reducing Estonia’s dependency on Russian gas imports. The biomass fuels will help Estonia meet its international climate treaty agreements and improve the overall energy efficiency across the country. NEWS <strong>UK</strong> Govt offers £1bn to back CCS plans Two large energy firms have agreed to work together to develop carbon-capture and storage (CCS) in Aberdeenshire - if they can get the funding. The <strong>UK</strong> government said it would hand over £1bn to develop CCS, which captures emissions from power stations and buries them under the seabed. A pilot project at Longannet in Fife was cancelled last month due to cost. Now Shell and Scottish and Southern Energy want to develop the pioneering t echnology at Peterhead power station. CCS is seen as vital to the future of producing energy from sources such as coal and gas, as it would cut the carbon-dioxide emissions which are released. The aim is to capture and liquify CO2 emissions, which would then be transferred via a pipeline to depleted oil and gas fields under the sea bed. Longannet, a coal-fired power station, had been the only N OVEMBER 2011 • WORLDWIDE I NDEPENDENT P OWER contender in a long-running competition by the government for a power plant that could become the test ground for carbon capture and storage. Scottish Power, which operates Longannet, put the cost at £1.5bn. The <strong>UK</strong> government decided it did not want to spend more than £1bn on supporting the trial and pulled away from the project. A statement from Shell and Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) said their new agreement at the gas-fired Peterhead plant would ‘accelerate’ a programme of design studies. They said they would be able to begin a full design study in the second half of 2012, if they won money from the <strong>UK</strong> government or the EU's NER300 fund. The Peterhead project aims to design and develop a CCS system for capturing emissions after combustion at one of its existing three 385MW combined gas cycle turbines. The CO2 would then be transported to the Shell-operated Goldeneye gas field. DeltaStream is now under construction This DeltaStream unit - currently being built [below] - is designed to sit on the seabed and generates electricity from three separate horizontal axis turbines mounted on a common frame. Wales’ first full scale tidal stream energy generator will be deployed in 2012, having secured £6.4m support from the European Regional Development Fund through the Welsh Government. Earlier this year, First Minister Carwyn Jones announced the funding for Tidal Energy <strong>Ltd</strong>’s 1.2MW DeltaStream device on a visit to Pembrokeshire’s Ramsey Sound, the site chosen for the demonstration project by the Welsh Government and the Department of Energy and Climate Change. In total, Tidal Energy <strong>Ltd</strong> has secured £11m to manufacture and deploy the DeltaStream device, the balance being provided by majority shareholder Eco2 <strong>Ltd</strong>. Cranfield University, which for the past three years has provided specialist design support to the project, will continue its research and development work and will also play a role in the deployment of the prototype, overseeing condition monitoring and the performance of the device. Invented by Pembrokeshire engineer Richard Ayre, DeltaStream sits on the seabed without the need for a positive anchoring system. It generates electricity from three separate horizontal axis turbines mounted on a common frame. The device, which will provide a sustainable source of electricity to homes in the city of St Davids during its 12 month demonstration period, has been designed to be easily installed and maintained, with minimal impact on the environment. In its 2010 Low Carbon Energy Policy Statement, the Welsh Government suggested that the deployment of tidal and wave devices off the nation’s 1,200km coastline could provide as much as 4GW of clean, predictable electricity: it hopes this could become a reality by 2025. The First Minister told WIP: “Investing in renewable energy technologies is vital to build a low carbon economy and help drive forward Wales’ ambitions to become a more sustainable nation. We are committed to promoting the generation of clean electricity while protecting our natural environment.”
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