Sardinia’s New 1 MW Wind Farm
I’ve recently made another addition to my list of renewable energy investment opportunities: the development of a smallish wind farm in Sardinia. In a recent call I had with a colleague in Europe, I learned something interesting, and quite important for potential investors: in order to encourage distributed generation from small and medium-sized devices, the power coming onto the grid from wind turbines on Sardinia that are rated under 60 KW is rewarded with a huge feed-in tariff (more than 26 Eurocents per KWh over 20 years), where power from anything over that rating receives less than half that amount. (more…)
With its strong economic position in the world and its industrialization, Europe is an important energy consumer. This brings about the need for constant research to ensure that the future of electricity demand for the Continents is based on renewables. Over the last few years, researchers have been looking for ideas to provide electricity to Europe. Between 2003 and 2007 a group of international researchers began to think about Africa and, in particular, the Sahara Desert. Indeed, in the Sahara the amount of power from the sun is so huge that our capturing all the sun’s energy for six hours would be sufficient to provide all the energy that all of humanity needs for a full year. 
I’m happy to announce that we’ll soon have a fantastic new intern on board, Louis de Saint Phalle, who, according to his 
