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RENEWABLE ENERGY

Specialty Definition: RENEWABLE ENERGY

DomainDefinition

Energy

Resources thatconstantly renew themselves or that are regarded as practically inexhaustible. Theseinclude solar, wind, geothermal, hydro and wood. Although particular geothermalformations can be depleted, the natural heat in the earth is a virtually inexhaustiblereserve of potential energy. Renewable resources also include some experimental orless-developed sources such as tidal power, sea currents and ocean thermalgradients. (references)
 Energy derived from resources that are regenerative or for all practical purposes can not be depleted. Types of renewable energy resources include moving water (hydro, tidal and wave power), thermal gradients in ocean water, biomass, geothermal energy, solar energy, and wind energy. Municipal solid waste (MSW) is also considered to be a renewable energy resource. (references)

Solar

There is no formal definition for this term. Typical usage defines it asany energy source that is replenished at least as fast as it is used . Standard examples are solar, wind, hydroelectric, and biomass products. (references)

Statistics

Resources that constantly renew themselves or that are regarded as practically inexhaustible. These include solar, wind, geothermal, hydro and wood. Although particular geothermal formations can be depleted, the natural heat in the earth is a virtually inexhaustible reserve of potential energy. Renewable resources also include some experimental or less-developed sources such as tidal power, sea currents and ocean thermal gradients. Source: European Union. (references)

Weather

Energy obtained from sources that are essentially inexhaustible, unlike, for example, the fossil fuels, of which there is a finite supply. Renewable sources of energy include wood, waste, geothermal, wind, photovoltaic, and solar thermal energy. See hydropower, photovoltaic. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Renewable energy

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Renewable energy is energy from a source which is not subject to depletion in a human timescale such as the Sun's rays, wind, waves, rivers, tides and the heat from radioactive decay in the Earth's core as well as biomass. Renewable energy does not include energy sources which are dependent upon limited resources, such as fossil fuels and nuclear fission power (collectively known as nuclear-fossil fuels).

Renewable energy may be used directly (as in solar ovens, geothermal heat pumps, and windmills) or be used to generate electricity or create fuels such as ethanol. Throughout human existence, wood has been critically important as a thermal energy source. Historically, only the power of falling water in rivers (hydroelectricity) has been significantly tapped for the generation of electricity. However, recent years have seen the rapid development of wind generation farms by mainstream power companies. Solar energy's main human application has been in agriculture and forestry, via photosynthesis, but increasingly it is harnessed for heat and electricity. Geothermal power can be used to generate electricity near hot spots in the Earth's crust. Agriculturally produced biomass fuels, such as biodiesel, ethanol and bagasse (a byproduct of sugar cane cultivation) are burned in internal combustion engines or boilers.

Around 80% of our energy requirements are focused around heating or cooling our buildings and powering the vehicles that ensure our mobility (cars, trains, airplanes). This is the core of our energy problem and the domain where solar architecture, high energy productivity and a new way of energy awareness is required.

Still most technical discussions will focus on the remaining 20% - renewable energy sources for electricity production, because it is the area with one the biggest pending economic conflicts.

The first US politician with a "solar vision" was Jimmy Carter. He understood the long term consequences of the 1973 energy crisis.

Pros and cons

Renewable energy sources are fundamentally different from fossil fuel or nuclear power plants because of their widespread occurrence and abundance - the sun will 'power' these 'powerplants' for the next 4 billion years. Some renewable sources do not emit any additional carbon dioxide and do not introduce any new risks - like nuclear waste.

Since they are harnessing relatively low-intensity energy this new kind of power plant needs to be distributed over a large area. To put the phrases 'low-intensity' and 'large area' easier to understand one should image that in order to produce 1000 kWh of electricity - a typical per-month-per-capita consumption of electricity in Western countries - a house owner in cloudy Europe needs to cover 10 square meters of roof with solar panels.

The disadvantage of renewables is their impact on local environments and their visibility to everybody. Some people dislike the aesthetics of wind turbines or bring up nature conservation issues when it comes to large solar-electric installations outside of cities. However, it is up to the imagination of the people to utilize these renewable technologies in an efficient and aesthetically pleasing way: fixed solar collectors can double as noise barriers along highways, roof-tops are available already and could even be replaced totally by solar collectors, etc.

Moreover, it is important to realize that any environmental impact (space consumption, noise emission, etc) can be solved by the local people who are affected. It is also important that the impact of the major production of energy by non-renewable fuels is addressed to minimise nuclear waste, global warming.

The second difficulty is the variable and diffuse nature of renewable energies (with the exception being geothermal energy, which is however only accessible where the earth's crust is thin, such as near hot springs and natural geysers). For electricity this means that either there must be reliable overlapping sources or some means of storage on a reasonable scale (pumped-storage hydro systemss, batteries, future hydrogen fuel cells, etc.). So, because of the currently expensive energy storage a stand-alone system is only economic in rare cases.

If renewable and distributed generation were to become widespread, electric power transmission and electricity distribution systems would no longer be the main distributors of electrical energy but would operate to balance the electricity needs of local communities. Those with surplus energy would sell to areas needing "top ups".

Sources of renewable energy

There are several types of renewable energy, most are mentioned below: Of course there are some small scale applications as well. Most renewable energy sources can trace their roots to solar energy, with the exception of geothermal and tidal wave power. For example, wind is caused by the sun heating the earth unevenly. Hot air is less dense, so it rises, causing cooler air to move in to replace it. Hydroelectric power can be ultimately traced to the sun too. When the sun evaporates water in the ocean, the vapor forms clouds which later fall on mountains as rain which is routed through turbines to generate electrity. The transformation goes from solar energy to potential energy to kinetic energy to electric energy.

Some people want to put Nuclear energy into the renewable category by stressing that it is not contributing to global warming. However, the fact that it uses a depleting resource (uranium) means that it cannot be included in such a classification.

Solar Energy

Since most renewable energy is "Solar Energy" this term is slightly confusing and used in two different ways: firstly as a synonym for "renewable energies" as a whole (like in the slogan "Solar not nuclear") and secondly for the energy that is directly collected from solar radiation. In this section it is used in the latter category.

There are actually two separate approaches to solar energy, termed active solar and passive solar. The elements outlined below are included in active solar.

Electrical energy

However, for electricity generation ground based solar power has limited potential, as it is too diffuse and too intermittent. First, ground based solar input is interrupted by night and by cloud cover, which means that solar electric generation inevitably has a low capacity factor, typically less than 20%. Also, there is a low intensity of incoming radiation, and converting this to high grade electricity is still relatively inefficient (14% - 18%), though increased efficiency or lower production costs have been the subject of much research over several decades.

Two methods of converting the Sun's radiant energy to electricity are the focus of attention. The better known method uses sunlight acting on photovoltaic (PV) cells to produce electricity. This has many applications in satellites, small devices and lights, grid-free applications, earthbound signalling and communication equipment, such as remote area telecommunications equipment. Sales of solar PV modules are increasing strongly as their efficiency increases and price diminishes. But the high cost per unit of electricity still rules out most uses.

Several experimental PV power plants mostly of 300 - 500 kW capacity are connected to electricity grids in Europe and the USA. Japan has 150 MWe installed. A large solar PV plant was planned for Crete. In 2001 the world total for PV electricity was less than 1000 MWe with Japan as the world's leading producer. Research continues into ways to make the actual solar collecting cells less expensive and more efficient. Other major research is investigating economic ways to store the energy which is collected from the Sun's rays during the day.

The second method for utilizing solar energy is solar thermal. A solar thermal power plant has a system of mirrors to concentrate the sunlight on to an absorber, the resulting heat then being used to drive turbines. The concentrator is usually a long parabolic mirror trough oriented north-south, which tilts, tracking the Sun's path through the day. A black absorber tube is located at the focal point and converts the solar radiation to heat (about 400°C) which is transferred into a fluid such as synthetic oil. The oil can be used to heat buildings or water, or it can be used to drive a conventional turbine and generator. Several such installations in modules of 80 MW are now operating. Each module requires about 50 hectares of land and needs very precise engineering and control. These plants are supplemented by a gas-fired boiler which ensures full-time energy output. The gas generates about a quarter of the overall power output and keeps the system warm overnight. Over 800 MWe capacity worldwide has supplied about 80% of the total solar electricity to the mid-1990s.

Alternatively, many individuals have installed small-scale PV arrays for domestic consumption. Some, particularly in isolated areas, are totally disconnected from the main power grid, and rely on a surplus of generation capacity combined with batteries and/or a fossil fuel generator to cover periods when the cells are not operating. Others in more settled areas remain connected to the grid, using the grid to obtain electricity when solar cells are not providing power, and selling their surplus back to the grid. This works reasonably well in many climates, as the peak time for energy consumption is on hot, sunny days where air conditioners are running and solar cells produce their maximum power output. Many U.S. states have passed "net metering" laws, requiring electrical utilities to buy the locally-generated electricity for price comparable to that sold to the household. Photovoltaic generation is still considerably more expensive for the consumer than grid electricity unless the usage site is sufficiently isolated, in which case photovoltaics become the less expensive.

A simple proposal for a solar electrical plant is the solar tower, in which a large area of land would be covered by a greenhouse made of something as simple as transparent foil, with a tall lightweight tower in the centre, which could also be composed largely of foil. The heated air would rush to and up the centre tower, spinning a turbine. A system of water pipes placed throughout the greenhouse would allow the capture of excess thermal energy, to be released throughout the night and thus providing 24-hour power production. A 200 MWe tower is proposed near Mildura, Australia.

Thermal energy

The main role of solar energy in the future may be that of direct heating. Much of our energy need is for heat below 60°C (140°F) - e.g. in hot water systems. A lot more, particularly in industry, is for heat in the range 60 - 110°C. Together these may account for a significant proportion of primary energy use in industrialised nations. The first need can readily be supplied by solar power much of the time in some places, and the second application commercially is probably not far off. Such uses will diminish to some extent both the demand for electricity and the consumption of fossil fuels, particularly if coupled with energy conservation measures such as insulation.

Domestic solar hot water systems are common in the hotter areas of Australia, and simply consist of a network of dark-coloured pipes running beneath a window of heat-trapping glass. They typically have a backup electric or gas heating unit for cloudy days. Such systems can actually be justified purely on economic grounds, particularly in some remoter areas of Australia where electricity is expensive.

With adequate insulation, heat pumps utilising the conventional refrigeration cycle can be used to warm and cool buildings, with very little energy input other than energy needed to run a compressor. Eventually, up to ten percent of the total primary energy need in industrialised countries may be supplied by direct solar thermal techniques, and to some extent this will substitute for base-load electrical energy.

Large scale solar thermal powerplants, as mentioned before, can be used to heat buildings, but on a smaller scale solar ovens can be used on sunny days. Such an oven or solar furnace uses mirrors or a large lens to foccuss the Sun's rays onto a baking tray or black pot which heats up as it would in a standard oven.

Solar towers would also use thermal energy.

Wind Energy

Wind turbines have been used for household electricity generation in conjunction with battery storage over many decades in remote areas. Generator units of more than 1 MWe are now functioning in several countries. The power output is a function of the cube of the wind speed, so such turbines require a wind in the range 3 to 25 metres/second (11 - 90 km/hr), and in practice relatively few land areas have significant prevailing winds. Like solar, wind power requires alternative power sources to cope with calmer periods.

There are now many thousands of wind turbines operating in various parts of the world, with a total capacity of over 31,000 MWe of which Europe accounts for 75% (ultimo 2002). Germany is the leading producer of wind generated electricity with over 8000 MWe in 2001. In 2002 the U.S.A. produced over 4,200 Mwe of wind energy, second only to Germany. New (offshore) wind parks are being planned and built all over the world. This has been the most rapidly-growing means of electricity generation at the turn of the 21st century and provides a valuable complement to large-scale base-load power stations. Denmark generates over 10% of its electricity with windturbines, whereas windturbines account for 0.4% of the total electricity production on a global scale (ultimo 2002). The most economical and practical size of commercial wind turbines seems to be around 600 kWe to 1 MWe, grouped into wind farms up to 6 MWe. Most turbines operate at about 25% load factor over the course of a year, but some reach 35%.

Geothermal Energy

Where hot underground steam or water can be tapped and brought to the surface it may be used to generate electricity. Such geothermal power sources have potential in certain parts of the world such as New Zealand, USA, Philippines and Italy. Some 8000 MWe of capacity is operating. There are also prospects in certain other areas for pumping water underground to very hot regions of the Earth's crust and using the steam thus produced for electricity generation. An Australian startup company, Geodynamics, proposes to build a commercial plant in the Cooper Basin region of South Australia using this technology by 2004.

Electrokinetic energy

It harnesses what happens to water when it is pumped through tiny channels.

For more information see electrokinetics (water).

Hydroelectric Energy

Hydroelectric energy is cleaner than burning fossil fuels or gas which produce CO2.

Rivers

Hydroelectric power from potential energy of rivers, now supplies about 715,000 MWe or 19% of world electricity. Apart from a few countries with an abundance of it, hydro capacity is normally applied to peak-load demand, because it is so readily stopped and started. It is not a major option for the future in the developed countries because most major sites in these countries having potential for harnessing gravity in this way are either being exploited already or are unavailable for other reasons such as environmental considerations.

The chief advantage of hydrosystems is their capacity to handle seasonal (as well as daily) high peak loads. In practice the utilisation of stored water is sometimes complicated by demands for irrigation which may occur out of phase with peak electrical demands.

Tides

Harnessing the tides in a bay or estuary has been achieved in France (since 1966) and Russia, and could be achieved in certain other areas where there is a large tidal range. The trapped water can be used to turn turbines as it is released through the tidal barrage in either direction. Worldwide this technology appears to have little potential, largely due to environmental constraints.

Waves

Harnessing power from wave motion is a possibility which might yield much more energy than tides. The feasibility of this has been investigated, particularly in the UK. Generators either coupled to floating devices or turned by air displaced by waves in a hollow concrete structure would produce electricity for delivery to shore. Numerous practical problems have frustrated progress.

Otec

Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion is a relatively unproven technology, though it was first used by the French engineer Jacques Arsene d'Arsonval in 1881. The difference in temperature between water near the surface and deeper water can be as much as 20°C. The warm water is used to make a liquid such as ammonia evaporate, causing it to expand. The expanding gas forces its way through turbines, after which it is condensed using the colder water and the cycle can begin again.

Biomatter & Biogas Energy

Biomatter or biomass can be used to produce biofuel ( bioalcohols -like methanol and ethanol- and biodiesel). Biodiesel can be used in modern diesel vehicles and can be obtained from waste and crude vegetable and animal oil and fats (lipids).

All sorts of biomatter can be burnt to heat water and to drive turbines. Plants partly use photosynthesis to store solar energy, water and CO2. Sugar cane residue, wheat chaff, corn cobs and other plant matter can be, and is, burnt quite successfully. The process releases no net CO2. Of course electricity is not the only form of practical energy. In some areas corn, sugarbeets, cane and grasses are grown specifically to produce ethanol (also known as alcohol) a liquid which can be used in internal combustion engines and fuel cells.

Animal feces release methane under the influence of anaerobic bacteria which can also be used to generate electricity. See biogas.

Renewable energy needs a reliable and efficient storage system

Sun, wind, tides and waves cannot be controlled to provide directly either continuous base-load power, or peak-load power when it is needed. In practical terms, without proper energy storage methods they are therefore limited to some 20% of the capacity of an electricity grid, and cannot directly be applied as economic substitutes for fossil fuels or nuclear power, however important they may become in particular areas with favourable conditions. Nevertheless, such technologies are the only choice for the world's energy future, even if they are unsuitable for carrying the main burden of supply at this time. If there were some way that large amounts of electricity from intermittent producers such as solar and wind could be stored efficiently, the contribution of these technologies to supplying base-load energy demand would be much greater. Already in some places pumped storage is used to even out the daily generating load by pumping water to a high storage dam during off-peak hours and weekends, using the excess base-load capacity from coal or nuclear sources. During peak hours this water can be used for hydroelectric generation.

Relatively few places have scope for pumped storage dams close to where the power is needed, and overall efficiency is low. Means of storing large amounts of electricity as such in giant batteries or by other means have not yet been put to general use, because of the missing business case - but one possible technologies already exist: large scale flow batteries. A long term vision are hydrogen fuel cells for energy storage.

There is some scope for reversing the whole way we look at power supply, in its 24-hour, 7-day cycle, using peak load equipment simply to meet the daily peaks. Today's peak-load equipment could be used to some extent to provide infill capacity in a system relying heavily on renewables. The peak capacity would complement large-scale solar thermal and wind generation, providing power when they were unable to. Improved ability to predict the intermittent availability of wind enables better use of this resource. In Germany it is now possible to predict wind generation output with 90% certainty 24 hours ahead. This means that it is possible to deploy other plants more effectively so that the economic value of that wind contribution is greatly increased.

Hydrogen fuel cells

Hydrogen is widely seen as a possible fuel for hydrogen cars, if certain problems can be overcome economically. It may be used in conventional internal combustion engines, or in fuel cells which convert chemical energy directly to electricity without flames, in the same way the human body burns fuel. Making hydrogen requires either reforming natural gas (methane) with steam, or, for a renewable and more ecologic source, the electrolysis of water into hydrogen and oxygen. The former process has carbon dioxide as a by-product, which exacerbates (or at least does not improve) greenhouse gas emissions relative to present technology. With electrolysis, the greenhouse burden depends on the source of the power, and both intermittent renewables and nuclear energy are considered here.

With intermittent renewables such as solar and wind, matching the output to grid demand is very difficult, and beyond about 20% of the total supply, apparently impossible. But if these sources are used for electricity to make hydrogen, then they can be utilised fully whenever they are available, opportunistically. Broadly speaking it does not matter when they cut in or out, the hydrogen is simply stored and used as required.

A quite different rationale applies to using nuclear energy for hydrogen. Here the plant would be run continuously at full capacity, with perhaps all the output being supplied to the grid in peak periods and any not needed to meet civil demand being used to make hydrogen at other times. This would mean maximum efficiency for the nuclear power plants and that hydrogen was made opportunistically when it suited the grid manager.

About 50 KWh (1/144,000 J) is required to produce a kilogram of hydrogen by electrolysis, so the cost of the electricity clearly is crucial.

Countries that use renewable energy

Iceland is a world leader in renewable energy due to its abundant hydro and geothermal energy sources. Over 99% of the country's electricity is from renewable sources and most of its urban household heating is geothermal. Israel is also notable as much of its household hot water is heated by solar means. These countries' successes are at least partly based on their geographical advantages. The United States is the leading producer of hydroelectric power and geothermal electrical energy.

Share of the total power consumption in EU-countries that are renewable.

	        1985 	 1990 	1991 	1992 	1993 	1994
EUR-15 5,61 5,13 4,92 5,16 5,28 5,37 Belgium 1,04 1,01 1,01 0,96 0,84 0,80 Denmark 4,48 6,32 6,38 6,80 7,03 6,49 Germany 2,09 2,06 1,61 1,73 1,75 1,79 Greece 8,77 7,14 7,63 7,13 7,33 7,16 Spain 8,83 6,70 6,56 5,73 6,49 6,50 France 7,24 6,34 6,75 7,54 7,32 7,98 Ireland 1,75 1,65 1,68 1,59 1,59 1,63 Italy 5,60 4,64 5,16 5,19 5,34 5,50 Luxemburg 1,28 1,21 1,14 1,26 1,21 1,34 The Netherlands 1,36 1,35 1,35 1,37 1,38 1,43 Austria 24,23 22,81 20,99 23,39 24,23 23,71 Portugal 25,07 17,45 17,03 13,88 15,98 16,61 Finland 18,29 16,71 17,02 18,10 18,48 18,28 Sweden 24,36 24,86 22,98 26,53 27,31 24,04 United Kingdom 0,47 0,49 0,48 0,56 0,54 0,65

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See also : green electricity. nuclear waste, global warming, acid rain, mercury poisoning, water waste, contamination, public health problems

References

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Renewable energy."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: RENEWABLE ENERGY

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField
RESEnglishRenewable energy sourcePublic Administration, Electrical Engineering

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Crosswords: RENEWABLE ENERGY

Specialty definitions using "RENEWABLE ENERGY": ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SOURCESBenefits Charge, biofuels, biomass fuelsEnergy Policy Act of 1992Green Powerintegrated resource planningNRELPortfolio Standard, Public Utilities Regulatory Policy Act of 1978Renewable Energy Production Incentive, RENEWABLE RESOURCES, Rural Electrification AdministrationSERI, Solar Energy Research Institute, SRRL. (references)

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Commercial Usage: RENEWABLE ENERGY

DomainTitle

References

  • Renewable Energy in Belgium: A Strategic Entry Report, 1997 (reference)

  • UMWELTKONTOR RENEWABLE ENERGY AG: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Renewable Energy Sources in Poland: A Strategic Entry Report, 2000 (reference)

  • Renewable Energy in Australia: A Strategic Entry Report, 2000 (reference)

  • Energy Efficiency and RenEwable energy prospects in Malaysia: A Strategic Entry Report, 2000 (reference)

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Books

  • Renewable Energy Development in India: Analysis of US Policy Experience (reference)

  • Renewable Energy Sources (Watt Committee Report, No 22) (reference)

  • Renewable Energy Strategies for Europe: Electricity Systems and Primary Electricity Sources (reference)

  • The Solar Economy: Renewable Energy for a Sustainable Global Future (reference)

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Periodicals

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Non-Fiction Usage: RENEWABLE ENERGY

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

New Zealand has not implemented a renewable energy target. (references)

Price is a key factor in the acceptance of renewable energy sources. (references)

They also call for unspecified incentives for clean and renewable energy. (references)

Economic History

Botswana

Botswana has abundant renewable energy resources, mainly in the form of solar energy. (references)

Netherlands

Narrative: Wind power has been targeted to become a main source of renewable energy in the Netherlands. (references)

Spain

The renewable energy sector in Spain is also facing significant growth opportunities in several markets. (references)

Political Economy

DENMARK

Denmark's natural resources are concentrated in oil and gas fields in the North Sea, which have, together with renewable energy, made Denmark a net exporter of energy. (references)

Trade

Indonesia

ADB-financed social, physical and financial infrastructure projects in the public sector create commercial opportunities in many areas, such as: agriculture and natural resources (including disaster management); education and training (including distance learning); energy (including power generation, renewable energy and energy efficiency); environment (including water supply, waste treatment and air pollution control); financial services (including banking and insurance reform, small business finance, microfinance and capital markets development); healthcare (including telemedicine); infrastructure (including housing and urban redevelopment); and transportation (including rail, road and port projects). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: RENEWABLE ENERGY

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Jimmy Carter

1977-1981This represented the first step towards widespread introduction of renewable energy sources into the Nation's economy.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage in Company Names: RENEWABLE ENERGY

CountryName
Germany

UMWELTKONTOR RENEWABLE ENERGY AG

 (more examples...)

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Expressions: RENEWABLE ENERGY

Expressions using "RENEWABLE ENERGY": Ocean Swell Powered Renewable EnergY renewable energy source. Additional references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: RENEWABLE ENERGY

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

renewable energy

376

renewable energy source

45

renewable energy resource

19

renewable energy system

6

renewable energy news

6

renewable energy job

4

renewable energy certificate

4

renewable energy consultant

3

renewable energy company

3
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Modern Translation: RENEWABLE ENERGY

Language Translations for "RENEWABLE ENERGY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

vedvarende energikilder (renewable energy sources, renewable sources of energy, stochastic energy sources, sustainable energy sources), vedvarende energi,affaldsenergi og kraftvarmeproduktion (Renewable energy sources, Waste energy and Combined heat and power), fornyelige energikilder (renewable energy sources, renewable sources of energy, sustainable energy sources), Flerårigt program til fremme af vedvarende energikilder i Fællesskabet (Multiannual programme for the promotion of renewable energy sources in the Community). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

Richtlijn 2001/77/EG van het Europees Parlement en de Raad van 27 september 2001 betreffende de bevordering van elektriciteitsopwekking uit hernieuwbare energiebronnen op de interne elektriciteitsmarkt (Directive 2001/77/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 September 2001 on the promotion of electricity produced from renewable energy sources in the internal electricity market), regenereerbare energiebronnen (renewable energy sources, sustainable energy sources), VN-Conferentie voor Nieuwe en Hernieuwbare Energiebronnen, Nairobi (United Nations Conference on New and Renewable Energy Sources), Meerjarenprogramma ter bevordering van hernieuwbare energiebronnen in de Gemeenschap (Multiannual programme for the promotion of renewable energy sources in the Community), hernieuwbare energiebronnen (non-depletable energy sources, renewable energy sources, sustainable energy sources), duurzame energiebron (renewable energy source). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

uusiutuva energialähde (renewable energy sources, sustainable energy sources), Monivuotinen ohjelma uusiutuvien energialähteiden käytön edistämiseksi yhteisössä (Multiannual programme for the promotion of renewable energy sources in the Community). (various references)

   

French

  

TER (renewable energy technology), technologie d'énergie renouvelable (renewable energy technology), sources d'énergie renouvelables (renewable energy sources), source d'énergie renouvelable (renewable energy source), source d'énergie inépuisable (renewable energy source), SER (renewable energy source), Programme pluriannuel pour la promotion des sources d'énergie renouvelables dans la Communauté (Multiannual programme for the promotion of renewable energy sources in the Community), Forum européen pour les sources d'énergie renouvelables (European Forum for Renewable Energy Sources), Directive 2001/77/CE du Parlement européen et du Conseil du 27 septembre 2001 relative la promotion de l'électricité produite partir de sources d'énergie renouvelables sur le marché intérieur de l'électricité (Directive 2001/77/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 September 2001 on the promotion of electricity produced from renewable energy sources in the internal electricity market), Conférence des Nations Unies sur les sources nouvelles et renouvelables dénergie (United Nations Conference on New and Renewable Energy Sources), énergies Renouvelables,énergies produites partir de Déchets,production Combinée chaleur-électricité (Renewable energy sources), énergies renouvelables (renewable energy sources). (various references)

   

German

  

Richtlinie 2001/77/EG des Europäischen Parlaments und des Rates vom 27. September 2001 zur Förderung der Stromerzeugung aus erneuerbaren Energiequellen im Elektrizitätsbinnenmarkt (Directive 2001/77/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 September 2001 on the promotion of electricity produced from renewable energy sources in the internal electricity market), regenerative Energiequellen (renewable energy sources, renewable sources of energy, sustainable energy sources), unversiegbare Energiequellen (renewable energy sources, sustainable energy sources), unerschöpfliche Energiequellen (renewable energy sources, sustainable energy sources), natürliche,sich stets erneuernde Energiequellen (renewable energy sources, sustainable energy sources), natürliche,sich erneuernde Energiequellen (renewable energy sources, sustainable energy sources), Mehrjahresprogramm zur Förderung der erneuerbaren Energieträger in der Gemeinschaft (Multiannual programme for the promotion of renewable energy sources in the Community), Europäisches Forum für erneuerbare Energiequellen (European Forum for Renewable Energy Sources), Erneuerbare Energiequellen,Abfallenergien,Kraft-Wärme-Kopplung (Renewable energy sources, Waste energy and Combined heat and power), erneuerbare Energiequelle (renewable energy source). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ανανεώσιμες πηγές ενέργειας (renewable energy sources, sustainable energy sources), ολυετές πρόγραμμα για την προώθηση των ανανεώσιμων πηγών ενέργειας στην Κοινότητα (Multiannual programme for the promotion of renewable energy sources in the Community). (various references)

   

Italian

  

TER (renewable energy technology), Tecnologia delle fonti energetiche rinnovabili (renewable energy technology), Programma pluriennale di promozione delle fonti energetiche rinnovabili nella Comunit (Multiannual programme for the promotion of renewable energy sources in the Community), Foro europeo per le fonti di energia rinnovabile (European Forum for Renewable Energy Sources), fonti rinnovabili (renewable energy sources, sustainable energy sources), fonti energetiche rinnovabili (renewable energy sources, sustainable energy sources), fonte d'energia rinnovabile (renewable energy source), FER (renewable energy source). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

enewableray energyay

   

Portuguese

  

Programa plurianual de promoção das fontes renováveis de energia na Comunidade (Multiannual programme for the promotion of renewable energy sources in the Community), fontes renováveis de energia (renewable energy sources, sustainable energy sources), fontes de energia renováveis (renewable energy sources, sustainable energy sources), energias renováveis (renewable energy sources, sustainable energy sources). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

Programa plurianual de fomento de las fuentes de energía renovables en la Comunidad (Multiannual programme for the promotion of renewable energy sources in the Community), fuentes de energía renovables (non-depletable energy sources, renewable energy sources, sustainable energy sources), fuentes de energía renovable (renewable energy sources, sustainable energy sources), fuente de energía renovable (renewable energy source), Foro Europeo de Fuentes de Energía Sostenibles (European Forum for Renewable Energy Sources), FER (renewable energy source). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

Flerårigt program för främjande av förnybara energikällor i gemenskapen (Multiannual programme for the promotion of renewable energy sources in the Community), förnyelsebara energikällor (renewable energy sources, sustainable energy sources), förnybara energikällor (renewable energy sources, sustainable energy sources). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: RENEWABLE ENERGY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-e-e-e-g-l-n-n-r-r-w-y"

-4 letters: regenerable.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: RENEWABLE ENERGY


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 45 4E 45 57 41 42 4C 45      45 4E 45 52 47 59

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01000101 01001110 01000101 01010111 01000001 01000010 01001100 01000101 00100000 01000101 01001110 01000101 01010010 01000111 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#69 &#78 &#69 &#87 &#65 &#66 &#76 &#69 &#32 &#69 &#78 &#69 &#82 &#71 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0045 004E 0045 0057 0041 0042 004C 0045      0045 004E 0045 0052 0047 0059

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5239483957353646392394839524159

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Quotations: Speeches
5. Names: Company Usage
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Abbreviations
10. Acronyms
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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