Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Decentralized Renewable Energy

Qurrent, a company based in the Netherlands, is making decentralized renewable energy a reality. They recently won the 500,000 Euro Picnic Green sustainable technology challenge, and seem ready to launch a very promising set of products/services to help change the landscape of power generation: Qbox, Qmunity, Qserver.

From their website:

Decentralized energy is locally generated energy; for instance on office buildings, warehouses, homes or apartment buildings. The energy is being produced right where it's being consumed.

In a decentralized energy system many thousands of units each provide a small portion of the energy needed, instead of a few power plants each providing enormous amounts.

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