Image Gallery: Alternative Power Generation

More stringent air-quality standards and improvements in technology are driving efforts to generate power from non-traditional sources of energy, as well as improve some older methods.

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Link to photo of gasification plant.
Biomass Gasification Plant
in Hawaii, 1994
PIX Number 03785 Warren Gretz
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
U.S. Department of Energy
copyright, U.S. Department of Energy

Link to photo of wood-fired power plant.
McNeil Station 50MWh Wood-Fired  (Biomass)
Power Plant, Burlington, VT, 1997
PIX Number 03785 Warren Gretz
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
U.S. Department of Energy
copyright, U.S. Department of Energy

Link to photo of biomass power plant.
Wheelabrator Shasta 49 MWh Biomass
Power Plant, Anderson, CA, 1996
PIX Number 00298 Warren Gretz
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
U.S. Department of Energy
copyright, U.S. Department of Energy

Link to photo of geothermal condenser.
External Secondary Condenser  at
The Geysers Geothermal  Power Plant,
Northern California, 1996
PIX Number 01043 David Parsons
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
U.S. Department of Energy
copyright, U.S. Department of Energy

Link to photo of geothermal plant.
"Geothermal Steam,
Pacific Gas & Electric Co.," 1967
Image 34.027
Science Service Historical Image Collection
National Museum of American History
Smithsonian Institution
copyright, Smithsonian Institution

Link to photo of geothermal generator.
Geothermal Power Plant Generator
Brawley, California
PIX Number 00413 Warren Gretz
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
U.S. Department of Energy
copyright, U.S. Department of Energy

Link to photo of binary geothermal plant.
Binary  Plant at Heber, California
(Geothermal Facility )
PIX Number 00453 Warren Gretz
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
U.S. Department of Energy
copyright, U.S. Department of Energy

Link to photo of hydro facility.
Hydroelectric Facility, 1994
PIX Number 00070 Warren Gretz
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
U.S. Department of Energy
copyright, U.S. Department of Energy

Link to photo of micro-hydro facility.
800-kW Micro-Hydro Facility
King Cove, Alaska, 1996
PIX Number 04410 Duane Hippe
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
U.S. Department of Energy
copyright, U.S. Department of Energy

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