Affinity Wind, a wind power company based in St. Louis, Missouri, has announced its plans to build a 150-MW wind farm in Pike County, west of Pittsfield, Illinois. Affinity plans to install 75 2-MW wind turbines.
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Wind energy prospects for in Argentina
The installed wind turbines capacity only amounts to 32 MW. 21 wind power companies submitted 51 wind farm projects to be approved.
Continue readingImpsa supplies wind turbines for Brazil?s largest wind farm By José Santamarta
This wind power agreement confirms CHESF entry to the market of wind energy and allows developing the first wind farm owned by the company.
Continue readingSuntech Power Receives the Murphy&Spitz Global Leader Award 2011
The Annual M&S Research Report on Environmental and Sustainability Standards in the Photovoltaic Industry Will be Published Monday.
Continue readingChina – big boom for wind energy and solar power
The target power generating installed capacity of renewable energy for 2020, including wind power and solar energy, will see big boom in China.
Continue readingOver the Next 5 Years, the Wind Energy Market is Expected to Reach $ 108 B, Solar Photovoltaic $101 B and Solar Thermal $17 B Per Annum
Wind power and solar power are clean renewable energy resources available in abundance across all the regions. The business of generating electricity from wind energy and solar energy is growing.
Continue readingGlobal Wind Turbines Market Will Reach $73.5 Billion by 2015
Pro-wind regulatory environment for wind power projects and increase in utility scale wind energy generation farms have put the world at 159 GW installed wind farm capacity at the end of 2009.
Continue readingMike Ford Named Vice President of Sales at Broadwind Energy
Mike will focus his efforts on developing Broadwind?s unified sales strategy and approach to expand our presence in the wind power, oil and gas and mining markets.
Continue readingJobs on horizon as Cape Wind energy project nears
Now that the hotly contested Cape Wind power project is in the final stages before construction, jobs–American jobs–are on the horizon.
Continue readingTesla Motors Staying the Course With Model S
Tesla?s goal is to produce increasingly affordable electric cars with lithium ion batteries to mainstream buyers ? relentlessly driving down the cost of Electric Vehicles.
Continue readingAcciona Commences Building of Dempsey Ridge Wind Farm
Acciona Energy has begun the building of the Dempsey Ridge Wind Energy plant in Roger Mills County, Oklahoma.
Continue readingThree New Wind Energy Plants Start Operations in Spain
Enel Green Power?s three new wind farm plants have commenced operation in Spain. The three wind power facilities will produce nearly 260 million kWh.
Continue readingGlobal Building Space to Increase by 26% to 178 Billion Square Meters by 2020
Buildings represent one of the main frontiers in the global challenge to increase efficiency and reduce overall energy consumption. Buildings are responsible for 49% of global energy consumption.
Continue readingWind power Vestas announced the closure of five factories and layoffs of 3,000 colleagues
To date 2,200 layoffs have occurred, and wind power Vestas plans to carry out the remaining scheduled 800 layoffs no later than June 2011. Production at the affected wind turbines factories has now stopped.
Continue readingBy 2030, world can run on renewables
They address the intermittent nature of wind power and solar energy in their plan as well. The study determines that wind energy and solar power really could provide for the bulk of the world’s electricity needs.
Continue readingTop 10 Wind Turbines Companies
Vestas Maintains its Position as the Global Leader of the Wind Energy Manufacturing Industry. The Indian wind power market is also expected to grow at a fast pace.
Continue readingPortugal inaugurates 48 wind turbines northern wind farm
José Sócrates inaugurated a 48 wind turbines, ?126 million wind farm in northern Portugal last Friday, with a local official saying the 96-megawatt wind power facility would supply power to 150,000 homes.
Continue readingCompany Altairnano Powers Proterra’s ‘Bus of Tomorrow’
One day after Vice President Joe Biden visited EnerDel, a Greenfield, Ind. facility that makes long-life lithium ion batteries for electric vehicles, Indiana received another nod for its competitive work.
Continue readingAMSC to Supply D-VAR Solution to Nordex UK
American Superconductor (AMSC) declared that it has received a number of wind energy orders for its proprietary D-VAR reactive compensation solution for wind power plants in the UK.
Continue readingSiemens to install grid link for DanTysk offshore wind farm
Following the grid connections for the offshore wind farm clusters BorWin2 and HelWin1, Siemens Energy will also install a turnkey grid connection in the North Sea for the SylWin cluster.
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