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First Wind?s Boston Headquarters Achieves LEED Gold Status
First Wind is an independent wind energy company exclusively focused on the development, financing, construction, ownership and operation of utility-scale wind farm projects in the United States.
Continue readingUS Wind Energy Market
Wind power is the conversion of wind energy into useful form, such as electricity, using wind turbines.
Continue readingSouth Korea to spend $900 million in wind energy and other renewable energy sources
?The move came as we aim to nurture solar and wind power generation as the country?s next chip industry and shipbuilding industry, respectively,? ministry officials said.
Continue readingVestas wins a 50 MW wind energy order in China
Vestas has received a wind power order for 25 V90-2.0 MW wind turbines from a wind farm from Hebei Construction Investment New Energy Company in China.
Continue readingEDF Energies Nouvelles has commissioned a 20.7MW wind farm in France
EDF announces the commissioning of the Corbières Méditerranée wind energy plant, with nine wind turbines and 20.7 MW of wind power capacity.
Continue readingChina leads Asia in wind power
Data from the Global Wind Energy Council showed China had the largest wind turbine fleet in Asia by 2008, with a total power-generating capacity of 12.21 million kilowatts.
Continue readingEDF Energies Nouvelles Expands Wind Energy Portfolio in Greece
EDF Energies Expands Wind Energy Portfolio in Greece with Commissioning of 46 MW Wind Farm Projects.
Continue readingIran Plans to Build Largest Solar and Wind Power Generation Plant
Damghan, Semnan province in Iran will soon have its first ever privately built wind farm and solar power plant.
Continue readingNetherlands – Cabinet pushes ahead with wind energy plant
Environment Minister Melanie Schultz van Haegen presented the definitive plan for the wind farm, which will feature 86 wind turbines along the dyke to the north of Urk.
Continue readingGeneral Motors, US National Laboratory sign for lithium ion batteries
GM is licensing a battery technology from the U.S. Energy Department that promises to cut in half the size required for electric batteries, potentially cutting the cost of electric vehicles.
Continue readingFirst Coulomb Public ChargePoint Charging Stations for Electric Vehicles Installed in Minnesota
Coulomb Technologies announced that the first public ChargePoint Networked Charging Station for electric cars is now installed in Minnesota. The owners intend to power the ChargePoint using 100 percent wind power.
Continue readingGlobal wind turbines trading platform for new and used wind turbines
While in many parts of the world wind energy is becoming a popular energy source, since recently there was no global online marketplace for used wind turbines in this relatively young market.
Continue readingIncreased wind energy is expected to be part of Turkey?s future
Turkey added that 343 MW of new wind power was installed in 2009, bringing total wind farm capacity up to 801 MW. An additional 500 MW of wind turbines was expected to be installed in 2010.
Continue readingIberdrola and Gamesa secure a contract for a wind energy plant in Kenya
The new wind farm to be located in Ngong, some 30 kilometres from Nairobi. The new wind power plant, to be built within 18 months, will have 16 G52 wind turbines.
Continue readingSuzlon Energy to build and operate 150 MW in wind power projects
Suzlon Energy has signed an agreement with Hindustan Zinc, a Vedanta Group company to set up, operate and maintain 150 MW of wind energy. The Suzlon Group has installed over 15,000 MW of wind farm capacity.
Continue readingChina wind energy firm set for $1.4 billion IPO
Sinovel told that it would use the proceeds of its IPO to expand wind power installed capacity and beef up its research and development capability for 6-megawatt (MW) wind turbines.
Continue readingUS, Chinese firms to build world’s largest solar photovoltaic plant
First Solar will build a 2,000-megawatt (2 GW) solar power plant with its partners in Ordos, Inner Mongolia. The first phase of the solar energy project is to build a 30-MW production capacity plant.
Continue readingEnterprise Rent-A-Car to Offer Chevrolet Volt
Enterprise Rent-A-Car announced that it will be the first to offer Chevrolet Volt extended-range electric vehicles (EVs) for daily and weekly rentals later this month.
Continue readingRenault Spying Case Involves Electric Vehicles
France said it was the target of economic war after an industrial espionage scandal at Renault involving electric car and lithium ion batteries technology, the auto industry’s big hope for the future.
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