Wind power Sinovel’s recent refusal to accept shipments from American Superconductor (AMSC) may be due to more than just a slowdown in the Chinese wind farm market.
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Nautricity pushes back the tide of marine energy
While conventional tidal devices resemble wind turbines moored to the seabed, incurring enormous deployment and engineering costs, CoRMat is a small, free-floating capsule, tethered to a surface float.
Continue readingKYOCERA supplies 6MW of solar modules for solar power plant in Italy
Kyocera Corporation announced that it has supplied approximately 6-megawatts (MW) of the company’s multicrystalline silicon solar photovoltaic modules for a large-scale solar energy plant near Turin, Italy.
Continue readingBoosting the Efficiency of Wind Energy and Solar Power
Wind turbines produce wakes, invisible ripples, waves and other disturbances in the atmosphere downstream that can damage wind turbines and decrease efficiency.
Continue readingNuclear?s Health Risks on Chernobyl Anniversary
The 25th anniversary of Chernobyl and the continuing crisis at Fukushima?both Level 7 nuclear disasters?are clear reminders that standard evacuation zones cannot protect the public from a nuclear accident.
Continue readingWe need more electric vehicles on the road now
We need to kick-start the electric car with lithium ion batteries sales now. Day after day the newspaper and TV car ads are endless for gas cars, but I haven?t seen any electric cars in the showrooms.
Continue readingNew Wind Power Market Analysis for North America
These include assessing the impacts of energy curtailment, policy changes, and infrastructure development and quantifying the financial ramifications that they have for a specific wind farm site or wind energy project.
Continue readingFukushima and Chernobyl – Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer
If any of the containment vessels or fuel pools exploded, it would mean millions of new cases of cancer in the Northern Hemisphere.
Continue readingNextEra Energy Resources subsidiary raises $118 million in capital for wind energy projects
Penta Wind consists of 483 megawatts of wind farm projects in five states. NextEra is the largest generator in North America of renewable energy from the wind power and solar power.
Continue readingKandi Technologies Engages a Big Four Professional Firm
The COCO electric car are available in the United States and other countries, while the Chinese government has approved the sale of Kandi electric cars with lithium ion batteries in China since 2010.
Continue readingTop Ten Solar Power States
The New York Times published a rundown today of the top ten states in installed solar energy capacity (photovoltaic, solar thermal or concentrated solar energy).
Continue readingElectric vehicles Volt Earns IIHS Top Safety Pick
The 2011 Chevrolet Volt electric cars with extended-range capability and lithium ion batteries has been named a 2011 Top Safety Pick.
Continue readingIncreased interest in lithium ion batteries
The majority of the world’s lithium production comes from brines, or salt lakes, where prospective lithium mineralization is generally hosted in brine horizons.
Continue readingGerman American Wind Power Conference on June 28
In regard to wind energy, Texas is the most important state in the U.S. and has been leading the American wind turbines market with a cumulative installed wind farm capacity of 10,085 MW.
Continue readingFirst Wind, Algonquin and Emera announce partnership involving Northeast wind farm projects
First Wind has a 370 Megawatt (MW) portfolio of wind energy projects in the Northeast U.S. including five operating wind power projects and two wind turbines projects near operation.
Continue readingWind power – What about transmission line losses?
As American Wind Energy Association and the Solar Energy Industries Association have previously urged, our nation needs a new system of transmission lines.
Continue readingEPRI publishes consumer guide about electric vehicles
Consumers need a starting point -basic information to help them evaluate their options as they consider purchasing electric cars.
Continue readingBYD Announces Electric Vehicles Results
BYD announced results of several of its electric car with lithium ion batteries pilots — the F3DM, e6 and eBUS-12 which are in fleet testing across the world.
Continue readingSoaring Gas Prices Provide Opportunity For Electric Cars
Think’s presence in Elkhart has been having an impact elsewhere in the state. It has a supplier agreement with Indianapolis-based Ener1 for lithium-ion batteries.
Continue readingMercedes-Benz To Test Electric Vehicles
The lithium-ion batteries are located underneath the cargo bed. They have a capacity of 36 kWh, giving the vehicle a range of around 81 miles.
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