The provincial government of Quebec approved the construction and operation of a C$350 million ($331.3 million), 150 MW Massif du Sud wind farm in Canada.
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Gamesa opens offshore wind energy R&D centre in Glasgow
A new ?14 million centre to develop next-generation offshore wind power technology in Scotland has been officially opened by First Minister Alex Salmond and Jorge Calvet, CEO of Gamesa.
Continue readingAbengoa Raises $395 Million in Share Sale to First Reserve
Abengoa SA, Spain’s largest developer of concentrating solar thermal power plants, will sell 300 million euros ($395 million) of new shares to First Reserve Corp. to reinforce its capital.
Continue readingAbengoa and Santander rally in wind energy in Brazil
The Brazilian National Electricity Agency has chosen Abengoa to develop three wind power plants with a total of 64MW in a joint venture with Banco Santander Brazil.
Continue readingAcciona, with a new wind farm, passes the figure of 200 wind power plants installed in Spain
Acciona passes the figure of 200 wind power plants installed in Spain. With the entry into service of Peña Nebina (Zamora), the company now has 5,976 MW wind turbines installed.
Continue readingRepower bags wind energy order to supply 36 wind turbines
The wind turbines of the 3.4M104 type are to be installed in a wind farm near Zeewolde (Province Flevoland).
Continue readingSuzlon-subsidiary SEFORGE wins wind energy orders
SEFORGE has announced major new turbines orders from the wind power totaling over Rs. 200 crore.
Continue readingBP Wind Energy invests $800m into 419 MW Kansas wind farm
John Graham, president and CEO of BP Wind Energy, said, ?The Flat Ridge 2 Wind Farm is an investment of approximately $800m and demonstrates BP?s continued commitment to the state of Kansas.
Continue readingVattenfall to use Repower wind turbines on 122 MW Dutch wind energy project
Vattenfall has signed a 122 MW wind power deal with Repower for a wind farm in the Netherlands. Repower will supply 36 M104 3.4MW wind turbines for the wind farm, which will be located near Zeewolde, in Flevoland.
Continue readingBrightSource Energy Delivers World?s Largest Concentrated Solar Thermal Power Facility for Enhanced Oil Recovery
Why use solar energy? Because heating water using sunlight is potentially much cheaper than heating it by burning natural gas, which is how it?s done in the oil rich San Joaquin valley now.
Continue readingMicrogrids energy storage project
The initiative is part of a broader move by the industry-university consortium to create more clean-tech jobs in the state.
Continue readingIKEA invests in Polish wind energy
IKEA announced that it has purchased two wind farm plants with a wind power output of 28 MW in the Podkarpackie region of southern Poland
Continue readingArgentina’s Largest Wind Farm Opens
Argentinean President Cristina Fernandez has inaugurated the largest wind power plant in Argentina in southern Patagonia. Patagonia’s Rawson wind turbines plant will generate 80 megawatts of electricity.
Continue readingEU energy import bill amounted to ?355 billion in 2010
As Europe forked out ?355.15 billion on the coal, oil or gas used in energy production, bear in mind that in 2010 wind power actually brought down the amount that the EU pays for electricity by ?6.54 billion.
Continue readingVermont?s wind energy: Responding to a New York Times op-ed
The 63-MW Kingdom Community Wind farm project in Lowell, Vt., is a part of this effort, which includes an effort to save our green mountains from ongoing acid rain from Midwest coal generation.
Continue readingNonpartisan congressional report underscores need for stable wind energy policy
Wind power is one of the fastest growing U.S. manufacturing sectors. Huge progress has been made in ‘insourcing’ new wind turbines factories and jobs.
Continue readingChrysler Providing City of Auburn Hills with Test Fleet of Electric Vehicles
Chrysler Group LLC, working in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), will deliver four demonstration fleet plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) Ram 1500 pickup trucks to the City of Auburn Hills, Mich.
Continue readingNigeria Can Generate 600,000 MW From Solar Power
As long as there is life in us, solar energy will always be there, everyday. When the Sun comes up, solar energy begins to be available. We also have wind energy as a renewable energy.
Continue readingRWE Innogy builds offshore wind farm Gwynt y Môr from Liverpool
The Gwynt y Môr wind farm is currently one of the largest offshore wind energy projects in the world. The wind power plant with an installed capacity of 576 megawatts (MW).
Continue readingOpening of the Andasol 3 concentrated solar thermal power plant in Granada
The completion of the third Andasol concentrating solar power plant on a site measuring some two square kilometres sees the creation of the largest European concentrated solar energy plant.
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