?One reason for the fall in tariffs is that capital costs for solar power projects are seeing a downward trend,? says Mr. Anand.

The goal for India is for some 22,000 megawatts of solar power ? half photovoltaic and half concentrated solar power ? to be installed by 2022.

Allowing the PTC to expire and raising taxes on wind energy will cut American wind turbines manufacturing jobs by one-third, while private investment in wind farm plants will drop by nearly two-thirds

Photovoltaic solar power in poor villages and neighbourhoods could be the best way to the billion people without access to electricity.

Wind power or solar energy alone cannot supply baseload power,? Pickard says … power would be supplied by concentrating solar power (CSP) systems.

The Obama administration unveiled plans to boost US offshore wind power by opening up four new wind farm leasing regions for wind turbines generation.

Longyuan Power, China’ s largest wind power developer, connected 99.3 megawatts (MW) of wind turbines to the grid in a pilot intertidal wind farm in Rudong county in eastern province of Jiangsu.

“We will begin erecting wind turbines in the second quarter of 2012 as weather permits and all sites shall be fully operational by the fall.?

“We are seeing offshore wind power rapidly gaining traction around the world and a large number of offshore wind turbines are under construction and planning.”

Sunvalley Solar, a leading solar power technology and solar system integration company, announced today that it has been awarded an 88 KW solar system installation contract by Hans Enterprise Ltd. in Anaheim, CA.

enXco, an EDF Energies Nouvelles Company, and KCP&L have entered into a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) for a 100.8MW wind farm to be built in Ford County, Kansas, wind GE wind turbines.

Construction of a 310 megawatt (MW) wind energy project in Kenya is expected to start in April after its financiers complete due diligence on the wind power project.

Windstream Wolfe Island Shoals has ordered up to 130 wind turbines from Siemens Canada for a 300 MW offshore wind farm on Lake Ontario.

The CRF programme allows producers of clean energy (hydro, solar energy, wind power, geothermal energy and biomass) to sell electricity to the grid at higher than the market price.

‘Solar power has become an indispensable ingredient for the success of the energy transformation,’ said Carsten Körnig, chief executive of BSW-Solar.

Four 20-megawatt on-grid photovoltaic (PV) solar power plants recently completed construction and began operation in northwestern China?s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.

According to the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), policy makers should quickly extend the PTC, which is the US wind farm sector?s main policy incentive, in order to replace the industry?s boom and bust cycles.

Israel awarded licences to build two concentrating solar thermal power plants that will produce 180 megawatts of electricity, reports Reuters.