The Vermont utility building a 21 wind turbines commercial wind farm on Lowell Mountain says it’s going to conserve 2,700 acres as a way to compensate for the wind power project.
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WFES 2012 To Support Integration Of Solar Power In MENA Energy Mix
With the cost of solar energy modules plummeting by 76% in just three years experts say the key to widespread adoption will depend less on price and more on improved awareness of the potential of the technology.
Continue readingCalifornia Water Facilities Reduce Operating Costs with Solar Energy
SunPower Corp. (NASDAQ: SPWR) announced the completion of four high-efficiency solar power systems, totaling 3.8 megawatts, at public water agencies and water treatment facilities in California.
Continue readingGoldwind raises direct-drive wind turbines in mountainous terrain
Chinese wind power maker Xinjiang Goldwind Science and Technology Company has completed a 49.5-megawatt wind farm in Yunnan province.
Continue readingVestas sees out 2011 with orders from seven countries
Vestas has received two wind power orders from EDF Energies Nouvelles for delivery of 19 V90-2.0 MW wind turbines for the Gargano wind farm in Apulia (Italy), and for 12 V90-2.0 MW for the Eckolstädt wind farm.
Continue readingMore mythbusting facts about wind energy
Thanks to the wonder of the modern Internet, old myths about wind power rarely die–they just go on circulating in the anti-windosphere forever.
Continue readingWind energy generates substantially more electricity in UK
Increase of two-thirds in electricity from offshore wind power in first three quarters of 2011. The latest figures on the amount of electricity generated by wind turbines have been welcomed by RenewableUK
Continue readingKia, Renault, GM compete for first electric vehicles on road
The recently government support for electric cars has sparked a race to launch homegrown between Hyundai Motor Group and Renault Samsung. Both have vowed to launch the country’s first mass produced electric car.
Continue readingEnel Green Power North America has finalized a tax partnership agreement
EGP-NA owns and operates more than 70 plants with an installed capacity exceeding 1,000 MW powered by renewable hydropower, wind energy, geothermal energy, solar power and biomass energy.
Continue readingAndasol, the World?s Largest Concentrated Solar Power Plant
Over at The Independent, Alasdair Fotheringham has written a lovely article on Andasol, the world?s largest concentrating solar thermal power plant.
Continue readingWind power in Texas: Willacy County wind farm
There will be 84 Mitsubishi 2.4-megawatt wind turbines and 87 Siemens 2.7-megawatt wind turbines in the wind energy plant.
Continue readingStorage will make concentrated solar power reliable after sunset
Reliability is the greatest weakness of solar energy. Concentrating solar thermal plant developers have plans to build facilities in Inland Southern California to store the sun?s power.
Continue readingPakistan to to allocate land for wind farm projects
The provincial government had also asked the power ministry to advice the AEDB officials to prepare land allocation parcels out of the identified land which might be offered to the wind power projects.
Continue readingVestas to supply turbines for French wind energy project
Vestas has received a wind power order from renewable energy projects developer VSB Energies Nouvelles to supply wind turbines with a total capacity of 24 MW for a wind farm.
Continue readingOswego County farmers turn to wind energy
Pyrus Energy, of Weedsport, is a two-year-old company specializing in all types of renewable energy sources, from solar power and wind power to geothermal energy and solar thermal hot water and hydroelectric
Continue readingTennesseans moving to electric vehicles and solar power for good reasons
Tennessee already makes solar panels and will be making the electric car Leaf and lithium ion batteries in Smyrna next year. Tennesseans moving to electric cars, solar energy for good reasons.
Continue readingPakistan has a potential of 50000 MW wind power
Seven top wind enerrgy manufacturers including Vestas (Denmark), Nordex (Germany), Siemens (Germany), General Electric (USA), Hyundai (Korea), Goldwind (China) and Sunec (China) are offering wind turbines.
Continue readingElectric vehicles got past their baby steps in 2011
Every major automaker has at least one electric car in the pipeline, and public charging stations are becoming more common.
Continue readingNorway shows interest in Spanish floating wind energy technology
Acciona has installed 283 wind power farms (8,392 MW); 80 hydroelectric power plants (912 MW); 5 Concentrated Solar Power plants (264 MW) and one of the biggest photovoltaic solar energy plants in the world (46 MWp).
Continue readingWind energy in Iowa: Acciona’s wind farm
Acciona Windpower will install two of its AW-3000/116 3 MW wind turbines this year at the Pioneer Grove wind farm in Cedar County, Iowa.
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