This experimental wind power project consists of three floating wind turbines and one floating power sub-station off the coast of Fukushima.
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New video provides snapshot of Central Washington wind farm manager?s family
They are a family that?s becoming increasingly common in the U.S. these days: the American wind power family.
Continue readingNorthern Graphite Announces Non-Brokered Private Placement
It takes 20 to 30 times as much graphite as lithium to make a lithium ion battery and their use in the growing electric vehicles market is expected to require significant increases in graphite production.
Continue readingWind energy will provide at least 12 % of European electricity by 2020
Wind power is the renewable energy which has seen the widest and most successful deployment over the last two decades, from 3 GW to 240 GW of global cumulative capacity.
Continue readingSpain’s Acciona Invests $670 Million in Wind Energy in Southern Mexico
Acciona is the wind power leader in Mexico with 556.5 MW distributed among Oaxaca II, III and IV (306 MW) and Eurus (250.5 MW) wind farm plants, representing 65 percent of the wind turbines in the country.
Continue readingAbengoa, BrightSource and Torresol form concentrated solar power alliance
Solar thermal companies, Abengoa, BrightSource Energy, and Torresol Energy have formed the Concentrating Solar Power Alliance (CSPA).
Continue readingIberdrola completes 304 MW Ohio wind farm
Blue Creek wind power is situated in six townships in Van Wert and Paulding Counties, Ohio and features 152 Gamesa G90 wind turbines, with unit capacity of 2 MW and standing 100 meters high.
Continue readingVestas signs 82 MW wind farm order in Poland
Vestas has received a wind energy order from Iberdrola Engineering and Construction Poland Sp. z o.o. for delivery of 22 wind turbines V80-2.0 MW and 19 units of the V90-2.0 MW wind turbine.
Continue readingWind energy in Mexico: new Acciona wind farm of 306 MW
Mexico’s President Felipe Calderon will go to wind power farms with 204 wind turbines, called Oaxaca II, III and IV, operated by Acciona in southern Mexico, and formalize its inauguration.
Continue readingUrgent need for action by everyone who supports wind energy in Wisconsin
They provide a critical foundation for future wind power development in Wisconsin. If these important rules are repealed, Wisconsin?s future wind farm projects and industry jobs will be lost.
Continue readingSmith Electric Vehicles Launches Production of All-Electric NewtonTM Step Van
Smith Electric Vehicles Corp. develops, produces and sells zero-emission commercial electric vehicles that are designed to be an alternative to traditional diesel trucks.
Continue readingSolar Energy in Europe
Solar photovoltaic (PV) module prices have fallen due to an oversupply of modules and lower demand from some European markets.
Continue readingIberdrola completes 304MW Blue Creek wind farm in US
Spanish wind power utility Iberdrola has completed its 304MW Blue Creek wind farm in the US state of Ohio. The wind energy plant consists of 152 Gamesa 2MW G90 wind turbines.
Continue readingOvercapacity keeps prices of wind turbines low
Overcapacity and new low-cost wind power players will keep wind turbine prices low, according to the Bloomberg New Energy Finance Wind Price Index (WTPI).
Continue readingOntarians say wind turbines is one of the safest forms of electricity generation
A high 78 per cent of Ontarians say wind power is one of the safest forms of electricity generation according to a recent Oracle Research poll commissioned by the Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA).
Continue readingGlobal Wind Energy Installed Capacity to Reach 1,062 Thousand Megawatts by 2017
GIA announces the release of a comprehensive global report on the wind energy markets. The global installed wind farm capacity of wind power is forecast to reach 1,062 thousand megawatt by the year 2017.
Continue readingCelebrating 30 years of wind power in Europe
The European Wind Energy Association is celebrating its 30 year anniversary in 2012.
Continue readingWind energy in Europe: wind power barometer
Cumulative wind farm capacity at the end of 2011: 94.1 GW (85.0 GW end of 2010). Decrease in the EU wind turbines market registered between 2010 and 2011: 5.9%.
Continue readingWind power one of safest forms of electricity generation
According to a public opinion poll commissioned by the Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA), 78 percent of Ontarians responding said wind power “is one of the safest forms of electricity generation.”
Continue readingWind power: Chicago feels the ?Power of Wind?
First-ever Midwest Regional Wind Energy Summit kicks off in the Windy City. The Land of Lincoln was #2 for wind turbines in the last year and in the top five for overall wind farm in the U.S..
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