Socialist candidate François Hollande may have won the first round of the French elections, but what are his plans for wind power if he manages to pip Nicholas Sarkozy to head the country in the second round.
Continue readingMonthly Archives: April 2012
Electric Vehicles in China
Key takeaway section summarizes the entire market in terms of opportunities, trends and challenges persisting in the electric car market in China.
Continue readingElectric Vehicle Symposium at Los Angeles Convention Center
The public is invited to participate in the most extensive Ride, Drive & Charge event ever assembled, featuring a wide variety of electric vehicles, and learn about electric car drive technologies.
Continue readingWestJet unveils electric baggage tug on Earth Day
The airline worked alongside Corvus Energy, a Richmond-based technology company, to re-engineer the tug to be powered by lithium polymer batteries, removing the need for any fossil fuel to power the equipment.
Continue readingUS photovoltaic solar energy market will explode within five years
When solar power reaches the ‘holy grail’ of grid parity the solar energy market in the US will boost, and a sleeping giant will awake, experts predict.
Continue readingSwitzerland to Invest in wind energy in Iran
Switzerland is scheduled to participate in wind power generation wind farm projects in Iran’s Northwestern province of East Azarbaijan.
Continue readingSuzlon gets wind energy orders from Europe for 276 MW of wind turbines
Wind power major Suzlon Group said it received orders for supplying 276 MW wind farm capacity wind turbines across Europe in the past two months.
Continue readingUruguay & Brazil Agree To Jointly Develop & Expand Wind Energy
Uruguay and Brazil agreed to jointly set up a 100 MW wind farm in Uruguay. Uruguay has an ambitious plan for wind power to provide 18% to 20% of the country’s energy supply by 2020.
Continue readingZotos International leads way with wargest wind power project in U.S.
Zotos’ 3.3 MW on-site, wind energy project, which powers its 670,000-square-foot manufacturing plant in Geneva, is a first in the beauty industry. The wind farm is comprised of two 1,650 kW wind turbines.
Continue readingWind energy in Mexico: Suzlon enters the wind power sector
Suzlon, fifth world supplier of wind turbines, plans include wind farm projects in Mexico in the states of Baja California, Oaxaca and northeastern region.
Continue readingOffshore wind energy: floating wind turbines developed by Acciona
A number of Spanish and Norwegian companies, among others, are part of the European HiPRWind project for research into offshore wind power.
Continue readingWind power blowing away nuclear power
Wind energy supplies 3 percent of global electricity and will soon supply more electricity than nuclear power. In 2011, some 50 billion euros were invested in wind turbines, leading to say it’s cheap and creates jobs.
Continue readingTipping Point To Mass Scale Adoption Of Electric Vehicles
It was only five year ago, industry was using 50 whr/kg lead acid batteries and today 200 whr/kg lithium ion batteries are available at reasonable cost with prices dropping every six months.
Continue readingGamesa and Toyota Spain join forces on electric vehicles
Gamesa and Toyota Spain will boost the use of electric cars in urban Spain under a collaboration agreement
Continue readingToyota Spain & Wind Energy Leader Gamesa Team Up to Give Electric Cars a Boost
Wind turbines and solar energy companies are teaming up with car companies to advance electric vehicles (EVs) and clean power.
Continue readingHigh Commissioner champions joint NZ ?UK approach on Marine Energy
New Zealand with the United Kingdom could become global pioneers together in the Marine energy industry, the British High Commissioner to New Zealand, Mrs Vicki Treadell said.
Continue readingWind energy stories from the past week
EDF Energies Nouvelles and Mitsui of Japan have announced a 150-MW wind power project in northern Morocco. Morocco intends to have 2 GW of wind power and 2 GW of solar power up by 2020.
Continue readingWind energy and solar power in India
Wind power continues to be the single largest component of the renewable energy portfolio, accounting for nearly 70 per cent of all Green power.
Continue readingSolar energy in Philippines
?Renewables — hydro, solar power, geothermal energy, biomass, wind power and biofuels — ought to be fully studied. We have all these in our country. Instead, we seem stuck on importing our energy fuels.?
Continue readingJhimpir Wind Energy: Pakistan?s first wind farm gets global recognition
The first wind power generation project in Pakistan has recently been recognised by Project Finance Magazine. AEDB played a crucial role in helping Zorlu Energy to initiate this wind turbines project.
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