Solar thermal represents three times the energy production of photovoltaic solar energy and concentrated solar power. With 162 TWh produced in 2010, solar heating and cooling is second only to wind energy.
Continue readingMonthly Archives: May 2012
Wind energy in Vietnam: Malaysian developer invests $800m in wind power
Timar Wind Solar Energy plans to construct a wind farm using Maglev (magnetic levitation) vertical axis wind turbines.
Continue readingWestern Wind Energy executes term sheet to acquire 4,000 MW wind farm project pipeline
Western Wind is in the business of owning and operating wind power and solar energy generating facilities.
Continue readingCharging smart grid infrastructure for electric vehicles
The DOE grant is part of $7 million in research and development funding that will help improve the development and design of electric car charging equipment.
Continue readingMongolia vows to promote wind energy development
Mongolia boasts rich wind power and solar power resources and the country plans to make the renewable energy output account for 20 to 25 percent of its total energy production by 2020.
Continue readingOffshore wind energy: Rising wind power activity observed in French waters
EDF has won the major part of France’s first offshore wind farm tender. The EDF wind energy project alone will involve nearly 200 suppliers to the offshore wind turbines sector.
Continue readingSolectria Supplies Inverters for the Largest High Concentrating Solar Photovoltaic Power Generation Facility in the World
“The Alamosa concentrated solar energy project demonstrates the immense capabilities of smart grid inverters.”
Continue reading2012 is a big year for the European Wind Energy Association
When EWEA was founded, wind turbine size was just 55 kW and there was only one wind farm in Europe? (A five wind turbines wind farm on the Greek island of Kyathos.)
Continue readingFinnish wind energy on the way up
Finland has one of the lowest amounts of wind farm capacity in Europe but the situation could be changing. Anni Mikkonen from the Finnish Wind Energy Association tells why.
Continue readingSolectria Renewables Supplies Inverters for the Largest Concentrating Solar Photovoltaic Power Facility
Solectria Renewables, LLC is the leading U.S. based grid-tied photovoltaic inverter manufacturer for residential, commercial and utility-scale solar energy installations.
Continue readingDow Heat Transfer Fluids Continue Innovation in Concentrated Solar Power
Concentrating Solar Power uses parabolic mirrors to reflect and magnify heat from the sun onto a closed circulating loop containing DOWTHERM? A heat transfer fluid.
Continue readingWind Farm: WSJ stumbles with PTC-bashing editorial
A recent anti-wind turbines Wall Street Journal editorial (“Windy Republicans,” May 5) overlooked a number of facts about the federal wind energy PTC and the accomplishments of the U.S. wind power industry.
Continue readingWind Power: PTC extension can avert boom and bust
Unlike many other energy policy and legislative provisions, an extension of the wind energy Production Tax Credit has strong bipartisan support.
Continue readingIndustry gets boost from Women of Wind Energy
In recent years wind power emerged as a mainstream energy source, providing 35 percent of all new electric generating capacity during the last five years.
Continue readingBrightSource scales back Concentrating Solar Power project
BrightSource Energy it is downsizing plans for a large-scale Concentrating Solar Thermal Power development in eastern Riverside County near the Colorado River.
Continue readingHertz On Demand and IBM lead initiative for electric vehicles
Initially the electric cars provided by Hertz will be charged using decentralized generation of electricity on the IBM campus.
Continue readingNorthern Graphite Signs Two Agreements for Further Spherical Graphite Testing
Spherical graphite is used to make the anodes in lithium ion batteries and is manufactured from the flake concentrate produced by graphite mining operations.
Continue readingGCL Solar energy places order for 22.5MW of Satcon
The Equinox 500kW is the next generation of Satcon?s flagship 500kW solar inverter solution, which has been utilized on over a gigawatt of cumulative photovoltaic solar power systems.
Continue readingSolarReserve Concentrating Solar Power
SolarReserve can operate potentially 24 hours a day, because its concentrated solar power technology can bank the sun’s energy stored as heat.
Continue readingBreakthrough Solar Technology a Game Changer
SHEC Energy?s proprietary Concentrated Solar Power system introduces new technology that dramatically lowers the cost of the solar field and significantly increases the efficiency of solar thermal energy storage.
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