Contract is for 160 MW concentrated solar power plant, worth minimum $500 mln; Enel, Mitsui and UAE’s Taqa vied for deal.
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US Solar Energy Installations Continue Shining through 2012
For 2012, solar PV installation is forecast to total 2,800 megawatts with an additional 81 megawatts of Concentrated Solar Power also coming online.
Continue readingWork progresses on Alaska wind farm
Officials with Cook Inlet Region Inc. say work is progressing on the Alaska Native regional corporation’s Fire Island wind power project with 11 wind turbines.
Continue readingEnbridge and RES Canada Celebrate Completion of 99-MW Greenwich Wind farm
There will be a photo opportunity with representatives from Enbridge, RES Canada, Ministry of Natural Resources and the Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA).
Continue readingChina Wind Power Receives Final Loan Proceeds for 49.5 MW Phase II Wind Farm
The Company indirectly holds the exclusive rights for wind energy development in Du Mon County, Heilongjiang Province, which has a demonstrated potential installed capacity of 1,150 MW of wind energy developable.
Continue readingZephyr Corporation and Evance Wind Turbines announce collaboration
Evance is a leading small wind turbine manufacturer, sharing with Zephyr the same high standards of technology and reliability in their product design and manufacturing.
Continue readingIKEA to use solar power on buildings in China
More than half of the energy needed to power IKEA buildings around the world currently comes from renewable sources ? primarily solar energy and wind power.
Continue readingMajor new cebr report on the economic benefits of offshore wind turbines for the UK published
The Centre for Economics and Business Research, commissioned by Mainstream Renewable Power, reveals Offshore Wind energy will more than pay for itself in future and reap rich rewards in terms of jobs and UK GDP.
Continue readingChint/Astronergy completes 50 MW photovoltaic solar energy plant in Bulgaria
Chint/Astronergy announced its completion of a solar PV power plant with a total installed capacity of 50MWp in Bulgaria. The commercial operation date of the solar power plant is on June 12, 2012.
Continue readingWelspun Energy to invest $1 Billion in Karnataka?s wind farm projects
Welspun Energy Ltd. is setting up 750 MW of solar power and 1 GW of wind power plants across India, which is amongst the largest capacities for power generation in the country.
Continue readingVestas divests towers factory to Titan Wind Energy and maintains jobs in Denmark
Titan Wind Energy (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. is China?s largest global manufacturer of towers for wind turbines and already a long standing supplier to leading wind turbine manufacturers such as Vestas.
Continue readingAustralia battles wind energy myths
There is a tendency to focus on capacity factor when examining the performance of wind power in a country. Worryingly, these statistics are regularly misunderstood in the media and by the community.
Continue readingWind farm: Sen. Mark Udall goes to bat for PTC extension
U.S. Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.) announced that he will make speeches daily on the Senate floor urging an extension of the federal wind energy Production Tax Credit (PTC) and helping to raise awareness of the wind power.
Continue readingWind energy: WINDPOWER 2012 drew thousands to Atlanta
World?s largest annual wind power conference to return to Chicago in May 2013.
Continue readingOffshore wind energy: Iberdrola?s first offshore wind farm in Germany
With 400 megawatt (MW) capacity Wikinger will be one of the world?s largest deep-water offshore wind power projects with eighty wind turbines.
Continue readingOnshore wind power cheaper than fossil fuels by 2016
Some of the UK?s media is quick to publish anti-wind farm stories, so it came as a surprise when picked up on a new study by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change on onshore wind energy.
Continue readingOffshore wind energy could create 100,000 jobs by 2020
The offshore wind power industry could be employing nearly 100,000 people and contributing 0.4 per cent of the UK’s gross domestic product (GDP) by 2020.
Continue readingRenewable Energy investment hits a record high of $257 Billion
Solar energy generation (concentrated solar power and photovoltaic) surged past wind energy in 2011 to become the renewable energy technology of choice for global investors.
Continue readingWind turbines arriving in Maine for wind farm
Towers for wind turbines to be erected at eastern Maine’s Bull Hill wind power project are due to arrive in Searsport.
Continue readingAbengoa Selected to Design and Construct One of the Largest Photovoltaic Plants in the USA
The solar power plant will have a capacity of 200 MW and will come into operation at the end of 2013.
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