Figures for the first three months of 2012 show a 46.8% increase in the amount of electricity generated by wind power compared to the same period last year.
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Inspired by the wind power
Using the wind for producing electricity is another clean and safe way of using wind energy, not damaging the earth and not using up infinite natural resources.
Continue readingElliott off target on wind power and cost savings
Mr. Elliott?s argument is that the study overlooked potential costs that could be associated with integrating large amounts of wind energy onto the power system.
Continue readingWINDPOWER 2012 opens with strong bipartisan expression of backing for wind energy, PTC
the Sunflower State currently leads the nation in new wind turbines under construction (663), that will add another 1,400 megawatts (MW) of wind farm capacity and double the state’s wind power generation.
Continue readingWind power in Illinois: Financing secured for wind farm
The wind energy project, in Ford and Iroquois counties, consists of 94 GE (NYSE: GE) 1.6 MW wind turbines.
Continue readingWind energy in Canada: 270 MW wind farm in Ontario
The Ontario Clean Technology Alliance has completed plants for a C$600 million ($575.5 million), 270 MW South Kent wind power joint venture between Pattern Energy Group LP and Samsung Renewable Energy Inc.
Continue readingWind energy in Turkey: Nordex delivering 19 multi-megawatt wind turbines
Nordex had been awarded a wind power contract for the assembly of a 47.5 MW wind farm in Turkey.
Continue readingWind power in Gujarat: wind farm capacity has increased ten times in just six years.
Gujarat government’s focus on tapping renewable energy has led to sharp rise in the capacity to generate power using wind energy in the last few years
Continue readingConcentrating Solar Power: Sky Power Solutions
Sky Power Solutions is a developer and marketer of next-generation lithium ion batteries and a developer of residential concentrated solar collector parabolic dish electric generating power systems.
Continue readingPanasonic to Begin Mass-production of Long-life Lithium-ion Batteries for Solar Power
In Germany and other European countries, governments are cutting purchase prices for solar power in order to rein in the expansion of solar power generation.
Continue readingToyota Develops Mutual Power Supply System for Electric Vehicles and Homes
The Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) is to start testing, using Prius PHVs, at the end of 2012 in approximately ten households as part of the Toyota City Low-Carbon Verification Project(2) (Toyota City Project).
Continue readingANERT told to set up 500 photovoltaic solar energy plants in Pathanamthitta
The District Panchayat president has further called upon the ANERT to sanction a 10 kw solar power plant too for the public sector establishments in the district this year.
Continue readingWSU researchers extend life of lithium ion batteries for electric vehicles
Washington State University materials engineering professor Grant Norton is leading a team that could triple the life of the lithium-ion batteries commonly used in electric cars and consumer electronics.
Continue readingBahrain embraces solar power
Masdar will join France?s Total and Spain?s Abengoa Solar in spending $600 million (?504.2 million) on building the world?s largest concentrated solar power (CSP) plant.
Continue readingWind energy in Philippines: Italy, Or.Min sign MOA on P2-B wind farm
According to its main proponent, 1st District Congressman Rodolfo G. Valencia, the wind power project is so far, the biggest renewable energy undertaking in the whole Mindoro Island.
Continue readingTimken Features Solutions at AWEA WINDPOWER 2012
The Timken Company (NYSE: TKR) will feature products and aftermarket solutions for the wind turbines industry at the AWEA WINDPOWER 2012 Conference and Exhibition, June 3-6, in Atlanta, Ga.
Continue readingWind farm: Fiberglass supplier worries about PTC extension
The fate of the federal wind energy Production Tax Credit (PTC) will impact a fiberglass supplier with a major factory in Shelby, N.C., local press reports said recently.
Continue readingNot all studies on wind turbines are credible
As a member for three years of the Wind Energy Committee–which was responsible for the wind farm under consideration in Jamestown–I have followed with interest the debates on this issue.
Continue readingWINDPOWER 2012 descends on Atlanta
NewAmerican Wind Energy Association board takes seats, readies for PTC push.
Continue readingMore countries embrace geothermal energy
The global geothermal energy pipeline now exceeds 9 MW of projects under development, which if completed could almost double the installed global geothermal capacity of 11 GW built up over the past 30 years.
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