Commonly located at the edge of the power grid, community and residential energy storage (CRES) systems use a range of technologies including lithium ion batteries.
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Japan’s first offshore wind farm to start in January
The environment ministry has estimated Japan has the potential to eventually build a huge 1,600 gigawatts of offshore wind power capacity.
Continue readingGrid Storage Battery Cost to Fall to $500/kWh
Lithium ion batteries and molten-salt battery costs will approach $500/kWh by 2022, reducing the high capital cost of emerging grid storage technologies.
Continue readingChina Ming Yang Wind Power Forms Strategic Partnership with Reliance Group
China Ming Yang Wind Power Group Limited (NYSE: MY) is a leading and fast-growing wind turbine manufacturer in China, focusing on designing, manufacturing, selling and servicing megawatt-class wind turbines.
Continue readingGE’s wind turbines to power new wind farm on Sweden’s west coast
GE has announced that Swedish wind energy developer Triventus Wind Power AB will use GE’s wind turbines to power a new 27.5MW wind farm project.
Continue readingNordex wins supply contract to extend wind farm in Norway
Nordex awarded 57.5 MW wind power project extension in Norway for 23 wind turbines for the phase 2 extension of the ?Midtfjellet? wind farm.
Continue readingSalazar Announces Onshore, Offshore Wind Power Milestones
3,000 megawatt Wyoming wind energy project and Rhode Island, Massachusetts Wind Energy Area take key steps forward.
Continue readingESolar?s Bet on Modular Solar Power Towers With Storage
The U.S. technical potential of utility-scale photovoltaic (PV) was estimated at 80,000 gigawatts. Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) was 37,000 gigawatts.
Continue readingSaudi, UAE, Qatar top Cleantech list
A majority of the respondents (75 per cent) cited Photovoltaic (PV) as the main solar technology for the region followed by just 19 per cent that named concentrating solar power (CSP).
Continue readingWind energy: S.D. technical school president on edge about PTC extension
South Dakota was #1 nationwide in 2011 in percentage of electricity generation coming from wind power, at 22.3 percent, according to the AWEA U.S. Wind Industry Annual Market Report.
Continue readingAlaskan native-owned wind farm nearing completion
The wind power project is expected to churn out 48.5 million kWh annually, enough to power the equivalent of 6,000 average households.
Continue readingWind power in India
Wind energy has the potential to be a key enabler of the broader national objective of the 12th Five-Year Plan to achieve faster, sustainable and more inclusive growth.
Continue readingRWE Launches Fourth Wind Farm in Poland
The new wind power project generates 14 MW of wind energy. The total wind power generated by the company’s wind farms in Poland has reached 122 MW.
Continue readingMitsubishi Receives Maintenance Agreements for Five Wind Turbines Projects from Infigen
The agreements cover 564 Mitsubishi 1MW wind turbines in four states.
Continue readingPhotovoltaic solar energy in Mozambique
Solar power is improving the living conditions of thousands of Mozambicans living in rural areas not connected to the national electricity network.
Continue readingChina Quadruples 2015 Solar Power Target
The target includes 1 gigawatt of concentrated solar-thermal power plants, said Shi Lishan, deputy director of the administration’s renewable energy division.
Continue readingSolarReserve Receives ‘Industry Choice’ Award For Advancing the Concentrated Solar Power Industry
SolarReserve recognized by its peers as the company that has most advanced the Concentrating Solar Power industry’s reputation and development at the CSP Today USA 2012 industry conference.
Continue readingIRENA introduces Global Renewable Energy Atlas at meeting on resource mapping
Saudi Arabia announced an ambitious target of 41GW solar capacity by 2030, with a technology split of 25GW concentrated solar power (CSP) and 16GW photovoltaics.
Continue readingTanzania: Why Pinda Supports Use of Solar Energy
Solar power is the conversion of sunlight into electricity, either directly using photovoltaics (PV), or indirectly using concentrated solar power (CSP).
Continue readingWind energy in France: EDP Renewables inaugurates two wind farm plants
Between them, the two wind power farms have a dozen 1.8MW Vestas wind turbines.
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