Pattern Energy Group LP (Pattern) today announced that both the National Association of Environmental Professionals (NAEP) and the California Association of Environmental Professionals have awarded the Ocotillo Wind project with awards for outstanding environmental analysis and documentation. “The Ocotillo Wind project’s environmental review analysis received our highest honor,” said Paul Looney, President of the NAEP. … Continue reading Pattern’s Ocotillo Wind energy project receives awards for outstanding environmental analysis
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Largest wind farm in Southern Hemisphere officially opens
Owned by Australian-based AGL Energy and New Zealand-based Meridian Energy, the Macarthur Wind Farm is a genuinely global construction, engineering, and technology project, with equipment and personnel coming together from four continents. Vestas and Leighton Contractors combined to deliver the logistically complex, AUD $1 billion Macarthur Wind Farm three months ahead of schedule. With the … Continue reading Largest wind farm in Southern Hemisphere officially opens
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Wind energy: empowering entrepreneurs in Africa
Last month the EWEA blog brought you the story of a small wind energy project in Tanzania and how it has helped to change the fortunes of some African farmers. Today, in this project update by Fran Witt from Renewable World, we look at how wind-powered electricity is connecting remote communities to the knowledge economy. … Continue reading Wind energy: empowering entrepreneurs in Africa
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Concentrated solar power could boost Natural Gas Plants
Wegeng’s team aims to keep the system’s overall cost low enough so that the electricity produced by a natural gas power plant equipped with the system would cost no more than 6 cents per kilowatt-hour by 2020. PNNL’s concentrating solar power system reduces greenhouse emissions – at a price that’s competitive with fossil fuel power. … Continue reading Concentrated solar power could boost Natural Gas Plants
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Wind energy grows 28% in a year, delivering more economic benefits to America than ever
Wind energy grew 28 percent in America last year, setting a new installation record and confirming its status as a mainstream energy source, according to the American Wind Energy Association’s U.S. Wind Industry Annual Market Report for 2012, released today on a webinar for association members and reporters. In its best year ever, the U.S. … Continue reading Wind energy grows 28% in a year, delivering more economic benefits to America than ever
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DONG Energy enters into agreements on 6 megawatt offshore wind turbines with Siemens AG for German projects
DONG Energy and Siemens AG have entered into agreements securing potential supplies and servicing of a total of 154 offshore wind turbines of 6 megawatt each, giving a total capacity of 924 megawatt. The agreements give DONG Energy the option to install the turbines on its Gode Wind projects in Germany from 2015. Utilisation of … Continue reading DONG Energy enters into agreements on 6 megawatt offshore wind turbines with Siemens AG for German projects
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EDF Renewable Services Wins O&M Contract for Edom Hills Wind Farm
EDF Renewable Services announced today it has secured the operations and maintenance contract at the Edom Hills Wind Farm. Owned and operated by a subsidiary of BP Wind Energy, Edom Hills is located in the San Gorgonio Pass near Palm Springs, California. The site consists of eight Clipper Windpower 2.5 MW turbines generating 20 MW … Continue reading EDF Renewable Services Wins O&M Contract for Edom Hills Wind Farm
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AWEA Reveals Numbers Behind U.S. Wind Energy
The bumper crop of wind energy benefited the U.S. economy across all 50 states, through $25 billion in private investment in new U.S. wind farms, tens of millions of dollars paid to landowners and local communities in lease payments and property taxes, and billions in projected savings for electricity consumers. While jobs numbers were hampered … Continue reading AWEA Reveals Numbers Behind U.S. Wind Energy
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Distributed Solar Energy Generation
Distributed solar photovoltaic (PV) systems offer the benefit of producing electricity onsite, thereby reducing the need to build new transmission capacity and avoiding line losses. Distributed generation can offer significant benefits to consumers while adding resiliency to an electric grid based on a traditional centralized model. These systems are used in applications ranging from residential … Continue reading Distributed Solar Energy Generation
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Concentrated solar thermal powers oil-rich Gulf emirate
The world’s biggest thermal solar power plant has gone online in oil-rich Abu Dhabi. Shams 1 is the first plant of its kind in a desert region, providing power for thousands of homes. Leaving the high-rise buildings of Abu Dhabi city behind us, we drive through the dust and sand of the desert. On both … Continue reading Concentrated solar thermal powers oil-rich Gulf emirate
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Morten Albæk, Senior Vice-President of marketing at Vestas, argues that claims made by anti-wind campaigners can verge on the ridiculous, but they are powerful. Wind power, meanwhile, is not doing enough to promote its positive message… Birds are 19,200 times more likely to die from flying into a building than into a wind turbine (according … Continue reading It
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SKF solutions for solar tracking systems reduce CO2 emissions and increase solar power generation
SKF Solar Linear Actuator-CASD-60, and SKF Solar Hub CRSD 290 are two solutions that each contribute to the reduction of CO2 emissions by increasing the energy production from one 58 m2 solar panel by 5.8 MWh/year. This equates to a reduction per solution of 4.4 tonnes CO2/year according to the world power grid mix CO2 … Continue reading SKF solutions for solar tracking systems reduce CO2 emissions and increase solar power generation
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There’s now roughly 282 gigawatts of solar power
Last year was by all accounts a very good year for solar power, with the US market growing 76 percent
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State-owned enterprises dominate China’s wind energy projects
State-owned enterprises (SOEs) controlled a sweeping majority of investment and construction in wind power projects last year, accounting for about 81 percent of the sector’s installed capacity, the National Energy Administration (NEA) said Wednesday. As of the end of 2012, some 1,300 companies had invested in or built wind power development projects, of which 1,000 … Continue reading State-owned enterprises dominate China’s wind energy projects
Continue readingWashington, D.C.’s Union Station Now Powered by 100 Percent Wind Energy
Strengthening its dedication to environmental sustainability, Union Station in Washington, D.C., has signed a three-year contract for 100 percent WGES CleanSteps
Continue readingVestas Secures 72 MW Wind Turbine Order In Romania
Vestas has received a firm and unconditional order for 72 MW (with an option for another 12 MW) for Romania. The 36-turbine order constitutes the first part of a project consisting of a total of 42 V90-2.0 MW wind turbines to be installed in Tulcea County in Romania. Delivery of the first 36 turbines is … Continue reading Vestas Secures 72 MW Wind Turbine Order In Romania
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Is German offshore wind energy under threat?
Headlines in the German media have said recently that Germany’s offshore wind sector could be facing support cuts, on top of suffering from the already costly grid connection delays. So what is the future of German offshore wind power? We spoke to Andreas Wagner, CEO of the Offshore Wind Foundation (Stiftung Offshore-Windenergie) and part of … Continue reading Is German offshore wind energy under threat?
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California ISO reports new wind generation record: 4,196 MW
Wind power set a new generation record on the California Independent System Operator Corp. (CA-ISO) system Friday, but the mark lasted only two days before being eclipsed Sunday, CA-ISO said in a news release. Sunday’s record was set when turbines on the system topped out at 4,196 megawatts (MW) at 6:44 p.m. CA-ISO is the … Continue reading California ISO reports new wind generation record: 4,196 MW
Continue readingUtility system in NE Vermont to be strengthened, resolving concerns about new wind power
Wind power set a new generation record on the California Independent System Operator Corp. (CA-ISO) system Friday, but the mark lasted only two days before being eclipsed Sunday, CA-ISO said in a news release. Sunday’s record was set when turbines on the system topped out at 4,196 megawatts (MW) at 6:44 p.m. CA-ISO is the … Continue reading Utility system in NE Vermont to be strengthened, resolving concerns about new wind power
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Gamesa begins transporting the largest wind turbine blade ever built in Spain
The blade is 62.5 metres long and will be installed on Spain’s first offshore wind turbine. Gamesa last night began transporting a 62.5-metre blade destined for a prototype of the first offshore wind turbine to be installed in Spain. The blade, manufactured at the Aoiz factory (Navarre) is the longest turbine blade ever produced and … Continue reading Gamesa begins transporting the largest wind turbine blade ever built in Spain
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