The direct drive wind turbine market is characterized as highly competitive market and includes GE- Scanwind, Enercon, Leitwind AG, MTorres Group, Siemens, Goldwind, Alstom, etc. as few major wind power players.

Marubeni is planning to build a floating wind power plant off the Japanese coast. Japan hopes to develop a 1GW floating offshore wind energy off its northern coast by 2020.

Total installed wind power capacity in Mexico will reach some 12,000 MW by 2020, or 15 percent of the country?s electricity mix.

Iberdrola Renewables announced a 20-year contract to sell 100 MW from its Manzana Wind Power Project, a wind farm currently under construction near Rosamond.

Gamesa Energy, the international wind power company considering construction of a wind farm in Muskegon County, is beginning involvement in its first Michigan wind turbines project in the Upper Peninsula.

American Wind Energy Association urges Congress to extend tax credit after measure is excluded from payroll tax bill.

Wind Powering America, an initiative for the promotion of wind energy launched by the Department of Energy (DOE), published the new map of wind resources in the United States.

The state-owned financial institution Infrastructure Development Company Ltd (IDCOL) will provide financial aid to install one million new solar home systems and 20,000 biogas plants across the country.

More advanced grid simulations will require to verify the actual ability of Concentrating Solar Power to help wind power and photovoltaic gain a larger presence on the grid.

‘Look at how much wind energy has progressed in recent years’, Ravi Khanna says. ‘Solar energy (photovoltaic and concentrated solar power) has much more potential.’

The international company “Global Gigawatt” is working on a project of installation in Haiti of several solar energy plants with a total capacity of 100 megawatts.

ESTELA makes a call on the Government of Spain to soon resume the supports to Concentrated Solar Thermal Power plants in Spain until 2020. Luis Crespo was elected president.

The solar pumping systems have improved in efficiency and capacity over the years. Although they are expensive to install, yet they have nil operative costs and are very effective with drip irrigation system.

A Mauritius-based company announced today that it will provide access to low-cost solar energy for 33 million people in Africa and Asia for the next four years, as part of a United Nations-backed initiative to fight poverty.

Narec is the UK?s national translational research centre for accelerating grid integration of renewable energy systems and catalysing the development and deployment of offshore wind power.

?Between this project ? the largest of its kind in the nation ? and the solar interchange a few miles north of here, it?s clear the road to the future starts here in Oregon.?

The project partners will seek ways to optimize the use of energy generated by the photovoltaic systems and concentrating solar power power management electronics for silicon-cell panels.