Windstream Energy has announced its decision to build Ontario’s first contracted offshore wind energy project in the Hamilton area.
Continue readingOpus Energy signs wind energy agreement with Danish company Nordjysk Elhandel
Opus Energy has entered cooperation with Danish energy company, Nordjysk Elhandel (NEAS), specialising in renewables for the balancing and trading of wind power production from wind turbines in the UK.
Continue readingTata Steel bags wind power contract in Europe
Tata Steel’s efforts to build a business catering to the wind energy got a boost. The deal is to supply 25,000 tonnes of high quality profiled steel plate for 150 wind turbines to Siemens Wind Power.
Continue readingWind Energy Opponents are Hypochondriacs
Turns out the wind turbines weren?t causing any health effects. Yesterday, a state panel comprised of the departments of Environmental Protection and Public Health released a report.
Continue readingenXco Acquires Texas Wind Farm Assets From Cielo Wind Power
The wind energy project, consisting of 70 Siemens 2.3 wind MW turbines.
Continue readingGamesa builds electric car unit to wring profit from wind energy
Gamesa announced it had bought a 20 per cent stake in a company specialising in electric vehicles. The perfect marriage: wind power and electric car with lithium ion batteries.
Continue readingWorld?s biggest wind farm could be built in Wyoming with 1,000 wind turbines
Europe was the global leader with cumulative installed wind energy capacity of 86 GW at the end of 2010, Asia was second with 58.6 GW and North America was third with 44.1 GW of wind power.
Continue readingUAE-Spain concentrated solar power JV plans $5bn spend
Torresol Energy, a JV between Spain’s Sener and Abu Dhabi’s Masdar, plans to invest up to $5bn in the short-term to build concentrating solar thermal power plants (CSP) in Spain, the US and the Middle East.
Continue readingAlstom and SSE create JV to co-develop largest wave farm
Alstom and the leading Scottish marine developer SSE Renewables have signed a new joint venture agreement to develop the Costa Head Wave Project, an up to 200 Megawatts (MW) wave energy site.
Continue readingLebrija concentrating solar thermal power plant feeds power to the grid
Siemens and Valoriza achieve crucial milestone in solar energy: Lebrija concentrated solar power plant feeds power to the grid.
Continue readingSuzlon begins 3 GW wind energy drive in Andhra Pradesh
Indian wind power Suzlon will be developing around 3000 megawatts’ worth of wind farm projects in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh (where a 1-megawatt solar energy project recently went online) from 2012 and 2016.
Continue readingTorresol Energy Launches Twin Concentrating Solar Thermal Power Plants
The Gemasolar Concentrated Solar Power facility represented a significant breakthrough in the global solar industry and an important new field of cooperation between Spain and the UAE.
Continue readingSiemens and Masdar Institute sign agreement on solar energy
Siemens Energy and Masdar Institute of Science and Technology in the UAE have signed a one-year agreement for cooperation in solar power technology research.
Continue readingEnercon wind turbines for Kampi wind farm arrive in Limassol
The wind turbines arrived in Limassol with E-Ship 1, a technologically advanced cargo ship, which is owned by German wind energy company Enercon, the third-largest wind power manufacturer.
Continue readingJuhl Wind Selected for Upstate NY’s Black Oak Wind Farm
The wind energy project is a proposed 15 to 30 MW wind turbines facility with expectation of the wind power project being online during the third quarter 2013.
Continue readingNo major health impacts from wind turbines
Gov. Deval Patrick?s administration has strongly advocated for both land-based and offshore wind power and other renewable energy sources to lessen the state?s dependence on fossil fuels.
Continue readingOne fourth of China?s crude oil is imported from the Middle East
They include shutting down steel and iron plants, establishing a monitoring and evaluation system on energy conservation, and investing more in strategic industries –solar power, wind energy and electric vehicles.
Continue readingConsortium acquires wind energy project for 250 MW Crimean wind farm
A consortium has acquired a wind power project for the construction of the 250 megawatt Zakhidno-Krymska wind turbines plant.
Continue readingIBM promises 800km range electric vehicles with lithium-air battery
Electric cars can travel only about 160 km on lithium ion batteries. IBM researchers are exploring the science of lithium-air batteries, capable of powering an electric car at least 800 km.
Continue readingChina new energy vehicle output hits 8368 units in 2011
In 2011, China manufactured 5655 pure electric vehicles and only 2713 hybrid electric cars.
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