Iberdrola, who have their offshore wind power headquarters located in Glasgow, has announced two bids for wind energy projects as part of the Government?s competition to install up to 3 GW wind turbines capacity.

The Sultanate can tap its huge potential in solar energy (photovoltaic solar power and concentrating solar thermal) to meet the domestic demand of electricity.

Poor parts of the world can be supplied with affordable solar power by 2020 through a combination of cheap technology and services provided by cell phone companies.

Mahindra Solar One, a joint venture between Kiran Energy and Mahindra, today commissioned its first 5MW solar energy plant in Jodhpur in Rajasthan to run electric cars.

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WinWinD has won a tender for buying wind power project rights of the Myllykangas Wind Farm near Kuivaniemi in the Northern Finland.

Wind power manufacturer Goldwind has signed connection agreements with electricity provider Powercor Australia to connect 13 Goldwind 1.5 megawatt wind turbines of a wind farm to the Australian grid.

The wind farm will consist of 365 Vestas V52 wind turbines, each with a capacity of 850 kW.

At least 400 megawatts of electricity from wind farm projects in Gharo and Jhimpir will be added to national grid by the end of current year (2012) which is being observed as the year for wind turbines.

BP Wind Energy and Sempra Energy said that they plan to make a combined investment of more than $1 billion to develop wind farm plants in Pennsylvania and Kansas with GE wind turbines.

China will soon start construction on its second installment of wind farm projects for the 2011-2015 period, Liu Tienan, minister of the National Energy Bureau (NEB), has said.

NaturEner announces that it has secured a $320 million construction loan with Morgan Stanley that will enable construction of the 189 megawatt (“MW”) Rim Rock wind energy project with 126 Acciona wind turbines.

The move will see Nuon Renewables take on the Vattenfall name and bring together 14 wind power projects in England, Wales and Scotland totalling over 624 MW of wind turbines capacity under the same management.

CPV Renewable Energy Company (CPV Renewable Energy) announced that it closed financing for the construction of its 165.6 MW Cimarron Wind Power Project in Gray County, Kansas.

The wind farm is a partnership between Servtec and the Brazilian investment fund manager, Rio Bravo Investimentos, and will comprise of 12 units of Suzlon’s S95 – 2 MW wind turbines.

Goldwind USA announced wind turbines sales to new wind farm customers: Enel Green Power North America, Wind Energy Developers, LLC and Debenham Energy

Japan has considered since the quake and tsunami that struck the country last March the need to switch from nuclear power sources toward renewable sources, like wind energy, solar power or geothermal energy.

Gestamp Wind, wind energy division of Gestamp, has been awarded the right to develop five wind farm projects in Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, with a total wind turbines capacity of 114 MW.

Germany Installed 7.5 GW of Photovoltaic Solar Energy in 2011. Additions in December alone amounted to 3 GW.