Ford Motor Co. and Clean Cities Indianapolis will showcase the automaker’s latest fleet of electric cars Tuesday morning in The Circle City.
Continue readingNew jobs with Atlantic offshore wind power
“By 2020, around 20% of the European offshore wind farm installed capacity could be located in the Atlantic basin”, stated the Commission in its newly published “Maritime Strategy for the Atlantic Ocean Area”.
Continue readingAmsterdam sees world?s largest offshore wind energy conference
Amsterdam sees world?s largest offshore wind power conference. Offshore wind farm is widely seen as a secure, reliable energy source that can provide answers to today?s climate change and energy security threats.
Continue readingCompanies go big in Nevada with concentrated solar thermal power plants
There are two concentrating solar power plants, SolarReserve’s Crescent Dunes near Tonopah and BrightSource’s Ivanpah Solar just south of the state line west of Interstate 15.
Continue readingXcel sets world record with 55.6% wind energy penetration
Wind power has faced skepticism for many years (though most of it has come from, or been funded by, competing energy sources) on grounds that its variability cannot be accommodated on utility systems.
Continue readingPattern Energy Developing 115 MW Wind Energy in Chile
Pattern Energy Group LP has signed agreements for a 20-year renewable power sale and energy services for its 115 MW El Arrayan wind power project in Chile. The wind farm will use Siemens 2.3MW wind turbines.
Continue readingOffshore Wind Power Capacity To Reach 64,594 MW By 2020
Offshore wind farm capacity only accounts for 1.6% of total wind turbines generation in 2010 although this wund energy market sector is forecast to become a more prevalent source of energy in the future.
Continue readingGamesa completes assembly, shipment of 1,000th nacelle at its Pennsylvania manufacturing plant
Gamesa Technology Corp., Inc., a global leader in the design and manufacture of wind turbines and the development, construction and sale of wind farm plants.
Continue readingChina’s solar thermal: 57.6 million square meters
The output of China’s solar energy thermal utilization industry for the whole of 2011 is expected to be 17.6 percent higher than for 2010, reaching 57.6 million square meters.
Continue readingREpower installs 6M wind turbines in Eemshaven wind farm
At the beginning of the EWEA Offshore wind power exhibition in Amsterdam, REpower Systems SE and RWE Innogy have concluded a wind energy contract for the delivery of two REpower 6M wind turbines.
Continue readingVestas marks first sale in the Ukraine ? its 67th wind energy market
Vestas, the world leader in wind power, is pleased to announce its first wind turbines sale in the Ukraine ? making the country Vestas? 67th global market for wind farm and the 10th for the V112 wind turbines.
Continue readingElectric vehicles for COP17
Electric cars with lithium ion batteries, which can be charged from purely renewable energy sources such as solar energy and wind power, aim to play a role in achieving COP17’s goals.
Continue readingConcentrated solar energy in deserts
Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) systems with mirrors, dishes or parabolic troughs focussing the sunlight to raise steam to run a turbines are currently in the lead.
Continue readingGlobal Market for Utility Energy Storage
They are batteries, compressed air storage, flywheels, hydrogen, superconducting magnetic energy storage, thermal energy storage, ultracapacitors, and vehicle-to-grid (V2G).
Continue readingChina – Wind energy on the rise
Workers deploying wind turbines at a wind farm in Jiujiang, Jiangxi province. China’s installed wind power capacity has doubled every year since 2005.
Continue readingWind power Suzlon wins contract from Coromandel Wind Energy
Wind turbines manufacturer Suzlon Energy Limited said it had won a Rs 470 crore contract from Coromandel Wind Energy Limited (CWE) for its maiden wind farm in Rajasthan.
Continue readingWind energy in Philippines: new wind turbines project
A 50-megawatt wind farm is feasible for development in Nabas, Aklan, as anchored on the preliminary outcome of a micrositing study undertaken by Danish engineering firm Cowi Inc.
Continue readingWorld’s Tallest Solar Tower Set for Arizona
When completed in 2015, the concentrated solar power, located in La Paz County, will be the tallest building in the world. It is the first of two such towers planned by EnviroMission for Arizona.
Continue readingVolkswagen AG Will Build Electric Vehicles in China
Volkswagen has plans in motion to manufacture their electric cars with lithium ion batteries in China starting in 2013. Volkswagen Settles on Standard Electric Car Battery.
Continue readingWind Energy Today: Submarine Cable O&M
Scott reports roughly 27% of an offshore wind farm’s capital expenditure is ploughed into cable, cable installation and grid connection.
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