The lithium ion batteries used in plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) and electric cars will increasingly be utilized by property owners and grid operators.
Continue readingMitsubishi to supply electric vehicles to Suzuki
Mitsubishi Motors, the Tokyo based automaker on Monday announced that is in talks with Suzuki to supply electric vehicles for commercial use.
Continue readingBatteries for electric vehicles that charge in 15 minutes
Resarchers are hoping that a new rechargeable battery with more storage and faster recharge time could help revolutionize the use of electric cars.
Continue readingChina?s path to wind energy superpower
Comparing China?s wind power and nuclear power sectors reveal much about the fortunes of new and old energy technologies.
Continue readingNorthwest wind power producers can now balance the variable output
Northwest wind energy producers can now balance the variable output of their resource by scheduling their electricity into California every thirty minutes instead of only once an hour.
Continue readingSkyFuel Introduces Abrasion Resistant ReflecTech(R)PLUS
SkyFuel, Inc., maker of high reflectance silvered film for concentrating solar thermal applications, announced the release of next generation ReflecTech®PLUS mirror film.
Continue readingConcentrated Solar Power
Concentrating solar thermal power (CSP) has been a ‘start-stop’ industry since the 1500s, when Leonardo da Vinci conceived the use of a parabolic mirror concentrator to heat water for dyeing cloths.
Continue readingQuebec approves wind energy project
The 50-50 joint venture will have an installed capacity of 24.6 megawatts and will see 12 wind turbines in the municipalities of Saint-Paul-de-la-Croix and Saint-Épiphane.
Continue readingWind Energy and Bird Fatalities
A bird mortality event at a wind farm had nothing to do with wind turbines. If you want to protect birds, outlaw cats. And windows.
Continue readingExelon hands 59 MW wind farm order to Vestas for Michigan wind turbines
Vestas will deliver 33 of its V100 1.8MW wind turbines to the wind farm in the middle of next year. Wind power developer Exelon Wind expects to commission the wind energy plant in Huron County by the end of 2012.
Continue readingCroatia – Wpd closes on wind farm
German wind power developer Wpd has closed financing on the 36.8MW Ponikve onshore wind farm in Croatia.
Continue readingWind Energy Could Become Brazil’s Second Power Generation Source in 2015
In Brazil we have large renewable resources, first hydro and then wind turbines and biomass so we prefer to invest in sources that bring good power prices to consumers.
Continue readingSouth Dakota Wind Power Group Meeting
The South Dakota Wind Energy Association is holding a membership meeting in Watertown, S.D. on Tuesday.
Continue readingWind energy – Bryce goes astray on jobs, land use, and more
Mr. Bryce also misleads on wind power?s land use, claiming that wind turbines ?cover? thousands of square miles of land.
Continue readingNRG acquires distributed gen firm Solar Power Partners
NRG Energy has acquired Solar Power Partners, a leading developer of commercial and industrial distributed solar projects in the western US and several Atlantic states.
Continue readingGE touts hybrid gas, solar energy and wind power plant as answer to energy crisis
MetCap Energy will be based on GE’s “FlexEfficiency” technology, including a next-generation 50-hertz gas turbine, a steam turbine, 22MW of wind turbines and 50MW of eSolar concentrated solar thermal tower technology.
Continue readingAREVA M5000 5 Megawatt offshore wind turbines are tested
The combined effect of these advantages increases wind energy project reliability and shortens installation times and costs. AREVA Wind power finalized the wind farm test facility in the beginning of October 2011.
Continue readingGamesa to supply wind turbines for enXco wind farm
The 38MW Chestnut Flats wind farm in Logan Township, northwest of Pennsylvania, features 18 Gamesa G90-2.0MW and one Gamesa G87-2.0MW wind turbines.
Continue readingNordex USA wins two new wind turbine orders for Iowa
The Hawkeye Wind Farm, with 15 wind turbines and capacity of 37.5MW, is about 50 miles northeast of Waterloo. Rippey Wind Farm, with 20 wind turbines and capacity of 50MW is about 50 miles northwest of Des Moines.
Continue readingGE to supply wind turbines for wind farm in Mongolia
The GE wind turbines powering Salkhit Wind Farm will generate nearly 5 per cent of Mongolia?s current electricity. GE?s involvement in the Salkhit Wind Farm project includes equipment supply.
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