The Ouarzazate concentrated solar thermal power plant is the first in Morocco’s $9 billion solar power program, vital for a country that has no oil or gas but has an abundance of sun.

Concentrating solar thermal power plants are indispensable to meet Europe?s energy demands and to reduce greenhouse gases emissions substantially, according to a new study by a European scientific commission.

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The wind energy project was to have had a total investment of US$70 million, but actually it came closer to US$50 million, to produce the energy that will be incorporated in the Sistema Interconectado Central (SIC).

IMPSA, a renewable energy company, will get a $150 million loan from the Inter-American Development Bank to help finance its plans to expand wind power in Latin America.

The World Wind Energy Association (WWEA) celebrates its tenth Anniversary. Ten years ago, in July 2001, delegates from all over the world decided in Copenhagen to create an association that represents the wind power.

Conducted by Pike Research, the latest report claims that wind farm installations by 2017 will represent a ?113 billion global industry, up from ?57 billion in 2011.

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.

Many concentrated solar energy projects this year have elected to change from concentrating solar power, or CSP, which uses heat to create steam that powers a generator, to photovoltaic.

The modules will be used as part of an approximately $600 million investment by Northland to build ground-mounted solar projects in Ontario, representing one of the largest investments in Ontario’s solar energy sector.

GE estimated the cost of the Salkhit Wind Power Plant at $100 million but didn’t put a value on the wind energy turbines.

Although compared to Germany, U.S. and Spain, China still has a long way to go in research and manufacturing of concentrated solar thermal power generation equipment.

Sopogy is developing modular collectors about one-third the size of a traditional concentrated solar power mirror in an effort to achieve significant cost-reductions for CSP.

The discussion was also to reflect on the best practices from other areas in the promotion of public-private partnerships for the development of renewable energy sector, particularly solar energy.

The natural gas-fired power plant, with 50 MW of solar energy generation, is one of the first of its kind in the nation required to limit greenhouse gas emissions.

General Electric (GE) is to supply wind turbines to Mongolia’s first wind energy farm in a $100m deal.