Massachusetts-based A123 Systems will supply its lithium-ion battery for electric cars.
Continue readingBangladesh Minister Stresses Low-cost Solar Energy
Aftab urged all banks to provide easy loans the solar power manufacturers to help make it such power cost-effective.
Continue readingPattern Energy completes financing on 75 MW wind power project in Puerto Rico
Pattern Energy Group has completed financing for Finca de Viento Santa Isabel wind energy project in Puerto Rico. Siemens Financial Services provided financing for the 75MW wind farm, located in Santa Isabel.
Continue readingRare Earths are critical for electric vehicles and wind power
Rare Earths are critical for hybrid cars, wind turbines, low energy light bulbs, laptop hard drives, LEDs, LCDs, plasma screens and other electronic appliances as well as precision-guided weapons
Continue readingDenmark boosts wind power ambition to half of power needs
The increased wind energy target is part of a more ambitious 2020 emissions-reduction plan for a 40% cut in CO2 compared to 1990 levels.
Continue readingVicini invests in the Largest Energy Farm Project in the Caribbean
Vicini saw today the completion of the first phase of the wind farm, Los Cocos, located in the south west of the Dominican Republic
Continue readingWind energy plants in Canada to use Vestas wind turbines
Vestas has received an order for 99 V90-1.8 MW wind turbines for two wind farm projects in southwestern Ontario, Canada that will total 178 MW.
Continue readingDomincan Republic Unveils Country’s First Wind Farm
In the western town of Juancho of the Pedernales Province, President Leonel Fernandez revealed the Vestas’ 14 wind turbines, saying it can produce 33 megawatts of wind power.
Continue readingWindsource® – More wind energy, more flexibility at reduced cost
Xcel Energy is proposing to transform the company?s popular Windsource® program. The changes would cut the price of wind energy in half.
Continue readingThe Canadian Wind Energy Association has not in any way changed its position on wind power and human health.
The balance of scientific and medical evidence clearly concludes that sound from wind farm is not unique and that wind turbines do not have a direct impact on human health.
Continue readingGemasolar Concentrating Solar Thermal Power Achieves 24-Hour Operation
The Gemasolar solar thermal can reach operating temperatures of more than 500°C, much higher than other types of concentrated solar energy plant, which use parabolic trough technology.
Continue readingHouse Energy and Power Subcommittee hearing on barriers to modernizing the electric grid
The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) released the following statement in reaction to today’s Energy and Power Subcommittee hearing, entitled “The American Energy Initiative.”
Continue readingGeothermal energy in Japan
The government aims to have the newly selected sites for geothermal energy plants supplying power in about 10 years.
Continue readingEASE, Europe?s energy storage association, was established
EASE was set up by Enel and 12 other European operators with the aim of promoting storage of energy, specially of electricity, designed to play a strategic role in future energy systems.
Continue readingPhotovoltaic solar energy speeds up, grid parity already in 2013
Shifting to solar power is therefore a desirable option for the achievement of environmental sustainability targets and is also a successful solution in terms of competitiveness.
Continue readingEnel Green Power to raise wind energy capacity in Romania to 400 MW
EGP it is among the industry leaders worldwide thanks to its approximately 22 billion KWh generated from a well balanced energy mix inclusive of water, solar power, wind power and geothermal energy sources.
Continue readingConcentrated solar power Desectec project must be more open
The US$500-billion scheme promises power from a network of concentrating solar thermal power (CSP) stations across MENA, connected to each other and to the European Grid through undersea cables.
Continue readingMore Than 5000 Gearmotors for Concentrating Solar Thermal Power Plant
Gemasolar is the first ever commercial-scale CSP (concentrated solar energy) plant with central tower technology that implements a heat storage system based on molten salts.
Continue readingSolar assets energize southern Arizona
Amonix, a leader in CPV (concentrated photovoltaic) solar power systems, established a utility scale solar energy 2-megawatt AC Nameplate power plant within 12 acres of the designated ?Solar Zone? of the UA TechPark.
Continue readingEnel Green Power Wind Farm Enters Operation in Portugal
The company’s installed capacity exceeds 6,100 MW, produced by more than 620 plants in operation around the world, with a generation mix that includes wind power, solar power, hydro, geothermal energy and biomass.
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