Masdar shelved plans for the world?s first building that makes more energy than it consumes, a year after the financial crisis forced the Abu Dhabi company to step back from setting up the first carbon-neutral city.
Continue readingWind energy Gamesa in India
Besides localising, Gamesa is also creating a market where none exists. Kymal is looking at wind turbines that were installed in the 1990s.
Continue readingGeneral Electric enters Brazilian solar energy market
General Electric (GE) and MPX, a division of EBX Group, owned by businessman Eike Batista, have entered into a partnership that will double the output of the latter company’s first solar power plant in Brazil.
Continue readingNew York utilities propose massive joint offshore wind energy project
Three utilities serving the New York City metropolitan area in the US have filed a lease application with federal regulators to develop a 350 MW wind farm off the south shore of the state’s suburban Long Island community.
Continue readingMolycorp Breaks off Discussions with Sumitomo Corporation
The rare earths are critical inputs in existing and emerging applications including: clean energy technologies, such as hybrid and electric vehicles and wind energy.
Continue readingToyota Introduces 2012 Prius Plug-in Hybrid
The new Prius Plug-in combines the benefits of the standard Prius model’s hybrid vehicle operation with extended electric vehicles.
Continue readingSaft Launches Lithium-Ion Battery Plant
This facility is dedicated to building advanced lithium-ion cells and batteries for energy storage for renewable energy, smart grid support, broadband back-up power, electric vehicles and defense.
Continue readingLauren-Jyoti Receives EPC Contract Award For 50 MW Concentrated Solar Thermal Power Plant
This concentrating solar energy project is a part of the Government-Sponsored Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission which has provided a timeline for developing a large number of solar thermal projects in India.
Continue readingADB Loan Boosts Solar Power in India’s Gujarat
By putting in reliable power transmission facilities in the solar energy park, ADB will help draw in private sector developers, while providing a model which can be replicated to scale up solar power.
Continue readingConcentrated Solar Thermal Power in the United States (US), Market Outlook to 2020
The research analyzes investment trends in the concentrating solar thermal power market in the US and some of the major deals pertaining to the market.
Continue readingenXco Celebrates the Shiloh III Wind Energy Project
enXco celebrates the development and construction of the Shiloh III Wind Power Project with a blade signing ceremony. The wnd farm consists of 50 REpower 2.05 MW wind turbines.
Continue readingOffshore (and land-based) wind energy needs stable policy
With roughly 3,000 megawatts of wind farm generating capacity already in European offshore waters, and thousands more on the way, it’s clear that there is currently momentum in the wind power market.
Continue readingJapan wants to harness wind energy off the coast of Fukushima
With a death toll of nearly 16,000 people, the related disasters have caused Japan?s leaders to re-examine commitments to their nuclear industry while encouraging the increased use of wind power.
Continue readingGE technology to help MPX double its solar energy production in Brazil
GE (NYSE:GE) and MPX, a division of EBX Group, owned by businessman Eike Batista, announced an agreement that will double the output of MPX’s first solar power plant in Brazil.
Continue readingAbengoa to Commence Construction of the Mojave Concentrated Solar Power Project
The plant using concentrating solar power (CSP) will deploy sophisticated proprietary parabolic trough know-how of the company to augment the efficiency of the plant and bring down the total investment cost.
Continue readingTEi Equipment Selected for New Concentrated Solar Thermal Plant in Desert Southwest
The plant will be using Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) technology to capture heat generated by sunlight to convert into electricity. Upon its completion, this solar thermal plant will generate 280 Megawatts.
Continue readingAcciona planning a 144 MW Australia wind energy plant
The 48 wind turbines in Exmoor wind farm would be located about 15 km north of Naracoorte in the southeast region of South Australia.
Continue readingAmerican Superconductor sues Chinese wind energy partner
AMSC believes that Sinovel illegally obtained and used AMSC’s intellectual property to upgrade its 1.5 megawatt wind turbines in the field to meet proposed Chinese grid codes.
Continue readingSiemens Wind energy Plant in Hutchinson Awarded LEED Gold Certification
The plant designed to manufacture nacelles for the 2.3 MW and 3.0 MW wind turbines produced by the company was opened in December 2010.
Continue readingDeepwater Wind to Propose Offshore Wind Energy Farm
Wind Power Project Would Supply New York City and Long Island. Deepwater Wind is a Providence, Rhode Island-based offshore wind turbines developer.
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