Preparing electric cars with lithium ion batteries for the compact commercial market, aiming to become the leader in zero emissions.
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Duke Energy Corp. is building its second large-scale wind farm in Kansas, providing electricity for Kansas City Power & Light Co..
Continue readingWind energy in Cook Islands
This project spans a new wind power monitoring system for Atiu, moving the wind monitoring system from Mitiaro to Mauke as well as a site study for a wind farm on Rarotonga.
Continue readingBP secures wind power PPA for a wind farm
BP Wind Energy has entered into two long-term PPA from its proposed Mehoopany Wind Farm in the US state of Pennsylvania.
Continue readingNordex to deliver 32.5 MW in wind energy in Poland and France
Wind power Nordex has received two new wind turbines orders from Poland and France that will amount to 32.5 MW of additional wind farm capacity between the two countries.
Continue readingNew Jersey has the chance to be the first state in the country to have an offshore wind energy program
An offshore wind farm program would create thousands of jobs for the state.
Continue readingSolar energy in China
Zhao Chunjiang’s dream is that one day every rooftop in this eastern metropolis will have a solar power generator.
Continue readingTibet’s largest solar energy plant starts operation
The 30-megawatt (MW) solar power plant project is located in Xigaze Prefecture, about 3 km northwest of Tibet’s second-largest city of Xigaze.
Continue readingSkyFuel Named Concentrating Solar Power Supplier of the Year
Parabolic trough solar thermal maker SkyFuel was honored as concentrated solar energy (CSP) Technology Supplier of the Year at last week’s CSP Today USA Summit in Las Vegas.
Continue readingBD Otomotive in talks to rescue electric car maker Think
?Our intentions are simple ? to bring Think out of bankruptcy and make it the affordable urban electric vehicles for Europe it was always designed to be,? BD Otomotive Chairman Osman Boyner said. Think sold just 1,043 electric cars of the City in 2010.
Continue readingJV to Manufacture Electrolytes for Lithium-Ion Batteries For Electric Vehicles
The Dow Chemical Company and Ube Industries, Ltd. (Ube) announced an agreement to form a joint venture to manufacture and market formulated electrolytes for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) in energy storage.
Continue readingMitsubishi unveils cheaper i-MiEV electric vehicles
The electric car i-MiEV would be able to power an average household for at least a day.
Continue readingElectric vehicles charging facility at Ceme
The Transport Minister, Norman Baker MP, has opened a new solar power assisted electric car charging facility at the Centre of Engineering and Manufacturing Excellence (CEME) in Rainham, East London.
Continue readingAntelope Valley?s First Solar Energy Standard Community
KB Home?s Arroyo community is the first in the Antelope Valley to offer solar power systems as a standard feature on all new homes.
Continue readingNorthland Power Announces OPA for Wind Farm in the Grand Bend Area
The wind farm had been in a project queue, pending upgrade of the Bruce-to-Milton Ontario power transmission line.
Continue readingBP Wind Energy Announces PPA for Pennsylvania Wind Farm
The wind farm is expected to generate up to 144 MW of energy and is anticipated to utilize approximately 90 GE 1.6 MW wind turbines. BP Wind Energy will market the remaining capacity to other customers.
Continue readingCanWEA applauds Nova Scotia for setting wind farm pay rates
The Canadian Wind Energy Association says the feed-in tariffs set by the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board will make the province a leader in small wind power developments.
Continue readingRising Temperatures Melting Away Global Food Security
It is now in their interest to try and save their mountain glaciers by shifting energy investment from coal-fired power plants into energy efficiency, wind energy, and solar thermal and geothermal energy.
Continue readingTwo-thirds of consumers would pay more for products made with wind energy
Two-thirds say they would be willing to pay more for products made with wind power. Overwhelmingly they either prefer or don?t mind seeing wind turbines in their daily life.
Continue readingVestas: Stealth wind turbines test in U.K. successful
Wind power manufacturer Vestas said that it has successfully tested a wind turbine using “stealth” technology rotor blades that reduced radar reflection by 99 percent compared with a normal wind turbine.
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