At the occasion of its biannual Policy Conference (EREC 2011), EREC calls for a legally binding renewable energy target of 45% of final energy consumption in the EU by 2030.
Continue readingPressure grows for stronger EU climate and energy action
European Wind Energy Association fully supports a 45% renewable energy target for 2030. 400 billion Euro need to be invested in new wind power generation over the next two decades.
Continue readingElectric Vehicles Era Starts in Poland
Electric cars are increasingly popular on the Polish market. There is already the electric car Mitsubishi i-MiEV with lithium ion batteries available.
Continue readingToshiba to spend $8.6 bn on wind energy and batteries for electric vehicles
Toshiba is planning to invest on wind power, as the Fukushima atomic crisis casts a shadow over the prospects for the firm’s nuclear power business. Toshiba announced an alliance with South Korean wind turbines Unison.
Continue readingWind power Vestas launches upgraded 2 MW wind turbines at AWEA
Wind farm customers can deploy a modular fleet of compliant 2 MW wind turbines. Wind turbines is launched at this week?s American Wind Energy Association?s (AWEA) fair in California, USA.
Continue readingIrresponsible wind power curtailment plan
Select quotes: Congressman Earl Blumenauer, the wind industry, county officials and conservationists push back on Bonneville Power Administration’s irresponsible wind energy curtailment plan.
Continue readingWind energy – PCW begins unique avian monitoring program
Study is part of comprehensive wildlife conservation plan
complementing wind farm development, as part of its ongoing efforts to develop an environmentally responsible wind turbines project.
Wireless Charging Technology Empowers Electric Vehicles
A new West Technology Research Solutions report evaluates market potential for inductive wireless charging technologies in electric car applications.
Continue readingSiemens to Open U.S. Wind Energy Service Distribution Center in Woodward, Oklahoma
Need for new service distribution center a sign of maturation of the U.S. wind power industry.
Continue readingNorth Lanarkshire Council purchases fleet of Mitsubishi electric cars i-MiEVs
North Lanarkshire Council just got a little bit greener by taking delivery of 12 new pure electric vehicles with lithium ion batteries to extend its pool car scheme.
Continue readingElectric vehicles Nissan Leaf gets solar power
The advanced solar energy chargers, which will be operational for use by Nissan employees and visitors by July 1, are designed to charge the Nissan LEAF, the world?s first affordable, all electric car.
Continue readingIowa Leads Nation in Wind Energy Generation
State announces new wind farm projects and continued renewable energy platform. Acciona Windpower was recently awarded over $3 million by the Iowa Power Fund to install new wind turbines in Iowa.
Continue readingGoldwind and Timken Sign Memorandum of Collaboration Advancing Wind Energy
“Our collaboration with Goldwind demonstrates mutual value and appreciation of the respective capabilities we bring to advance wind power development,” said Christopher Coughlin, president of Process Industries at Timken.
Continue readingMortenson Construction Building 11 New Wind Farm Projects in U.S.
On the heels of its landmark 100th wind energy project announcement, Mortenson’s Renewable Energy Groups is cautiously optimistic about the potential for new wind power generation throughout North America in 2011 and 2012.
Continue readingGiant Delivery for World?s Largest Wind Farm as First GE Wind Turbines Arrive
Shepherds Flat wind power in Oregon to Use 338 GE 2.5-100 Wind Turbines to Generate 845 Megawatts of Wind Energy. Completion Expected in 2012.
Continue readingGE Launches 1.6-100 wind turbines
GE (NYSE: GE) unveiled its latest wind turbine technology, the 1.6-100, at the American Wind Energy Association?s (AWEA) Windpower 2011 Conference & Exhibition.
Continue readingRenewable energy to meet 77% of demand by year 2050
Direct solar energy technologies harness the energy of solar irradiance to produce electricity using photovoltaics (PV) and concentrating solar power (CSP) to produce solar thermal energy.
Continue readingWind farm developer launches intensive avian monitoring program
As part of its ongoing efforts to develop a wind energy project, Power Company of Wyoming, LLC, (PCW) said last week that it has started an intensive avian monitoring program at its proposed wind power project site.
Continue readingWINDPOWER 2011 hightlights industry trends, job creation
California gets more than 3 percent of its generation from wind on average, peaking at over 5 percent. America is ahead of schedule to make 20 percent of its electricity from wind farm by 2030.
Continue readingOman – 200 MW solar power project soon
Final government nod for Oman’s first large scale grid-connected solar energy project, which will have an envisaged capacity to generate 200 megawatt power, is expected soon.
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