The first High Altitude Wind Power (HAWP) Conference was announced today by its sponsors, California State University Chico, the BayTEC Alliance and the Cleantech Innovation Center at Oroville.
Continue readingLGC Skyrota Wind Energy Corp. Selected by Eco Wind Power to Provide Gearbox Maintenance Services
Eco Wind Power’s operational wind farm capacity is 24MW, with a further 121MW of fully approved wind generating capacity under development. The company currently operates 35 wind turbines.
Continue readingREpower UK Wins Contract With E.ON
REpower UK has won its first contract with E.ON in Britain and will ?repower? an old wind farm with new, high specification turbines, increasing the electricity generated almost three fold.
Continue readingSiemens and Airtricity sign contract for major onshore wind farm in Scotland
Siemens and Airtricity, the renewable energy development division of Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE), signed a contract on the supply of wind turbines for a major onshore wind farm in Southern Scotland.
Continue readingSamsung looking to build wind farm on north shore of Ontario’s Lake Erie
Samsung is apparently pondering a wind farm comprising 200 turbines on the north shore of Lake Erie but the Ontario government would only confirm Sunday that talks with the Korean-based company are in advanced stages.
Continue readingEDF Energies Nouvelles is Commissioning the Castanet Wind Farm in France
Following on from the entry into service of the Veulettes and Canton de Bonneval wind farms, EDF Energies Nouvelles (Paris:EEN) announces the commissioning of a new 13.8 MW wind farm at Castanet in the south of France.
Continue readingEl parque eólico La Noguera de Turrillas en Almería generará 30 MW
Con el parque de La Noguera de Turrillas, Almería tendrá 366 MW eólicos, el 86% de las energías renovables de Almería.
Continue readingSiemens to build wind turbine production facility in the U.S.
Additional capital investment in green technologies – 400 new jobs to be created. Siemens intends to build a new production facility for wind turbines in the state of Kansas.
Continue readingEólica en Chile-La Corema aprueba el parque eólico de Laguna Verde, en Valparaíso
El parque eólico, el primero de la Quinta región, tendrá 20 aerogeneradores y 24 MW, se localizará en Punta Curaumilla, a aproximadamente 15 kilómetros al sur de Valparaíso y lo hará la empresa Inversiones EW Limitada.
Continue readingWind Power: Generating Electricity and Employment By Gloria Ayee, Marcy Lowe and Gary Gereffi
Wind power is a cost effective, renewable energy solution for electricity generation. Wind power can dramatically reduce the environmental impacts associated with power generated from fossil fuels.
Continue reading365 Energy Brings Coulomb Technologies Intelligent Charging Stations for E-Mobility to Norway
Norwegian energy supplier Eidsiva commenced operation of the first ?intelligent? charging station for electric vehicles in Gjøvik (Oppland Province), which is supplied by global market leader Coulomb Technologies.
Continue readingCorridor of Solar-Powered Electric Vehicle Charging Stations
SolarCity and Rabobank will enable electric vehicles to travel between San Francisco and Los Angeles. The SolarCity owned and operated corridor, built with electric car Tesla, will provide a full charge in one-third the amount of time of other charging stations.
Continue readingLa Generalitat de Cataluña destina 37,7 millones al ahorro energético y a las energías renovables
La Generalitat pone en marcha una línea de subvención de 37,7 millones para proyectos de ahorro y eficiencia energética (32,2 millones) y de energías renovables (5,5 millones) a través del Institut Català de l’Energia.
Continue readingWhirlpool Corporation To Produce One Million Smart Grid-Compatible Clothes Dryers
Whirlpool Corporation (NYSE: WHR) continues its legacy of innovation with the announcement that it will produce one million Smart Energy clothes dryers by the end of 2011 as part of the U.S. DOE Smart Grid Investment.
Continue readingLa AIE pide a España que retire los subsidios al carbón
La AIE también recomienda a España subir los impuestos sobre los carburantes. Respecto a las primas a las renovables (eólica, fotovoltaica, termosolar) considera normal que se ayude a tecnologías que están empezando.
Continue readingLa central nuclear Olkiluoto en Finlandia costará el doble de lo previsto
La única central nuclear que se construye en Europa es un rotundo fracaso: costes disparados y retrasos de años. ¿Dónde está el renacer de la energía nuclear? Sólo en la imaginación y en la burda manipulación.
Continue readingPhotovoltaic Industry in China By Arnulf Jager-Waldau (JRC)
Production rose from just 3 MW in 2001 to 1070 MW in 2007 and for 2008 the estimates vary between 2.3 and 2.9 GW. For 2009, capacity increases to 8.9 GW have been announced, whereas the figure stands at 12.3 GW for 2010.
Continue readingWind Power in Mexico By Marco A. Borja (IIE)
Total installed wind energy generation 84.6 MW in 2008. During 2008, three new wind power plants were under construction. All three are to be commissioned in 2009. The target: 2.2 GW by 2010 to 2012.
Continue readingMicro Bubble Technologies Unveils M-Fuel and CNT-Battery
MBT’s Carbon Nano Tube battery (CNT-Battery) demonstrated to have 8 times the energy reserve capacity of traditional lead-acid batteries, 2.5 times that of lithium-ion batteries and a recharge time of five to 10 minutes.
Continue readingEl vehículo eléctrico ayudará a reducir las emisiones de CO2
El coche eléctrico enchufable a la red se implantará de forma masiva antes de lo que imaginamos. El sistema eléctrico está preparado con la condición de que la recarga sea controlada a través de las TIC.
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