Householders across the country could get up to £1250 of government funding to help towards the cost of installing renewable heating systems such as biomass boilers, air and heat pumps and solar thermal panels.
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Pentagon clears Kansas wind power projects
The Defense Department says a half-dozen wind farm projects planned in Kansas would have little or no effect on military missions.
Continue readingRenewable Energy 2011 Global Status Report
The EU exceeded all its 2010 targets for wind energy, solar photovoltaic, concentrating solar thermal power, and heating/heat pumps.
Continue readingConergy completes Great Britain?s largest solar power plant
The solar energy project was clearly a race against time to meet the deadline of July 31, 2011 ? but we made it, even more than two weeks beforehand thanks to our brilliant solar expert team.
Continue readingAmerican Wind Capital Acquires Wind Farm in California
AWCC also announced a minority investment in Grant County Wind, a 20 MW wind project in Minnesota in which AWCC partnered with Olympus Power.
Continue readingUK sets ambitious offshore wind power targets, electricity market reforms criticised
The UK government has called for ambitious goals on offshore wind energy in the government?s ?UK Renewable Energy Roadmap?, published on Tuesday. The targets is for 18 gigawatts of offshore wind farm by 2020.
Continue readingNorth Carolina & South Carolina Collaborate to Accelerate Offshore Wind Power Projects
Representatives from South Carolina as well as North Carolina met in Charlotte in June to discuss opportunities for collaborating to accelerate a development of offshore wind energy on a south Atlantic seaboard.
Continue readingTitan Tracker heliostat for pilot Concentrating Solar Power in India
SunBorne Energy is developing a 1 MWth concentrated solar energy tower system. This R&D solar thermal project is funded by Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Government of India, and SunBorne Energy.
Continue readingSiemens to supply 50 MW concentrating solar power plant in Spain
The concentrated solar energy plant Termosolar Olivenza 1 is planned to go operational by the end of 2012.
Continue readingWind energy Vestas opens EU Representative Office
New Brussels office to strengthen Vestas? EU stakeholder relationships and EU presence.
Continue readingIberdrola Renovables and Dong choose Siemens to supply wind turbines for West Of Duddon Sands offshore wind farm
The wind energy contract, the biggest ever of this type signed by the Spanish company, amounts to nearly ?700 million. The wind power agreement includes 108 3.6 MW, 80 metres high wind turbines.
Continue readingSky Power Solutions Forms Alliance With Li-ion Motors
The residential solar power station will have the ability to reduce the average user’s monthly electric grid consumption by up to 30-40% with ZERO emissions and a ZERO carbon footprint using only the power of the Sun.
Continue readingGreengate Power Corporation is focused on development of quality wind energy projects across Alberta
The sale of Halkirk I wind farm follows the closing of a private placement financing by Greengate in April 2011 for total gross proceeds of C$14.3 million.
Continue readingEstonia?s ?wired? Global Wind Day
Although small wind turbines might be complicated to use in cities, Estonia still has many remote areas where electricity is not always taken for granted.
Continue readingAeva Selected by Australian Government for New Concentrating Solar Power
The Australian Government has selected the AREVA Solar, CS Energy and Wind Prospect CWP consortium?s ?Solar Dawn? as the preferred solar thermal power project in Solar Flagships Program.
Continue readingLM Wind Power marks Global Wind Day with some ?big? news
LM Wind Power?s new wind turbines blade for offshore wind farm plants was developed by the company?s specialist engineers in Denmark, the Netherlands and India.
Continue readingAustralia looks forward to its first Global Wind Day!
Infigen Energy are looking forward to talking about wind turbines and how wind power is turned into electricity.
Continue readingFrum errs on wind energy’s cost
Conservative activist David Frum repeated some misconceptions about wind power in a commentary that aired recently on American Public Media’s “Marketplace” radio program.
Continue readingIgnacio Galán and Alex Salmond inaugurate the Arecleoch and Mark Hill wind energy plants in Scotland
This has helped strengthen the company’s status as the global leader in wind power sector by wind farm capacity (12,834 MW at the end of the first quarter of 2011).
Continue readingMexico to analyze its wind energy potential
According to Amdee, the country has identified so far wind farm projects that together generate 10,000 MW but ?we have the potential for a substantially higher amount.”
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