The country?s first wind turbines with 6 MW of installed wind energy capacity are due to come online this year. The country?s total estimated wind power capacity to be connected to the system is 1,300 MW.
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Tenesol builds 7 MWp Photovoltaic system on 188 farm buildings ? benefits owners and region
Tenesol, the global solar power provider owned by energy giants TOTAL and EDF, has completed a ?34 million rooftop PV system spread across 188 agricultural buildings belonging to 109 individual farmers.
Continue readingSecond Wind’s Technology Gains Ground in South Africa’s Expanding Wind Power Market
Company partners WISE to bring advanced wind resource assessment to South African wind energy industry. The country has a relatively modest 10MW of installed wind farm capacity today.
Continue readingRenault Fires 2 Men Accused of Selling Secrets About Electric Vehicles
The two men ? Michel Balthazard, formerly a member of the Renault management committee and a top official of the company?s electric car program, and his subordinate Bertrand Rochette ? both received termination notices.
Continue readingSolar power use in cell towers can reduce CO2
If all these cellphone towers use solar energy then it could save a great amount of fossil fuels as well as reduce carbon emissions.
Continue readingMore wind energy in Jamaica
Wigton Wind Farm in south Manchester is now up and running with an additional 14 MW of wind power after spending close to US$50 million to install nine Vestas V80 wind turbines.
Continue readingSkyFuel launches new R&D concentrated solar energy program
SkyFuel, Inc., a solar thermal concentrating power technology and service provider, has launched a new R&D program on a parabolic trough concentrating solar collector.
Continue readingHere Enterprises Selects Talon Wind Turbines From A&C Green Energy for Texas Wind Farm
Here Enterprises, Inc. (HRTE.PK) is a developer of wind power. Here Enterprises acquired its first wind energy development project, Cycle Ranch, in September, 2010.
Continue readingInvenergy and NYSERDA Enter Into Wind Energy Credit Purchase Agreement
The High Sheldon Wind Farm, Invenergy’s first operating wind energy center in New York, is a 112.5 MW wind power project consisting of 75 GE 1.5sle wind turbines.
Continue readingSiemens to Supply Steam Turbine-Generators for Concentrating Solar Power Thermal
Siemens Energy has received an order for the supply of an SPPA-T3000 instrumentation & controls (I&C) system and two steam turbine-generators for the Ivanpah concentrated solar energy thermal plant in California.
Continue readingFirst Sahara Forest deal kicks off ambitious green desert project in Jordan
The main pillars on which the project rests are salt water greenhouses, concentrating solar power, and cultivation of traditional crops along with energy crops such as algae.
Continue readingRenault: stolen secrets included details of how to build lithium ion batteries for electric cars
Renault admitted that details of the design and costs of the electric vehicles could have been leaked. The stolen secrets included details of how to build lithium ion batteries for electric car.
Continue readingUS, Chinese firms to build world’s largest solar photovoltaic plant
First Solar will build a 2,000-megawatt (2 GW) solar power plant with its partners in Ordos, Inner Mongolia. The first phase of the solar energy project is to build a 30-MW production capacity plant.
Continue readingSelf-repairing solar cells described
U.S. researchers say they’ve produced a new class of solar photovoltaic cells that can repair themselves much like plants do through photosynthesis.
Continue readingTessera announces surprise sale of US solar concentrating thermal power project to K Road Power
Tessera Solar has sold its Calico concentrated solar energy project in California to K Road Power.
Continue readingChina rare earth restraints
The Ministry of Commerce announced Tuesday the first round of 2011 export quotas for rare earths, standing at 14,446 tons, an 11 percent first-round drop on last year.
Continue readingWind power Vestas gets 21 MW wind turbines order from Germany
New wind energy customer chooses V112-3.0 MW wind turbines for a wind farm in Germany.
Continue readingXtreme Power and Xcel Energy Partner With SolarTAC on Utility-Scale Solar-to-Battery
The project aims to display the real-world results of integrating storage systems with photovoltaic and concentrating solar thermal power installations, to more efficiently incorporate energy from renewable sources.
Continue readingWind energy become part of South Dakota prairie
South Dakota Wind Partners raised the necessary $16 million from South Dakota investors in a unique publicly invested wind farm. Completion of the wind power project is scheduled for April.
Continue readingCPV’s 152-MW Keenan II Wind Farm in Northwest Oklahoma Commences Commercial Operation
Located on 8,000 acres 12 miles southwest of Woodward, Oklahoma, the wind energy project is the second phase of a multi-phased wind turbines project with a total build-out potential exceeding 350 MW.
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