Volkswagen wants to use bestsellers such as the Golf to take electric vehicles out of their niche model status and to become the market leader for a new type of sustainable mobility by 2018.
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Coulomb Technologies Announces Plant a Station Campaign
Coulomb Technologies a leader in electric vehicles (EV) charging station infrastructure announced ?Plant a Station? campaign.
Continue readingWind power in Turkey
In 2009, 343 MW of new wind energy capacity were added in Turkey, bringing the total up to 801 MW. This represents a year-on-year growth rate of 75%.
Continue readingGuangdong to build China’s 800 MW offshore wind power plant
China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group is planning to build an 800 MW wind farm in Yuxi City, in the province of Yunnan.
Continue readingEDF EN Canada Inc. Announces Acquisition of wind energy company Saint-Laurent Énergies
EDF EN Canada Inc. Announces Acquisition of Hydroméga Shares in Saint-Laurent Énergies.
Continue readingLinamar and NCB Lohmann Form Strategic Alliance to Pursue Wind Turbines Components in North America
Linamar Corporation (TSX:LNR) and German-based NCB Lohmann GmbH announced that they have formed a strategic alliance to pursue wind turbines components for customers in North America.
Continue readingThe quixotic opposition to Cape Wind … By Tom Gray
… is sent up nicely by The New Yorker magazine with the cover of its latest issue. The cover depicts a pilgrim perched on a whale, tilting at the offshore windmills with a Don Quixote-style lance.
Continue readingElectric Vehicles Join UPS Fleet in Houston
UPS (NYSE:UPS) today announced its fleet of alternative-fuel vehicles had expanded with the deployment of 25 next-generation hybrid electric delivery trucks to Houston.
Continue readingenXco Announces Changes in Executive Management Team
enXco, an EDF Energies Nouvelles Company (PARIS: EEN) is pleased to welcome Deborah Gronvold in the position of Executive Vice President for Implementation and Generation and the promotion of Paul Kaufman.
Continue readingMerkel’s aim is to have 1 million electric vehicles by 2020
Merkel, who has set a goal of 1 million electric cars on German roads by 2020, is leading an attempt to accelerate German research and development into the industry.
Continue readingSweden plans tenfold wind power increase
Sweden has some of the best wind conditions in the world, the costs have decreased and the expansion has finally caught wind”, says Johan Ihrfelt, CEO of wind energy company O2.
Continue readingOrmonde Wind Farm in the Irish Sea has now formally been kicked off
The Ormonde Offshore Wind Farm is situated 10 km off Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. On completion the wind farm will comprise 30 RePower 5 MW wind turbines.
Continue readingUnlike oil spills, emissions-free offshore wind power doesn?t pollute By Chris Rose
Just days after the unfolding oil-related environmental disaster started in the Gulf of Mexico, a number of Democratic lawmakers began lobbying the US government to quickly get involved in approving an offshore wind farm
Continue readingWind power beats a new record in Spain
Wind energy was 40% of the daily electricity demand in Spain, as it remained over twelve hours above 12,000 megawatts, between 09:40 and 20.50 hours.
Continue readingEDP Renewables registers double-digit growth in Q1 2010
EDP Renewables (EDP Renováveis, Euronext: EDPR), a global leader in the renewable energy sector and the world’s third-largest wind energy producer, announced that gross profit increased 22% between January and March.
Continue readingArab League delegation visits Concentrating Solar Power in Spain
A high-level delegation from the League of Arab States visited Acciona’s solar thermal/CSP facility in Alvarado (Badajoz), the first of its kind in the Spanish region of Extremadura.
Continue readingEuropean wind power and cable industries are world leaders
On the demand side we must move towards a more intelligent pricing of electricity giving consumers better price signals so that non-essential electricity consumption can be moved to times of lower demand.
Continue readingMexico: EIB finances wind farm
The EIB has granted a EUR 78.5 million loan to the Iberdrola Group to finance a wind farm in the south-west of Mexico.
Continue readingNotes from the Good Jobs Green Jobs Conference By Chris Madison
The underlying theme at the Good Jobs Green Jobs conference in Washington this week was, ?Wind works.? But workers once again risk being the victims of broken policy.
Continue readingAdvanced technology for the production of thin film solar photovoltaic panels
The new technique, developed by the Oregon State University, will produce CIGS thin films with chemical bath deposition, by using continuous nanostructure flow microreactors.
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