It is expected that approximately 50 wind turbines will be needed to generate the wind power at the wind farm plants.
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Hannover, Days 3 and 4: Offshore wind energy talk, Wrap-up
The offshore wind farm industry in the United States can certainly benefit from lessons learned by the European offshore wind power industry.
Continue readingGeneral Motors Leads in Electric Vehicles Patents
The Clean Energy Patent Growth Index tracks the granting of U.S. patents in solar energy, wind power, hybrid/electric vehicles, tidal/wave energy, geothermal energy, biomass/biofuels and clean, renewable energy.
Continue readingFree Home and Public Charging Stations for Electric Vehicles Available with the Addition of Six New Cities
ChargePoint Network Expands into Baltimore, Tampa, Boston, Santa Barbara, Ventura, Monterey; Free Home and Public Charging Stations for Electric Cars Available.
Continue readingSuzlon ? GL Renewables mark decade of excellence in wind power
Suzlon Group, one of the world?s leading wind turbines companies, and GL Renewables Certification, a wind energy certification body, marked ten years of collaboration in a ceremony at the Wind Power India,
Continue readingVestas plans to set up wind energy plant in Angola in 2012
The CEO of Vestas in Portugal, Mário de Graviria Forbian, said in Luanda that in 2012 his company planned to set up an industrial unit for production of wind turbines for wind power plants in Angola.
Continue readingTotal acquires solar power Tenesol
Tenesol, which was created in 1983, is a top-tier solar energy operator in Europe, leader in the French market for large industrial and commercial photovoltaic rooftop solutions.
Continue readingNREL Team Investigates Secondary Uses for Electric Vehicles Batteries
The U.S. Department of Energy?s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), industry and academia are teaming to give lithium ion batteries from electric cars a ?second life.?
Continue readingIEA: More wind energy and other renewables needed to replace oil
Wind power must see an annual average growth rate of 17% and solar power 22% to meet their 2020 targets. Global installed wind farm capacity at the end of 2010 was about 197 GW.
Continue readingAccelerating the Transition to Renewable Energy Technologies
That cover a range of technologies, including energy efficient buildings and appliances, renewable energy sources, electric vehicles and smart grids.
Continue readingYes, wind energy and wave power are renewable; New Scientist pulls a Charlie Sheen
Joe Romm, on his Climate Progress blog, along with help from scientists at NASA, Stanford University, and California State University, carries a detailed critique of both the New Scientist article and the original paper.
Continue readingClaim that offshore wind energy causes beached whales ‘bad reporting’
One of the whale study’s co-authors, in an e-mail to Media Matters, commented, No one is saying that there won’t be any potential disturbance from the installation or operation of wind turbines.
Continue readingIberdrola-Wind energy in Scotland: two new wind power projects
Iberdrola Renovables has a strong presence in the wind farm sector in Scotland, so in offshore wind power, and land. The new wind farm facilitys will have wind turbines of 3 MW of Alstom.
Continue readingColizen signs agreement with Renault for the supply of electric vehicles Kangoo Z.E.
2011 is a decisive year in Renault’s history, with the launch of three electric car models, Fluence Z.E., Kangoo Z.E. and Twizy, followed by ZOE in 2012.
Continue readingU.S. ranks No. 1 in geothermal energy production
A total of 43 states have companies involved in geothermal power development operations. The total installed capacity of the U.S. is approximately 3,102 MW, enough to power over 2 million homes.
Continue readingWind Energy Becomes Spain’s Leading Electricity Source in March
Wind power became Spain’s leading source of electricity for the first time in March, surpassing the contribution from nuclear energy, according to figures released Thursday by REE, Spain’s power-generating authority.
Continue reading500 million birds are killed each year by cats, not by wind energy
While public attention has focused on wind turbines as a menace to birds, a new study shows that a far greater threat may be posed by a more familiar antagonist: the pet house cat.
Continue readingGeorgia signs cooperation agreement with France’s Renault
The Georgian government and the Renault-Nissan Alliance sign an agreement for preparing a zero emission partnership for electric cars with lithium ion batteries in the country.
Continue readingWind power cheaper than nuclear
Offshore wind energy has long been seen as an expensive way of generating power, costing about two to three times more than erecting wind turbines on land, while the costs of nuclear energy are opaque.
Continue readingSolar thermal energy produced worldwide
With an installed capacity above 190 GWth worldwide, solar thermal systems are one of the major sources of renewable energy and still show a significant growth potential.
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