The Cleantech revolution has gained momentum at a staggering pace during the past year. The potential scale and political urgency of emerging cleantech industries is beginning to bear a semblance to the Space Race.
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China – Foreign firms eye wind energy sector
Governments and companies from around the globe are keen to get a piece of the action in China’s booming wind power market, which is set to surpass the United States as the world’s largest by the end of the year.
Continue readingPowering Europe ? Wind energy and the electricity grid
For higher penetration levels, changes may be needed in power systems and the way they are operated to accommodate more wind energy.
Continue readingSkyFuel’s Parabolic Trough Garners Prize for Technology Innovation
The SkyTrough is a utility scale parabolic trough solar concentrator and harnesses the sun’s energy to make steam for electricity generation.
Continue readingVestas receives 33 MW wind energy order in India
Vestas receives wind power order for 20 V82-1.65 MW wind turbines for a wind farm in the state of Tamil Nadu, India.
Continue readingCanWEA applauds Ontario’s strengthened commitment to wind energy
Wind power industry applauds Ontario?s strengthened commitment to wind energy; Long Term Plan provides stability required to build the next generation of clean energy jobs.
Continue readingEdison Mission Energy Closes $75 Million Financing For Wind Energy Project
Electricity at the site is generated by 40 wind turbines manufactured by Clipper Windpower, and sold under a long-term contract to Arizona Public Service.
Continue readingChinese climate envoy wants ‘progress’ at talks
China will play an active and constructive role at the upcoming Cancun climate conference and work toward a new global deal to reduce carbon emissions next year in South Africa, said Huang Huikang.
Continue readingSouthern California Edison Signs 21 Contracts Totaling More Than 250 MW of Renewable Energy
Twenty of the contracts are for electricity produced by solar photovoltaic projects, and one is for 19.5 megawatts of wind power.
Continue readingWind energy will drive the development of Québec
About 4,000 MW of wind power could be added by 2015, generating investments for $10 billion and significant economic benefits for the economy of the whole region.
Continue readingMitsubishi Unveils North American Version Of New i-miev
Building on the company?s more than 35 years of involvement in advanced electric vehicles, Mitsubishi Motors has unveiled its first all-electric production vehicle bound for the North American market.
Continue readingWindPower Innovations Expands Its Market to Include Hydro Electric Power Generation
WindPower Innovations, Inc., a wind energy infrastructure and smart grid solutions company, announces that it is in the final phases of negotiations to assist in advancing hydro electric viability in Alaska.
Continue readingFuture wind turbines go offshore ? deep and floating
DeepWind combines several research fields, in particular wind energy, the offshore environment and materials technology.
Continue readingChina Pursues Wind Energy
China will aggressively pursue clean energy policies for the foreseeable future, driven mostly by the desire to reduce its dependence on overseas energy supplies, according to U.S. experts.
Continue readingVolkswagen’s Popular Golf Goes Electric
Next week during the Los Angeles Auto Show, Volkswagen of America, Inc. will offer U.S. media their first chance to get behind the wheel of the Golf blue-e-motion zero-emissions electric vehicles.
Continue readingWell, they ARE penny-wise ?
Wind energy?s costs are in a competitive range with those of electricity from other types of new power plants.
Continue readingWind energy Nordex reduces revenue target for 2010
Nordex has launched a cost-cutting program as well as an initiative to boost the efficiency of its wind turbines to enhance its competitiveness on a sustainable basis.
Continue readingenXco Conduct a Groundbreaking Ceremony for the 205.5 Megawatt Lakefield Wind Power Project
enXco – an EDF Energies Nouvelles Company (PARIS: EEN) and Indianapolis Power & Light Company (IPL) celebrated the construction of the 205.5 megawatt Lakefield Wind Farm with a groundbreaking ceremony.
Continue readingGo-ahead for wind farm in Northumberland
Wind turbines have a key role to play in boosting energy security and cutting carbon emissions, as long as they are well designed and appropriately sited.
Continue readingDow has filled fourteen large Concentrating Solar Power plants in Spain and the U.S.
To date, Dow has filled fourteen large Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) plants in Spain and the United States, with a total capacity of more than 700 MW.
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