Enel Green Power has been awarded three wind farm projects located in the Brazilian states of Rio Grande do Norte, Pernambuco and Bahia.
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Wind energy in Brazil: Elecnor wins new wind farm
The planned investment for this new wind power plant, which will house 14 wind turbines, amounting to 104 million reais (45.3 million euros).
Continue readingAdvanced electrodes for better lithium ion batteries
Nanostructured materials better withstand stresses from changes in volume, so researchers and a handful of startups are making anodes from silicon nanowires, nanotubes, and porous nanoparticles.
Continue readingGhana has 5,600 MW of wind power potential
The development of wind energy resource for commercial power generation in Ghana is steadily taking centre stage in national discourse on energy sufficiency.
Continue readingIndia’s National Solar Mission Promotes Rapid Solar Power Growth
By June 2011, 200 MW of grid connected solar energy photovoltaic (PV) and 500 MW of concentrating solar thermal power (CSP) plants had been allocated.
Continue readingGeneral Motors to manufacture plug-in Cadillac ELR plug-in hybrid electric car
The new environment-friendly model would use technology similar to GM?s electric vehicles Chevrolet Volt, which the company rolled out in 2010.
Continue readingPeak Load Demand, ECOtality, Electric Vehicles and Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G)
Vehicle-to-grid, more commonly known as V2G, will soon make that a reality. Utilities will be able to tap into electric vehicles stored energy in its lithium ion batteries when the electric car isn’t being used.
Continue readingWind energy below $63/MWh in second Brazil wind power power tender
Brazil’s current 1,400 MW of installed wind energy represent only around 1 percent of its total capacity. The cheapest price for a wind farm was offered for 94.4MW at R$96.97/MWh.
Continue readingGlobal wind energy investment expected to double by 2025
IHS expects the amount of installed wind power capacity to jump 16 percent in 2011 compared to the previous year.
Continue readingFord and SunPower to offer solar power electric vehicles.
Focus Electric car owners drive new, innovative charging and financing models for solar energy with photovoltaic.
Continue readingACS sells Spanish concentrated solar power and wind energy business
Bridgepoint have agreed to acquire a portfolio of wind power assets from listed Spanish construction conglomerate Auxiliar de Construcción y Servicios (ACS) in a transaction that values the assets at ?596.5million.
Continue readingKoch Brothers Fund Bogus Study Bashing Offshore Wind Energy in New Jersey
According to a 2009 report by the European Wind Energy Association, the wind power sector in Europe created more than 60,000 jobs from 2004-2008.
Continue readingE.ON orders 112 Vestas wind turbines for US wind farm
Wind energy company Vestas has received a 202 MW order from E.ON Climate and Renewables North America for 112 V100 1.8MW wind turbines for a wind power project in the US.
Continue reading26th EU PVSEC – Dow to Highlight Comprehensive Range of Materials for Solar Power
DOWTHERM? Heat Transfer Fluids for collecting, transporting and storing the solar thermal heat with required high-temperature stability. Used in the PV polysilicon purification as well as concentrated solar power.
Continue readingBallast Nedam: HLV Svanen Deployed at London Array Wind Energy Plant
At 1,000MW, the wind turbines project is currently the world?s largest consented offshore wind farm.
Continue readingWind energy in Ecuador: the first wind farm will make by Chinese companies
Goldwind or Hidrochina installed the wind turbines in wind power plant Villonaco in Loja. The wind turbines will be paid by oil and Chinese loans.
Continue readingMalta national strategy for the introduction of electric vehicles
About 100 electric car charging points will be set up in strategic places around Malta by next year in a bid to encourage motorists to invest in such electric cars with lithium ion batteries.
Continue readingEnel Green Power plans USD 572.5m projects in Chile
Enel Green Power will invest 400 million euros in renewable energy in Chile, in wind power, solar energy photovoltaic, geothermal energy and small hydro.
Continue readingWind energy project receives $102mn loan guarantee
The US DoE finalized a $102 million loan guarantee to Record Hill Wind LLC for a 50.6 MW wind farm in Maine. Wind Power Project Expected to Fund Approximately 200 Jobs and Provide Improvements to Wind Turbines.
Continue readingSix GOP presidential hopefuls join leading Iowa Republicans in endorsing wind energy
Gingrich called wind power a piece of his American energy program, and said he favors a 10-year extension of the PTC, to avoid the ?up-and-down effect? on renewable energy development when the policy changes.
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