General Electric (GE) and MPX, a division of EBX Group, owned by businessman Eike Batista, have entered into a partnership that will double the output of the latter company’s first solar power plant in Brazil.
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New Hampshire’s Largest Wind Farm
Department of Energy Conditional Loan Guarantee Commitment to Support the Development of New Hampshire’s Largest Wind Energy Plant. Wind Power Project Expected to Create 200 Jobs.
Continue readingBonneville Power Administration violated the Federal Power Act in taking wind energy off the grid
Contracts cannot be broken for wind power or anything else. BPA, a government-owned monopoly, cannot play by different rules and shred contracts with private companies.
Continue readingWind energy plant in Praia, Cape Verde, to start operating in August
Lopes, who was speaking on the sidelines of a visit to the port of Praia to receive the 11 wind turbines, noted that the wind farm would produce around 110 gigawatts (GW) of wind power per year.
Continue readingThe Treasury puts a halt to the entire solar industry in Israel
The entire system was called into question by the Finance Ministry in February, when it used a regularly scheduled review of the 2009 law.
Continue readingLoan Guarantee to Fotowatio Solar Power Project Near Las Vegas, Nevada
The solar energy project, sponsored by Fotowatio Renewable Ventures, Inc., is being supported by DOE with funding from the 2009 Recovery Act.
Continue readingDevelopment of rechargeable batteries through nanotechnology
Researchers are testing different ways of improving rechargeable batteries for electric vehicles and nanotechnology plays an important role in the development.
Continue readingChina’s wind energy industry growing exponentially
The country’s total installed wind farm capacity doubled for five consecutive years since 2005. The installed capacity of the two wind turbines bases in western Inner Mongolia and Jiuquan both exceeded 5 GW.
Continue readingIndonesia’s geothermal energy is forecast to reach 26,000 MW
Indonesia’s geothermal power potentials in the country is forecast to reach 26,000 megawatts.
Continue readingSmall Batteries, Big Sales: The Unlikely Winners in the Electric Vehicles Market
As the first wave of electric cars have landed in the hands of consumers, the growing electric car market holds as much promise as it does peril.
Continue readingBatteries key to harnessing wind energy and solar power
Future batteries used by the energy grid to store power from the wind power and solar energy must be reliable, durable and safe, but affordability is really the key to widespread deployment, according to a new report.
Continue readingFPL’s concentrated solar energy stars shine at new 500-acre array
Armed with sponges and water, Florida Power & Light Co. workers finished cleaning the mirrors at its new Martin County Concentrating Solar Power Thermal plant this week, all 190,000 of them.
Continue readingIndiana poll finds overwhelming bipartisan support for wind energy
Results of an Indiana poll released today show strong and deep bipartisan public support for increasing wind farm development in the state.
Continue readingSiemens cuts the charging time for electric vehicles by 50%
Siemens is launching a charging point Charge CP700A on the European market which can charge electric cars with a normal lithium ion batteries capacity within an hour.
Continue readingBalqon Receives an Order for 300 Electric Vehicles From China-based Winston Global Energy
Balqon anticipates that it will begin production of the 300 electric vehicles in mid-2011 at its headquarters in Harbor City, California and plans to begin hiring new employees within the next month.
Continue readingConcentrix CPV System Connected to Jordan’s Grid
Soitec (Euronext Paris), the world’s leading supplier of advanced solutions for the electronics and energy industries, reports excellent results for the company’s concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) system in Jordan.
Continue readingU.S. Department of Interior Approves SolarReserve?s 110 Megawatt Nevada Concentrating Solar Power Project
Project to use advanced US-developed technology with integrated energy storage, construction scheduled to begin mid-2011.
Continue readingWind energy plants near Bogdanci in south Macedonia
KfW is the biggest financier of projects with hydro potential in the Balkans and the biggest financier of projects on wind energy worldwide.
Continue readingNextEra Energy Resources’ Subsidiary Raises $71 Million in Capital for Wind Power Projects
Heartland Wind consists of 309 megawatts of wind energy projects in North Dakota and Iowa.
Continue readingChina?s State Grid Energy Research Institute and Vestas concludes first part of joint wind energy study
China?s State Grid Energy Research Institute and Vestas concludes first part of ?Joint Study on Coordinated Development of Wind Power and the Electricity Grid?.
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