V2G, the Next Generation Smart Vehicles-As a smart grid solution for the automobile sector, Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology enables plug-in electric vehicles.
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Honda Launched Electric Vehicle Demonstration Program
President and CEO, Tetsuo Iwamura, conducting the first public test drive of a Fit EV prototype and an Accord Sedan test vehicle outfitted with a new two-motor plug-in hybrid system.
Continue readingDOE to Fund up to $50 Million to Demonstrate Innovative, Cost-Competitive Solar Energy Technologies
The Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) will serve as a proving ground for cutting-edge solar technologies, such as concentrating solar thermal power and concentrating photovoltaic energy.
Continue readingZAP Begins Project Development on Green City Partnership with Shanghai?s Yangpu District
ZAP signed an MOU agreement with the government of Shanghai’s Yangpu District on November 19th in San Francisco to provide electric vehicles with lithium ion batteries.
Continue readingWind energy Vestas China establishes office in Fujian Province
The opening ceremony held at the new office was celebrated by Vestas? customers and local government representatives, who witnessed this important step for Vestas China in establishing a more regionalized sales setup.
Continue readingKenya – Lake Turkana Wind Power was talking to the World Bank and ATI for the guarantees
Lake Turkana Wind Power (LTWP), the planned largest wind energy farm in Africa said it was talking to the World Bank and ATI for the guarantees, in addition to its ?in-house solution? that it did not reveal.
Continue readingISO On Background Session to Provide Details of New England Wind Energy Integration Study
Informational Media Briefing to Discuss Study of Impact of Large-Scale Wind Power Development on Power Grid Operations.
Continue readingYour last chance to show your support for wind energy along with 10,000 others
Almost 10,000 people have taken part in the EWEA 2010 campaign by adopting wind turbines or voting for the ones their friends had adopted in order to show their support for wind power.
Continue readingIPOdesktop Releases Analyst Report on Here Enterprises
Here Enterprises is developing wind energy projects which co-locate wind farms with commercial businesses in order to maximize cashflow for each wind farm.
Continue readingWind Works Power Corp: Agreement Signed to Sell 20 MW Joint Venture Wind Energy Project in Germany
Wind Works invested 100,000 Euros in the project in May 2010, and will receive a total of 190,000 Euros over a 12 months period.
Continue readingTrue cost of solar energy and other renewables By Tam Hunt
What does renewable energy cost? Isn’t it still more expensive than fossil fuel electricity? Way more? In a word: no.
Continue readingDenise Bode CEO, American Wind Energy Association – Americans want more wind power
The Bush administration predicted that wind energy could produce 20% of the nation’s electricity just 20 years from now, and employ half a million Americans.
Continue readingDeere Company Completes Sale Of Wind Energy Business to Exelon
Deere & Company (DE: 80.55 0.00 0.00%) said that it has completed the sale of John Deere Renewables LLC, its wind farm business, to Exelon Generation Company, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Exelon Corporation.
Continue readingREV Delivers 1st of 4 battery electric vehicles with V2G capability to TARDEC
Canada-based Rapid Electric Vehicles, Inc., has delivered the first of what it calls ?Ancillary Power Vehicles? (APVs)?batter-electric vehicles with a vehicle-to-grid (V2G) capability?to the US Army.
Continue readingRobin Welling (TiSUN) elected new president of the European Solar Thermal Industry Federation
The European Solar Thermal Industry Federation (ESTIF) members have elected a new President and a new Board of Directors on 3 December at their General Assembly in Brussels.
Continue readingWind Energy Developer Expands Use of Second Wind’s Advanced Sodar Technology for Wind Measurement
Renewable Energy Systems (RES), one of the world’s leading wind power developers, utilizes Second Wind Triton Sonic Wind Profilers for high-height shear profile validation.
Continue readingXinjiang Xinjiang Goldwind wins RMB 4.77-bln wind turbine orders wins RMB 4.77-bln wind energy order
Five of the wind turbines projects are in Hebei Province and three wind farm projects are in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
Continue readingWind energy chiefs target US windfall
A group of business leaders from wind energy companies will visit the United States, on a fact-finding trip, in the first half of 2011, a US commerce official said on Monday.
Continue readingThe cost of wind energy has fallen significantly in the past couple of years
The cost of wind turbines has fallen significantly in the past couple of years, down about 15 per cent to 20 per cent, making wind power more attractive, according to the Wind Energy Association.
Continue readingWind energy sideswiped in utility rate story
When there is a surplus of wind energy, the report said, the utility must sell it on the spot power market, at a price lower than it is paying wind farm owners for their production.
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