A Tesla Roadster traveling around the world has arrived at the Great Wall of China, the most iconic cultural landmark of the eight-month road trip.
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NRG Energy Completes Acquisition of South Trent Wind Farm
NRG Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NRG) has completed the purchase of the South Trent wind farm near Sweetwater, Texas. The 101 megawatt (MW) wind farm, which came online in January 2009, consists of 44 Siemens 2.3 MW wind turbines
Continue reading10 Percent of World’s Wind Power
Company Reaches Milestone by Shipping Enough Product for 15,000 Megawatts of Wind Energy. Thousands of Wind Turbines Currently Operated by AMSC?s Electrical Components and Control Systems.
Continue readingPort is celebrating £50 million storage deal with Subocean
Bosses at Great Yarmouth’s £50m outer harbour are celebrating after they signed a major contract with a leading offshore wind energy company.
Continue readingSiemens to connect offshore wind farms via HVDC link
Erlangen, Germany, A consortium of Siemens Energy and Prysmian Powerlink has received a wind power order worth more than EUR500 million from the German transmission grid company transpower.
Continue readingTHINK and the BBC lead a convoy of Electric vehicles through Oslo
From Norway, the BBC Electric Ride team will drive their THINK City into Sweden, Austria, Germany, Lichtenstein, Switzerland, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal and others along the way before returning to London.
Continue readingGM plans to focus on electric cars
Toyota, Volkswagen and China’s BYD Automobile, are expanding output of hybrid and electric vehicles with lithium ion batteries as China promotes electric cars.
Continue readingPorous Power Announces Agreement with Chisso to Develop New Separators for the Japanese Lithium-Ion Battery Market
U.S.-based Porous Power Technologies, LLC and Japan-based Chisso Corporation are teaming to produce new variants of the award-winning SYMMETRIX® battery separators for use in electric cars batteries.
Continue readingJOGMEC to Invest $4,000,000 in American Lithium Minerals’ Borate Hills Project
American Lithium Minerals announces that Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (JOGMEC) has agreed to invest $4,000,000 in the Borate Hills Project to be a Joint Venture Partner in the Project.
Continue readingAMSC and Hyundai Heavy Industries Expand Wind Power Alliance
The 5 MW wind turbines design will be jointly developed by HHI and AMSC’s wholly-owned AMSC Windtec subsidiary.
Continue readingABB to build smart grid in Helsinki
ABB will work on a joint development project with Helsingin Energia, a public utility in the Finnish capital, Helsinki, and Nokia Siemens Networks to design and install a large-scale smart grid in Helsinki.
Continue readingPresident Obama visits Photovoltaic company Solyndra
President Barack Obama visited the home of tubular thin-film photovoltaics: CIGS manufacturer Solyndra?s production fab and the construction site where the company?s Fab 2 is being built on Kato Road in Fremont, CA.
Continue readingSolar power for Europe from North Africa
North Africa has the potential to become a significant exporter of electricity to Europe from solar energy projects according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).
Continue readingPainesville (Ohio) Announces First-of-Its-Kind Municipal-Scale Wind Power Project
The City of Painesville, Ohio, has decided to move forward with a groundbreaking municipal-scale wind energy project, according to NexGen Energy Partners, LLC.
Continue readingRisø To Take Part In EU project Aimed At Increasing The Use Of Wind Energy
The EU is now launching the TWENTIES Project. The project is to advance the development and implementation of new technologies that will make it possible to increase the use of wind power in Europe significantly.
Continue readingElectric car Tesla in Canada
Tesla Motors, producer of the Roadster, the only electric high performance vehicle announces the delivery of the first Roadsters to Canada.
Continue readingWorld?s first 6 MW turbine wind farm
Eleven wind turbines, six of which are already connected to the electricity grid providing power to thousands of homes, stand tall and proud on the Levant de Mons plateau near Estinnes, Belgium.
Continue readingCape Wind Project Approval a Gateway for 11 Additional U.S. Offshore Wind Power Projects
After almost a decade long fight, the federal government has approved the first offshore wind farm in the United States in the waters off Cape Cod.
Continue readingNew Wind Energy Record as WINDPOWER 2010 Begins By Michael Goggin (AWEA)
Perfectly timed for WINDPOWER, wind output in ERCOT has been extraordinarily high ever since we got here yesterday, and they just set a new record for instantaneous wind output a few minutes ago.
Continue readingGE’s ‘Capture the Wind’ to the World’s Largest Wind Power Conference
GE’s ‘Capture the Wind’ Tour Brings its Clean Energy-Job Creation Message to Dallas, Site of the World’s Largest Wind Power Conference.
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