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Wind turbines: 16 Republican House freshmen petition leadership for immediate PTC extension
Republican, Democratic and Independent voters broadly support wind power and its expansion.
Continue readingWorkshops to teach about solar power, wind energy
Mt. San Jacinto College will be conducting solar energy and wind power workshops this month for Hemet Unified School District students to help provide awareness of “green” technology careers in renewable energy.
Continue readingNordex builds Sweden?s largest wind farm
Anti-icing system secures 150 MW wind energy order. Skellefteå Kraft places 3rd wind turbines order with Nordex.
Continue readingIndonesia’s wind energy plans
Indonesia is all set to develop the wind energy as the large-scale wind farm being built in Sukabumi. The large-scale wind turbines plant in the country will be exactly set up at Sukabumi in West Java end of this year.
Continue readingWhat About Wind Energy and Electric Vehicles? By Denise Bode, AWEA CEO
More wind power and electric cars will bolster our national security, improve electric reliability, create new manufacturing jobs, save consumers money, and revitalize rural communities.
Continue readingMitsubishi to loan Illinois electric vehicles
Mitsubishi Motors North America will loan the state of Illinois what it called “a limited number” of lithium ion batteries-powered electric cars to try out as part of the state’s fleet.
Continue readingNissan and Mitsubishi Motors to Expand Scope of Cooperation by Carlos Ghosn
The two companies that have done most to the development of electric vehicles and lithium batteries, shake their cooperation. Great news for electric car development.
Continue readingNIB finances Ringkjøbing Landbobank’s wind power programme in Jutland, Denmark
NIB’s loan will help finance some of the approximately 160 wind turbines to be distributed to the 28 new wind farm plants included in the municipality of Ringkøbing-Skjern’s wind power plan.
Continue readingThe Solar Industry: Benefiting From Rising Demand
Global solar energy capacity has now passed the 30 GW mark. This is enough to supply 10 million households with clean electricity.
Continue readingWhy do some of the wind turbines in a wind farm sometimes stand still?
It might look as though the wind turbines have just stopped working, and have been left standing still next to their functioning fellow machines.
Continue readingSAE International Hosting Powertrain Electric Motors Symposium For Electric, Hybrid Vehicles In Stuttgart, Germany
SAE International is a global association of more than 128,000 engineers and related technical experts in the aerospace, automotive and commercial-vehicle industries.
Continue readingWorld’s largest wind farm: Thanet officially open
Around 250 distinguished guests, invited by Vattenfall Wind Power, yesterday marked the official opening of the 300MW Thanet Offshore Wind Farm off the coast of Kent with a boat trip and a ministerial visit.
Continue readingAWEA Responds to Bingaman, Brownback Renewable Electricity Standard Bill
The RES is the single most important thing we can do to grow jobs here in the United States and keep 85,000 American wind power workers on the job.
Continue readingJapan and China to launch talks on rare earth metals
Japan and China will launch a vice minister-level meeting to study Tokyo’s call for Beijing to ease export controls on rare earth metals used in hybrid electric vehicles, mobile phones and other high-tech products.
Continue readingClean energy would mean big boost for West Texas economy
An economic study released Monday indicated a clean energy economy would create an increase of more than 22,000 jobs and $280 million annually in local and state tax revenue in the next decade.
Continue readingConcentrating Solar Thermal Power Continues Growing Despite Economic Uncertainty
But amongst the new CSP markets, the largest build up of CSP capacity expected in MENA where 1430 MW of projects have been announced.
Continue readingElement Power Secures Financing for Spanish Photovoltaic Solar Project
Element Power announced today that it has successfully secured a ?18.5m debt facility for its 3.51 MW PV solar project in Alicante, Spain.
Continue readingWindSim and 3TIER Advance Wind Resource Assessment Modeling
WindSim and 3TIER announced the completion a joint wind power resource assessment initiative that successfully demonstrates the feasibility of combining WindSim’s with 3TIER’s mesoscale numerical weather prediction.
Continue readingToyota Motor Corporation to Invest in Tesla
TESLA MOTORS, INC. (Tesla) and TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION (TMC) today announced that they intend to cooperate on the development of electric vehicles, parts, and production system and engineering support.
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