Participants at the 2012 African Economic Conference (EAC) have been told to encourage investment in wind power and other forms of renewable energy to increase access to electricity among Africans. Presenting a paper on wind energy development, Emelly Mutambatsere an expert with the African Development Bank, said that Africa is faced with the challenge of … Continue reading Africa: Wind Energy Best Option to Boost Electricity Supply
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Increasing Demand from Solar Energy Products to Drive Growth in the Global Silicon and Ferro Silicon Market
The global silicon industry has continued to register robust growth in the last couple of years, primarily driven by its usage in numerous end-use applications such as solar energy products. Amidst an increasing demand from end-markets and a surge in production capacity, the global market for silicon metal to a large extent recuperated from the … Continue reading Increasing Demand from Solar Energy Products to Drive Growth in the Global Silicon and Ferro Silicon Market
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Microgrid Deployment Tracker 4Q12
Most microgrids operating today are, in essence, retrofit projects, cobbling together existing assets and deriving revenues from an overlay of controls used to enable legacy technology to talk to the new technology (usually small amounts of solar PV or a new advanced energy storage unit). Today, however, microgrids are beginning to move more into the … Continue reading Microgrid Deployment Tracker 4Q12
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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Planning to Pursue Geothermal Energy
The government of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is pursuing a variety of green energy sources, particularly geothermal, according to Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves. The Prime Minister was speaking this week following his return from a series of overseas engagements in the Middle East, including the World Energy Forum. One of those energy sources could … Continue reading Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Planning to Pursue Geothermal Energy
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Kenya inks wind power deal with Iberdrola
Kenya on Thursday awarded a 59 million U.S. dollars deal with a Spanish firm for the construction of a substation power project, which will allow the transmission of electricity imported from Ethiopia and the Lake Turkana wind power project into Nairobi. The Kenya Electricity Transmission Company Ltd (KETRACO) signed the power transmission project with a … Continue reading Kenya inks wind power deal with Iberdrola
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Wind energy industry upbeat over restoration of accelerated depreciation in India
The Indian Wind Power Association met the Union Finance Minister, P Chidambaram, a few days back in Coimbatore, to follow up on his own previous presentation to the Ministry of Finance. The Indian Wind Power Association has 1,500 members. Since the beginning of the current financial year the wind power industry in India has had … Continue reading Wind energy industry upbeat over restoration of accelerated depreciation in India
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Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Challenges in British Columbia
GRIDbot Canada, a Canadian manufacturer of Level 2 electric vehicle supply equipment is pleased to announce its strategic partnership with ERTH Business Technologies Inc. (ERTH) to offer improved economics to proponents of the British Columbia Community Charging Infrastructure Fund (CCIF). Under the strategic partnership, GRIDbot will begin manufacturing a unique charging station for purchasing groups … Continue reading Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Challenges in British Columbia
Continue readingWelspun Energy to set up 100 MW solar power
Welspun Renewables Energy Ltd (WREL), a subsidiary of Welspun Energy, has inked an MoU with Chattisgarh government for installing 100 MW Solar Power project. The MoU was signed in Raipur. “The project is to be commenced in 2015, entailing an estimated investment of Rs 1,000 crore,” the company said. With this project, WEL will achieve … Continue reading Welspun Energy to set up 100 MW solar power
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Exelon-funded report inflates wind energy integration costs
A so-called economic study on wind power being circulated by Exelon Corp. contains some serious errors. The report, prepared by Jonathan Lesser of Continental Economics, says wind integration costs are five times higher than they actually are. The real total integration cost for wind is under $100 million, which works out to about 3 cents/month … Continue reading Exelon-funded report inflates wind energy integration costs
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Hurricane Sandy’s impact on wind turbines minimal
As power infrastructure was in the path of Hurricane Sandy this past week, AWEA connected with wind project owners and operators to assess the impact on wind power projects in the Northeast. It appears that Hurricane Sandy has had some, but minimal, impact on the wind turbines in its path, according to early reports this … Continue reading Hurricane Sandy’s impact on wind turbines minimal
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Voice of America article on wind energy and birds lacks context
Voice of America carried an article on wind, birds and bats recently that unfortunately veered toward the sensational, focusing on lawsuits by environmental groups and failing to provide balance and factual context. What was missing? Wind farms are not a major source of bird fatalities. The wind power industry regrets the fact that birds occasionally … Continue reading Voice of America article on wind energy and birds lacks context
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American Energy Alliance errs with attacks on wind power
The American Energy Alliance (AEA), a fossil-fuel funded organization, has released a new document attacking wind energy. The document purports to be a “study” based on “research,” but contains no new information or analysis—it is simply an advocacy piece that is entirely subjective, funded by an organization with a particular point of view. The AEA … Continue reading American Energy Alliance errs with attacks on wind power
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Negative oriented personality traits and wind turbine sound
An interesting paper has appeared on ScienceDirect, discussing the results of psychological testing and sound measurements conducted at households near 10 small wind turbines in the United Kingdom. According to the abstract of “The influence of negative oriented personality traits on the effects of wind turbine noise,” the goal of the research was to “[assess] … Continue reading Negative oriented personality traits and wind turbine sound
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Electric vehicles will play a key role in reducing our dependency on foreign oil
ChargePoint is the world’s largest network of independently owned charging stations for electric vehicles. ChargePoint today announced it has joined the Green Parking Council. The Green Parking Council is a not-for-profit organization providing leadership and oversight of the green conversion of parking facilities to sustainable, environmentally responsible assets. As GPC’s newest Bronze Level member ChargePoint … Continue reading Electric vehicles will play a key role in reducing our dependency on foreign oil
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Onshore wind has important role to play in the UK’s future, Energy Secretary says
It’s been a tumultuous week for the wind power sector in the UK with reports and developments underscoring the industry’s benefits while a furor was breaking out over whether Energy Minister John Hayes had overstepped his position on the popular renewable technology. By Thursday, Green Party MP Caroline Lucas was wondering publicly if Hayes’s mis-directed … Continue reading Onshore wind has important role to play in the UK’s future, Energy Secretary says
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Arise Windpower buys 300MW of onshore wind farm projects
Sweden’s Arise Windpower has agreed to purchase three onshore wind energy projects from Ownpower with a combined capacity of 300MW. Arise Windpower AB (publ) (“Arise”) (STO:AWP) has concluded a conditional agreement with Ownpower Projects AB (“OPP”) for the acquisition of a fully permitted project in Bräcke (60 MW) and two projects in the permit application … Continue reading Arise Windpower buys 300MW of onshore wind farm projects
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Wind energy operation and maintenance costs plummet
The wind energy sector is making significant improvements not just in the capital cost and performance of its wind turbines, but also in the ongoing cost of operating and maintaining (O&M) them once installed. This is the message from the inaugural issue of the Bloomberg New Energy Finance Wind Operations and Maintenance Price Index, just … Continue reading Wind energy operation and maintenance costs plummet
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Rice team boosts silicon-based batteries
Researchers at Rice University have refined silicon-based lithium-ion technology by literally crushing their previous work to make a high-capacity, long-lived and low-cost anode material with serious commercial potential for rechargeable lithium batteries. The team led by Rice engineer Sibani Lisa Biswal and research scientist Madhuri Thakur reported in Nature’s open access journal Scientific Reports on … Continue reading Rice team boosts silicon-based batteries
Continue readingBuilding a Wind-Centered Economy
In the race to transition from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy and avoid runaway climate change, wind has opened a wide lead on both solar and geothermal energy. Solar panels, with a capacity totaling 70,000 megawatts, and geothermal power plants, with a capacity of some 11,000 megawatts, are generating electricity around the world. … Continue reading Building a Wind-Centered Economy
Continue readingA walk among the clouds – EWEA visits a wind farm
On a recent late-October morning, EWEA staff set off early from our offices in Brussels to visit a wind farm. For many of us, it would the first time to get so close to the energy-producing giants that we spend our time promoting. The sun rose and we were confronted with a thick blanket of … Continue reading A walk among the clouds – EWEA visits a wind farm
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