Toyota is partnering with Duke Energy and Energy Systems Network (ESN), the non-profit industry initiative that leads Project Plug-IN, for this effort. As plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) continue to gain consumer acceptance and market share, automotive companies, utilities and charging equipment providers are collaborating on common standards to seamlessly align vehicles, charging stations and … Continue reading Common Standard between Plug-in Cars, Charging Stations and Utilities
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3TIER Selected by NREL to Update National Wind Integration Dataset
3TIER®, a global leader in renewable energy risk analysis, announced that it was selected through a competitive solicitation process by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to update the U.S. wind integration dataset. Dataset will help inform energy policy, infrastructure, and market planning to accelerate integration of wind energy in the … Continue reading 3TIER Selected by NREL to Update National Wind Integration Dataset
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Largest wind turbine blades and offshore wind farm vessel ready
Two new technological developments in the global wind power industry have been garnering media interest recently as the emissions-free generating sector continues to increase its world-wide installed capacity year after year after year. Siemens announced earlier in August that it had built, at 75 metres, the world’s largest rotor blade for wind turbines. By … Continue reading Largest wind turbine blades and offshore wind farm vessel ready
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Mahindra Group Unveils Vision to Co-Create and Shape the Future of Mobility
In May 2010, Mahindra had acquired a majority stake in Reva Electric Car Company, subsequent to which the company was renamed Mahindra Reva Electric Vehicles. Inaugurates Mahindra Reva’s green Electric Vehicle manufacturing plant – India’s first IGBC Platinum rated automobile facility http://www.mahindra.com/News/Press-Releases/1345633055 Synopsis: Anand Mahindra unveils Mahindra Group’s vision of the Future of Mobility, expressed … Continue reading Mahindra Group Unveils Vision to Co-Create and Shape the Future of Mobility
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Vestas intensifies cost saving plan and announces further workforce reductions
Global Senior Vice President of People & Culture Roald Steen Jakobsen says the further reduction in the workforce demonstrates Vestas is in full control of the cost reduction plan. “Vestas is currently three months ahead of schedule in regards to employee reductions in the organisation and being able to intensify this plan in order to … Continue reading Vestas intensifies cost saving plan and announces further workforce reductions
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Local newspapers paint the real picture on wind power
Last month I was in North Wales – a coastline which is home to the UK’s first large scale offshore wind farm called North Hoyle. It currently has one other operating offshore wind farm – Rhyl Flats, and a massive development is underway further out to sea at Gwynt y Môr offshore wind farm which, … Continue reading Local newspapers paint the real picture on wind power
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Minnesota Wind Farm To Feature Gamesa’s New Low-Wind Turbines
Exergy Development Group’s 36 MW Big Blue Wind Farm, which will be built in south central Minnesota, will feature Gamesa’s newest wind turbine model. Gamesa will start the delivery of its first G97-2.0 MW in the United States in the Big Blue wind farm that Exergy Development Group promotes in the town of Blue Earth, … Continue reading Minnesota Wind Farm To Feature Gamesa’s New Low-Wind Turbines
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Wind energy in Chile: Acciona wind farm project with 22 wind turbines
EVWIND The regional bisecretario stressed that this example can put the Coquimbo Region as “the capital of renewable energy, particularly wind power. Today we have 97% of this energy, we have five wind farms and 192 MW of installed capacity. This region offers all conditions for wind farm factors above 28%. ” The Seremi highlighted … Continue reading Wind energy in Chile: Acciona wind farm project with 22 wind turbines
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Renewable energy could provide more than 125,265 jobs by 2020 in Spain
Transitioning to a green economy has a huge potential to create new jobs in Spain at a time when the crisis-hit country is reeling from a 50 per cent youth unemployment rate, according to a newly released report. However, the report titled Green Jobs for Sustainable Development – The case of Spain, says the severity … Continue reading Renewable energy could provide more than 125,265 jobs by 2020 in Spain
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Gamesa G8X-2.0 MW and G9X-2.0 MW wind turbines received certificates in China
EVWIND Gamesa Wind Turbines including G80, G87, G90, G97 and G87 CS –each of them with 2.0 MW of capacity- have received certificates respectively from China Electricity Power Research Institute (CEPRI). The application of testing jobs were back to April 2011, under the combined efforts of 20 people from engineering team and their counterparts in … Continue reading Gamesa G8X-2.0 MW and G9X-2.0 MW wind turbines received certificates in China
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Wind energy in Bolivia: Chinese wind turbines for a wind farm
The wind farm of 33 wind turbines will have a Chinese credit of $ 200 million. Anemometers measure the wind resource in several wind towers. While advancing the design, the implementation of wind power project in the department entered the home stretch waiting for results of studies measuring the direction and speed of wind in … Continue reading Wind energy in Bolivia: Chinese wind turbines for a wind farm
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Spain has 72% of global concentrating solar thermal power
EVWIND Triples the U.S. and seven other countries with concentrated solar thermal power plants. The CSP is one of the few sectors where Spain is the undisputed world leader, as the whole of concentrated solar thermal power plants accounted for 72.85% of total installed capacity in the world. Also, solar thermal technology developed by our … Continue reading Spain has 72% of global concentrating solar thermal power
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Venezuela moves ahead with wind farm construction of La Guajira
EVWIND Venezuela, with large oil resources, has not developed just renewable energy. For the generation of electricity depends on hydropower plants of the Caroni River, a tributary of the Orinoco, which causes serious problems in drought years. The wind energy completes wind hydro production. There are already two wind farms under construction, with Gamesa wind … Continue reading Venezuela moves ahead with wind farm construction of La Guajira
Continue readingClarifying the dollars involved in wind energy’s tax credit
EVWIND As the presidential campaigns have taken up the question of whether to extend the federal wind energy Production Tax Credit (PTC) beyond 2012, some confusion has arisen about the dollars involved. The PTC provides a credit against taxes of 2.2 cents for each kilowatt-hour of electricity that a wind farm generates during its first … Continue reading Clarifying the dollars involved in wind energy’s tax credit
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Renault-Nissan plans to sell 1.5 million electric vehicles
EVWIND The electric car is the big bet Renult-Nissan alliance. Renault-Nissan aims to reach an accumulated sales volume of electric vehicles from 1.5 million units worldwide by 2016. Nissan has developed electric cars like the Leaf, which was released in Japan and the U.S. in December 2010 and in Europe in March 2011 and sold … Continue reading Renault-Nissan plans to sell 1.5 million electric vehicles
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Iberdrola expand the largest central European onshore wind farm
EVWIND Iberdrola has already requested permission to work in the expansion, which would be the third wind farm and would achieve the 551 MW, enough to supply 308,000 homes. The Whitelee wind farm, located on the outskirts of Glasgow, was launched in 2009 with 140 wind turbines, which have been subsequently added another 75 wond … Continue reading Iberdrola expand the largest central European onshore wind farm
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US wind energy industry vaults over 50 GW milestone
EVWIND Newsrooms, websites and social media have been enthusiastically reporting this past week that the United States wind power sector now has installed at least 50 gigawatts of electric generating capacity. Chuck Grassley, a Republican Senator from Iowa, said in an American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) press release that attaining 50 GW of wind energy … Continue reading US wind energy industry vaults over 50 GW milestone
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Myths about wind power
EVWIND Premiums for renewable energy are always controversial, often without reason. What are these myths about wind energy and how much truth there is in each? Myth 1: Premiums for renewables (and, therefore, to the wind energy) is guilty of the tariff deficit. Premiums are incentives born in Spain in the nineties with the aim … Continue reading Myths about wind power
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Wind power in Honduras: wind farm with wind turbines from Nordex
EVWIND Nordex has installed some 4,900 wind turbines with a capacity of 7,500 megawatts in 38 countries. Nordex wants 300 MW of wind power in Honduras, through Wind R4E. Nordex is a German wind power company with over 27 years experience and currently manufactures wind turbines in the U.S., from where they intend to export … Continue reading Wind power in Honduras: wind farm with wind turbines from Nordex
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Bigger wind turbines are better for the environment.
EVWIND Much of the emphasis on green living today is all about scaling down: own a bike and not a SUV, for example. But when it comes to wind turbines a new study has found that the reverse is true: bigger turbines are better for the environment. Since the founding of EWEA some 30 years … Continue reading Bigger wind turbines are better for the environment.
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