Over the last two years, growing sales of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) have fueled a burst of activity in electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) infrastructure development. To realize the economic and environmental benefits of electrified transportation, national and local governments across the globe are backing deployments of PEV charging stations in an effort to increase … Continue reading More than 48,000 Public Charging Stations for Electric Vehicles Have Been Deployed Worldwide
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Electric Bicycle Sales to Reach Nearly 38 Million Units per Year by 2020
Driven by intensifying urbanization, the increasing use of bicycles and other two-wheeled vehicles for everyday commuting, and the rise of new market entrants and more mature products, the market for electric bicycles has become well-established in some regions, particularly in Asia Pacific and Europe. According to a new report from Navigant Research, worldwide sales of … Continue reading Electric Bicycle Sales to Reach Nearly 38 Million Units per Year by 2020
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Nordex supplying first N117 wind turbines to Ireland
The Nordex Group has landed a further important success in Ireland. Its new customer, the internationally active project developer Element Power, has decided to order 15 Nordex N117/2400 turbines for its “Monaincha” wind farm. In addition, Element Power and the owner of the wind farm, private-equity investor BlackRock have signed a ten-year service contract. “This … Continue reading Nordex supplying first N117 wind turbines to Ireland
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Geothermal energy expected to more than double by 2030
Global capacity is estimated to reach 28.3 gigawatts in 62 markets in 2030, compared with 11.4 gigawatts in 25 markets last year, Mark Taylor, a New Energy Finance analyst, said today at the U.S. and International Geothermal Energy Finance Forum in New York. Geothermal energy capacity will more than double by 2030 as developing economies including Indonesia, … Continue reading Geothermal energy expected to more than double by 2030
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Wind energy addition in India falls to 1,700 MW
Wind turbine manufacturers Enercon and Suzlon have fared better than others in the tepid market of 2012-13, when the total capacity installed during the year fell to 1,700 MW. It was 3,164 MW the previous year. Enercon led the market in 2012-13 with installations of 453.60 MW, followed by Suzlon at 414.75 MW. The previous … Continue reading Wind energy addition in India falls to 1,700 MW
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Xcel Energy No. 1 Wind Energy Provider
Xcel Energy remains the number one utility provider of wind energy in the United States, according to a newly released report from the American Wind Energy Association. This is the ninth consecutive year that Xcel Energy has led the nation in providing wind energy to its customers. At the end of 2012, Xcel Energy had … Continue reading Xcel Energy No. 1 Wind Energy Provider
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Gamesa makes progress on its offshore strategy as it begins to erect its 5 MW turbine
Gamesa, a global technology leader in the wind power industry, has marked further progress on its offshore strategy by shipping components for its 5 MW marine turbine from the port of Bilbao to the Canary Islands (Spain). The company thus begins the process of erecting Spain’s first-ever offshore wind turbine, at the Arinaga Quay (Gran … Continue reading Gamesa makes progress on its offshore strategy as it begins to erect its 5 MW turbine
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Pattern’s Ocotillo Wind energy project receives awards for outstanding environmental analysis
Pattern Energy Group LP (Pattern) today announced that both the National Association of Environmental Professionals (NAEP) and the California Association of Environmental Professionals have awarded the Ocotillo Wind project with awards for outstanding environmental analysis and documentation. “The Ocotillo Wind project’s environmental review analysis received our highest honor,” said Paul Looney, President of the NAEP. … Continue reading Pattern’s Ocotillo Wind energy project receives awards for outstanding environmental analysis
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Largest wind farm in Southern Hemisphere officially opens
Owned by Australian-based AGL Energy and New Zealand-based Meridian Energy, the Macarthur Wind Farm is a genuinely global construction, engineering, and technology project, with equipment and personnel coming together from four continents. Vestas and Leighton Contractors combined to deliver the logistically complex, AUD $1 billion Macarthur Wind Farm three months ahead of schedule. With the … Continue reading Largest wind farm in Southern Hemisphere officially opens
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Wind energy: empowering entrepreneurs in Africa
Last month the EWEA blog brought you the story of a small wind energy project in Tanzania and how it has helped to change the fortunes of some African farmers. Today, in this project update by Fran Witt from Renewable World, we look at how wind-powered electricity is connecting remote communities to the knowledge economy. … Continue reading Wind energy: empowering entrepreneurs in Africa
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Concentrated solar power could boost Natural Gas Plants
Wegeng’s team aims to keep the system’s overall cost low enough so that the electricity produced by a natural gas power plant equipped with the system would cost no more than 6 cents per kilowatt-hour by 2020. PNNL’s concentrating solar power system reduces greenhouse emissions – at a price that’s competitive with fossil fuel power. … Continue reading Concentrated solar power could boost Natural Gas Plants
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Wind energy grows 28% in a year, delivering more economic benefits to America than ever
Wind energy grew 28 percent in America last year, setting a new installation record and confirming its status as a mainstream energy source, according to the American Wind Energy Association’s U.S. Wind Industry Annual Market Report for 2012, released today on a webinar for association members and reporters. In its best year ever, the U.S. … Continue reading Wind energy grows 28% in a year, delivering more economic benefits to America than ever
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DONG Energy enters into agreements on 6 megawatt offshore wind turbines with Siemens AG for German projects
DONG Energy and Siemens AG have entered into agreements securing potential supplies and servicing of a total of 154 offshore wind turbines of 6 megawatt each, giving a total capacity of 924 megawatt. The agreements give DONG Energy the option to install the turbines on its Gode Wind projects in Germany from 2015. Utilisation of … Continue reading DONG Energy enters into agreements on 6 megawatt offshore wind turbines with Siemens AG for German projects
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EDF Renewable Services Wins O&M Contract for Edom Hills Wind Farm
EDF Renewable Services announced today it has secured the operations and maintenance contract at the Edom Hills Wind Farm. Owned and operated by a subsidiary of BP Wind Energy, Edom Hills is located in the San Gorgonio Pass near Palm Springs, California. The site consists of eight Clipper Windpower 2.5 MW turbines generating 20 MW … Continue reading EDF Renewable Services Wins O&M Contract for Edom Hills Wind Farm
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AWEA Reveals Numbers Behind U.S. Wind Energy
The bumper crop of wind energy benefited the U.S. economy across all 50 states, through $25 billion in private investment in new U.S. wind farms, tens of millions of dollars paid to landowners and local communities in lease payments and property taxes, and billions in projected savings for electricity consumers. While jobs numbers were hampered … Continue reading AWEA Reveals Numbers Behind U.S. Wind Energy
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Distributed Solar Energy Generation
Distributed solar photovoltaic (PV) systems offer the benefit of producing electricity onsite, thereby reducing the need to build new transmission capacity and avoiding line losses. Distributed generation can offer significant benefits to consumers while adding resiliency to an electric grid based on a traditional centralized model. These systems are used in applications ranging from residential … Continue reading Distributed Solar Energy Generation
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Concentrated solar thermal powers oil-rich Gulf emirate
The world’s biggest thermal solar power plant has gone online in oil-rich Abu Dhabi. Shams 1 is the first plant of its kind in a desert region, providing power for thousands of homes. Leaving the high-rise buildings of Abu Dhabi city behind us, we drive through the dust and sand of the desert. On both … Continue reading Concentrated solar thermal powers oil-rich Gulf emirate
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Morten Albæk, Senior Vice-President of marketing at Vestas, argues that claims made by anti-wind campaigners can verge on the ridiculous, but they are powerful. Wind power, meanwhile, is not doing enough to promote its positive message… Birds are 19,200 times more likely to die from flying into a building than into a wind turbine (according … Continue reading It
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SKF solutions for solar tracking systems reduce CO2 emissions and increase solar power generation
SKF Solar Linear Actuator-CASD-60, and SKF Solar Hub CRSD 290 are two solutions that each contribute to the reduction of CO2 emissions by increasing the energy production from one 58 m2 solar panel by 5.8 MWh/year. This equates to a reduction per solution of 4.4 tonnes CO2/year according to the world power grid mix CO2 … Continue reading SKF solutions for solar tracking systems reduce CO2 emissions and increase solar power generation
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State-owned enterprises dominate China’s wind energy projects
State-owned enterprises (SOEs) controlled a sweeping majority of investment and construction in wind power projects last year, accounting for about 81 percent of the sector’s installed capacity, the National Energy Administration (NEA) said Wednesday. As of the end of 2012, some 1,300 companies had invested in or built wind power development projects, of which 1,000 … Continue reading State-owned enterprises dominate China’s wind energy projects
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