Ecopower SAC, a Chilean renewable-energy developer, filed for permits to develop a $250 million wind farm in the country’s Los Lagos region. Work on the 100.8-megawatt Chiloe project is expected to start in January 2016, the Santiago-based company said today in a filing with environmental licensing agency Servicio de Evaluacion Ambiental. The wind project will [...]
20/05/2013
BrightSource Energy Names Steven Goers Senior Vice President of Operations
BrightSource Energy, Inc., a leading concentrating solar thermal technology company, has named Steven Goers as senior vice president of operations, effective immediately. Goers brings more than 30 years of experience in power plant engineering and management, and international power development to his role at BrightSource. “We’re excited to have Steven join and help BrightSource globally [...]
20/05/2013
Pteragen Canada Inc. obtains regulatory approval for its 120 MW Peace Butte Wind Power Project in Alberta
Pteragen Canada Inc., a Calgary-based renewable energy company and wholly owned subsidiary of Renovalia Energy Wind Canada Inc., announced that it has received final regulatory approval from the Alberta Utilities Commission (AUC) to proceed with construction on its 120 MW Peace Butte Wind Power Project. Located in S.E. Alberta, twenty-two kilometers south of the city [...]
20/05/2013
Green Light for Eskom Wind Farm
The National Energy Regulator of SA (Nersa) has granted Eskom a licence for its Sere wind farm in the Western Cape, the power parastatal said on Monday. “This is an exciting milestone in Eskom’s move towards a cleaner energy mix,” Eskom CEO Brian Dames said in a statement. “Sere is our first, large-scale, renewable energy [...]
20/05/2013
Philippines approves 3 wind farm projects to generate 208 MW
Philippines has approved three wind farm projects that will generate 208 MW, enough to power more than 40,000 middle-class homes, an energy official said on Monday. The wind energy projects will be the first to benefit from an incentive scheme that aims to ensure half the country’s energy comes from renewable sources by 2030, compared [...]
20/05/2013
Finland is bringing wind energy know-how from Spain
Why invest in wind power in Finland? What’s the best way to do it? What is the Spanish wind power company Gamesa doing in Finland? These questions were answered during the wind power seminar organised by the Spanish Wind Energy Association (AEE) and Team Finland in Madrid on 13.5.2013. About 30 representatives from the Spanish [...]
20/05/2013
First solar power plant in Vojvodina (Serbia)
Serbia’s Minister of Energy Zorana Mihajlovic laid in Beocin on Monday the cornerstone of the first solar power plant in Vojvodina, the second in Serbia, in which EUR 1.5 million will be invested. The plant will have a capacity of 1 MW. It should be finished in three months and opened in September. Prima Energy [...]
20/05/2013
Worldwide Capacity of Lithium Ion Batteries for Electric Vehicles Will Multiply More than 10-Fold by 2020
Improvements in lithium ion (Li-ion) battery technology are helping to accelerate the worldwide market for electric vehicles (EVs). In the last few years, automakers have shifted from nickel-metal hydride (NiMH) batteries to Li-ion batteries. This shift represents a major endorsement of Li-ion chemistry and its ability to perform consistently in an automotive environment. According to [...]
20/05/2013
Wireless Charging Market
Wireless Charging Market (2013-2018): Global Market Forecast by, Technologies (Inductive Coupling, Magnetic Resonance, Radio Frequency), Applications (Consumer Electronics, Industrial, Electric Vehicles, Medical and Military) and Geography (North America Wireless charging is gaining momentum in the last couple years and is expected to become an increasingly incessant form of charging for a number of applications. The [...]
20/05/2013
Concentrated Solar Power: Investment funds gearing up to sue Spanish government
International investment funds with shares in Spanish Concentrated Solar Power plants are gearing up to take Spain to international courts. Major foreign investment funds with solar thermal interests in Spain are mobilizing to launch the relevant procedures to bring the Kingdom of Spain to international arbitration of investment under the Treaty which has the Energy [...]
20/05/2013
EDC’s Burgos Wind Energy Project secures DOE Certification for Commerciality
Lopez-led Energy Development Corporation (EDC) has gotten the green light from the Department of Energy (DOE) to push through with the development of its $300-million wind project in Burgos, Ilocos Norte. The DOE granted the Certificate of Confirmation of Commerciality for the 87-MW Burgos Wind Project, which aims to become the largest wind farm in [...]
19/05/2013
Iran hosts first wind energy conference, exhibition
Iran’s Niroo [Energy] Research Institute (NRI) has hosted the first national conference and exhibition on wind energy in the capital, Tehran. The conference focused on the Islamic Republic’s achievements in the field of energy. Among the participants of the event were Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a number of his administration officials, experts and students from [...]
19/05/2013
Lincoln utility looks to triple wind energy use
Lincoln’s public power utility plans to as much as triple the amount of wind energy it uses now within the next two years. The Lincoln Electric System board on Friday approved a plan to negotiate a purchase agreement for 100 additional megawatts of wind energy, the Lincoln Journal Star reported (http://bit.ly/12k41OV). The city-owned utility has [...]
18/05/2013
Top 11 Things You Didn’t Know About Fuel Cells
Zero Emission Bay Area (ZEBA) — a group of regional transit agencies in Northern California — operates twelve, zero-emission, fuel cell buses in real-world service throughout the Bay Area’s diverse communities and landscapes. 11. Similar to a battery, a fuel cell is a device that produces electricity through an electrochemical reaction — a chemical reaction [...]
18/05/2013
Belarus to build wind energy plant under EU Green Economy project
A wind farm plant will be built near Novogrudok as part of the Belarus-EU international technical assistance project “Green Economy in Belarus”, Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Vladimir Tsalko told media after a ceremony of signing the agreement on financing the project at the total tune of €12 million. On the EU’s behalf the [...]
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Ecopower Seeks Permits for $250 Million Chile Wind Energy Plant
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BrightSource Energy Names Steven Goers Senior Vice President of Operations
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Pteragen Canada Inc. obtains regulatory approval for its 120 MW Peace Butte Wind Power Project in Alberta
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Green Light for Eskom Wind Farm
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Philippines approves 3 wind farm projects to generate 208 MW
21/05/2013