While renewable energy targets now exist in 118 countries worldwide, few regional commitments to renewable energy deployment exist, though this trend is beginning to change. The European Union (EU) has undoubtedly been one of the global leaders in spurring the advanced development and deployment of renewable energies worldwide. The vision set forth by the Renewable [...]
22/05/2013
BBB assesses 144 wind farm project in Sweden
The German wind energy consultancy BBB Umwelttechnik GmbH (BBB) per-formed the technical due diligence on an onshore wind energy project on behalf of the utility Stadtwerke Mün-chen (SWM). The site is located north of Stockholm between the villages of Umeå and Sundsvall. The Swedish de-veloper of the project, Nordisk Vindkraft, will also carry out the [...]
22/05/2013
CanWEA Envisions 5 GW Of Wind Energy in Alberta
Alberta can once again be a leader in renewable energy development and address global concern about the province’s environmental record by meeting rising electricity demand with new clean wind energy. WindVision 2025: A Strategy For Alberta, released today by the Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA), makes the case for the strategic deployment of more wind [...]
22/05/2013
Soitec produces 43.6% efficient 4-junction solar PV cell
Soitec (Euronext), a world leader in generating and manufacturing revolutionary semiconductor materials for the electronics and energy industries, announced today the industry’s first four-junction solar cell device, which works under concentrated sunlight, putting the company on the solar-energy industry’s technology roadmap at a world-class level of an outstanding 43.6 percent efficiency. This technology development – [...]
22/05/2013
Enel Green Power north america signs agreements to reach 75% ownership of Chisholm View and Prairie Rose wind farms
Enel Green Power North America, Inc. (“EGP-NAâ€) signed an agreement to purchase, from a GE Capital subsidiary, an additional 26% of the company operating the 235 MW Chisholm View wind farm for approximately 47 million US dollars. EGP-NA has also signed an agreement to purchase, from a GE Capital subsidiary, an additional 26% of the [...]
22/05/2013
Alterra Power, EDC joint venture to develop geothermal energy in Chile, Peru
Alterra Power Corp. completed a joint venture agreement with Energy Development Corp. (EDC) for the development of Alterra’s Mariposa geothermal power project in Chile plus three geothermal concessions held by Alterra in Peru. The agreement calls for EDC to earn a 70 percent interest by funding 100 percent of the next $58.3 million in project [...]
22/05/2013
EWEA CEO: wind energy needs the clout of gas, coal and nuclear
“Gas, coal and nuclear have more political clout than the wind industryâ€, and the industry has to take a “more visible place in the political landscape.†So writes EWEA’s new CEO Thomas Becker in the latest Wind Directions. “The big boys did not see nice ‘alternative’ wind as a threat. Now they do. As old [...]
22/05/2013
Tesla’s Model S set to bring electric vehicles into the mainstream
Tesla, a US state-supported electric car manufacturer, published dazzling first-quarter financial results for 2013, suggesting the era of the plug-in car may have arrived in earnest. With almost 5,000 delivered worldwide, the Silicon Valley company’s Tesla Model S luxury electric sedan outsold the German top-three, the Audi A8, BMW 7 Series and Mercedes S Class. [...]
22/05/2013
Finding my windy roots
This guest blog post, written May 15, is reprinted from the Clean Currents blog with the permission of the author, Meghan Tighe. Last week I had the opportunity to travel to Chicago for WINDPOWER 2013, the American Wind Energy Association’s annual conference and trade show. As a conference volunteer, my primary responsibility was to administer [...]
22/05/2013
Ivanpah Concentrating Solar Power Project Is More Than 92 Percent Complete
As the Ivanpah project nears completion, the team continues to move full steam ahead. During the months of February, March and April, more than 1,250 construction workers advanced the project to more than 92 percent complete. To date, more than 153,990 of the project’s total 173,500 heliostats have been installed. Several stunning photos below show [...]
22/05/2013
Solar Energy Industry Capital Spending Hits Seven-Year Low in 2013—but Signs of a Revival Appear
The anticipated fall will represent the lowest level of spending since $2.4 billion in 2006. Although global capital spending this year in the photovoltaics (PV) supply chain is expected to fall to its lowest level since 2006, indications signal that the downturn in investment has hit bottom and that purchases of equipment may soon rebound. [...]
22/05/2013
Voltalia and Acciona Windpower sign contracts to supply wind turbines with a total capacity of 210 MW in Brazil
The order is for seventy AW 3000turbines of 3 MW capacity each and rotor diameters of 116 and 125 meters. Subsidiaries of VOLTALIA, a company that produces electricity from renewable energy sources, and ACCIONA Windpower, a company that designs and manufactures wind turbines, have signed a contract for the supply of turbines with a capacity [...]
22/05/2013
Wind Forecasting and Data Analytics
Following years of record growth throughout world markets, wind is now a mature source of commercial power generation, providing ever-larger percentages of clean energy generation. Wind forecasting practices and technologies are a key element of this rapid deployment of wind plants, and also help provide a solution to the increasing need for variable wind generation [...]
22/05/2013
iREVSOL, a New Concept of Solar Thermal Collector
This collector will make the best of solar energy for the production of domestic hot water (ACS, acronym in Spanish). At the end of the project, the consortium aims to obtain a new solar thermal collector, in the form of coating or covering building systems that face the main limitations of the current market, to [...]
21/05/2013
South Africa to build wind farm in search for clean energy
In a further move in developing clean energy, South Africa will build a wind farm which will generate up to 100 MW of power, it was announced on Monday. The 2.4-billion-rand (258-million-US-dollar) project will be undertaken by Eskom, the state-own electricity utility, according to the Government Communication and Information System. Eskom has got the license [...]
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Unclear Progress Towards the EU 2020 Renewable Energy Targets
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BBB assesses 144 wind farm project in Sweden
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CanWEA Envisions 5 GW Of Wind Energy in Alberta
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Soitec produces 43.6% efficient 4-junction solar PV cell
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Enel Green Power north america signs agreements to reach 75% ownership of Chisholm View and Prairie Rose wind farms
22/05/2013