Wind power iIndustry warns against ‘moderating’ offshore wind farm target. Nuclear cost assumptions ‘optimistic’. UK’s world leading offshore wind turbines sector needs confidence, not doubt and prevarication.
Continue readingChina fine-tunes wind energy industry with new guidelines
China’s wind power manufacturing industry will undergo significant changes in the wake of new industrial restructuring guidelines which will come into effect on June 1.
Continue readingKCP&L will boost wind energy portfolio by 65 percent
KCP&L is pumping up its wind power portfolio by more than 65 percent. KCP&L will start buying power from the wind farm once wind turbines are operational.
Continue readingWind energy Vestas in Kent, UK
The UK represents the world?s largest offshore wind power market and as such has a massive offshore wind farm project pipeline.
Continue readingEuropean Electric Vehicles Charging Infrastructure Market Set to Boom
Local governments are granting customers a variety of incentives to purchase an electric car.
Continue readingReVolt Technology Completes ?2 Million Round of Funding
This funding provides the resources necessary for the cost share requirements of our ZFAB development programs aimed at various electric vehicles aplications.
Continue readingRare earths – Enercon produces wind energy without neodymium
Enercon wind power converters (WECs) generate electricity in an environmentally friendly way without the use of the controversial element, neodymium.
Continue readingHybrid And Pure Electric Cars 2011-2021
Electric vehicles just became exciting. For 111 years, electric cars that rely only on a battery – “pure EVs” – have had a range of only 30-50 miles
Continue readingNew York Among the First to Get Prius Electric Vehicles
Gone is the old nickel metal-hydride battery, replaced by a state-of-the-art Lithium-ion pack. The new power pack allows the electric cars Prius Plug-In to reach speeds up to 62 miles per hour using electrons.
Continue readingDOE Offers $90.6 Million Loan to Support Colorado Solar Power Facility
The proposed facility will use innovative HCPV systems consisting of concentrating optics and multi-junction solar cell panels that are controlled by a dual-axis tracking system.
Continue readingKan says Japan to promote renewable energy after Fukushima
Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said the government will create a new energy policy and put more emphasis on the development of renewable energy, such as solar power and wind energy.
Continue readingChinese wind farm the world?s 3000th CDM climate change project
A wind power plant in China with 41 wind turbines, is to become the 3,000th project registered under the CDM. The electricity produced with wind energy will be fed into the power grid.
Continue readingAcciona Windpower introduces 3 MW wind turbines for medium wind speed sites
The AW3000/116 wind turbines delivers a leading wind power curve and the best cost of wind energy at wind farm sites with medium wind speeds.
Continue readingEast Midlands Airport unveils new wind turbines
The wind turbines, thought to be the first at a UK airport, are part of a wind energy project to make ground operations at the site carbon-neutral by 2012.
Continue readingIPCC: 80% renewable energy by 2050, wind power will have an increasingly important role
The Global Wind Energy Council, (GWEC), welcomes the news, saying wind power will have an increasingly important role to play in the future energy mix.
Continue readingRecord investments in wind energy in Poland
Poland is seeing the construction of wind farm plants with a capacity over 500 MW, , according to the Polish Wind Energy Association. The main role on the Polish wind power market is played by foreign companies.
Continue readingA123 Systems to Supply Battery Modules to Smith Electric Vehicles
A123’s Advanced Nanophosphate Lithium Ion Batteries Systems Offer Smith a Cost-Competitive Solution for Meeting Performance, Safety and Life Requirements.
Continue readingSolar Power Charging Stations from Duo-Gard Integrate Turnkey Approach
Rising interest in electric vehicles and solar power has sparked a Michigan manufacturer?s development of solar-powered charging stations for electric cars, bikes, scooters, carts and motorcycles.
Continue readingChina Nuvo Solar Provides Update on Freya Acquisition
Freya is a producer of lithium ion batteries. China Nuvo Solar is a development stage company that owns unique patent pending solar energy and photovoltaic related technology.
Continue readingNACEL Energy Announces 200 MW Gascoyne II Wind Energy Project
Twenty GE 1.5 MW wind turbines are operating today at Baker. Gascoyne II wind farm is located between the towns of Bowman and Hettinger North Dakota.
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