FMIC President Francis Paderna said the company’s 50-megawatt (MW) Pulupandan wind power facility is already in the “advanced stage” of construction. The company has also submitted a letter of declaration of commerciality for the wind farm to the Department of Energy. The said letter informs the energy department that FMIC has already completed the wind [...]
23/03/2013
Techno Electric plans big wind energy expansion
Network18online reported that Techno Electric & Engineering may not have added any wind energy capacity in the current financial year it has big plans to expand in 2013 to 14 according to a top company official. The Kolkata based company so far has wind power generation capacity of 207 mega watt of which 162 mw [...]
23/03/2013
Enel Green Power signs loan agreement with Bbva in Chile
Enel Green Power S.p.A. (“Enel Green Power”), through its subsidiary Enel Latin America (Cile) Ltda, has concluded an agreement with Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria Cile (BBVA) for a 100 million US dollar loan to be used to partially cover its planned investments over the next few years in Chile. The 5-year loan will be disbursed [...]
22/03/2013
Denmark wind energy reach a record
For the second time in two months the Danish wind turbines reached a production record when they sent 3,987 megawatts into the electricity grid. One day in March, the wind turbines in Denmark rotated so quickly that 3,987 megawatts were sent into the electricity grid. This is nearly 200 megawatts more than the previous record, [...]
22/03/2013
Maryland approves development of offshore wind energy
Maryland joins several other east coast states with offshore wind power projects in development or under consideration, including Massachusetts, Delaware, New Jersey and Virginia. Presently, the U.S. has no operational offshore wind energy capacity. Harnessing the power of ocean winds off the U.S. mid-Atlantic coast came a step closer to reality last week when the Maryland [...]
22/03/2013
DuPont Joint Venture develops new fluid for solar thermal
DuPont Tate & Lyle Bio Products announces the introduction of Greenway® solar heat transfer fluids manufactured by Climalife and made with Susterra® propanediol. Susterra® propanediol offers solar thermal equipment owners a high performing, biobased glycol which can improve energy efficiency and reduce maintenance costs. Susterra® is certified 100 percent biobased by the U.S. Department of [...]
22/03/2013
OPIC finances wind energy projects in Peru, Pakistan
The Board of Directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) today approved a total of $288 million in financing for two wind power projects poised to deliver much-needed electricity to Pakistan and Peru. “The provision of clean and reliable electricity is an essential building block of any economy,” said OPIC President and CEO Elizabeth [...]
22/03/2013
Wind energy in Philippines: EDC gets $80-m wind farm loan
Energy Development Corp., the country’s biggest producer of geothermal energy, said it signed an $80-million new term loan facility due in June 2018. “The new facility shall be used for capital expenditure needs and general corporate purposes of the company,” EDC said in a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange. EDC tapped Mizuho Corporate Bank [...]
22/03/2013
Growth in China’s Wind Energy Eclipses Growth in Coal
China’s use of wind power to generate electricity grew faster than coal for the first time in 2012, according to just released numbers from the China Electricity Council. While fossil-fired generation of electricity grew 0.3 percent last year, wind power generated electricity grew 35.5 percent. Solar-generated electricity grew 414 percent and nuclear generation grew 12.6 percent. However, these numbers [...]
22/03/2013
Bosch to end photovoltaic business
Bosch said it will sell or shut down its heavily loss-making solar energy operations, the latest blow to the industry as Germany curbs green energy subsidies and cheap Chinese imports flood the market. Chinese rivals have flooded global markets with cheap solar photovoltaic panels, prompting the European Commission to launch a dumping investigation. Bosch said [...]
22/03/2013
RWE Innogy sells minority stakes of Rhyl Flats offshore wind farm and Little Cheyne Court onshore wind farm
RWE Innogy can today confirm the successful sale of a 49.9% share in its Rhyl Flats offshore wind farm (Rhyl Flats) and a 41% share in its Little Cheyne Court onshore wind farm. The UK Green Investment Bank (GIB) and Greencoat UK Wind PLC (Greencoat UK Wind), a renewable energy fund listed on the London [...]
22/03/2013
Sonkyo Energy’s Small Wind Turbine Certified by Intertek to AWEA 9.1and MCS
Intertek is the leading quality solutions provider to industries worldwide. The company today announced that it completed combined certification projects for Sonkyo Energy’s Windspot 3.5kw small wind turbine according to the United Kingdom’s Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS) and American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) standard 9.1. Wind turbine installations are on the rise, globally, specifically in [...]
22/03/2013
Namibe province to house Angola’s first wind farm
The construction project in Tômbwa, in Angola’s Namibe province, for the country’s first wind farm, with an installed capacity of 100 megawatts, is estimated to cost 17 billion kwanzas (US$177 million), the Angolan energy and water minister, João Baptista Borges said Wednesday in Lubango. The project will be built via a public-private partnership and work [...]
22/03/2013
New Wind Energy Solutions VP honored at White House
Sharie Derrickson, Vice President of New Wind Energy Solutions in Nashville, along with 13 other female military veterans, were honored at the White House this week as part of Pres. Obama’s “Winning the Future,” initiative. Fourteen female military veterans were selected that have provided exemplary leadership at the local, state or regional level. “You are [...]
22/03/2013
Indonesian Government To Call Tender For Solar Power Plants In April
The government will call for tender for the construction of solar power stations across the country with a combined capacity of 150 MW at a cost of Rp19 trillion (about RM6.07 billion) in April 2013, Indonesia’s Antara news agency reported. The tender will be based on the energy and mineral resources ministry`s regulation on feed-in [...]
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