Meeting this standard with a combination of concentrated and distributed solar power will require local water resources but will present fewer environmental problems than other energy sources tend to create.
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China aims for 10 GW solar energy capacity in 2015
China’s overall solar power capacity will reach 10 gigawatts by 2015, said an official with China’s National Energy Administration.
Continue readingSolar energy to become cheaper
A photovoltaic panel production line in Jiangsu province. China had solar power projects totaling 300 megawatts, at the end of 2010, after starting two pilot projects in the past two years.
Continue readingCounting wind power’s rural economic benefits
Wind energy has transformed rural Sherman County, OR, according to a story in today’s New York Times by Lee van der Voo.
Continue readingGeorgia Power Paves the Way for Electric Vehicles
Before arriving home with an electric car, customers will need to decide how often and quickly they will need to charge their vehicles and the electricity rate plan that best suits their lifestyle.
Continue readingWind energy leaders testify to House panel on need for workable rules to develop wind power and protect wildlife
The land-based wind turbines witnesses also focused on “unworkable” rules recently proposed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) that threaten hundreds of wind farm plants.
Continue readingThe Asian Development Bank (ADB) backs solar energy
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is backing a drive to increase solar energy capacity in Asia-Pacific by six-fold to 3,000 megawatts by 2013.
Continue readingDevelopment of offshore wind energy in China
A Sinovel made 6 MW wind turbines, fresh off the production line, can be used in onshore, offshore and inter-tidal wind farm plantss, Tao Gang, vice-president of Sinovel Wind Group Co. Ltd. said Monday.
Continue readingElectric vehicles are safe
First 100% electric car with lithium ion batteries ever awarded five stars. Nissan LEAF proves that electric cars can achieve the same safety levels as traditional cars.
Continue readingDeWind Co announces wind turbines agreement with Wind Energy Institute of Canada
The WEICan 10 MW wind farm site is expected to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2011.
Continue readingSolarVision Funds Celina Renewable Energy Center
SolarVision?s corporate leaders are pioneers in the renewable energy industry and understand the impact of solar power on the environment as well as energy costs and new government regulations.
Continue readingNorth America – 40,000 new wind turbines to be installed in the US by 2015
The fact: 87 percent of Americans want wind energy, and 2011 looks set to be a great year for wind power.
Continue readingSunPower and Iberdrola Renewables Sign Contract to Build 20-Megawatt Solar Power Plant in Arizona
SunPower and Iberdrola Renewables Sign Contract to Build 20-Megawatt Solar Power Plant in Arizona. First Deployment of SunPower Oasis Power Plant Block.
Continue readingEnergy from the desert
Extensive construction of wind power and solar thermal plants is planned in North Africa as part of the desert electricity project, DESERTEC.
Continue readingRepower (Ratia Energie) increases wind power capacity to 47 MW by acquiring wind farm in Germany
The new wind power plant, which has an installed capacity of 16 MW, is located in Lübbenau (Brandenburg).
Continue readingLa energía eólica y las aves por José Santamarta
Durante años se ha exagerado o distorsionado el impacto de los parques eólicos sobre las aves. El dato real: 7.000 aves en EE UU, frente a 1.500 millones de aves muertas por otras causas antropogénicas.
Continue readingLa energía eólica ocasiona el 0,0005% de la mortalidad de aves por José Santamarta
Durante años se ha exagerado o distorsionado el impacto de los parques eólicos sobre las aves. El dato real: 7.000 aves en EE UU, frente a 1.500 millones de aves muertas por otras causas antropogénicas.
Continue readingLas termoeléctricas son 17 veces más peligrosas para las aves que la eólica
La mortalidad de aves por los aerogeneradores es de 0,269 fallecimientos por GWh; por las centrales eléctricas de combustibles fósiles, de 5,18 muertes por GWh y por centrales nucleares de 0,416 por GWh.
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