Acciona Windpower will install two of its AW-3000/116 3 MW wind turbines this year at the Pioneer Grove wind farm in Cedar County, Iowa.
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Norway shows interest in Spanish floating wind energy technology
Acciona has installed 283 wind power farms (8,392 MW); 80 hydroelectric power plants (912 MW); 5 Concentrated Solar Power plants (264 MW) and one of the biggest photovoltaic solar energy plants in the world (46 MWp).
Continue readingWind energy in Argentina: Rawson Wind farm
Wind power is consolidated in Argentina, with a wind potential of over two million megawatts. It produces wind turbines themselves (Impsa), or import Vestas wind turbines, as in Rawson wind farm.
Continue readingVestas signs 51 MW wind energy order in Poland
Vestas has received a wind power order for 17 wind turbines V112-3.0 MW turbine for a wind farm in Poland.
Continue readingChina lights up United Arab Emirates solar energy future
Masdar has already handed a tender for a concentrated solar power plant to Abengoa of Spain and Total of France.
Continue readingRenewable power capacity in India to top 30,000 MW by 12th Plan
The year 2011 has seen a significant growth with a number of new initiatives in the renewable energy sector: 3815 MW Grid Connected Wind Energy and Solar Power Added During 2011 in India.
Continue readingThailand Opens The First of Fifteen Concentrated Solar Thermal Power Plants
Duckwitz, Germany-based Solarlite partnered with Thai Solar Energy company to manufacture and build the five-megawatt Concentrating Solar Power Plant.
Continue readingRenewable energy in Samoa
Like most Pacific Island Countries, Samoa is very keen to reduce its reliance on diesel with wind energy.
Continue readingU.S. Solar Energy Industry Sets Record for Installations
The Treasury Grant Program (TGP), has supported a vast number of solar photovoltaic (PV) and concentrating solar power (CSP) projects across the United States.
Continue readingRenewable Energy in São Tomé and Príncipe
The state-owned Empresa de Agua e Electricidad (EMAE) has an installed capacity of 15.6 MW. However, actual generation is approximately 7.5 MW, due to frequent breakdown of generation units
Continue readingWind energy and electric vehicles
Windreich AG introduced the very first annual calendar devoted exclusively to electric car and wind energy.
Continue readingBuilding a New Nation and New Energy in South Sudan
South Sudan will begin life as both a tremendously poor and under-served nation in terms of the services for its people, and a fantastically rich one in terms of resources and potential.
Continue readingVestas signs wind energy contracts with EDF EN for 62 MW in Italy and Germany
Vestas has received two wind power orders from EDF Energies Nouvelles for 19 V90-2.0 MW wind turbines for the Gargano wind farm in Apulia, Italy, and for 12 V90-2.0 MW wind turbines for the Eckolstädt wind farm.
Continue readingRenewable Energy in Timor Leste (East Timor)
Timor-Leste has abundant solar energy resources and some potential hydroelectric resources also. Some climatic and topographic data exists.
Continue readingWind power in Brazil: Impsa has already made 200 wind turbines
The wind turbine 200 is part of the wind energy project of 10 wind farm plants in Santa Catarina, totaling 220 MW of installed capacity with 148 wind turbines. The wind power sector in Brazil takes hold.
Continue readingRenewable energy in St. Vincent and Grenadines
In 2005 a study with support from GTZ to identify the wind potential in St Vincent analysed several sites: Brighton, Greggs and Ribish Point, which revealed to be the most promising.
Continue readingA wind farm and a solar power in for US grid
The US government approved a solar energy plant in California and a wind turbines farm in Oregon that could provide enough energy for 112500 homes.
Continue readingRenewable Energy in Grenada
Grenada Electricity Services Ltd.(GRENLEC) is currently working on land control and enhancing the wind resource assessment programme, which includes five potential wind sites on Grenada.
Continue readingKeeping tax credit is key to wind power projects
Cannon Power Group?s Windy Point/Windy Flats wind farm project, located in southern Washington, represents one of the largest wind energy projects in the United States.
Continue readingWind energy in Greece: 1,626.5 megawatts in 2011
Installed wind power capacity rose to 1,626.5 megawatts in 2011 from 1,320.4 megawatts in 2010. Vestas accounted for 49 percent of wind turbines installed in Greece in 2011.
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