In a new report, the Environment America Research and Policy Center seeks to visualize and quantify this potential as it pertains to the United States. The report argues that the U.S. “has the potential to produce more than 100 times as much electricity from solar PV and concentrating solar power (CSP) installations as the nation … Continue reading America could power itself 100 times over with solar energy, Concentrated Solar Power and Photovoltaic
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Wind Power in India: Gamesa has established in the wind energy sector with G114-2.0 MW wind turbines
Ignacio Martín, Gamesa’s Chairman and CEO, Xabier Etxeberria, Business CEO, and Ramesh Kymal, Gamesa’s CEO in India, today inaugurated the expanded nacelle facility in Chennai, paving the way for introduction of the G114-2.0 MW into the market over the course of 2015. Gamesa is present in India as technology provider and wind farm developer. Since … Continue reading Wind Power in India: Gamesa has established in the wind energy sector with G114-2.0 MW wind turbines
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Concentrated Solar Power CSP Systems: Market Shares, and Forecasts, Global, 2014 to 2020
WinterGreen Research announces that it has published a new study Concentrated Solar Power (CSP): Market Shares, Strategy, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2014 to 2020. The 2014 study has 436 pages, 190 tables and figures. Worldwide markets are poised to achieve significant growth as the Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) integrates molten salt storage technologies and leverages the … Continue reading Concentrated Solar Power CSP Systems: Market Shares, and Forecasts, Global, 2014 to 2020
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GE wind energy looks to global expansion
General Electric looking to grow its wind energy business by increasing installations of wind turbines globally while providing services such as data analytics to improve their performance, a top company energy executive said on Wednesday. The U.S. conglomerate plans to have a presence with its wind turbine business in 35 or more countries next … Continue reading GE wind energy looks to global expansion
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Syrah Resources Successfully Produces Li-ion Battery Grade Spherical Graphite
On 20 November 2014, Syrah Resources announced that it has successfully produced uncoated battery grade spherical graphite, using natural flake graphite from its Balama Graphite & Vanadium Project in Mozambique. The battery market currently represents approximately 23% of global flake graphite output and is expected to be a rapidly growing sector due to lithium ion … Continue reading Syrah Resources Successfully Produces Li-ion Battery Grade Spherical Graphite
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Marine energy: WavePOD prototype produces wave energy
The vision of a standardised offshore electricity generator for the wave industry reached a significant milestone this week when the WavePOD prototype produced its first power in laboratory tests. The tenth-scale WavePOD was officially switched on by David Waldron, Bosch Rexroth’s UK Business Manager for Machinery Applications and Renewables, to mark the start of the … Continue reading Marine energy: WavePOD prototype produces wave energy
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EDF EN Canada and Énergie du Granit Announce the Commissioning of Le Granit Wind Farm
EDF EN Canada Inc., a subsidiary of EDF Energies Nouvelles Group, and Énergie du Granit Inc. announced today that the 24.6 megawatt (MW) Le Granit Wind Project has declared commercial operation. The wind power project represents a joint-ownership undertaking formed by EDF EN Canada and Énergie du Granit, a company wholly owned by the MRC … Continue reading EDF EN Canada and Énergie du Granit Announce the Commissioning of Le Granit Wind Farm
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Impsa sells Brazil wind power plants
Industrias Metalurgicas Pescarmona SA, the Argentine wind-turbine maker owned by the Pescarmona family and known as Impsa, agreed to sell holdings in wind parks in Brazil to a local developer as it prepares to restructure its debt. Ventos de Sao Jorge Energias Renovaveis SA, a Fortaleza, Brazil-based wind-power developer owned by the Salus investment fund, … Continue reading Impsa sells Brazil wind power plants
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Google, IKEA, And SunEdison Bought A Lot Of Wind Power This Week
With politically-charged pipeline maneuvering and international climate jockeying taking up most of the attention this week, three major wind power purchases show how clean energy is chugging along amid all of the rousing rhetoric. On Tuesday, IKEA announced its biggest renewable energy purchase to date: a 165 megawatt wind farm in southern Texas. This is … Continue reading Google, IKEA, And SunEdison Bought A Lot Of Wind Power This Week
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Vestas secures 42 MW wind energy order in Croatia, for first V112-3.0 MW wind power plant in the country
Vestas has received a 42 MW order from Akuo Energy for 14 units of the V112-3.0 MW wind turbine for the Ogorje wind power plant in Croatia. This will be the first V112-3.0 MW wind power plant to be installed in the country. Delivery of the turbines is scheduled for the third quarter of 2015 … Continue reading Vestas secures 42 MW wind energy order in Croatia, for first V112-3.0 MW wind power plant in the country
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Omburu solar power in Namibia
The Minister of Mines and Energy Isak Katali says the Omburu solar power plant will improve the supply of electricity to the entire country and not only to the Erongo Region. Katali made the remarks at the official groundbreaking ceremony of the plant on Friday at Omburu, near Omaruru in the Erongo Region. He said: … Continue reading Omburu solar power in Namibia
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Enel admitted to new sustainability index series
The Enel Group has been admitted to the prestigious CDP Italy Climate Disclosure Leadership Index 2014, published in the CDP Italy 100 Climate Report 2014. Enel was ranked in the index as a leading company in terms of quality, comprehensiveness and transparency of climate change data it made available to the market through CDP, the … Continue reading Enel admitted to new sustainability index series
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Chinese wind turbines to be tested in Australia wind farm
China will be testing wind farm technology in Australia as one of the continent’s states, Tasmania, bolsters the economic relationship it has with the Asian giant. Shenhua Group, a Chinese energy and mining company leader, will be installing and testing wind turbines in a 10- to 30-megawatt wind farm with one of Woolnorth Wind Farm … Continue reading Chinese wind turbines to be tested in Australia wind farm
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Wind Energy in China: Gamesa to supply wind turbines for a wind farm
Gamesa will install 32 of its G97-2.0 MW wind turbines for CGN and 24 of the same model for Everbright. Gamesa, a global technology leader in wind energy, has further consolidated its Chinese presence with two new supply contracts. The first is a new contract with CGN Wind Energy, a subsidiary of China’s … Continue reading Wind Energy in China: Gamesa to supply wind turbines for a wind farm
Continue readingGE wind turbines for wind farm in Croatia
GE announced it will supply Vienna-based renewable energy developer RP Global with twelve GE 2.85-103 wind turbines for the Rudine wind farm GE’s first wind farm in Croatia. The latest in a series of first wind turbine orders in countries such as Morocco and Pakistan, GE today announced it will supply Vienna-based renewable energy … Continue reading GE wind turbines for wind farm in Croatia
Continue readingWind Energy To Power New Google Datacenter
Google has announced its new Eemshaven datacenter will be 100% powered by renewable energy from its first day of operation. Google says it has struck an agreement to buy all the output of a new Eneco wind farm currently under construction at Delfzijl, near Eemshaven in the Netherlands for the next decade. “By entering into … Continue reading Wind Energy To Power New Google Datacenter
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Antonio Luque, photovoltaic solar pioneer in Spain, to receive $60,000 B?er award
Antonio Luque, professor and director of the Institute of Solar Energy at the Technical University of Madrid, Spain, will receive the Karl W. B?er Solar Energy Medal of Merit at a ceremony to be held at the University of Delaware on March 13, 2015. The medal and a cash award of $60,000, funded by the … Continue reading Antonio Luque, photovoltaic solar pioneer in Spain, to receive $60,000 B?er award
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Acciona will compete in the Dakar Rally with the first ever zero-emission, electric car
Acciona, the Spanish infrastructure, water, services and renewable energies multinational company, has designed and built the first electrically powered car based entirely on renewable sources. The vehicle was officially presented today at ACCIONA S.A. head office in Madrid as further evidence of ACCIONA’s commitment to innovation, renewable energy and sustainable development. Developing ACCIONA 100% EcoPowered … Continue reading Acciona will compete in the Dakar Rally with the first ever zero-emission, electric car
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Acciona Windpower to supply 165 MW of wind turbines for IKEA’s largest wind energy project to date
ACCIONA Windpower, an ACCIONA group subsidiary company dedicated to the design, manufacture and sale of wind turbines, has completed a turbine supply agreement with Apex Clean Energy, developer of the 165 MW Cameron Wind farm, which has been purchased by IKEA Group. The agreement includes the supply of 55 ACCIONA Windpower AW125/3000 wind turbines and … Continue reading Acciona Windpower to supply 165 MW of wind turbines for IKEA’s largest wind energy project to date
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Ikea buys U.S. wind farm with Acciona wind turbines
Ikea also has invested in wind power in Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Poland, Sweden and the U.K. Ikea, the largest furniture retailer, made its biggest renewable-energy investment to date by buying a 165-megawatt wind farm in southern Texas. When the Cameron Wind Farm is complete by the end of next year, Ikea will own … Continue reading Ikea buys U.S. wind farm with Acciona wind turbines
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