As the nation’s eyes turn to the Hawkeye State for this weekend’s Iowa Straw Poll in the Republican presidential race, they will catch a glimpse of what wind power has already done for Iowans.
Continue readingWind Energy Gets $500 Million Loan to Build Texas Power Line
The lines will expand to 18 gigawatts the region’s transmission capacity for wind power, from 10 gigawatts now, Wayne Morton, general manager of Wind Energy Transmission Texas, said.
Continue readingEnergy Storage for Concentrated Solar Thermal Power
BrightSource announces a new system that could allow future concentrated solar energy plants to run at night.
Continue readingFord teams with SunPower for solar power for electric vehicles
Ford is teaming with solar energy SunPower to sell a solar photovoltaic system through Ford dealers in conjunction with the launch of the Focus electric car with lithium ion batteries later this year.
Continue readingThe drive to electric vehicles
A Besturn electric car made by FAW Group Corp at an auto show in Beijing. While Chinese automakers regard electric cars as an opportunity to allow them to lead the global industry, they are also very cautious.
Continue readingOffshore wind turbines installed at Ormonde Offshore Wind Farm
Vattenfall has completed the installation of the final wind turbines at its wind power off the coast of northwest England, a wind farm utilising REpower’s 5M wind turbines.
Continue readingGreen Power Investment To Build Wind Energy Plant In Northern Japan
Construction on the wind power with 55 wind turbines is to begin as early as the summer of 2013.
Continue readingHybrid Electric Locomotives Will Utilize 514 MWh of Battery Capacity
Most of this capacity will be in lead acid and advanced lead acid batteries, with a portion of the market utilizing sodium metal halide and lithium ion batteries.
Continue reading80 MW Solar Energy Plant to Open in Ukraine
It is aimed at producing electric energy from the clean sources – the solar power and the wind energy- in the amount of 2,000 MW.
Continue readingMichael Bloomberg was contributing $50 million to the Sierra Club?s Beyond Coal Campaign
More than 300 new wind farm plants came online, totaling over 23,000 megawatts of wind energy generating capacity?the electricity output equivalent of 23 coal-fired power plants.
Continue readingRobert Bryce, King of the NIMBYs
Robert Bryce, of the Koch Industries- and Exxon-funded Manhattan Institute, continues firing off anti-wind energy diatribes every day or two.
Continue readingWind energy project with Vestas’ wind turbines in Colorado
The $26.5 million wind power project would feature 16 wind turbines made by Vestas plants in Pueblo and Northern Colorado.
Continue readingVestas secures 190 MW wind energy contract for Canada
Vestas secures 190 MW service-renewal wind turbines contract for Canada?s second largest wind farm. Vestas has supplied 1,021 wind turbines to Canada totaling 1,683 MW of installed wind power capacity.
Continue readingSolar Power Markets Reach $338.2 Billion By 2017
Solar energy has achieved recognized grid parity in some areas and is approaching recognized grid parity in other areas. Large fortunes are to be made in concentrated solar power CSP.
Continue readingElectric vehicles plugged into the grid could make owners a bundle
Energy researchers and electric car with lithium ion batteries developers are looking to vehicle-to-grid (V2G) systems as part of the future of electric cars.
Continue readingSiemens secures wind energy order for sixth offshore wind farm in Germany
Siemens Energy has secured another wind turbines order for an offshore wind power plant in Germany.
Continue readingReliance Power Plans 200-Megawatt Wind Energy Project in India
The Vashpet wind farm in Maharashtra state is expected to be completed by September 2012 and could be expanded to 400 megawatts.
Continue readingWindMW completes financing for German offshore wind energy plant
The 80 wind turbines wind farm will be situated approximately 50km off the German coast in the North Sea and construction is expected to be completed in 2013.
Continue readingVestas establishes its first wind energy assembly facility in Brazil
This includes an earlier secured order to supply wind turbines with a total capacity of 90 MW for three wind farm plants in Bahia, Brazil ? Sao Pedro do Lago, Pedra Branca, and Sete Gameleiras.
Continue readingTurkey to hold third wind energy congress
?Turkey could be among the top three producers of wind power and has a predictable and attractive market for wind farm investors,? according to the European Wind Energy Association.
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