While reducing the solar field size needed by 30%, it presents the best performance, installation & environmental efficiencies, offering the lowest LCOE provides today in concentrated solar energy industry.
Continue readingEDF Energies Nouvelles and Vestas enter wind energy frame agreement
EDF Energies Nouvelles will purchase a minimum of 50 per cent of all its future onshore wind turbines in Europe and a minimum of 30 per cent of all its future onshore wind farm installations in the US from Vestas.
Continue readingMainstream in ?1.5bn deal for Irish wind energy project
Eddie O?Connor?s Mainstream Renewable Energy is joining forces with a Chinese wind turbines manufacturer Sinovel and bank to invest up to ?1.5 billion in Irish wind power projects.
Continue readingTurkey’s wind energy potential is 83,000 MW
The wind power sector is developing fast and licenses to numerous wind farm projects have already been issued.
Continue readingIlocos Norte continues to be home of wind energy
Ilocos Norte continues to be the home of wind farm in the country with the entry of three more wind power developers eyeing to build five more wind turbines plants this year.
Continue readingAECOM to manage first offshore wind farm in North America
Fishermen?s Energy, LLC, is a developer of offshore wind power projects, founded by New Jersey commercial fishermen to respond to the public?s need to develop the ocean for renewable wind energy.
Continue readingWind power industry unveils radar-friendly wind turbines
Vestas showed that a V90 turbine of the company with stealth rotor achieved a targeted reduction in radar cross-section of approximately 99 percent, or 20 decibels, compared with standard wind turbines.
Continue readingWind power can provide half of Europe’s electricity supply by 2050
The new research to be published next month shows how wind energy can contribute very substantially to achieving the EU’s commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80-95% by the middle of the century.
Continue readingConnecting the dots: Job losses to China … and … consistent energy policy
The global wind energy industry is expanding rapidly, having gone from 17,000 megawatts (MW) installed in 2000 to 197,000 MW in 2010–more than 10-fold growth in a single decade.
Continue readingArizona Wind Energy Projects
UniSource have issued a joint request for proposals for new Arizona-based wind farm projects that could produce up to 50 megawatts (MW) of wind power.
Continue readingNew board for American Wind Energy Association
Having contributed 35 percent of all new electricity generating capacity since 2007, the U.S. wind power industry is generating electricity and economic development.
Continue readingYingli Green Energy to Supply 110 MW of Photovoltaic Solar Power to Huanghe Hydropower
Yingli Green Energy, which markets its products under the brand ‘Yingli Solar,’ is a leading solar energy company and one of the world’s largest vertically integrated photovoltaic manufacturers.
Continue readingLoan Guarantees for Three California Photovoltaic Solar Power Plants Expected to Create 1,400 Jobs
Building on the momentum of our SunShot Initiate, Secretary Chu announced nearly $4.5 billion in conditional loan guarantees to three California photovoltaic solar energy plants.
Continue readingBoralex Starts Up its First Solar Power Plant
Boralex Inc. has inaugurated its first solar energy park, with an installed capacity of 4.5 MW, in the Midi-Pyrenees region in France.
Continue readingWind energy Nordex delivers 32.5 MW to Poland and France
First N100/2500 wind farm in Poland / wind power turnkey installation in France.
Continue readingKimberly-Clark will purchase wind energy
Kimberly-Clark Corporation (NYSE: KMB) announced that it will purchase from Constellation Energy (NYSE: CEG) Green-e® Energy Certified power sourced from wind farm facilities in Texas.
Continue readingWind energy Gamesa showcases its G11X-5.0 MW offshore wind turbines
The Gamesa G128-5.0 MW offshore wind turbines, for which the first prototypes are scheduled for completion in 4Q12, leverages the proven wind power technology validated by Gamesa in recent years in its G10X-4.5 MW.
Continue readingAvista Selects First Wind’s Palouse Wind Turbines Project for PPA
Palouse Wind, a wind farm permitted and being developed by First Wind, an independent U.S.-based wind energy company, will provide Avista with approximately 40 average megawatts of renewable energy.
Continue readingGlobal Wind Energy Hotspots
Identification of the top five geographical wind power markets by total revenue and growth, including single-year market values and compound annual growth rates (CAGR), country statistics, and leading players.
Continue readingSoftbank Promotes Renewable Energy in Korea
Masayoshi Son, Softbank Corp. president, met with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak on June 20 to discuss the promotion of renewable energy such as solar energy and wind energy.
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