Politicians who are reluctant to accept that wind energy and other renewables could be the driving force behind Europe achieving a low-carbon future in the next 40 years should read a new report of Worldwatch Institute.
Continue readingAdvanced Battery Begins Construction of Battery Production Facility
Advanced Battery Technologies is a leading developer, manufacturer and distributor of rechargeable polymer lithium-ion batteries, as well as a manufacturer of electric vehicles.
Continue readingChevrolet Canada Begins Taking Orders for Electric Vehicles
Chevrolet Volt is the industry”s first electric car with extended range capabilities. Unlike other electric cars in the market, the Chevrolet Volt will never leave anyone stranded with a depleted lithium ion batteries.
Continue readingJohnson Controls Supplies Electric Vehicles Batteries and Buys Ford Electric Cars
Johnson Controls, the auto battery company, has become both a supplier to and a user of electric vehicles. The company has ordered 20 electric vans from the Ford Transit Connect Electric Lead program.
Continue readingOffshore wind energy – Siemens wind turbines supply clean electricity to over 50,000 households
Germany’s first commercial offshore wind farm EnBW Baltic 1 goes into operation. Wind power is part of Siemens’ Environmental Portfolio.
Continue readingNuclear?s Health Risks on Chernobyl Anniversary
PSR physician experts gathered at the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident?to draw comparisons between Chernobyl and the ongoing Fukushima nuclear energy crisis
Continue readingMerkel Inaugurates Germany’s Offshore Wind Energy Plant
Baltic 1 wind power plant was inaugurated today, making it Germany’s first offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea and second offshore wind turbines to go online.
Continue readingEnergy Storage in the photovoltaic and concentrated solar energy
The report analyzes the opportunities for firms seeking to understand the opportunities created by energy-storage technologies in the solar power sector, and both PV and concentrating solar power are cover.
Continue readingThin Film Photovoltaics (PV)
The global thin film photovoltaic market is expected to grow from $3,406 million in 2009 to $19,422 million in 2015.
Continue readingWind energy GL Garrad Hassan registers offices in the Netherlands
The Netherlands has emerged as an evolving market for renewable energies with particular emphasis on offshore wind power.
Continue readingRajasthan Solar Energy Policy 2011
The Rajasthan State will promote setting up of solar power projects. The total capacity under this category will be distributed equally between SPV and solar concentrating thermal power plants.
Continue readingElectric vehicles Nissan LEAF earns Top Safety Pick from IIHS
The Nissan LEAF is the first 100% electric car with lithium ion batteries to earn the Top Safety Pick from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
Continue readingWind energy in Germany – first commercial offshore wind farm in Baltic Sea
Germany’s first commercial offshore wind power plant was inaugurated on Monday in the Baltic Sea. Angela Merkel pushed the button to start up the 21 wind turbines at the Baltic 1 wind farm.
Continue readingWind power in Tamil Nadu – Japan company keen on funding wind farm
Although power managers are apprehensive that the wind turbines project may be delayed due to the current crisis in Japan, they say that it would solve many of the problems in transferring wind energy into the grid.
Continue readingPushing electric vehicles
Carmakers in Japan, the United States, China and South Korea have become serious about mass production of electric cars with lithium ion batteries.
Continue readingIs Wind Energy Sinovel Planning to Replace American Superconductor?
Wind power Sinovel’s recent refusal to accept shipments from American Superconductor (AMSC) may be due to more than just a slowdown in the Chinese wind farm market.
Continue readingNautricity pushes back the tide of marine energy
While conventional tidal devices resemble wind turbines moored to the seabed, incurring enormous deployment and engineering costs, CoRMat is a small, free-floating capsule, tethered to a surface float.
Continue readingKYOCERA supplies 6MW of solar modules for solar power plant in Italy
Kyocera Corporation announced that it has supplied approximately 6-megawatts (MW) of the company’s multicrystalline silicon solar photovoltaic modules for a large-scale solar energy plant near Turin, Italy.
Continue readingBoosting the Efficiency of Wind Energy and Solar Power
Wind turbines produce wakes, invisible ripples, waves and other disturbances in the atmosphere downstream that can damage wind turbines and decrease efficiency.
Continue readingNuclear?s Health Risks on Chernobyl Anniversary
The 25th anniversary of Chernobyl and the continuing crisis at Fukushima?both Level 7 nuclear disasters?are clear reminders that standard evacuation zones cannot protect the public from a nuclear accident.
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