China Datang Corp Renewable Power Co. had finalized a JV to develop approximately A$6 billion of wind energy and solar power projects in Australia.
Continue readingSDG&E signs 20-year PPA for 156 MW of wind energy in Mexico
San Diego Gas & Electric, or SDG&E, has entered into a 20-year contract for up to 156 MW of wind power supplied from the first phase of Sempra Generation’s Energia Sierra Juarez wind farm in Baja California, Mexico.
Continue readingBrazil Wind Energy Market Outlook 2016 – Wind Farm Installed Capacity
The cumulative wind power installed capacity in Brazil surpassed 931 MW by the end of 2010 as compared to around 341 MW in 2008.
Continue readingEgypt Starts to Invest in Wind Power
Egypt, one of the windiest areas and the leading country in the Middle East in wind energy is set to begin constructing, in May, two of four wind farm stations in the Gulf of Suez.
Continue readingWind Works signs contract with Repower for installation of 30 MW wind energy
Wind Works Power has signed a contract with REpower for the delivery of 15 REpower MM92 wind turbines for three wind farm plants totaling 30 MW of installed wind power.
Continue reading82% think wind energy will have a positive impact
Do you think the following technologies will have a positive or negative impact on your life? Answers from EU citizens are unequivocal: 82% think wind power will have a positive impact.?
Continue readingWind power is valuable even if the wind doesn’t blow all the time
A common fallacy promoted by anti wind farm groups is that because wind turbines cannot replace fueled power plants (they’re needed when the wind doesn’t blow), wind energy has no value.
Continue readingADB to give 150 million dollars to promote India?s solar power sector
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide up to 150 million dollars in credit guarantees to help India scale up its use of solar energy as a major renewable energy source.
Continue readingVestas receives 104 MW wind energy order in Canada
Vestas has received a 104 MW wind power order for 58 V90-1.8 MW wind turbines for a wind farm project in Canada.
Continue readingBest wind power than nuclear power – New Wind Energy Plant in Southern Japan
The new wind farm on the Osumi peninsula in Kagoshima prefecture with 15 wind turbines made by Japan Steel Works Ltd. started operations on March 18.
Continue readingSuzlon receives 50.4 MW wind power order from Gujarat State Fertilizers & Chemicals
Suzlon Group has signed a wind energy order with Gujarat State Fertilizers & Chemicals Limited (GSFC) to set up wind farm projects totaling 24 wind turbines in Gujarat.
Continue readingNissan, Saga Prefecture and FamilyMart Sign Partnership Agreement to Promote Electric Vehicles
Nissan, Saga Prefecture and FamilyMart Sign Partnership Agreement
to Promote Electric Car with Lithium Ion Batteries Focusing on Development of Quick Charge Network
Saft to Supply Advanced Batteries to the Beijing Electric Vehicles
Johnson Controls-Saft, a global leader in the development and manufacture of advanced lithium-ion batteries for hybrid and electric vehicles, will supply the complete battery system for two electric cars.
Continue readingRenewable Energy Manifesto shows clear path for the next Welsh Government
Potential economic opportunities underlined. Planning system to promote wind farm projects. Delivery plan for offshore wind energy developments. Generate marine energy, wave energy and tidal energy in the Severn Estuary.
Continue readingU.S. Department of Interior approves Cape Wind Power?s Construction and Operation Plan
U.S. Secretary Ken Salazar announced approval of the first-ever Construction and Operation Plan (COP) for a U.S. offshore wind energy project with over-100 wind turbines.
Continue readingLet No Man Say It Cannot Be Done
We need an economy for the twenty-first century, one that is in sync with the earth and its natural support systems, not one that is destroying them.
Continue readingUS approves first offshore wind power plant with Siemens’ wind turbines
The wind farm is expected to supply around three-quarters of the annual energy requirements of Cape Cod. The wind energy potential off the Atlantic coast is staggering.
Continue readingEDF Energies Nouvelles acquires 324 MW of wind energy projects in Mexico
These two wind turbines projects under development are located in southern Mexico, in the highly windy state of Oaxaca, where EDF EN Mexico already operates the La Mata La Ventosa wind farm (67.5 MW).
Continue readingU.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, AWEA, Wind Farm Developers Sign Agreement to Promote Endangered Species Conservation
Such a plan would outline measures to conserve threatened and endangered species that may be affected by wind power facilities in eight Midwestern states.
Continue readingTed Turner, T. Boone Pickens to Debate Energy Policy in Washington, DC, Today
Two of America?s most prominent supporters of wind energy, Ted Turner and T. Boone Pickens, will debate energy policy today at 1 p.m. Eastern at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
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