The possibility of reduced Mideast oil supplies added urgency to the daylong seminar on increasing the use of electric cars and plug-in hybrids that was held at the show on Friday.
Continue readingNUR-MOH to Build 38 MW Concentrating Solar Power in Greece
The proposed concentrated solar energy plant will deploy the patented LPT 550 solar power generating system supplied by BrightSource Energy.
Continue readingAn outstanding 2010 for photovoltaics, 2011 will be even better
Last year, 17,500 MW were installed, with a 130% increase over 2009. Solar power capacity is expected to increase by 20,500 MW this year.
Continue readingFord Focus Electric Car Named 2011 Green Car Vision Award? Winner
This year, Green Car Vision Award? finalists included the electric vehicles Ford Focus Electric, Honda Fit EV, Mitsubishi i, Toyota RAV4 Electric, and Volvo C30 DrivE electric.
Continue readingVolvo will unveil V60 Electric Vehicles at Geneva
The rear axle features ERAD (Electric Rear Axle Drive) in the form of an electric motor producing 70 horsepower, which receives its power from a 12 kWh lithium-ion battery pack.
Continue readingSolar Power to Shine in 2011
The latest years have been brutal for the solar energy and wind industry, as seen in the performance of the Guggenheim Solar ETF and First Trust Global Wind Energy ETF that track the solar and wind power industries.
Continue readingAffinity Wind to Develop Wind Energy Farm in Pittsfield
Affinity Wind, a wind power company based in St. Louis, Missouri, has announced its plans to build a 150-MW wind farm in Pike County, west of Pittsfield, Illinois. Affinity plans to install 75 2-MW wind turbines.
Continue readingWind energy prospects for in Argentina
The installed wind turbines capacity only amounts to 32 MW. 21 wind power companies submitted 51 wind farm projects to be approved.
Continue readingImpsa supplies wind turbines for Brazil?s largest wind farm By José Santamarta
This wind power agreement confirms CHESF entry to the market of wind energy and allows developing the first wind farm owned by the company.
Continue readingSuntech Power Receives the Murphy&Spitz Global Leader Award 2011
The Annual M&S Research Report on Environmental and Sustainability Standards in the Photovoltaic Industry Will be Published Monday.
Continue readingChina – big boom for wind energy and solar power
The target power generating installed capacity of renewable energy for 2020, including wind power and solar energy, will see big boom in China.
Continue readingOver the Next 5 Years, the Wind Energy Market is Expected to Reach $ 108 B, Solar Photovoltaic $101 B and Solar Thermal $17 B Per Annum
Wind power and solar power are clean renewable energy resources available in abundance across all the regions. The business of generating electricity from wind energy and solar energy is growing.
Continue readingGlobal Wind Turbines Market Will Reach $73.5 Billion by 2015
Pro-wind regulatory environment for wind power projects and increase in utility scale wind energy generation farms have put the world at 159 GW installed wind farm capacity at the end of 2009.
Continue readingMike Ford Named Vice President of Sales at Broadwind Energy
Mike will focus his efforts on developing Broadwind?s unified sales strategy and approach to expand our presence in the wind power, oil and gas and mining markets.
Continue readingJobs on horizon as Cape Wind energy project nears
Now that the hotly contested Cape Wind power project is in the final stages before construction, jobs–American jobs–are on the horizon.
Continue readingTesla Motors Staying the Course With Model S
Tesla?s goal is to produce increasingly affordable electric cars with lithium ion batteries to mainstream buyers ? relentlessly driving down the cost of Electric Vehicles.
Continue readingAcciona Commences Building of Dempsey Ridge Wind Farm
Acciona Energy has begun the building of the Dempsey Ridge Wind Energy plant in Roger Mills County, Oklahoma.
Continue readingThree New Wind Energy Plants Start Operations in Spain
Enel Green Power?s three new wind farm plants have commenced operation in Spain. The three wind power facilities will produce nearly 260 million kWh.
Continue readingGlobal Building Space to Increase by 26% to 178 Billion Square Meters by 2020
Buildings represent one of the main frontiers in the global challenge to increase efficiency and reduce overall energy consumption. Buildings are responsible for 49% of global energy consumption.
Continue readingWind power Vestas announced the closure of five factories and layoffs of 3,000 colleagues
To date 2,200 layoffs have occurred, and wind power Vestas plans to carry out the remaining scheduled 800 layoffs no later than June 2011. Production at the affected wind turbines factories has now stopped.
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