Wigton Wind Farm in south Manchester is now up and running with an additional 14 MW of wind power after spending close to US$50 million to install nine Vestas V80 wind turbines.
Continue readingEgypt continues looking to wind energy to power some of its energy needs
Egypt is getting ready to expand its wind power sector. The ministry had already raised funds for several wind farm plants. Egypt had 430 MW of installed wind turbines at the end of 2009.
Continue readingLondon to Edinburgh by electric car: it was quicker by electric car
Feeling that electric cars were getting a bad rap due to a BBC correspondent’s four-day journey from London to Edinburgh in a Mini E, a Tesla driver took to the road and made the over 400-mile trip in a day.
Continue readingEight companies vie to put wind turbines in offshore wind farm in Maryland
The O’Malley administration has pushed to develop offshore wind power as the main way to achieve the state’s goal of getting 20 percent of Maryland’s electricity needs from renewable power by 2022.
Continue readingSolar power use in cell towers can reduce CO2
If all these cellphone towers use solar energy then it could save a great amount of fossil fuels as well as reduce carbon emissions.
Continue readingLow running costs of Electric Vehicles
The low running cost of electric cars (EVs) is “astonishing”, according to one council member in Stockton-on-Tees.
Continue readingRenewable energy in Russia
The programme looks at wind energy (in Russia?s South and Northeast, as well as the Far East) and biomass energy (in Russia?s South, predominantly) as its priority development areas.
Continue readingMasdar and Mitsubishi launches Electric Vehicles Pilot
The Masdar pilot will involve electric cars and test the feasibility of EV technology as a point-to-point transportation solution for Masdar City.
Continue readingPNNL Solving the Energy Storage Challenge
In conversations about renewable energy sources like solar energy and wind power, energy storage is repeatedly identified as the tipping point between intermittency and reliability.
Continue readingSolar Energy Zone Plan Focus of Public Meetings in Washington, DC
DOI announced a schedule of public meetings to gather comments on a comprehensive environmental analysis that has identified proposed ?solar power zones? on public lands in the west.
Continue readingAlgeria – 170 MW from concentrated solar energy by 2015
Algeria is seeking to produce 6% of its electricity from renewables by 2015, of which 100 MW will be in the form of wind energy, 170 MW will come from concentrating solar power and 5.1MW from photovoltaics.
Continue readingAffinity Wind Closes JV Agreement with wind energy Suzlon
Forms Development Partnership for 150 MW Illinois Wind Power Project. Suzlon is a highly vertically integrated wind turbines manufacturer. Suzlon will be responsible for this first wind farm.
Continue readingM+W Group at the World Future Energy Summit 2011
Company?s experts will participate in a round table discussion on Monday 17 January from 02:00 to 02:45 p.m. (?Fresnel based Concentrating Solar Power: Experience of a grid connected direct steam generation plant).
Continue readingEGPI Firecreek to buy Arctic Solar Engineering
EGPI Firecreek, Inc. (EFIR.OB) Makes a Bold Move into Solar Thermal with the Acquisition of Arctic Solar Engineering.
Continue readingBoralex starts construction on solar energy project in France
Renewable energy company Boralex Inc. is entering the solar power business by beginning construction of a solar park in France.
Continue readingWind turbines from Walney Offshore wind farm are now generating power
The wind energy plant will supply a third of a million UK homes. Walney 1 and 2 wind power plants will have a capacity of 367.2 megawatts of CO2-free renewable energy.
Continue readingEast Midlands Airport to install wind turbines
East Midlands Airport has been given planning permission to install a total of four wind turbines. The four wind turbines should produce up to 225kw of electricity each, enough to power 503 houses a year.
Continue readingTesla Enthusiast Drives to Edinburgh Emission-Free, Dispels BBC EV Bias
Incensed after watching the weeklong BBC feature about a road trip in a BMW MiniE prototype, electric vehicles advocate David Peilow decided to give chase in a Tesla Roadster, and he reached his destination within a day.
Continue readingSurviving the Photovoltaic Crash of 2012
In the recently released report, the PHOTON Consulting team anticipates that the saturation of the German PV market will lead to the solar power sector’s first year of negative growth in recent history.
Continue readingChina Wind Systems Appoints KRC to Develop a SOX 404 Compliance Program
China Wind Systems, Inc. is a profitable, rapidly growing supplier of precision forged components primarily to the wind energy industry in China – the world’s leading wind-power market.
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