When paired with fuel cells or batteries in electric vehicles, supercapacitors enable high power acceleration and energy recovery during braking.
Continue readingXtreme Power and Xcel Energy Partner With SolarTAC on Utility-Scale Solar-to-Battery
The project aims to display the real-world results of integrating storage systems with photovoltaic and concentrating solar thermal power installations, to more efficiently incorporate energy from renewable sources.
Continue readingWind power Vestas gets 21 MW wind turbines order from Germany
New wind energy customer chooses V112-3.0 MW wind turbines for a wind farm in Germany.
Continue readingWind energy Vestas China to deliver 49 MW
Vestas has received a wind power order for 49.3 MW for a wind farm in China consisting of both V52-850 kW and V60-850 kW wind turbines.
Continue readingNew Wind Farm Added to CPS Energy’s Renewable Energy Portfolio
The 20,000 acre wind power plant is home to 100 General Electric wind turbines, each capable of generating 1.5 MW for a total of 150 MW.
Continue readingenXco and Xcel Energy Announce Operation of Nobles Wind Power Project
enXco – an EDF Energies Nouvelles Company (PARIS: EEN) and Xcel Energy (NYSE: XEL) announced the new Nobles Wind Energy Project in southwestern Minnesota is fully operational and supplying electricity.
Continue readingChina sets rare earth export quotas
The USTR was responding to China’s move to cut its first round of 2011 export quotas for rare earth minerals, used in smart phones, wind energy, electric vehicles, by more than 10 percent from year-earlier levels.
Continue reading2011 Will Be a Test of Electric Vehicles’ Commercial Viability
Electric car with lithium ion batteries introductions will get into high gear in 2011, accompanied by the widespread arrival of charging station networks.
Continue readingEaton Hybrid Systems Achieve 160 Million Kilometers of Service
Eaton Hybrid Systems Achieve 160 Million Kilometers of Service, Save 15 Million Liters of Fuel Delivers First Hybrid Power Systems for Buses in India.
Continue readingMidAmerican Energy Announces More Wind Energy Generation
MidAmerican Energy Company will add new wind farm projects in the state of Iowa that will foster economic development while demonstrating the company?s commitment to environmental respect.
Continue readingJapan’s Kyocera to supply modules to 204 MW Thailand solar energy project
In total, the Solar Farm project will provide electricity for the local area with an annual power output sufficient for roughly 170,000 average Thai households.
Continue readingEdison cancels contract for Tessera?s Calico concentrated solar energy project
Southern California Edison (SCE) has canceled its contract to buy the power produced by the Calico Power Project, a 663 MW concentrating solar power plant under development by Calico Solar LLC, a subsidiary of Tessera.
Continue readingSolar Millennium Constructs Concentrating Solar Power Plant in Kuraymat Region
Flagsol, a subsidiary company of Solar Millennium, has constructed the first Concentrating Solar Power Plant in the Kuraymat region of Egypt.
Continue readingAREVA Signs Accord to Supply Wind Turbines for Offshore Wind Energy Project
AREVA has succeeded in gaining a wind power contract worth 400 million from Trianel, a German urban utilities association, to provide forty 5 MW M5000 wind turbines.
Continue readingSiemens Receives its Largest Onshore Wind Energy Order
Siemens Receives its Largest Onshore Wind Turbines Order to Date and Further Solidifies its Position in the U.S. Wind Power Market. Wind farm with MidAmerican Energy for 258 wind turbines will provide clean energy.
Continue readingMartifer Renovables to invest in wind energy in Brazil
The four wind power plats would have an installed capacity of 90.3 megawatts and, under the terms of the contract, would be operating by July, 2012.
Continue readingWind Power Deals Commendable in Tanzania
The move by the government, through the National Development Corporation, to sign a deal worth about Sh172.2 billion with a company that generates electricity from wind energy is timely and worth of praise.
Continue readingNorthland Power Signs Agreement for Construction of Wind Farm in Quebec
Northland Power Income Fund has been granted a 20 year PPA by Hydro-Quebec for constructing and operating a 24 MW wind farm in Frampton QC located close to the South Shore of the River St. Lawrence.
Continue readingIranian Company to Develop Wind Energy in Pakistan
Sanir, an Iran-based company, announced that it has entered into a joint venture with a Pakistani company to establish a wind farm in Sindh province, Pakistan. Sanir will construct a 1,000 MW wind power plant in Sindh.
Continue readingCommercial Lease for the Cape Wind Energy Project
The wind farm plan calls for 130 wind turbines capable of generating a maximum electric output of 468 megawatts with an anticipated average output of 183 megawatts.
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