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Wind power, Brazil is future world champion
A favourable scenario and a solid economy are strong drivers for the growth of wind energy. According to forecasts, it will become the sixth global wind farm producer by 2016 .
Continue readingMitsubishi buys into 396 MW Mexico wind energy project
Mitsubishi says it will join a consortium that includes Australia’s Macquarie Group and Dutch pension fund PGGM to develop the wind farm in Mexico’s Oaxaca.
Continue readingWind power in Mexico: new wind farm in Oaxaca
Macquarie Mexican Infrastructure Fund Announces Completion of Financing for 396 MW Wind Energy Project in Oaxaca, Mexico. The wind turbines project is located in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.
Continue readingWind power in Pakistan: wind farm in Jhimpir
For the first time, the national grid of Pakistan will receive a sizeable quantum of electricity produced through wind energy at a wind turbines farm being established in Jhimpir, Thatta.
Continue readingNordex to supply wind turbines for 82 MW Exelon wind farm
Nordex USA, Inc. will be supplying 34 wind turbines to Exelon Wind, LLC (NYSE: EXC) for the Beebe Community Wind Power Plant in Gratiot County, Michigan.
Continue readingGlobeleq opens Central America’s largest wind farm
Globeleq Generation Limited (Globeleq), the emerging markets power company, has officially inaugurated Honduras’ first wind farm with Gamesa’s wind turbines in Hoinduras.
Continue readingWarren Buffett’s MidAmerican Energy orders 176 wind turbines from Siemens
Siemens Energy has received another large onshore wind power order in the U.S. Following successful completion of its 593.4-megawatt wind farm projects in Iowa in 2011.
Continue readingIntegrated photovoltaic solar energy tile launched in Kerala
The Amrita Centre for Nanosciences here has come out with what is billed as the world’s first integrated solar power storage tile using super capacitor.
Continue readingMitsubishi buys stake in Mexico wind farm
Macquarie Mexican Infrastructure Fund (MMIF) announced the completion of MXN $8.9 billion ($692.1 million) wind power project financing for Marena Renovables, a 396 MW wind energy project in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Continue readingOffshore wind energy: recession-busting thanks to European Energy Programme for Recovery
Under the ?4 billion EEPR, 44 gas and electricity infrastructure projects, nine offshore wind farm projects and six CCS projects received funding.
Continue readingWind energy Gamesa grows profitably through globalisation and efficiency
229 million euro in capital expenditure (wind turbines). Intense activity in the wind farm development. Entry into new wind power markets (e.g. Brazil and India).
Continue readingShikun u?Binui launches Arava concentrating solar thermal power plant in Israel
Concentrated solar power facility launched by environment and infrastructure firm includes about 100 parabolic troughs.
Continue readingApple is constructing a 20 MW solar energy facility
The company is constructing a 20 MW photovoltaic solar power facility on the site of its recently commissioned data center in Maiden, North Carolina.
Continue readingWind energy and solar power in Pakistan
Wind power and solar energy in Pakistan. Balochistan potential for wind farm generation is attractive.
Continue readingOffshore wind turbines at least 5 years away in North Carolina
Although the report states that North Carolina has some of the East Coast’s most promising sites for wind farm installations, it will take a while before will be up to par with extant wind power operations.
Continue readingNordex in the UK and Ireland to surpass a landmark wind energy capacity of 1,000 MW
Falck Renewables ordering further wind turbines for a wind farm.
Continue readingWind power in Idaho: urged to reject moratorium on wind energy
The Northwest & Intermountain Power Producers Coalition (NIPPC) urged an Idaho House of Representatives’ committee today to reject a proposed “emergency” two-year moratorium on new wind farm development.
Continue readingLego buy stake in German wind energy project
DONG Energy divests 50 per cent of German offshore wind farm to KIRKBI and the Oticon Foundation. Borkum Riffgrund 1 will consist of 77 3.6 MW wind turbines from Siemens Wind Power.
Continue readingIberdrola adds 1.1GW of wind energy
Spanish utility Iberdrola says its renewable energy capacity ? almost all of it from wind power ? grew by 1.1GW in 2011 to reach 13.69GW
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