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DuPont and Yingli Green Energy Enter $100 Million Solar Energy Agreement
DuPont and Yingli Energy (China) Company Limited (“Yingli China”) have signed a $100 million strategic agreement for photovoltaic materials aimed at accelerating the adoption of solar power.
Continue readingEuropean Project Aims To Increase Solar Power Use
The project partners will seek ways to optimize the use of energy generated by the photovoltaic systems and concentrating solar power power management electronics for silicon-cell panels.
Continue readingCleaner Future with Solar Energy Panels from SolarWorld
?Between this project ? the largest of its kind in the nation ? and the solar interchange a few miles north of here, it?s clear the road to the future starts here in Oregon.?
Continue readingWind energy in Italy: 950 MW of wind power in 2011
The installation of wind turbines in Italy progresses. In the wind farm sector are companies such as Vestas, Gamesa, Enercon and Nordex.
Continue readingClean Wind Energy Tower: Energy Patent Application
Clean Wind Energy Tower Inc., announced in a press release the Notice of Allowance of its patent application titled Efficient Energy Conversion Devices & Methods.
Continue readingWorld Bank and Concentrating Solar Power in Egypt
In 2007, the Board approved the Global Environment Facility (GEF)-financed solar-thermal El-Kureimat power project – recently fully commissioned — which included the first concentrated solar power (CSP) plant in Egypt.
Continue readingADB helps Uzbekistan develop regional solar energy initiative
Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Haruhiko Kuroda inaugurated a new solar energy research facility that will eventually enable Uzbekistan to become an international knowledge hub and solar power technology exporter.
Continue readingMarubeni to build floating wind farm off Fukushima
Japanese trading house Marubeni is planning to build a floating wind energy plant off the Japanese coast.
Continue readingAustralian Photovoltaic Solar Power Flagship Program Reopens
In 2011, two major solar power projects were given the green light to proceed through the funding program: the Moree solar photovoltaic (PV) project and the Solar Dawn concentrating solar power project.
Continue readingMore Solar Power Than Ever Growth in Photovoltaics Brings New Opportunities for the Solar Industry
2011 was a record year both for Intersolar Europe and the international solar energy industry, with the expansion of newly-installed photovoltaic capacity reaching a new high.
Continue readingInstallation of All the Wind Turbines at its Amherst Wind Energy Project
The Amherst wind farm is a 31.5 Megawatt facility that will provide almost 100 GWh of renewable energy for Nova Scotia residents on an annual basis.
Continue readingSiemens Opens U.S. Wind Energy Center in Oklahoma
Siemens has installed wind turbines with a combined wind farm capacity of more than 5700 MW in the U.S., enough to supply power to more than 1.7 million homes.
Continue readingHexicon proposes floating wind turbines for Malta
A wind farm on a floating platform is the most viable option for Malta as it can exploit wind power from whichever direction the wind is blowing at the time.
Continue readingWind energy picks up speed in Chile
El Totoral Wind Farm was to maximise local socio-economic benefit whilst minimising environmental impacts.
Continue readingArise Windpower report for the period 1 January ? 31 December 2011
Together with Platina Partner LLP (?Platina?), Arise acquired wind energy company Jädraås Vindkraft AB (?JVAB?), with a permit for the construction of up to 116 wind turbines.
Continue reading68% of New European Electricity Capacity Came From Wind Energy and Solar Power in 2011
Wind power accounted for 21.4% of new installations in 2011, photovoltaic solar energy (46.7%) Concentrated Solar Power 472 MW (1.1%) and geothermal energy 32 MW.
Continue readingWindTV: Colorado rancher sees future in wind power
?Wind turbines has rapidly become a part of the landscape and economic fabric of rural communities across the U.S.,? said American Wind Energy Association CEO Denise Bode.
Continue readingDuPont and Yingli Green Energy Enter $100 Million Photovoltaic Solar Energy Agreement
DuPont and Yingli Energy (China) Company Limited (?Yingli China?) have signed a $100 million strategic agreement for photovoltaic materials aimed at accelerating the adoption of solar power.
Continue readingWind turbines pay back coal use in one month
Coal extracts far more resources from the earth than wind energy. Wind power pay back coal use in one month.
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