This wind power project, which currently is in construction in Henry County, Ill., will feature 50 General Electric 1.62-megawatt wind turbines.
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Gamesa supplies 50 MW of wind turbines to China’s Longyuan
Gamesa, a global technology leader in wind energy, has signed a deal to supply an additional 50 MW of capacity -its G97-2.0 MW wind turbines to Chinese wind power company Longyuan for a wind farm.
Continue readingWind energy in Angola: first 100 MW wind farm
Angola wants to install 100 wind turbines with 50 MW near the city of Tombwa in Namibe province, under the impulse of renewables such as solar energy and wind power.
Continue reading3rd World Summit for Small Wind Power
World Wind Energy Association – WWEA’s Small Wind World Report will be launched: 700 000 small wind turbines have been installed worldwide.
Continue readingAWEA hails Council on Jobs and Competitiveness endorsement of PTC
This endorsement of an extension for wind energy’s key Production Tax Credit (PTC) is yet another indication of how vital wind power has become as a source of American jobs.
Continue readingConsortium acquires wind energy project for 250 MW Crimean wind farm
A consortium has acquired a wind power project for the construction of the 250 megawatt Zakhidno-Krymska wind turbines plant.
Continue readingNo major health impacts from wind turbines
Gov. Deval Patrick?s administration has strongly advocated for both land-based and offshore wind power and other renewable energy sources to lessen the state?s dependence on fossil fuels.
Continue readingJuhl Wind Selected for Upstate NY’s Black Oak Wind Farm
The wind energy project is a proposed 15 to 30 MW wind turbines facility with expectation of the wind power project being online during the third quarter 2013.
Continue readingEnercon wind turbines for Kampi wind farm arrive in Limassol
The wind turbines arrived in Limassol with E-Ship 1, a technologically advanced cargo ship, which is owned by German wind energy company Enercon, the third-largest wind power manufacturer.
Continue readingSiemens and Masdar Institute sign agreement on solar energy
Siemens Energy and Masdar Institute of Science and Technology in the UAE have signed a one-year agreement for cooperation in solar power technology research.
Continue readingTorresol Energy Launches Twin Concentrating Solar Thermal Power Plants
The Gemasolar Concentrated Solar Power facility represented a significant breakthrough in the global solar industry and an important new field of cooperation between Spain and the UAE.
Continue readingSuzlon begins 3 GW wind energy drive in Andhra Pradesh
Indian wind power Suzlon will be developing around 3000 megawatts’ worth of wind farm projects in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh (where a 1-megawatt solar energy project recently went online) from 2012 and 2016.
Continue readingLebrija concentrating solar thermal power plant feeds power to the grid
Siemens and Valoriza achieve crucial milestone in solar energy: Lebrija concentrated solar power plant feeds power to the grid.
Continue readingAlstom and SSE create JV to co-develop largest wave farm
Alstom and the leading Scottish marine developer SSE Renewables have signed a new joint venture agreement to develop the Costa Head Wave Project, an up to 200 Megawatts (MW) wave energy site.
Continue readingUAE-Spain concentrated solar power JV plans $5bn spend
Torresol Energy, a JV between Spain’s Sener and Abu Dhabi’s Masdar, plans to invest up to $5bn in the short-term to build concentrating solar thermal power plants (CSP) in Spain, the US and the Middle East.
Continue readingWorld?s biggest wind farm could be built in Wyoming with 1,000 wind turbines
Europe was the global leader with cumulative installed wind energy capacity of 86 GW at the end of 2010, Asia was second with 58.6 GW and North America was third with 44.1 GW of wind power.
Continue readingenXco Acquires Texas Wind Farm Assets From Cielo Wind Power
The wind energy project, consisting of 70 Siemens 2.3 wind MW turbines.
Continue readingWind Energy Opponents are Hypochondriacs
Turns out the wind turbines weren?t causing any health effects. Yesterday, a state panel comprised of the departments of Environmental Protection and Public Health released a report.
Continue readingTata Steel bags wind power contract in Europe
Tata Steel’s efforts to build a business catering to the wind energy got a boost. The deal is to supply 25,000 tonnes of high quality profiled steel plate for 150 wind turbines to Siemens Wind Power.
Continue readingOpus Energy signs wind energy agreement with Danish company Nordjysk Elhandel
Opus Energy has entered cooperation with Danish energy company, Nordjysk Elhandel (NEAS), specialising in renewables for the balancing and trading of wind power production from wind turbines in the UK.
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