Wind energy is demonstrably one of the cleanest energy sources: no mining or drilling for fuel, no air pollution, no water pollution, no greenhouse gases, no hazardous wastes or ash, and virtually no water use.
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Israel to build two concentrated solar power plants for 180 MW
Israel awarded licences to build two concentrating solar thermal power plants that will produce 180 megawatts of electricity, reports Reuters.
Continue readingElection year is crunch time for US wind power policy
According to the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), policy makers should quickly extend the PTC, which is the US wind farm sector?s main policy incentive, in order to replace the industry?s boom and bust cycles.
Continue readingInstalled capacity of photovoltaic solar energy exceeds 100 MW in Xinjiang
Four 20-megawatt on-grid photovoltaic (PV) solar power plants recently completed construction and began operation in northwestern China?s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.
Continue readingGermany reports record 60 per cent surge in solar energy generation
‘Solar power has become an indispensable ingredient for the success of the energy transformation,’ said Carsten Körnig, chief executive of BSW-Solar.
Continue readingSwitzerland: Walking the talk on renewable energy
The CRF programme allows producers of clean energy (hydro, solar energy, wind power, geothermal energy and biomass) to sell electricity to the grid at higher than the market price.
Continue readingSiemens wins about 1.4 GW in offshore wind power contracts
Windstream Wolfe Island Shoals has ordered up to 130 wind turbines from Siemens Canada for a 300 MW offshore wind farm on Lake Ontario.
Continue readingKenya wind farm to start by april
Construction of a 310 megawatt (MW) wind energy project in Kenya is expected to start in April after its financiers complete due diligence on the wind power project.
Continue readingenXco and KCP&L sign PPA for 100.8 MW of Wind Energy
enXco, an EDF Energies Nouvelles Company, and KCP&L have entered into a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) for a 100.8MW wind farm to be built in Ford County, Kansas, wind GE wind turbines.
Continue readingSunvalley Solar Awarded New Solar Energy Contract
Sunvalley Solar, a leading solar power technology and solar system integration company, announced today that it has been awarded an 88 KW solar system installation contract by Hans Enterprise Ltd. in Anaheim, CA.
Continue readingKeppel to Expand Suite of Solutions for Offshore Wind Farm
“We are seeing offshore wind power rapidly gaining traction around the world and a large number of offshore wind turbines are under construction and planning.”
Continue readingExergy Announces New Wind Energy Plants in Idaho and Minnesota
“We will begin erecting wind turbines in the second quarter of 2012 as weather permits and all sites shall be fully operational by the fall.?
Continue readingChina’s largest offshore wind energy farm now online
Longyuan Power, China’ s largest wind power developer, connected 99.3 megawatts (MW) of wind turbines to the grid in a pilot intertidal wind farm in Rudong county in eastern province of Jiangsu.
Continue readingObama opens offshore wind energy along mid-Atlantic coast
The Obama administration unveiled plans to boost US offshore wind power by opening up four new wind farm leasing regions for wind turbines generation.
Continue readingFinding solutions to Achilles? heel of wind energy or solar power: intermittency
Wind power or solar energy alone cannot supply baseload power,? Pickard says … power would be supplied by concentrating solar power (CSP) systems.
Continue readingApproval of offshore wind energy project Borkum Riffgrund II
PNE WIND AG was also involved from the very outset in the development of this North Sea wind farm, in which up to 97 wind turbines can be constructed.
Continue readingGeothermal Energy in Nevada: San Emidio project
U.S. Geothermal is a leading geothermal energy development company that is operating geothermal power projects at Raft River, Idaho and San Emidio, Nevada.
Continue readingSEIA and the Solar Alliance Merge to Drive Effective Policy for Solar Power
The solar energy industry is expanding and it is critical for SEIA to mirror this growth and put our resources and expertise into developing state policy that expand markets for solar energy.
Continue readingWind power in Spain
Spanish wind energy companies such as Iberdrola, Gamesa and former wind turbines giant Ecotecnia could confidently invest in technologies that at the time would not have been profitable.
Continue readingWill Congress give gift of wind power jobs to Americans or foreign countries?
According to the American Wind Energy Association, average annual growth in wind power since the PTC was last allowed to expire is a robust 35%, and during that time the cost of wind power has been reduced by 24-39%.
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