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US DOE Bayer Composite Technologies That Help Wind Turbines Generate More Wind Power
This combination of cost and performance gives blade designers new options to capture wind energy more reliably and efficiently in a wind farm.
Continue readingRural Africa Gains New Photovoltaic Solar Power Gear
Econet Solar is launching a new solar energy with the goal of providing stable, off-grid electricity in rural areas of the globe, namely Africa. 70 percent of Africans that don?t have a source of electricity.
Continue readingU.S. Solar Power Leaders to Discuss Need to Extend Renewable Energy Program
The National Press Club will host a panel of leaders from solar energy companies to discuss what they say is the critical importance of Congress extending the Treasury Department’s 1603 Grant Program.
Continue readingUS geothermal energy could replace coal
The technical potential of Geothermal Energy was about 14 percent of the theoretical potential, yet still enough to crush our current coal power capacity ten times over.
Continue readingWind Energy in South Africa: Nordex preferred supplier of wind turbines for two wind farm plants
Nordex has qualified as a preferred wind power supplier for the construction of two wind farms with an installed capacity of a combined 174 MW in South Africa.
Continue readingWind energy and photovoltaic solar energy integration in Europe?s grid by 2050
According to a study promoted by the EU Energy Directorate, renewables could meet 80% of the electricity demand by 2050, but PV solar power and wind power would only have a 40% share
Continue readingWind power projects for 1 million MW in China by 2050
China?s wind energy installed capacity could reach 1,000 GW (one million MW) by 2050, with an energy production accounting for 17% of the expected electricity demand to that date, compared with the present 1%.
Continue reading15 planned concentrated solar power plants in Thailand
Thai Solar Energy Co., Ltd., opened the first of some 15 planned concentrated solar power plants in Thailand at the Huaykrachao, Kanjanaburi site on November 29, 2011.
Continue reading2011 Platts Global Energy Award for exemplary development of offshore wind energy
E.ON?s global unit for renewable energy received the award in New York as the best developer of offshore wind power. E.ON and partners are building London Array, the world?s biggest wind farm off the British coast.
Continue readingGoldwind to build Mainstream Chilean wind energy project
Mainstream Renewable Power has handed Goldwind its second wind power project, a 34.5MW deal for a wind farm in Chile. The deal is for 23 GW87 1.5MW wind turbines for the Negrete Cuel wind farm in central Chile.
Continue readingGlobal solar energy industry convenes at Intersolar India Conference
The event shines a light on hot topics from the photovoltaics solar power and concentrated solar thermal industries.
Continue readingVattenfall to turn wind power into gas for electric vehicles
Vattenfall, the world’s second biggest offshore wind farm, has announced its participation in a project to turn wind energy into hydrogen for electric cars.
Continue readingMainstream consortium awarded 238 MW of wind energy and solar power contracts in South Africa
Mainstream Renewable Power was awarded preferred bidder status by the Department of Energy in South Africa to deliver 138 MW of wind energy and 100 MW of solar energy photovoltaic.
Continue readingWind Energy in Bulgaria
Global Wind Power is a leading supplier in the field of wind farm on the European market. Our efforts are focused exclusively on wind power and we have installed over 250 wind turbines.
Continue readingGunkul Engineering to explore wind power in Myanmar
Gunkul has reportedly been seeking investors for their wind energy project in which they would maintain a 25 to 30 percent stake.
Continue readingLeeds’ first wind farm approved
The five wind turbines will be situated on land near Garforth, close to the junction of the M1 and A1.
Continue readingRenewableUK statement on the fire at Ardrossan wind farm, North Ayrshire
To put this into context, there are just under 3,000 onshore wind turbines in 298 wind farms across the UK operating on average for over 22 million hours a year.
Continue readingNordex awarded wind energy contract for 21 wind turbines in Norway
The wind power manufacturer has now signed a contract for the delivery and installation of 21 N90/2500 wind turbines in a wind farm.
Continue readingGlobal and Chinese Glass Fiber Industry Report
As an excellent composite material and important metal substitute, glass fiber has been applied to construction, transportation, electric and electronics, wind power and other industries widely.
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