First Reserve Corporation and Renovalia Energy, a leading international renewables company, have established a joint venture, Renovalia Reserve, to own and operate wind farm projects in Europe and North America.
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Siemens announced the start of sale for the new gearless SWT-6,0 wind turbines
Siemens announced the start of sale for the new gearless SWT-6,0 wind energy turbine at the EWEA offshore conference 2011 in Amsterdam.
Continue readingVestas wins 168 MW wind turbines order in Australia
Vestas has received the wind power order to supply 56 of its V90-3.0 MW wind turbines to Hydro Tasmania for their Musselroe Wind Farm project in Tasmania, Australia.
Continue readingWind Energy in Kenya: Lake Turkana wind farm
A wind farm. A financing deal for Kenya?s largest wind power will be concluded in the first quarter of next year, setting East Africa?s largest economy on the path to becoming the region?s leader in renewable energy.
Continue readingWind Energy: GE and Göteborg Energi install wind turbines in Göteburg harbour
GE and Göteborg Energi have started installing the first 4.1-113 offshore wind turbine in the Gothenburg harbour, the companies announced at the European Wind Energy Association?s EWEA Offshore 2011 in Amsterdam.
Continue reading4th Wind Power Africa
The event will also feature a Renewable Energy Exhibition for companies and organizations related to solar power, wind energy, water and related technologies to market themselves.
Continue readingChina Goldwind in Chilean wind turbines deal
Xinjiang Goldwind Science and Technology, China second-largest maker of wind power equipment, won a wind energy contract to supply 23 wind turbines to a wind farm in Chile.
Continue readingWind energy in Croatia: new wind farm in Zadar
The opening of the wind power farm is planned in 2012 with the installation of sixteen wind turbines with a total capacity of 37 MW.
Continue readingWind energy in Pakistan
At present 6 MW First Phase of Zorlu wind farm is operational and construction for complete 56.4 MW is underway. FFC Energy 50 MW wind power project?s construction has been started.
Continue readingSecretary Salazar Approves Transmission for Concentrating Solar Thermal Project in Southern California
Secretary Salazar Approves Transmission for Concentrated Solar Thermal ‘Power Tower’ Project in Southern California.
Continue readingAbengoa Awarded Two CSP projects by South Africa’s DOE
Abengoa is currently building 1,010 MW of Concentrating Solar Power plants all over the world.
Continue readingUS 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.
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