A bird mortality event at a wind farm had nothing to do with wind turbines. If you want to protect birds, outlaw cats. And windows.
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Bolivia turns to wind power
In February 2010 a meteo tower was installed in Bolivia to collect data confirming the existence of sufficient wind energy to warrant a wind farm.
Continue readingQuebec approves wind energy project
The 50-50 joint venture will have an installed capacity of 24.6 megawatts and will see 12 wind turbines in the municipalities of Saint-Paul-de-la-Croix and Saint-Épiphane.
Continue readingWpd builds 36.8 MW wind farm in Croatia with wind turbines from Enercon
wpd has signed a contract to build the 36.8 MW Ponikve wind power farm 45 km north west of Dubrovnik, Croatia.
Continue readingConcentrated Solar Power
Concentrating solar thermal power (CSP) has been a ‘start-stop’ industry since the 1500s, when Leonardo da Vinci conceived the use of a parabolic mirror concentrator to heat water for dyeing cloths.
Continue readingIMPSA gets IDB loan to finance Latin America wind power plan
IMPSA will get a US$ 150 million loan from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to help finance its plans to expand wind energy generation in Latin America.
Continue readingSkyFuel Introduces Abrasion Resistant ReflecTech(R)PLUS
SkyFuel, Inc., maker of high reflectance silvered film for concentrating solar thermal applications, announced the release of next generation ReflecTech®PLUS mirror film.
Continue readingSuzlon bags 23 MW wind power order from GAIL
Suzlon Energy has bagged a wind energy order worth an estimated Rs 140 crore for supply of wind turbines with a cumulative capacity of 23.1 MW to state-run gas utility GAIL (India) for a wind farm.
Continue readingConcentrated Solar Power Market to Experience Ups and Downs
Asmus adds that, in the United States in particular, a disparity exists between Concentrating Solar Thermal Power projects awarded and solar energy projects brought online as operational.
Continue readingNew WindTV segment features Apple Computer co-founder Steve Wozniak
Apple Computer, Inc., co-founder Steve ?Woz? Wozniak gives some short takes on his impression of wind power and the wind energy industry in a new video segment from AWEA?s WindTV channel.
Continue readingIndian solar power projects miss deadline
Bridge to India has released an analysis which states that a number of solar energy photovoltaic (PV) and concentrating solar power (CSP) projects.
Continue readingNRG acquires California-based solar energy firm
NRG Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NRG) has acquired San Francisco-based Solar Power Partners, a leading developer of commercial and industrial (C&I) distributed solar projects.
Continue readingUS has large geothermal resources, but recent growth is slower than wind energy
Geothermal energy’s greatest growth potential is in the western states. US geothermal energy net electricity generation totaled 10898 million kilowatthours (kWh) during the first eight months of 2011.
Continue readingFuhrländer to manufacture wind turbines in the Ukraine
Fuhrlander has announced plans to manufacture wind turbines for the Ukrainian wind farm market at the Kramatorsky Heavy Machine Factory.
Continue readingWindTV: Oregon wind energy training program creates opportunity
Tyrell Quantrell has found a promising career in the wind power industry, and he found it right at home in the Pacific Northwest. Quantrell now works as a wind turbines technician.
Continue readingPower plant stress on freshwater supplies in Southeast
This article by Aaron Sarver was from Footprints on the Path to Clean Energy, the blog of the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy.
Continue readingFuture wind turbines battle it out in technology contest at OFFSHORE 2011
Offshore wind energy is where the newest and biggest wind turbines are. Right now we?re at 5 MW, but soon 10 MW wind turbines could become the norm at sea, or even more powerful.
Continue readingWind power in Tunisia
German cooperation is currently examining the prospect of setting up a wind farm on the heights of Thala, in the governorate of Kasserine, in central-west Tunisia.
Continue readingWorld Bank Co-Finances Morocco’s Ouarzazate 500 MW Concentrated Solar Thermal Power
The World Bank approved $297 million in loans to Morocco to support construction and operation of Morocco’s 500-megawatt (MW) Ouarzazate Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plant.
Continue readingEDF Acquires 38 MW Chestnut Flats Wind Farm From Gamesa
The wind power project features 18 G90-2.0 MW and one G87-2.0 MW Gamesa wind turbines, each having two megawatts of rated capacity.
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