This large-scale $50 million wind energy project, located in the town of La Higuera in the Coquimbo Region of Chile, consists of 10 wind turbines that generate 20 megawatts of wind power.
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Mongolian Wind Farm to Use GE Turbines
The $100 million wind energy project will be located 70 kilometers southeast of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia?s capital city, and is set to open in 2012.
Continue readingWorld Bank backs Morocco concentrating solar power megaproject
Ouarzazate is only the first part of Morocco’s ambitious plan of developing 2000 megawatts in solar energy capacity by 2020. The first stage is a concentrated solar thermal power design, using parabolic trough mirrors.
Continue readingAreva Selling 300 Megawatts of Concentrated Solar Thermal Power in 2011
Areva SA (CEI), which entered the concentrated solar energy market last year by acquiring Ausra Inc., expects to have contracts to sell as much as 300 MW of concentrating solar thermal systems by the end of the year.
Continue readingEU, U.S. and Japan agreed rules to speed up introduction of electric cars
EU, U.S. and Japan agreed rules to speed up introduction of electric vehicles with lithium ion batteries.
Continue readingConcentrating solar power: Abengoa sales grow 42% in 2011
Abengoa commissions 200 MW of concentrated solar thermal power in Spain, Algeria.
Continue readingLeading global brands have pledged to procure 25 percent of wind energy
The companies pioneering the use of the world’s first wind power consumer label were unveiled today at an event hosted by WindMade? and the UN Global Compact in New York.
Continue readingNew 369-member coalition launches calling on Congress to save USA wind power jobs
Manufacturers, farm and business leaders join forces to endorse key wind energy tax incentive.
Continue readingMorocco’s Concentrating Solar Thermal Power Project Wins World Bank Loan Approval
This loan will help finance the Ouarzazate Concentrated Solar Power Plant Project, one of the first large-scale solar thermal plants of this kind in North Africa to exploit the region’s vast solar energy resources.
Continue readingMicro CSP developer signs MOU for financing with Chinese investment firm
Sopogy is developing modular collectors about one-third the size of a traditional concentrated solar power mirror in an effort to achieve significant cost-reductions for CSP.
Continue readingChina Concentrating Solar Power Summit to be Held in Beijing
Although compared to Germany, U.S. and Spain, China still has a long way to go in research and manufacturing of concentrated solar thermal power generation equipment.
Continue readingMongolian Wind Farm to Use GE Wind Turbines
GE estimated the cost of the Salkhit Wind Power Plant at $100 million but didn’t put a value on the wind energy turbines.
Continue readingNorthland Power Signs Agreement to Purchase Ontario Solar Energy Photovoltaic Panels
The modules will be used as part of an approximately $600 million investment by Northland to build ground-mounted solar projects in Ontario, representing one of the largest investments in Ontario’s solar energy sector.
Continue readingsolarhybrid intends to involve First Solar as a partner
Many concentrated solar energy projects this year have elected to change from concentrating solar power, or CSP, which uses heat to create steam that powers a generator, to photovoltaic.
Continue readingConcentrated Solar Power Came Online
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 readingNew global report predicts glowing future for wind power sector
Conducted by Pike Research, the latest report claims that wind farm installations by 2017 will represent a ?113 billion global industry, up from ?57 billion in 2011.
Continue readingWWEA celebrates ten years during which global wind capacity grew from 18 to 215 GW
The World Wind Energy Association (WWEA) celebrates its tenth Anniversary. Ten years ago, in July 2001, delegates from all over the world decided in Copenhagen to create an association that represents the wind power.
Continue readingImpsa gets IDB loan to finance Latin America wind energy plan
IMPSA, a renewable energy company, will get a $150 million loan from the Inter-American Development Bank to help finance its plans to expand wind power in Latin America.
Continue readingNew wind farm in Chile
The wind energy project was to have had a total investment of US$70 million, but actually it came closer to US$50 million, to produce the energy that will be incorporated in the Sistema Interconectado Central (SIC).
Continue readingConcentrating Solar Power Today Sevilla 2011
CSP Today Sevilla is the premier international Concentrated Solar Thermal Power meeting place and in its 5th edition it will give you the ultimate CSP learning & industry networking experience.
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