Florida Power & Light Company’s West County Energy Center and DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center were recognized at an awards ceremony last night as Top Plants for 2010 by POWER magazine.
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Nordex builds Sweden?s largest wind farm
Anti-icing system secures 150 MW wind energy order. Skellefteå Kraft places 3rd wind turbines order with Nordex.
Continue readingWhy wind power’s variability isn’t a problem
Mr. Varrone explains in very simple terms how the electric utility system works and how it deals with the addition of a variable energy source like wind energy.
Continue readingWind energy doesn?t blow all the time
The anti-wind farm people are at it again, saturating the media with claims that wind power is ?worthless? because wind doesn?t blow all the time. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Continue readingWind energy Vergnet brings 275 kw wind turbines to the US
With more than 700 wind turbines on six continents, we specialize in distributed generation or ?community wind farm?, enabling our customers to harness wind power.
Continue readingChinese wind farm the world?s 3000th CDM climate change project
A wind power plant in China with 41 wind turbines, is to become the 3,000th project registered under the CDM. The electricity produced with wind energy will be fed into the power grid.
Continue readingDOE Offers $90.6 Million Loan to Support Colorado Solar Power Facility
The proposed facility will use innovative HCPV systems consisting of concentrating optics and multi-junction solar cell panels that are controlled by a dual-axis tracking system.
Continue readingRare earths – Enercon produces wind energy without neodymium
Enercon wind power converters (WECs) generate electricity in an environmentally friendly way without the use of the controversial element, neodymium.
Continue readingNACEL Energy Announces 200 MW Gascoyne II Wind Energy Project
Twenty GE 1.5 MW wind turbines are operating today at Baker. Gascoyne II wind farm is located between the towns of Bowman and Hettinger North Dakota.
Continue readingRecord investments in wind energy in Poland
Poland is seeing the construction of wind farm plants with a capacity over 500 MW, , according to the Polish Wind Energy Association. The main role on the Polish wind power market is played by foreign companies.
Continue readingIPCC: 80% renewable energy by 2050, wind power will have an increasingly important role
The Global Wind Energy Council, (GWEC), welcomes the news, saying wind power will have an increasingly important role to play in the future energy mix.
Continue readingEast Midlands Airport unveils new wind turbines
The wind turbines, thought to be the first at a UK airport, are part of a wind energy project to make ground operations at the site carbon-neutral by 2012.
Continue readingAcciona Windpower introduces 3 MW wind turbines for medium wind speed sites
The AW3000/116 wind turbines delivers a leading wind power curve and the best cost of wind energy at wind farm sites with medium wind speeds.
Continue readingIndia to add 67,000 MW solar power by 2022
Technological breakthroughs and economies of scale will make solar power competitive in six years and help India add 67,000 megawatts of solar energy capacity by 2022.
Continue readingGlobal photovoltaic installations will reach 71 GW by 2014
With rising concern for depleting renewable energy resources and rising government support, global photovoltaic installations will reach 71 GW by 2014.
Continue readingMore than enough renewable energy to meet future global energy demand
The global renewables sector like wind energy and solar power could expand by three to more than 10 times by 2050. Renewable energy could meet up to 77% of the global primary energy supply by 2050.
Continue readingUN IPCC: renewable energy potential is higher than energy demand
Rajendra Pachauri cited wind energy’s 32% growth rate in 2009 as an example of “the impressive growth rate of renewables”.
Continue readingPotential of Renewable Energy Outlined
Close to 80 percent of the world?s energy supply could be met by renewables by mid-century if backed by the right enabling public policies a new report shows.
Continue reading80 percent of the world’s energy supply could be met by renewable energy
Monetizing the external costs of energy supply would improve the relative competitiveness of RE. Future demand for electric vehicles could also enhance flexible electricity generation systems.
Continue readingWINDPOWER 2011 attendees to give back to Orange County
As the Anaheim Convention Center prepares for the arrival of the wind pindustry in just two weeks, American Wind Energy Association is teaming up with a local nonprofit organization.
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