Specifically, the capacity-weighted average 2009 sales price, based on wind farm projects in the sample built in 2009, was roughly $61/MWh.
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RenewableUK welcomes decision to allow local authorities to sell electricity
RenewableUK, the country’s leading renewable energy trade association has welcomed the Government’s decision to overturn a ban on local authorities selling renewable electricity back to the Grid.
Continue readingFlywheel Project Escalates Grid Efficiency
Department of Energy and Beacon Power Finalize $43 Million Loan Guarantee for Innovative Energy Storage Project in New York State.
Continue readingNissan Signs Electric Vehicles Partnership With Kagoshima Prefecture
Nissan Signs Zero-Emission Partnership With Kagoshima Prefecture to Promote “Development of a CO2-Free Island” in Yakushima.
Continue readingEnerSys Awarded $39 million in Contracts for Submarine Batteries
EnerSys announced that it has recently been awarded contracts valued at over $39 million for submarine batteries with five navies worldwide.
Continue readingOG&E Completes Crossroads Wind Farm Development Purchase
The $451 million wind energy project will add 227.5 megawatts of renewable generating capacity to the OG&E fleet, with 95 wind turbines rated at 2.3 megawatts each, plus three 3-megawatt, direct-drive wind turbines.
Continue readingThe Average Size of Wind Power Projects Resumed its Upward Trend
As the wind energy industry has grown, so too has the average size of installed wind farm projects. Projects installed in 2009 averaged nearly 91 MW, which is below the 120 MW average size of projects built in 2007.
Continue readingFinavera Renewables Signs Participation Agreement for British Columbia Wind Power Projects
Finavera Renewables announces it has signed a Participation Agreement with the McLeod Lake Indian Band for the Tumbler Ridge, Wildmare, Meikle, and Bullmoose Wind Energy Projects.
Continue readingLeo Motors Completes Mountain Driving Test
More than 70 percent of the land of Korea is mountainous, making hill driving capability more crucial for electric vehicles in the country.
Continue readingIt is time to wake up and recognise the dangers of global warming
Even without absolute scientific certainty, there comes a time when reasonable people can agree if something looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is . . . well . . . a duck.
Continue readingSiemens and Samsung enter into a major wind power agreement for Canada
Siemens Energy and Samsung C&T Corporation have signed an agreement for the supply of wind turbines with a total capacity of up to 600 megawatts (MW).
Continue readingWorld?s first molten salt concentrating solar power plant inaugurated
Molten salt receivers are a promising technology for solar thermal power plants. These collector tubes can reach temperatures of up to 550° Celsius.
Continue readingSiemens to strengthen wind power business in North America
Siemens is to supply wind turbines with a combined capacity of 227 megawatts (MW) for a wind farm located in Oklahoma.
Continue readingNew Consortium to Drive Hybrid Concentrating Solar Power
Four major industry players have joined forces to form the Hybrid Energy Consortium (?HEC?), focused on the design of next generation utility-scale commercial integrated solar combined cycle (?ISCC?) power plants.
Continue readingCogentrix Energy Finalizes Contract for Solar Power Project in Colorado
The 30,000 kilowatt solar generating project will be the largest facility of its type in the world and is expected to be completed in the second quarter of 2012.
Continue readingSiemens will supply wind turbines to Samsung C&T and Pattern Energy for the Ontario wind power market
Siemens will supply technologically advanced wind turbines at selected wind energy projects in southern Ontario.
Continue readingRenovalia Energy will invest ?200 million in new wind farm in Canada
Peace Butte wind farm will have 120 MW of total wind power and its construction will start in the first semester of 2011.
Continue reading120 MW of geothermal plant in the Caribbean island country of Santa Lucia
The project foresees the construction of 12 MW by 2012, which will expand to 75 MW the following year. The whole project will be completed by 2015, and two-thirds of the total capacity to be exported.
Continue readingFord Increases Investment in University Research
The new Ford URP projects add to an active research portfolio that now comprises 30 studies in partnership with 26 universities globally.
Continue readingU.S.: an Enormous Amount of Wind Power Capacity Is Under Consideration
At the end of 2009, even after reforms by a number of ISOs, RTOs, and utilities to reduce the number of wind projects in their queues, there were roughly 300 GW of wind power capacity within the interconnection queues.
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