The annual wind speed in Azerbaijan exceeds 5 m/sec at height of 15 m. At that, the Azerbaijani territory is about 5,500 sq km.
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ADA Technologies Awarded $70K Contract for Lithium-Ion Battery Research
ADA Technologies, Inc. received a $70,000 contract from the U.S. Army to conduct research to further the development of advanced Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries for military applications.
Continue readingMitsubishi Motors to Introduce electric car i-MiEV to U.S. Consumers in 2011
Local Mitsubishi Dealer Expects Electric Vehicles to Win Over Greater Boston.
Continue readingHonda announces plug-in hybrid & electric car plans for 2012
Honda will introduce new advanced environmental technology vehicles, including a battery-electric vehicles and a new plug-in hybrid vehicle, to the U.S. market in 2012.
Continue readingVolkswagen Presents Worldwide Research Alliance on Electric Mobility
“In the future, the heart of Volkswagen will also beat with electricity, and our engineers in America, Europe and Asia are laying the foundations for that in the research alliance,” Winterkorn said.
Continue readingV2G: Vehicle to Grid Will Change the Whole Energy Picture By RP Siegel
The big issue with solar or wind energy, our brightest hopes for a clean energy future, is the fact that they come when they want to, which isn?t always when we need them.
Continue readingGKN Develops Electric-Drive Axles for Hybrid and Electric Vehicles
GKN Driveline has designed a new range of electric-drive axles ideal for use in both pure electric vehicles and for converting conventional vehicles into hybrids.
Continue readingNextEra Energy Resources Signs PPA with Google Energy to Supply Wind Power
NextEra Energy Resources announced that it has entered into a power purchase agreement with Google Energy, LLC. Google Energy will purchase 114 megawatts of wind energy from Story II wind farm.
Continue readingIberdrola Renovables maintains its plan to install 1,000 MW of wind power in the US
Operating capacity rose 16.5% to 11,215 MW and production by 21.5% to 12,858 million kWh, consolidating the Company?s global leadership.
Continue readingSolving the Electricity Transmission Gridlock By Tom Gray
Let’s hope this marks the beginning of the end for a true “gridlock” that has largely stalled the construction of new transmission lines for the past 30 years, resulting in massive power blackouts.
Continue readingMoog Partners with Sewind to Supply 400 Pitch Control Systems for Wind Turbines in China
Starting in January 2010, Moog Industrial Group will provide 400 electric pitch control systems for Sewind?s 2 MW wind turbines and variant models including onshore and intertidal wind turbines.
Continue readingMálaga, Seville and Barcelona now have 5,000 Endesa smart meters connected to the grid
A month ago, Endesa was the first company to hook up smart metres to the power grid in Spain in Málaga through the ?Smartcity? initiative, a project to create an energy efficient city spearheaded by Endesa.
Continue readingVattenfall and Stadtwerke München to build offshore wind farm in the German North Sea
Vattenfall and the Munich municipal utility Stadtwerke München (SWM) have signed an agreement to form a joint venture for realisation of the offshore wind power project DanTysk.
Continue reading65.4% of wind power Gamesa?s shareholders choose free shares
The wind turbines company has issued 2,409,913 new shares which, given their nominal value of ?0.17/share, constitute an equity increase of ?409,685.21.
Continue readingRepublicans and Democrats have taken another critical step toward finally ending our nation’s dangerous dependence on oil
The legislation echoes recommendations put forward by the EC, a nonpartisan, not-for-profit group of business leaders committed to promoting policies and actions that facilitate the deployment of electric vehicles.
Continue readingInternational Funds for Low Carbon Technologies Poised to Facilitate Financing of Clean Energy Projects in Sub-Saharan Africa
These funds essentially create the confidence needed for early stage technology development and deployment financing and also facilitate a structure for public-private partnerships.
Continue readingVestas receives 49 MW wind power order in China
Vestas, the global leader in wind energy, has received another order of 49 MW from Ningxia Hanas New Energy Company.
Continue readingReed Resources? lithium production gets the green light at Mt Marion
An initial production rate of 200,000 tonnes per annum will make the operation the second largest lithium mine in the world allowing the companies to capitalise the demand for lithium batteries from electric cars.
Continue readingTesla Roadsters Reach Five New Countries on Three Continents
The first electric vehicles with lithium ion batteries Tesla Roadsters have arrived in Poland, Turkey, Japan, Hong Kong and Canada in recent weeks as world’s leading electric vehicle maker rapidly expands.
Continue readingChina’s first wind farm on mountains to be completed by end-2010
China is expected to complete construction of its first wind farm on mountain in southwestern China’s Chongqing Municipality by the end of 2010.
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