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Opening of Yangzhou Smart Grid Demonstration Center to Help China Meet Aggressive Energy Objectives
GE (NYSE: GE) is working with the city of Yangzhou, China, to become a worldwide destination for energy efficiency, reliability and sustainability.
Continue readingCountering the concern over wind energy and radar with facts By Chris Madison
In recent months there has been increasing concern about large wind farm projects being put on hold because of objections from the Defense Department. Wind turbines can interfere with the operation of some radar systems.
Continue readingMarket for Plug-in Vehicle Chargers to reach $11.75 Billion by 2015
Plug-in electric vehicles are set to hit the consumer market at the end of 2010, and will achieve widespread distribution in 2011.
Continue readingIMPSA will invest in the development of wind power plant in Vietnam
The announcement was made during the meeting hold by the nation?s president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, with Vietnam?s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.
Continue readingArgentina’s IMPSA install a wind turbine factory in Vietnam and build 1,000 MW of wind power
IMPSA struck a deal to make a wind farm in Vietnam of 1,000 MW. Impsa announced the investment of 3,000 million dollars in the development of a wind turbine plant in Vietnam.
Continue readingEuropean offshore wind power grew 54% in 2009 By Sarah Azau
577 MW of new offshore wind energy capacity was added and connected to the grid in Europe last year. This is a 54% increase on the 373 MW added in 2008 and takes the total to 2,056 MW.
Continue readingRenewable energy projects for 2,612 MW in Ontario
The approved 187 projects, totalizing 2,500 MW, add up to 510 other small projects already approved last March under the new Feed-in Tariff programme.
Continue readingConcentrating solar power projects growth in 2009
Three new concentrating solar power (CSP) facilities came online in the United States in 2009, the third year in the past four such facilities were added following 15 years of inactivity.
Continue readingIndia’s National Aluminium Company to set up 50 MW wind energy project
National Aluminium Company Ltd has said it will set up a 50 MW wind farm in India as part of its green initiative, possibly in Gujarat, Rajasthan or Tamil Nadu, a top company official told PTI on Sunday.
Continue readingZAP Licenses Electric Vehicles Smart Charger Controller
To make electric car charging cleaner and less expensive, ZAP (OTCBB:ZAAP) has licensed the Smart Charger Controller technology developed at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
Continue readingLarge scale wind power interconnection test on the Iberian peninsula
Network integration was tested on 5 wind energy plants in Portugal and 6 in Spain, totalizing 311 MW, to assess how to safely overcome the problem regarding wind fluctuation.
Continue readingThe Who?s Who of Solar Silicon Production
Some of the twenty smaller polysilicon manufacturers operating today probably wonft be around by the end of 2011. That predication, and many more, can be found in a new report from Bernreuter Research.
Continue readingWind energy employment in Europe
Wind power companies in the European Union currently employ around 102,100 people. Over the past five years, the EU wind energy industry has created more than 60,000 new jobs.
Continue readingKansas may soon capitalize on wind power
Kansas’ ability to capitalize on its wind-energy potential, which was recently ranked second only to that of Texas, has been limited by a lack of power transmission lines.
Continue readingClipper Windpower: wind energy factory could create 3,000 jobs in UK
Work has begun on the creation of a £25m wind energy factory, which will make the world?s biggest wind turbine blades and could lead to the creation of 3,000 jobs.
Continue readingEurope Ready for Next Generation of Fast Chargers for Electric Vehicles
Epyon, a European leader in the development and marketing of smart charging solutions for the emerging electric car market, has joined the international CHAdeMO Association.
Continue readingThe assembly of all parabolic trough collectors in Egypt has been completed
Egypt’s first modern solar thermal large-scale facility is almost complete. Solar Power plant will use both solar energy and natural gas in hybrid operation.
Continue readingIndia: 9000 MW more wind power by 2012
India will add about 9000 MW of wind energy generation capacity during XIth Five Year Plan ending March 31, 2012, lower than previously targeted 11,000 MW.
Continue readingAptera electric vehicles closer to launch
Aptera might look like something straight out of a futuristic cartoon, but executives at the California start-up behind the electric car say its time is now.
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