Emplazado a 4.110 metros sobre el nivel del mar, el aerogenerador forma parte de la mina Veladero, yacimiento vecino al proyecto aurífero chileno-argentino Pascua-Lama.
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CRSP Funds 10 New Advanced Solar Research Projects
The Center for Revolutionary Solar Photoconversion (CRSP) has funded 10 advanced solar research projects totaling $800,000 ? its second round of Shared Research Program funding.
Continue readingAyamonte contará con un parque eólico de 26 megavatios
El parque eólico Ayamonte, que promueve la empresa Capital Energy Andalucía S.L.U. contará con un total de 13 aerogeneradores, que irán montados en torres de 80, 95 y 105 metros de altura, y con una potencia de 26 MW.
Continue readingConectores para vehículos eléctricos por Jesús Moreno (SCAME)
Transporte eléctrico es sinónimo de fin de la contaminación atmosférica y mejora de la calidad de vida. Asumiendo este reto, SCAME ha diseñado nuevos conectores para vehículos y estaciones de recarga.
Continue readingSmarter Grids, Appliances, and Consumers By Lester R. Brown
The new grid would link regions rich in wind energy, solar, and geothermal energy with consumption centers. A national grid, drawing on a full range of renewable energy sources, would itself be a stabilizing factor
Continue readingClipper Windpower: Factory for 10 MW wind turbines set to open in UK
Clipper Windpower Marine Limited announced the groundbreaking of its offshore wind turbine blade manufacturing facility at the Shepherd Offshore Renewable Energy Park in Newcastle.
Continue readingBuilding a National Clean-Energy Smart Grid By Bracken Hendricks
The Center for American Progress published a report on the urgent need to build a national clean-energy smart grid to power an innovative, low-carbon economy that combats global warming and creates millions of good jobs.
Continue readingSiemens Installs its 1,000th Wind Turbine in the UK
Siemens has installed its 1,000th wind turbine in the UK at the Gunfleet Sands wind farm off the coast of Essex.
Continue readingCar Sharing: Driving the Way to a Greener Future
As the population swells and clusters increasingly in urban centers, appetites for personal convenience surge and the environment suffers.
Continue readingBelwind wind farm?s monopiles installed in Belgium
On 5 February Van Oord installed the last of 56 monopiles on the Belwind offshore wind energy project off the coast of Belgium.
Continue readingWind farm Nimby group is accused of ?falsehoods?
A VALE protest group set up to oppose plans for a wind farm in The Lenches has been accused of ?spreading rumours and falsehoods?.
Continue readingPhotovoltaic market is expected to grow from 5.8 GW to 38 GW by 2015
The market for advanced chemicals and materials used in photovoltaic solar cells and modules will grow 27% to reach $3.1 billion in 2010 and approximately $15 billion by 2015.
Continue readingClipper Windpower Announces Groundbreaking for Offshore Wind Blade Factory
Clipper Windpower Marine Limited, a fully owned subsidiary of Clipper Windpower, Inc. (?Clipper?) announced the groundbreaking of its offshore wind turbine blade manufacturing facility in Neptune Estate, Tyne, UK.
Continue readingCongressional Act Calls for 10 Million New Solar Roofs
The bill aims to get 10 million solar roofs and 200,000 solar heaters up and running, producing a total of 30,000 megawatts over the next 10 years.
Continue readingThe latest state wind power resource numbers By Chris Madison (AWEA)
Onshore U.S. wind resources could generate nearly 37,000,000 gigawatt- hours (GWh) annually, more than nine times the current U.S. electricity consumption, and 10.458.945 MW.
Continue readingKyocera Achieves 16.6% Efficiency with Polycrystalline Solar Modules
The Japanese technology corporation Kyocera has achieved an efficiency of 16.6 per cent with polycrystalline solar modules. This success is the result of Kyocerafs proprietary back-contact technology.
Continue readingU.S. Wind Resource Even Larger Than Previously Estimated
The potential capacity of America?s onshore wind resource is over 10,000 gigawatts (GW). The U.S. is barely tapping this vast resource: current wind installed capacity is 35 GW in the U.S. and 158 GW world-wide.
Continue readingESB: 230,000 electric vehicles on Irish roads by 2020
The ESB believe there should be 230,000 electric cars on Irish roads by 2020 with significant work on the introduction of recharging points to take place this year.
Continue readingEnel and Endesa create ?METERS AND MORE?
Working synergically together with Enel to bring the most from these advanced technologies, Endesa will begin a first controlled replacement of its electro-mechanical meters with the new smart meters in 2010.
Continue readingPaula Fernández: ?la política energética de Castilla-La Mancha consolida un modelo de desarrollo basado en las Energías Renovables?
El cumplimiento de este objetivo está garantizado con la instalación de la potencia eléctrica prevista. En concreto, ha anunciado la consejera, ?en potencia eólica llegaremos a superar los 4.000 megavatios”.
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